The Institute for Broadcasting Economics has organized two academic conferences on public service broadcasting, jointly with the  Kyiv-Mohyla School of Journalism at the National University  "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" (Kyiv, Ukraine). The cooperation has been supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Federal Foreign Office within the project "Introduction of a Public Service Broadcasting as a Means of Supporting Democracy in Ukraine? A German-Ukrainian Exchange of Opinions".

The first conference took place on 22nd June 2010 in Kyiv. Further details about this conference please find here. While at this first conference German experts described the German public service broadcasting system and discussed it with the Ukrainian participants, the present Ukrainian broadcasting system was described and discussed there only briefly.

At the follow-up conference in Cologne on 20th October 2010 Ukrainian experts described the situation of the Ukrainian broadcasting order in greater detail to the German participants and discussed with them possible steps for the implementation of public service broadcasting in Ukraine.

The programme of the second conference can be seen here. The presentation slides and audio records of the speeches can be downloaded from the list below. Allmost all papers have been published as contributions in the following conference proceedings:

• Olexiy Khabyuk, Manfred Kops (Eds.): Public Service Broadcasting: A German-Ukrainian Exchange of Opinions. Results of the Conference on 20th October 2010 in Cologne, Germany, Working Papers of the Institute for Broadcasting Economics, No. 277, Cologne 2010.

To support the dialogue with Ukrainian experts on the Institute's initiative three papers have been published in Ukrainian. One of them is the Ukrainian translation of "The German Dual Broadcasting Order − Development History, Current Structure and Expected Changes" (available in Ukrainian here) by Dr. Manfred Kops, General Manager of the Institute for Broadcasting Economics. Another one is the Ukrainian translation of those parts of the German Interstate Treaty on Broadcasting and Telemediа and of the Interstate Broadcasting Treaties on Financing and on License Fee, which are relevant for public service broadcasting. It is available here. A third publication describes the public service broadcasting in Germany in detail, especially its organizational structure and funding.