Severynivka amalgamated community in the Vinnytsia Oblast is developing its economy using a “fruit and berry cluster” which combines production, tourism and medicine. Read more
Category: Economy and business
EU provides grant to Kyiv manufacturer of hemp construction materials
Concrete, cement, rebar, mineral wool, foam plastic. These are all ordinary words when used with regard to construction. Hemp is a less ordinary word, isn’t it? This is the story of a Ukrainian startup manufacturing building materials based on industrial hemp and already exporting its technologies abroad. Read more
EU4Business helps Chernihiv manufacturer of pet goods to double production
The EU’s EU4Business initiative helps succeed in business, and COLLAR-COMPANY, a leading manufacturer of goods for pets, saw that for themselves. Read more
EU allocates EUR 9.5 mln for small and medium-sized businesses in Ukraine’s east
The majority of small and medium-sized enterprises want to receive money to buy agricultural machinery. FinancEast, a program for which the European Union allocated 9.5 million euros to provide support to small and medium-sized enterprises in the Ukrainian government-controlled territory of the Donbas, was launched on 19 December 2019. Even back then, some players were saying that the available funds will last for only a few months. Read more
How Kyiv pottery master went on business exchange to Slovenia
Yulia Makliuk, the founder of Here and Now ceramics studio, tells in her interview to Delo.ua about how Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs, an international program of business exchange, helped her business. Read more
EU project helps to estimate shadow crops in Ukraine
EOS Crop Monitoring analysts made an estimate of the harvest gathered last year from unregistered land plots in Ukraine. The figure exceeds UAH 88.5 billion. Read more
EU launches FinancEast programme for SME support in Luhansk and Donetsk regions
Entrepreneurs in the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts will be able to take up a business development loan for up to 150 thousand euros, with the half of that loan repayable by the European Union Read more
EU and EBRD launch Merezha business platform for search of experts
A new social media was presented in Kyiv: Merezha, an online platform launched with the support from the European Union and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as part of EU4Business initiative. Its main purpose is to bring together small and medium-sized businesses and professional consulters. Its developers expect that in the future, their platform will receive approximately 30 thousand visitors every month. Read more
EU promotes development of Ukrainian geographical indications
What awaits our producers which use European geographical indications in the names of their products, and why their own local brands are worth promoting? Read more
EU helping to attract tourists to Nove Misto community in Lviv region
There is a mini-bakery in the village of Deshychi of Stary Sambir district. Almost every day, children from Lviv, Skhidnytsia, Truskavets and the surrounding villages come here for creative workshops on baking bread and pastry. Children knead dough themselves, decorate and bake bread, draw pictures using flour, and have fun with animators. The mini-bakery was opened as part of the “COWBoyky: Ukrainian Wild West” project, which promotes tourism in the Nove Misto amalgamated community. The project is funded by the EU as part of the Mayors for Economic Growth initiative. Read more
