President - Radomyr Silin
Honorary President - Wolfgang Preis
The Podillya Pershyi Association (PPA) was registered as a voluntary organization in July, 1998. The PPA is of great importance in the regional development of Ukraine by introducing the cluster model of development. Since 1999 on the basis of the PPA they have created and maintained The Center of the Social and Economic Investigations of the Podillya Region. Since 2005 one of the strategic priorities of the PPA is promoting the idea of the European integration. From 1998 till 2006 the Association assigned approximately 1,000,000grn. To both social and economic projects in the Khmelnytskyi region.
The variety of Association activities and tasks.
- Creating and Supporting industrial clusters;
- Supporting and Developing inter-sector dialog and partnership
- Examination of social and economic conditions of the Podillya region
- Realization/Creation of educational projects for young people and businesses
- Introducing new technologies in education
- Contributing to the cooperation of business and educational institutions
- Functioning as the center for implementing multi-frontier and inter-regional cooperation, while partaking in spatial programs of the European Union.