On May 30, 2025, Razumkov Centre research fellow on legal issues, retired judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine P. Stetsiuk took part in the 2nd All-Ukrainian Scientific-Practical Conference "Public Governance and Administration in Ukraine: European Integration Progress", involving foreign guests.
The event was organized by the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas (Institute of Humanities and Public Administration) in cooperation with a number of domestic and foreign universities, including the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University (Krakow) and the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Rzeszów.
The conference was attended by the leading Ukrainian and international legal scholars, political analysts, managers, economists, as well as practitioners of local self-government bodies and state executive authorities. The conference participants focused on the political, legal and organizational aspects of the public governance and administration reform in Ukraine, organization of the activities of public governance and administration bodies safeguarding the national security of Ukraine, and employment of the domestic and European experience in the mechanisms of professionalization of public governance and administration bodies, ways of adaptation of the activities of public governance and administration bodies to the EU standards, as well as the new challenges and threats faced by public governance and administration in Ukraine during the war.
Opening the plenary meeting of the conference, the chairman of its organizing committee Prof. Dmytro Dzvinchuk (Director of the Institute of Humanities and Public Administration of the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas) focused on the new challenges and problems faced by public governance and administration in Ukraine in the context of the full-scale military invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, as well as the role and importance of proper organization of public governance and administration in Ukraine in the process of its European integration. A keynote (inaugural) speech at the conference "Development of Public Administration in the Modern World: Main Trends and Challenges" was delivered by Prof. Kostyantyn Vashchenko (Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Civil Servant of the 1st Rank). At the conference, much attention was sparked, in particular, by the presentations of Prof. Serhiy Teleshun (Department of Public Governance and Administration of the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas) “New Challenges and Threats to the Traditional World Order: Management Aspect and National Security”, Prof. Volodymyr Moroz (NTU "Kharkiv Polytechnic University") "Conditions for efficient employment of international experience in the public administration system reform", Head of the Department of Constitutional Law and International Relations of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Rzeszow University, Prof. Krzysztof Eckhardt “Constitutional Mechanisms for Removal of Non-Military Threats to State Stability: Notes in the Light of the Polish Legislation,” etc.
Razumkov Centre research fellow on legal issues P. Stetsiuk delivered a report "Irreversibility of Ukraine's European and Euro-Atlantic trajectory as a component of its constitutional development (the factor of public governance and administration)." According to the expert, public governance and administration in Ukraine, along with other components (elements) of the mechanism of functioning of a modern constitutional state, should make the most of the best European experience in this area, as Ukraine becomes a full member of the EU and NATO. That said, it should not totally reject the national achievements, both in practice and in the scientific theory. After all, any social transformations, including reforms in the field of public governance and administration, must be guided by the provisions of Part 2, Article 3 of the Constitution of Ukraine on the main constitutional duty of the state — establishment and guarantee of human rights and freedoms.
More details about the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M__gNHjxqRI
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