The forum will take place on July 28-29 in Vinnytsia.
Main topic: “Common Home”.

  • Partisipation is free, by pre-registration
  • Organisers don’t cover expenses for transfer and accommodation for participants from other
  • Working language of the event: Ukrainian with simultaneous English translation
  • Event format: offline + online broadcast

28 July

Main Hall

● 09:00 — 10:00 a.m. Coffee and registration

● 10:00 — 12:00 a.m. Opening Ceremony

● 12:00 — 12:30 p.m. Common Home. Rebuilding and the Housing Policy of the Future

● 12:30 — 2:00 p.m. Lunch break

● 2:00 — 3:30 p.m. National roundtable about the problems and prospects of housing policy.

● 3:30 — 3:40 p.m. Break

● 3:40 — 5:00 p.m. Series of short presentations by forum participants. PechaKucha

● 5:00 — 5:30 p.m. Coffee break

● 5:30 — 6:45 p.m. Cities, War, Vulnerability

● 6:45 — 7:15 p.m. End of day

● 7:15 — 11:00 p.m. Networking and informal communication

Little Hall

● 2:00 — 5:00 p.m. Common home. The Netherlands’ experience in creating social housing (in Ukrainian without translation). Workshop

29 July

● 09:30 a.m. — 13:00 p.m. Simultaneous field trips and lunch

  • Living with the river, beyond the river, above the river — field trip of the small rivers of Vinnytsia;
  • A neighbourhood without a name — field trip in one of the residential neighbourhoods in Vinnytsia;
  • City of Ideas and Trams — field trip about public transport in Vinnytsia.

Main Hall

● 1:00 — 2:30 p.m. How regional policy can contribute to a balanced recovery?

● 2:30 — 3:00 p.m. Coffee break

● 3:00 — 4:30 p.m. Planning a City for Living

● 4:30 — 5:00 p.m. Reflection and ending the forum

Little Hall

● 1:00 — 4:30 p.m. Recovery Together: How to involve residents of cities and communities. (in Ukrainian without translation). Workshop


Ukrainian Urban Forum is an annual event about the development and future of Ukrainian cities. The Forum is organized by Cedos Think Tank with support from the Heinrich Böll Foundation. The key local partner of the Forum is the Urban Development Institute (Vinnytsia).

The partners of this year’s Forum include the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine, Vinnytsia City Council, Agency for Spatial Development (Vinnytsia), Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF), Integrated Urban Development in Ukraine II project implemented by the German government company Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH with financial support from the governments of Germany and Switzerland, Association for Participatory Community Development, Vidnova Fellowship, Mistosite Urban Platform, Khmarochos Urban Magazine.