The First Meeting of the TOP Club in 2018

17:25, January 30, 2018

The meeting was devoted to the work of public councils created under the ministries and departments of the Sverdlovsk region government

The event was held by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives in the Ural Federal District with the support of the Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Regional Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the regional branches of Delovaya Rossiya and OPORA RUSSIA, Commissioner for Protection of Entrepreneurs' Rights in the Sverdlovsk region. The meeting venue was the new building of Graduate School of Economics and Management at 25 Gogol Str.

The experts suggested organizing a training course not only for the members of the councils, but also for the ministry staff, so that they were ready to share information and solve specific business problems. In addition, there were proposals to give public councils additional powers, to organise feedback from civil society, to make the procedure public and the Public Chamber, which coordinates the activities of public councils, not by decision from the top but rather from the bottom.

Vice-President of the Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Svetlana Okulova considers that the councils fulfil an important mission, but this tool should be properly used:

«It should not be an entourage, but a working body that solves specific problems that exist in the activities of the ministry. In this case, the council should not take on the administrative functions of this department. Therefore, I support the proposal to create a school of public councils, so that we all understand what we should seek to and in what ways we can achieve results», — said Svetlana Okulova.

The Head of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives in the Urals Federal District, Daniil Mazurovskii promised that the proposals for the creation of a school and the organisation of interaction, both between ministries and public councils, and among public councils themselves will be considered by specialists of the leading business communities in the region and by the Commissioner for Protection of Entrepreneurs' Rights in the Sverdlovsk region.

According to experts, problems in the work of public councils can be solved under two conditions: business community will show great activity, and the authorities will heed the expert opinion and implement the decisions of public councils.

TOP Club thanks Graduate School of Economics and Management, UrFU for cooperation and providing the venue for the event.