On January, 20, 2009 The Round Table on “Civil Service and Civil Society in a democratic state: political open-mindedness and implementation of public interests” was held in the MDCSU

The organizers of the Round Table are MDSCU, international fund “Renascence” and the Rozumkov Ukrainian Center of Economic and Political Research under the support of Canada-Ukraine Civil Service Human Resources Management (UCS-HRM) Reform Project, presented by the President of Public Service Commission of Canada Maria Barrados.

    In the meeting participated: Claude Liebermann, MS Project Leader; Sergiy Budnyk, Deputy BC Project Leader; G?nter Breyer and Renata Strachowska, Project Leaders from Junior Partners (Austria and Poland); Eric Hoyrup, Resident Twinning Adviser (RTA); Yuriy Gerzhod, RTA Counterpart; David Ceschia, Project Manager, Delegation of the European Commission to Ukraine; Nataliya Kyrychenko, Project Manager, Programme Administration Office, and Tetyana Gaidarnko, ITO Key Expert.

The presentation of historical original documents of XVII-XX centuries which concern the development of Civil Service in Ukraine was held in the building of MDCSU for the President of Public Service Commission of Canada Maria Barrados on January 21.

The exhibition was opened by the Head of the Main Department of Civil Service of Ukraine Tymofiy Motrenko and the Head of the State Archive Committee of Ukraine Alexander Udod.

On January, 21, 2009 director of the Center for adaptation of the civil service to the standards of the European Union – director of the Administrative office of the Twinning program Tetyana Kovtun in the frameworks of working visit to Baku, Azerbaijanian Republic took part in the international conference on the questions of using of Twinning instrument.

On January, 20, 2009, the meeting of Tymofiy Motrenko, the Head of the Main Department of Civil Service of Ukraine, with the President of Public Service Commission of Canada, Maria Barrados, took place.

Tymofiy Motrenko made a welcome speech, noted that the main priority of the Main Departmnent of the Civil Service of Ukraine activity is the improving of professional training of civil servants in several ways, which are training, re-training and advanced training for civil servants. Also he indicated the current achievements of Civil Service of Ukraine in this sphere.

Оn January, 19, 2009 began the visit of director of the Center for adaptation of the civil service to the standards of the European Union – director of the Administrative office of the Twinning program Ms. Tetyana Kovtun to Baku, Azerbaijanian Republic. 

The purpose of this visit, which will last until January, 22, 2009, is participating in the workings meetings with the Administrative office of the Twinning program in Azerbaijanian Republic, with the project of the European Commission “Introduction of Twinning and TAIEX instruments in Azerbaijan” and presentation of Ukraine on International conference on the questions of using of Twinning instrument. The mentioned conference is organized by the General Directorate of European Commission „EuroHelp” jointly with the Ministry of economic development of the Azerbaijanian Republic.