KSE team participated in FREE Network Retreat in Vilnius

On September 24-26 FREE Network Retreat was held in Vilnius. The Forum for Research on Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies (FREE) is a joint initiative by SITE (Stockholm), BEROC (Minsk), BICEPS (Riga), CEFIR, (Moscow), ISET (Tbilisi) and KSE (Kyiv). All members met and shared their experiences. It is main annual get-together event where participants can devote face-to-face time to further develop our FREE Network concept. Each organization made a presentation of main achievements during the last year, challenges ahead, and ideas how to get more added value from the FREE Network that was followed by a discussion and sharing of ideas. Members explore ways how to better support the core activities at respective institutes plus find ways to  bring the FREE Network to a higher level.

Moreover, Ilona Sologub, Research Associate at KSE, was awarded as Most popular FREE Policy brief 2015 “Decentralization Reform in Ukraine”. We congratulate Ilona and wish more victories in future!

The FREE Policy Brief Series is designed to provide short and informative analyses on current economic policy challenges. The focus will be on Eastern Europe and emerging markets. The writings will be based on academic research papers or policy work by the researchers at the different institutes and updated on a weekly basis. The ambition is to bridge the gap between ongoing academic research and policy making, to stimulate and contribute to the international debate as well as to intensify the interaction and discussion with other researchers, policy-makers, and business representatives across the world.