Guest lecture by Oleksandr Slobozhan, Executive Director of the All-Ukrainian Association of Local Government Bodies “Association of Cities of Ukraine”
The Department of Public Management and Administration of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Continuing Education systematically introduces the concept of lifelong learning into the educational process. This time to a wide audience of higher education students with the specialty 281 “Public Management and Administration”, scientific and pedagogical staff of the department and all other participants of the meeting who expressed a desire to join the event online or offline to learn more about the processes taking place in Ukraine on levels of territorial communities during the legal regime of martial law, the Executive Director of the All-Ukrainian Association of Local Governments “Association of Cities of Ukraine” Oleksandr Slobozhan visited.
Oleksandr Slobozhan’s report “Key problems of municipalities: 2024-2025” caused a lively discussion among the participants of the event, since each of us is a resident of a city or village, that is, a person who is directly affected by all the problems that exist in the settlement. Tasks were discussed in terms of creating proper conditions for every resident of the community – from education and culture; medical and social services; housing and communal services; regional development to ensure security. The issue of practical implementation of international aid to Ukraine to ensure security became extremely informative for the participants of the guest lecture, in particular, Ukraine is the only country in the world that has underground schools that successfully provide the educational process. Urgent issues of energy security, which are closely intertwined with business interests and opposition to the introduction of renewable energy, were also raised.
A separate block raised the issue of accounting for damage and losses caused by Russia’s armed aggression to the territorial communities of Ukraine. At the moment, the RDNA3 report, prepared jointly by the World Bank, the Government of Ukraine, the European Union and the UN, indicates that only direct damages amount to about 157.2 billion dollars, and the need for restoration is estimated at 486 billion dollars. These and other no less important questions raised during the guest lecture once again proved that higher education institutions must clearly understand all current social challenges and systematically update the content of educational disciplines, because the students of education face an important task – to ensure a high-quality and effective post-war recovery of Ukraine !
