On June 6, Kyiv will host the closing conference of the TIPSTER project: Trade, Intellectual Property Support, and Technical Regulation, an initiative that has helped Ukraine move more confidently toward European integration. 
The event will be attended by representatives of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, regional authorities, business, the scientific community, and public organizations.
Welcoming remarks will be delivered by:
Taras Kachka, Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine — Trade Representative of Ukraine,
Ralph Lovak, Head of Components of the GIZ Programme "ReACT4UA / EU4Business: SME Competitiveness and Internationalisation",
Yuriy Shkil, Executive Director of the Foundation for Support of Reforms in Ukraine.
The event program includes five substantive panels:
🔹 “Window to Europe: Foreign Trade and Export”
🔹 ‘The Right to an Idea: Reforms in the Field of Intellectual Property and Approximation to EU Standards’
🔹 ‘EU Standards: How Technical Regulation Has Changed in Ukraine’
🔹 ”European Integration for Business: Practice, Implementation, Insights”
🔹 “The Power of Experts: How the Capacity of European Integration Specialists is Growing”
The conference will summarize TIPSTER’s main achievements and show how the changes it has initiated are already working in practice — in supporting business, strengthening institutions, and bringing Ukraine closer to the EU.
The event is organized by the Public Union “Foundation for Support of Reforms in Ukraine” as part of the project “TIPSTER: Trade, Intellectual Property Support, and Technical Regulation,” implemented by the Public Union “FSRU” with financial support from the German government as part of the international cooperation project ReACT4UA (“Application and Implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement in the Field of Trade”), which is being implemented by the German federal company Deutsche Gesellschaftfür Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.