February 4, 2010, from 11:30 to 14:30 the opening of the Twinning project “Enhancing performance of InvestUkraine: The Ukrainian Center For Foreign Investment Promotion in line with best European practices” funded by the European Union, will take place.

Among the invitees are: Ambassador and Head of EU delegation in Ukraine, Ambassador of Germany to Ukraine, Ambassador of Poland to Ukraine, Head of the project members of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology of Germany, Head of the EU cooperation department of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, Acting Director of the Ukrainian Center for Foreign Investment Promotion (InvestUkraine), Director of the Administrative Office of Twinning Programme in Ukraine, Resident Twinning Advisor, as well as representatives of government authorities and public institutions of Ukraine and Germany, representatives of regional organizations on FDI attraction, representatives of USAID project “LINK” and business circles.

Goal and objective: to present the Twinning instrument, to outline milestones of the project work in Ukraine, to discuss the ways of improving the attraction of foreign direct investments.

Venue: Premier Palace Hotel, Address: 5-7/29 T. Shevchenka Blvd./Pushkinska Str., Kiev 01004, Ukraine, Sofiyivskiy Grand Hall  

Contact person: Tetyana Pasichnyk

Tel.: +38 044 537 73 16, E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Reference: The project “Enhancing performance of InvestUkraine: The Ukrainian Center For Foreign Investment Promotion in line with best European practicies” is being implemented within the framework of the Twinning Programme, which was launched by the European Commission in 1998 in the context of preparations for EU enlargement. The idea of this tool lies in a focused collaboration on an administrative level with the candidate countries to contribute to their administrative and legal capacity, to adapt national legislation to EU legislation. Since late 2003 the Twinning tool became available to some countries in the program for the newly independent states. Twinning provides the signing of Agreements on partnership and cooperation between newly independent states and the EU.

The project is implemented by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology of Germany (BMWi) in a consortium with the Polish Agency of Information and Foreign Investment (PAIiIZ).