projects

The project includes information-analytical and expert activities with the aim of providing consultations to government structures and local self-government bodies regarding the prospects of Ukraine's integration into the European Union and NATO. Including the development and presentation of proposals to state authorities, local self-government bodies, non-governmental institutions regarding the intensification and deepening of the European integration of Ukraine. As well as the organization of scientific conferences, "round tables", seminars on topical issues of European integration, neighborhood policy and association with the European Union, and the publication of scientific and methodological materials on issues of European and Euro-Atlantic integration.

The initiative "#experiSA!" - is a joint project of ISR Chronos, Newsky.com.ua online media and UHHRU. The project was created to popularize expert knowledge in Ukraine among the broadest strata of society. Its main goal is to provide an accessible, but qualified explanation of current problems in various spheres of social life. As a rule, key experts are representatives of specialized public organizations, invited specialists from business structures or/and the public sector. During the existence of the initiative, the topics that were raised concerned information war and security, amnesty of persons convicted in the temporarily occupied territories were raised; legislative regulation of the right to privacy; the phenomenon of hate crimes in Ukraine; problems of documenting war crimes, etc.

Permanently active since 2018, the project is dedicated to the involvement of political emigration from totalitarian countries and Ukrainian expert circles in the discussion of the prospects of tolerance in the processes of the region's transit to the sphere of influence and implementation of European standards. Based on the results of the discussions, as a rule, abstracts of the participants' speeches are published, although some of the events are, for obvious reasons, of a non-public nature. The next project workshop is scheduled for October 21-24, 2022.

The project "Attitudes to hate crimes in Ukraine" arose in response to the growing wave of violence and intolerance. One of the key reasons for the impunity of criminals traditionally in Ukraine is the poor awareness of law enforcement officers regarding the specifics of hate crimes. Therefore, the goal was to investigate how often in their activities law enforcement officers come across the phenomenon of such crimes and investigate them as being committed out of intolerance. In addition, it was analyzed whether law enforcement officers use any database of hate symbols, which, according to the recommendations of the OSCE ODIHR, should facilitate the process of identifying criminals and investigating crimes. The research was carried out by research of practice of all State Police Departments of Ukraine.

Research project on the role of online media in shaping the agenda and narrative before the presidential elections of Ukraine (Commissioned by the news agency Newssky Media). In this context, the study is related to the quantitative presence of different groups of mass media in the Ukrainian political media field with a focus on the upcoming presidential elections. The study also focused on the prospects, advantages and disadvantages of the potential implementation of online voting in the electoral legislation and electoral process in Ukraine. The project was national in nature with concentration in four regions of Ukraine.

The experts of Institute participated in the analytical support of a number of official meetings and negotiations in the Ukraine-EU format. Also, the project activities included public supervision of the government's promotion of the agenda of the negotiations regarding the signing of the Association Agreement / Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area between Ukraine and the EU by participating in a campaign of public and media pressure on domestic parliamentary and government structures in order to comply with the commitments previously undertaken by Ukraine obligations As a result, a number of materials were issued in the format of Ukraine-EU trans-regional cooperation.

Activities on this project line in 2007-10 took place as part of the preparation of project applications for participation in the Neighborhood Program with the EU (former TACIS) in the area of ​​cooperation of the sub-programme of the EU FP "Ukraine-Romania-Moldova" regarding infrastructure projects and synergistic financial mechanisms for promoting cross-border cooperation , which existed at that time. In the process of working in this direction, working contacts were established with organizations of the third sector of the corresponding profile in Romania and Hungary, and in Ukraine - in Transcarpathian and Odesa regions. Cooperation with the third sector of the Republic of Moldova (Chisinau) also developed. The dynamics of this activity can be traced through materials related to the history of the development of the "Upper Prut" Euroregion.

The project, together with the UNDP the "Capability-2015" program, to create a Information and Learning network of educational support for the poorest strata of the population in transitional societies (in a pilot project based on the example of Ukraine and Moldova). Based on the results of the project, the research report "Dignity vs. Poverty: A Brief Strategy for Spreading Freedom" was published in autumn 2005 in Chisinau, Moldova.