Invitation to the Partnership for Sustainability Award Ceremony 2023

02.10.2023

We will announce the winners of the Partnership for Sustainability Award at the ceremony, which will take place on October 17 at 04:00 (UTC+2).

This event is an annual international campaign in which the UN Global Compact Network Ukraine recognizes the best projects implemented in partnership between business, government and civil society to achieve the SDGs. This year, we are awarding projects of participants from Ukraine and European countries aimed at supporting Ukraine during the full-scale invasion, as well as other best practices of sustainable development that can serve as an example for future recovery.

Among the participants of this year’s competition are representatives of Ukraine, Great Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Croatia, Poland, Georgia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.

The event will be attended by Ukrainian celebrities, opinion leaders and ambassadors of the UNGC Ukraine. The detailed agenda of the event will be announced soon.

We will award the winners in the following nominations:

SOCIETY (with Yevhen Dykyi, scientist, and director of the National Antarctic Research Center of Ukraine)
PLANET (with Olena Froliak, editor-in-chief of Fakty ICTV, Environmental Ambassador of the UNGC Ukraine)
PROSPERITY (with Oleksandr Rodnyansky, Presidential Advisor (Ukraine), Supervisory Board Member at State Savings Bank of Ukraine, Assistant Professor of Economics (Cambridge))
WARRIORS OF LIGHT (with Viktoria Apanasenko, Miss Ukraine Universe 2022, Peace Ambassador of the UNGC Ukraine)

The winners will be selected by an international jury:

Hitomi Sakamoto, Honored Professor at Toyo Gakuen University in Tokyo, Japan
Vanessa Hans, Head of Private Sector at the Basel Institute on Governance
Antonio Hautle, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact Network Switzerland & Liechtenstein
Marcel Engel, Executive Director, UN Global Compact Network Germany
Yevheniya Afanasenko, British-Ukrainian environmentalist, ESG expert and sustainability promoter
Gauthier Vasseur, Executive Director, Fisher Center for Business Analytics, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

The award ceremony will be held in a hybrid format – with the possibility of live attendance in Kyiv or online connection. To attend the event, please fill out the REGISTRATION FORM.

Agenda

16:00 — 16:20 Welcome remarks:

Tetiana Sakharuk, Executive Director, UN Global Compact Ukraine
Oleksandr Kubrakov, Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine
Oleksandra Matviychuk, human rights activist, Head of the Center for Civil Liberties and 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Human Rights Ambassador of the UNGC Ukraine (on the record)
Viktor Liakh, President, East Europe Foundation

16:20 — 17:15 Panel discussion “Partnerships as a key driver for sustainable recovery of Ukraine”

The discussion will focus on the importance and impact of partnerships on Ukraine’s sustainable development, identifying key challenges and the importance of international support for Ukraine’s economic and social stabilization and further recovery from the war.

It will be moderated by Olena Froliak, editor-in-chief of Fakty ICTV, Environmental Ambassador of the UNGC Ukraine.

Speakers:

Nadiia Petruchenko, Co-founder and Chief Business Officer, SPP Development Ukraine
Taras Panasenko, Co-founder and CEO, Aurora
Liudmyla Pyshna, Co-founder of Vidchuy, Founder of the Charitable Foundation Vidchuy, Co-founder of Art Ukraine Gallery, UNGC Ukraine’s Supervisory Board Member
Mykhailo Shelemba, CEO, Datagroup, Chairman of UNGC Ukraine’s Supervisory Board
Vitaliy Vereshchagin, General Manager, Caparol Ukraine