About the Institute

Institute for Regional Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is the leading scientific institution in the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on issues of regional policy and cross-border cooperation. The Institute serves as the methodological and scientific-organizational and coordination center.

The Institute conducted basic and applied research:
 
· issues shaping regional policy;  
· management systems and environmental and economic regulation development;  
· processes management of production, labor, natural resources and intellectual potential of the regions;  
· market infrastructure and business;  
· foreign trade and cross-border cooperation;  
· Development of financial relationships in the region;  
· methodological and applied problems in monitoring regional processes;  
· problems of social and humanitarian development;  
· spatial organization of socio-economic systems.

Institute also provides:  
· Drafting of socio-economic development of the various units, enterprises and organizations;  
· development methodologies draft laws and regulations;  
· scientific expertise;  
· organization of meetings, seminars and conferences;  
· advising on all areas of its research activities.

The Institute operates postgraduate and doctoral studies and the specialized scientific council D 35.154.01 with the right defending the thesis for Ph.D. degree and Ph.D. in specialties: 08.00.05 - "The development of the productive forces and regional economy", 08.00.03 - "Economics and Management of National Economy", 08.00.07 - "Demography, labor economics, social economics and politics." The Institute also operates specialized Council K 35.154.02 for the degree of candidate of economic sciences, specialty 08.00.08 "Money, Finance and Credit."

organizational structure of the Institute in the year amounted to 8 academic divisions:  
· Department of Regional Economic Policy;  
· Department regional environmental policy;  
· department of social and human development in the region;  
· Front forecasting and modeling of regional development;  
· Department issues of market infrastructure and cross-border cooperation;  
· department problems of financial and credit relations in the region;  
· Monitoring Department for Regional Development;  
· territorial department of social systems and spatial development

Research Institute in the year determined the basic directions of scientific research, relevant programs and thematic work plan aimed at developing the scientific foundations of modern regional policy. According to the Resolution of the Presidium of NAS of Ukraine № 45 dated 22.02.2006 "On the scientific and scientific-organizational activity of the Institute of Regional Studies of Ukraine" basic directions of scientific activity of the Institute for Regional Studies of Ukraine:  
· Scientific basis for the development of regional policy and territorial social systems;  
· Ecological and economic problems and prospects for the rational use of natural resources of Ukraine's regions, sustainable development of mountain areas;  
· Financial resources of the region and the problems of its innovation and investment support;  
· Prospects for transboundary cooperation and strengthening the competitiveness of the border area.

main achievements of the Institute during the reporting year:  
- conceptual approaches to the formation of the spatial organization of the national economy on the basis of consideration of trends in functional and spatial structure;  
- defined goals, capabilities and features of the concept of inter-regional economic integration in the process of regionalization of economic area of ??Ukraine;  
- methodological approaches to the assessment of the risks of migration and of migration processes in Ukraine;  
- studied problems of social and labor systems in conditions of globalization calls for regional economic development;  
- conceptual framework of modernization of market mechanisms in environmental regulation in Ukraine;  
- draft concept of improving public policies spatial regions, taking into account the latest manifestation of signs territorial structural processes;  
- methodical approaches to assessing the level of development of industrial and social infrastructure in rural areas, the factors of rural development and indicators of economic activity.  
- propositions of directions and mechanisms to ensure sustainable development of mountain areas, are included in the documents adopted at the plenary session of the Congress of the Council of Europe;  
- conceptual framework of financial efficiency potential, developed tools assessing the financial capacity of industrial enterprises;  
- developed a practical tool for monitoring the investment attractiveness of the region accurately fulfilled comprehensive assessment of investment attractiveness of the seven regions of Western Ukraine;  
- reasonably scientific and methodological basis for the development of new forms of cross-border cooperation developed methodological approaches for their implementation in the regions of Ukraine and in the neighborhood strategy with the EU;

According to research in 2010. prepared and sent to the authorities 90 memoranda, research notes and recommendations implemented - 65.

Trends Research Institute in 2011:  
- impact assessment of natural resource potential for the formation of economic, social and ethno-cultural environment of the Carpathian region, study the effectiveness of the use of natural resources and conservation problems of ecological balance in the region;  
- research status and key problems of socio-economic development of small towns in the region, forming a system of criteria for the diagnosis of their socio-economic development;  
- development of theoretical and methodological principles of research of socio-demographic potential of the region. in Global Challenges;  
- study of characteristics and formation and utilization of industrial capacity in the Carpathian region in view of the current trends of socio-economic transformation;  
- prioritizing future development of rural areas, improving methods of forecasting their development;  
- study areas improving the mechanism of improving the efficiency of the financial capacity of the region in terms of economic instability;  
- development of methodological tools for comprehensive evaluation of investment performance, a database for the evaluation of investment activities at the regional level;  
- study of conditions and mechanisms for the cross-border markets;  
- development of methodological approaches to cross-border mechanisms convergence spaces.