Congress within the Congress of the Mayors’ Club as part of the Ukrainian Construction Congress

📍 On June 4, the main annual event of the construction and architectural sector — the 4th Ukrainian Construction Congress — took place at the Parkovy Convention and Exhibition Center.

The Congress became a space of equal opportunities — bringing together 4,306 guests, from major developers to young professionals. Open participation, access to technologies and knowledge, and barrier-free dialogue — this kind of democratization is shaping a new industry culture. Most importantly, it encourages cooperation among clusters, experts, IT companies, and universities.

Particular attention was given to topics that are especially relevant in today’s context, such as modern technologies in communities for shaping a vision of their future, industrial development in industrial parks, housing policy in the context of European integration, and construction in the energy sector.

📝 The first panel discussion, “The Future is Born in Communities: Technologies and Investments in Sustainable Economic Development”, organized by the Mayors’ Club of Ukraine — in particular, Yuriy Fomichev (Mayor of Slavutych and Vice President of the Mayors’ Club) — was held in the large CHASHA hall at the Parkovy Convention and Exhibition Center.

During the business dialogue between Henry Shterenberg, founder and CEO of EoTU Inc.; Olha Velychko, Deputy Mayor of Poltava; Maksim Synyavin, Deputy Mayor of Trostianets; Serhiy Hirchak, Deputy Mayor of Ternopil; and Liudmyla Prokopechko, Head of Dobroslavska Community, several key aspects were addressed:

• The UkraineVerse project as a technological innovation for community infrastructure development
• The role of digital technologies in improving residents’ quality of life
• Attracting investment into community-level technological projects
• International experience in implementing innovations and technologies for community development
• Application of digital twin technologies in community recovery processes

A wonderful conclusion to the discussion was the presentation by Liudmyla Prokopechko, Head of the Dobroslavska Community, who introduced a dream project for community development — the “Rose Fairy Tale”. Why this particular project? The answer is simple — the community is home to nearly 100 businesses and farms specializing in rose cultivation! The implementation of such a project, which could even surpass the famous Keukenhof tulip park in the Netherlands, would transform the community into a powerful tourist and economic magnet.

📝 In the afternoon, a Congress was held at the Mayors’ Club Congress. It focused on highlighting original approaches to building an effective mechanism for developing the economic potential not only of individual communities but also of the entire country.

Four practical sessions with mayors took place:

🟨 Construction in the Energy Sector through dialogue between panel moderator Yurii Fomichev, Mayor of Slavutych, and Oleksiy Korchmit, ESCO Expert at UNDP Ukraine (formerly Head of the ESCO Association in Ukraine); Olena Rybak, Managing Director, Office Ukraine at iC consulenten Ukraine; Sviatoslav Pavliuk, Executive Director of the Association of Energy Efficient Cities of Ukraine; Olha Havela, Representative of the Energy Efficiency Center, Mykolaiv; Andriy Hevko, Vice President of the Public Union “District Heating Cluster of Ukraine”; Petro Bahriy, Co-founder of Clearenergy Group; Maksim Syniavin, Deputy Mayor of Trostianets; and Yaroslav Tatartyntsev, Co-founder of “Dolya and Co. LTD”:

• Integration of renewable energy sources into construction projects
• Decentralized energy solutions for residential and commercial buildings
• Use of solar and wind energy in construction
• The role of technology in reducing energy consumption in construction
• Energy solutions for the modernization of old buildings

🟨 Housing and Social Infrastructure Policy in Communities in the Context of European Integration through dialogue between panel moderator Yuriy Bova, Mayor of Trostianets, and Mykhailo Netiazhuк, Mayor of Fastiv; Tetyana Chuzha, business Development Manager, Foreign Trade Office in Kyiv of the Polish Investment and Trade Agency; Szymon Bartnik, Chairman of the Board, GRUPA SZYMBUD Sp. z o.o. Sp.j.; and Liudmyla Prokopechko, Mayor of Dobroslav:

• Housing and social infrastructure development at the community level: experiences from European and global practices
• The current state of housing construction in Ukrainian communities
• Examples from European countries, including Poland and their municipal development projects
• European funding programs for municipal housing development
• How communities can stimulate business development in the housing construction sector
• Attracting foreign investors to implement community-level projects
• Challenges and opportunities for communities in housing development

🟨 Planning Communities “From Scratch” – Analysis of a New City Project by Henry Shterenberg in dialogue with Daniel Explif, Director of CDM Engineering, and Yaroslav Korniyachenko, Founder of Vlasne Misto. 

🟨 Transformation of Communities through the Development of Industrial Parks in the Context of International and Domestic Investment through dialogue between panel moderator Serhiy Shynkarenko, Director of Ukraine Development Alliance, and Artur Melezhyk, Head of the Department for Industrial Parks and Investment Support, Ministry of Economy of Ukraine; Valeriy Kyrylko, Founder and CEO of Industrial Parks of Ukraine; Yuriy Bova, Mayor of Trostianets; Andriy Bilyi, Director and Co-founder of the Management Company of the Boryslav Industrial Park; Hennadiy Hrynenko, Commercial Director at Alterra Group; and Oleksandr Bondarenko, Founder of the Management Company of NOVO Industrial Parks:

• The impact of industrial parks on community development
• How to create and launch effective industrial parks
• Examples of successful industrial parks in Ukraine and abroad
• The role of foreign investors in the development of industrial parks — why they choose a specific city or park

Thanks to open and transparent communication with the audience of the Mayors’ Club Congress, held within the framework of the Ukrainian Construction Congress, it was possible not only to improve the tools for the industrial development of communities but also to contribute to the creation of a high-functioning space for quality networking.

We are confident that these new horizontal connections may eventually grow into broader inter-municipal and international initiatives!

📲 More information about the Congress is available on Facebook.