On July 10, a meeting of business-co-investors Business 100 took place in the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, devoted to the capabilities of a powerful analytical center in the field of modeling and shaping the agenda for further development of Ukraine.
The participants of the meeting discussed opportunities for UIM to strengthen various projects, improve interaction in the business community. The Ukrainian Institute for the Future is a joint project of representatives of Ukrainian business, politics and the public sector, which was founded in the summer of 2016. Among the key vectors of the Institute’s work are the forecasting of changes and modeling of possible scenarios for the development of topical events in Ukraine, an independent, competent assessment of various phenomena in the country’s economic, political and social life. In addition to analytics, the Institute develops practical recommendations for action and offers effective solutions to acute problems. One of the founders of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, Igor Liski, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Effective Investments. During a meeting with businessmen, he spoke about how entrepreneurs can stimulate economic development and create a business climate in Ukraine.
“What is a future institution? This is a “think tank”, a science center of the future, where new content is born, new ideas, unique programs. The Institute’s experts conduct research that can really help us to cope with the crisis and realize its huge economic potential, “says Igor Liski. Igor Liski stressed that the main customer for the institute is the domestic business itself – people who implement projects themselves, create jobs, and pay taxes. “At the global level, we are trying to prescribe clear rules of the game and the ideas that are the basis for the state and Ukrainian business,” says Igor Liski, “Why is it just about business? First and foremost, this is the stratum of the population that wants to live and realize its plans and ambitions in Ukraine. They do not marry for three or four thousand euros to Poland. These are people who believe in our country and its inhabitants.
“By generating independent analytical information, the Ukrainian Institute for the Future creates a solid foundation on which deputies can be relied upon in drafting and voting for individual bills, for businessmen – when deciding on the development of their own enterprise. “The most important thing that we now need is the ideological engagement of people capable of acting. Ukrainian business may feel like a customer of research from unbiased professionals. Thanks to our institute, anyone interested can receive relevant information, analytics and feedback,” – adds Igor Liski.
The secrets of making paper from waste paper and the principles of technology work using large-scale industrial production demonstrated to the young inventor from Zakarpattya region Valentina Frechka at the Zhytomyr Cardboard Factory.
The technical director of the company, Alexey Kovtanyuk, showed the young man the full cycle of production and conducted an excursion to the production workshops. Valentin Frechka is a schoolboy from Transcarpathia, who invented the technology of manufacturing paper from fallen leaves. Young man with his scientific work took part in many national and foreign contests: he won the golden prize and the Grand Prix at the International Golden Olympics Olympiad and won the Olympiad in the USA. There he chose the gold medal Genius Olympiad 2018.
“If you compare the production that I saw today with the production that I offer, then it is radically different, because the waste paper is used here. And the waste paper is ready-made cellulose. In my work there are stages of obtaining this pulp, the technological line. And directly as it is already modified in paper of different density. In general, to this project, I came about a year and a half ago “, – says the young inventor Valentin Frechko.
The cardboard plant says they are ready to support the young inventor and help him realize his scientific project.
“Valentin’s experience and aspirations are very interesting for us. We always have a place for such personnel, for professionals, for those who are looking for progressive young people. We are always open, we know that Valentine is going to organize a start-up based on his research. We want to give him a platform for further research. It will be useful to him, it may be useful to us and it will surely be of benefit to the country. Therefore, always “welcome”, – said Sergiy Rudkovsky, First Deputy General Director of Housing and Communal Services.
Forest Technology company supported the realization of a playground for rest in Malin. By joining the central park and the main square of the city, its administrative buildings, shops, the area is currently serving as a meeting place and a rest.
The team of architects tried to determine what local people are investing into the street on which the project, with which it is symbolized, is associated. They created surveys, questioned people online and offline, viewed video from cameras. It turned out that the place has a noticeable contrast, depending on the hours of the day. In the afternoon there are parents walking with children, they come to ride on toy cars. There is a children’s library, a post office, a cafe. There are wooden huts nearby, which can be rented, for example, for entrepreneurship. In the evening, it’s not so cozy – there is access to the alcohol stall, but there are no alternative activities. There are also no shops in the street to just sit there.
The city authorities are still developing a project for the capital reconstruction of Krivenchuk Street, and BUR together with the WoodLuck Social Workshop have decided to use the street potential and change the perceptions of this pedestrian space now. We decided to put in place a creative intervention here – to create two stationary platforms, benches for sitting and microcrossing, portable mobile benches and color navigation, which will combine all elements into a single composition. Through such experiments, we want to discover how the physical changes in the environment affect consciousness, responsibility, self-organization of the public; to find the most appropriate solutions before reconstruction in order to positively influence long-term changes in the city. Will the local people put the bench in the cold and spend time reading a book or playing chess? Will the artists move furniture and, when they form mini-amphitheaters, will play their music and performances? Will they care about property that is, in essence, “protected” only by surveillance cameras? Do local entrepreneurs and masters want to open their business and fill the street with new meanings and opportunities? For example, the local non-alcoholic cafe “Caramel” plans to make a terrace and arrange evening movie shows, projecting video on the wall of the children’s library.
