8:00 AM – Admittance and Registration until 9:00 AM
- Market of opportunities
- Galley Walk
9:30 AM – Greeting
- Markus Lewe, Mayor of the City of Münster
- Serhii Morhunov, Mayor of the city of Vinnytsia
- Krzysztof Stanowski, Deputy Mayor of the City of Lublin
10:00 AM – Market of opportunities
10:15 AM – Panel Discussion: Local Challenges Three Years After the Start of the War of Aggression
- Oleksii Riabykin, Deputy Minister for the Reconstruction of Ukraine - Minister for the Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine (online)
- Antje Grotheer, Chairwoman of the (CoR) Working Group on Ukraine, President of the Bremen State Parliament
- Constanze Neher, Head of department of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
- Vitalii Belobrov, Deputy Mayor of the City of Cherson
11:15 AM – Coffee break
11:45 AM – Working Formats for Participants
- Decentralized, Efficient, and Renewable: Municipal Energy Solutions in Times of War
Since the start of the Russian full-scale invasion, Ukraine's infrastructure, and in particular its energy supply, has been under attack from the Russian army. As the most local unit of the state, the municipalities are affected too. How do they deal with this and how do they ensure the energy supply for their population? What potential do decentralised and renewable energy supplies and energy efficiency measures offer? Which advisory and funding programmes are available and what can German municipalities learn from their Ukrainian partners?
- Municipal Enterprises: Synergy Potential in Partnerships (only in German and Ukrainian)
- Civil Protection: Examples and Approaches in Aid Deliveries and Capacity Building (only in German and Ukrainian)
- Rehabilitative Health: The Importance of Partnerships for Healthcare in Times of Crisis (only in German and Ukrainian)
- Cooperation with Civil Society: Added Value in Partnership Work (only in German and Ukrainian)
- Parallel: Step by Step to a German-Ukrainian Municipal Partnership – Development, Added Value, and Support Options (Online format for interested municipalities who are not yet part of the network) (only in German and Ukrainian)
1:15 PM – Lunch Break
2:45 PM – Online-Keynote from Olexandra Matwijtschuk, Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Chairwoman of the Centre for Civil Liberties (CCL)
3:15 PM – Panel Discussion: Ukraine’s Path to the EU
- Reem Alabali Radovan, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) (online)
- Serhii Hupiak, Deputy Chairman of the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption of Ukraine
- Antonella Valmorbida, Secretary General of the Association of Local Democracy Agencies (ALDA)
- Mykhailo Lavriv, Chairman of the Kalush district council
4:15 PM – Coffee break
4:45 PM – Discussion on the Challenges of Russian Disinformation
- Iryna Shum, Deputy Director for Public Diplomacy and Communications, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (requested)
- Tamina Kutscher, Journalist
5:30 PM – Outlook and review of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome and Verona
- Davide La Cecilia, Special Representative of the Italian Government for the Reconstruction of Ukraine (online)
- Lyudmila Prokopechko, Head of the Dobroslavska territorial community
- Denys Korotenko, Mayor of the City of Shyroke
6:30 PM – Dinner at the Congress Hall Premises
8:00 PM – „Drink after Dinner“ hosted by the City of Münster at Dockland Beach