January 27, 2012, Simferopol, Crimea — USAID LINC held a seminar on efficient agricultural production and storage. The seminar was attended by 70 farmers, agricultural producers, local and regional officials, and agriculture experts.

January 25-26, 2012, Kyiv — USAID LINC carried out a workshop on “Customer Relation System and Investment Inquiry Handling” for nine officers of the InvestUkraine Marketing Department.

January 19-20, 2012, Zhytomyr / Vinnytsya — USAID LINC launched a series of round table meetings in Ukrainian regions to discuss pressing issues of preparing a National Strategy of Public Procurement Development.

January 10-15, 2012, Bohorodchany, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast / Chernivtsi — USAID LINC carried out a workshop aimed at familiarizing the project’s tourism-oriented partner regions and municipalities with the best practices of using celebration of the Christmas and New Year season’s holidays as tourist attractions.

December 27, 2011, Slovyansk, Donetsk Oblast — At its fourth, enlarged, meeting, the Slovyansk Expert Committee for Strategic Planning gave the finishing touch to the city’s future economic development strategy, which the committee had been drafting under the guidance of USAID LINC since May 2011.

December 22, 2011, Kherson — USAID LINC in conjunction with the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry organized and held a match-making meeting of scientists and business people in the Dnipro-Buh Golden Delta, or Kherson-Mykolaiv Sub-region.

December 20, 2011, Simferopol — USAID LINC organized a seminar, titled “Enhancing the Visitor Experience in Crimean Museums”, in order to help museums improve their services and attract new customers.

December 16-17, 2011, Sevastopol — USAID LINC organized a two-day training session on quality management for spa and wellness managers, hotel managers and heads of medical tourism units. The training was delivered by Stephan Thelen, an Austrian expert.