Of course, we needed a tree to implement the plans. And it’s cool that the Forest Technology Company, many of its employees who live in Malin, and which is part of the Holding of Effective Investments, gladly responded to the offer of partnership and provided the necessary wood materials to create this public space for the city and its inhabitants! We believe that such cooperation will benefit the entire community of the city, and Malinchans will rejoice in the new space created by volunteers from all over Ukraine and the world with the support of local business!
The employees of “Energy of Ukraine” completed the project of large-scale modernization at the Krivoy Rog repair and mechanical plant of “Metinvest” company.
The company’s specialists have developed and erected eight new combustion chambers with modern burners and a new system of control systems (control cabinet) by thermal processes.
In the modernization project, replacement of gasoline equipment, gas pipelines and installed air ducts were carried out. The exits of the sunbeds on both dryers were restored. In addition, the coolant recirculation system was restored. Installation of a modern automatic control system drying allows you to quickly change the drying mode and control the safety of its operation.
Thanks to the professional preparation for the implementation of the announced work, the company managed to achieve high rates of economy of resources. Thus, natural gas consumption has decreased by more than 50%.
Effective Investments Group of Companies has joined GoCamp, the largest Eastern European language camp project. Today, the grand opening of the project, gathered volunteers from all over the world, organizers, partners and ambassadors of America, Great Britain, Australia and India.
Together, we change the future of Ukraine! It is these business support projects that can overcome barriers and help young people to be successful.
It is GoCamp volunteers who help you to study the English-language life for toddlers from all over Ukraine. BEEHIVE company has joined the school in Chornyavka, the village where the largest Ukrainian honey homogenization plant is located. Zhytomyr Cardboard Factory, the leader of packaging production, also helped its first-time school to become a participant in the project. Forest Technology, a sawmill and pilotage plant, made it possible to open a special language camp in the village of Ukrainka.
Thanks to the organizers of Oksana Nechiporenko and Mustafa Nayema.
Thanks for the inspirational speeches of the ambassadors who also became the volunteers of the GoCamp project
Ukraine Energy company has successfully completed work on the improvement of the drying booth of cast-iron ladles of the blast-furnace shop at Ilyich MMK.
The project included installing a modern burner kit for locking and control valves and a control cabinet. The specialists of the company provided a full range of services for the maintenance of the facility at Ilyich MMK. Engineers started work from the design phase to commissioning. In the course of the pilot experiments, five drying sites were completed. According to the results of the land operations, the effectiveness of replacing the existing burners with the burners of Ukraine Energy was assessed. During the period of experimental drying, the company supervised the temperature of the ladle lining according to the indications of the thermocouples installed in the walls of the ladle.
In accordance with the act on the results of the drying, the gas-fired device (GGU) Ukraine Energy allows to provide the specified parameters of drying lining (120 0С on the boundary of the reinforcement-working layer) 21 hours earlier. These indicators are 27% less and the natural gas consumption for drying is 1203 m3, which is 33.9% less than with the existing work of the stand. This savings exceeds the 10% stated in the contract, by 24%.
Effective Investments Group of Companies is actively involved in supporting the contest and developing Ukrainian cinema. Representatives of the group participated in a wide range of project evaluators. This year, the jury outlined 10 scenario-winners.
In the future, the authors together with leading Ukrainian directors, will work on high-grade screenplays. During 2018, films will be filmed and will be shown in the networks of domestic cinemas in the near future.
Effective Investments Group of Companies is pleased to join such a responsible and viable project for national film production. Everyone can support the project See Ukrainian – Create your future, send scenarios, sponsor help or promote its development in the country.
In 2017, the organizers and directors together with the script authors succeeded in filming 18 short films. It was they who demonstrated them before the main shows of films in cinemas. In total, the number of movie reviews of the “YOUR CINEMA” competition has been viewed by more than a million viewers. In particular, Effective Investments Group of Companies has sponsored films “On its own land”, “Sniper”.
Books change us if we want to change. Keynes Robinson’s most popular educational speaker has become a world-class bestseller. The third book of the author “You, Your Child and School” is now available in Ukrainian. The Ukrainian Institute for the Future (UIF) and Igor Liski, one of the founders of the Center, contributed to the translation of Sir Ken Robinson’s book. Find out more on the site of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future!
Team of the Effective Investments Group and Igor Liski Chairman of the Board congratulated the children from the Vyshgorod District Orphanage “Ljubistok” with Easter!
In collaboration with the Coordination Center of Help, the group provided the schoolchildren with Easter cakes, BEEHIVE honey and a bunch of various fruits and delicacies. Among the important gifts the company presented to the orphanage multicooker. The kids also got an environmentally friendly PAGL designer. The greatest dream of each of us is to build our own future. Pagl helped the children to unite and create together a unique space for games and fun.
Let’s help the children together! Thanks to the warmth and sincerity of intentions we can do more. Happy holiday, friends!
Specialists of Energy Ukraine, which are part of the Company “Effective Investments”, completed work on the design of modernization of the technical re-equipment of the heating system using infra-red panels in the building of the electric power station and the building of the repair shop of the water sector of the GP MTP “Pivdennyi”. Implementation of the project will reduce the cost of heating up to 50%.