Front-line Ukrainian municipalities will present rebuilding projects, offering insights into both immediate and long-term strategic needs. The event unites Ukrainian leaders with Swedish and international partners for collaborative urban reconstruction discussions.

Join us to support and learn from Ukraine's resilient communities.

The registration is closed. There is a great interest in participating in the conference "Rethinking Cities in Ukraine". Therefore, we have changed to a larger venue. The new address is Government Office (Regeringskansliet), Herkulesgatan 17. Please arrive on time for registration, which is from 8:00 to 8:45. To be registered, please bring valid identification.

Program

Monday April 29th

New address: Government Office (Regeringskansliet), Aula Björnen, Herkulesgatan 17

8.00-8:45 Registration of participants

9.00-9:40 Welcome and introduction speeches

• Ragnar Lund, PhD, Director and initiator “Rethinking Cities in Ukraine” Program Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University
• Fredrik Nordin, PhD, Professor, Head of Department, Stockholm Business School
• Diana Janse, State Secretary, Ministry for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade (Stockholm)
• Kurt Bratteby, Director, Department for International Relations, Swedish Institute
• Oleksandra Azarkhina, Deputy Minister of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine (Kyiv) (online)

9:40-10:00 Coffee Break

10:00-10:10 Building capacity at local level - municipal needs and projects

• Ragnar Lund, PhD, Stockholm Business School
• Zhenia Dulko, Project Manager Ro3kvit Urban Coalition for Ukraine (Chicago/ Mykolaiyv)
• Valentyna Schulimborska, COO Ro3kvit Urban Coalition for Ukraine (Kyiv)

10.10 – 11.30 Project Presentations Ukraine Municipalities
Pre/Post-Invasion Realities, Reconstruction, Pilot Projects & Portfolio.
Presentations by the following municipalities:

• Lozova: Pilot project: Waste management facility.
• Nizhyn: Pilot project: Green spaces for recreation and socio-psychological relief.
• Sumy: Pilot projects: Housing for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), circular building techniques, waste management, industrial park.
• Nikopol: Housing for IDPs and war veterans, water infrastructure

11.30-11.50 Coffee and mingle

11.50-13.00 Meeting municipal needs: funding and implementing municipal projects

Experiences and reflections on working at the local level in building-back better municipal infrastructure, housing, and other elements of the urban environment.
Moderator: Olga Kordas, Associate Professor in Sustainable Urban Development at KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and Director of Viable Cities (Stockholm).

• Sophie Taintor, Swedfund Project Accelerator (Stockholm)
• Ulf Bojö, Vice president NEFCO (Nordic Environment Finance Corporation) (Helsinki)
• Weine Wiqvist, Senior Advisor, Avfall Sverige, (Stockholm)
• Oleg Kudashov, Senior Investment Officer, International Financial Corporation (IFC) (Vienna)

Additional speakers to be announced.

13:00-14:30 Lunch and networking

14.30-16.00 Building capacity at the local level - Partnerships across sectors - Pairing economic resources with knowledge and skills
Moderator: Artem Korzhenevych, PhD, Professor of Environmental, Urban and Regional Economics, IOER and TU Dresden (Dresden / Mykolaiyv)

• Jean-Erik de Zagon, Head of European Investment Bank Kyiv Office (EIB) (Kyiv/ Brussels)
• Oleksandr Senkevich, Mayor Mykolayiv
• Hanna Slobodyanyuk-Montavon, CEO and Founder of Mykolaiv Water Hub (Berlin/Mykolaiyv)
• Anne Berner, Chairman, Foundation for Children`s trauma hospital and institution Nadija (Helsinki)
• Johan Lilja, Secretary-General / CEO Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD) (Visby)
• Zhenia Dulko, Project Manager, Ro3kvit Urban Coalition for Ukraine (Chicago/ Mykolaiyv) (TBC).
• Pehr-Mikael Sällström, PhD, Project Manager, Swedish Association of Architects (Stockholm)

16.00 Conclusion, Ragnar Lund, PhD, Program Director, Stockholm Business School

The conference is free of charge. Registration is binding. We are eager to know how many attendees we will have so that we don't order refreshments and lunch unnecessarily. In case of absence without cancellation, a cost fee of 500 SEK will be charged.

Program
Only for Ukrainian delegation and preregister guests

Day 2, Tuesday April 30th - Stockholm City Hall and study visits

8.30-9.00 Stockholm City Hall - Welcome and coffee

9.00-11.00 Building capacity by boosting cooperation at the local level

Discussion with invited directors from the City of Stockholm as well as leaders from other municipalities about relevant areas of exchange, mutual learning and how to establish and boost city to city partnerships.

• Welcome and Introduction
  Olle Burell, President of the Stockholm City Council
• The City Planning and Development Process
  Thomas Andersson, Director of the City Development Department
• Circular Economy in the Urban Construction Process
  Anna Hadenius, Director of the Environment and Health Department

Possible additional visits to be announced.

11:00-17:00 Study visits in Stockholm region

• Henriksdal Wastewater Treatment
• Municipality Owned Waste Management Company (TBC)

17.00-19.00 Dinner

19.00-22.00 Valborg Bon Fire at Skansen
 

Day 3, Wednesday May 1st

City visits and meetings organized together with Nordic Ukraine Forum (TBC).

Contact person and Director:

Ragnar Lund, PhD
e-mail: ragnar.lund@sbs.su.se
tel: 070-874 52 84

Organizers and Host

Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Program organizers

The Rethinking Cities in Ukraine Capacity Building Program is organized by Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University in partnership with Ro3kvit Urban Coalition for Ukraine, with funding from the Swedish Institute. Academic partners are Ivan Franko National University in Lviv and Kharkiv School of Architecture.

Event partners Stockholm conference

ICLD and StortSthlm, Nordic Ukraine Forum