On April 8, 2025, graduate students of our Institute listened to the guest lecture on the topic "Modern community development strategies: how to turn ideas into reality".

The event was moderated by a researcher at the Department of Trade and Industrial Policy of the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the NAS of Ukraine, Associate Professor Natalia Romanovska.

The lecturer Andriy Skrylnyk, PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the National University "Poltava Polytechnic named after Yuri Kondratyuk" introduced the listeners to the basic approaches to the formation of a modern strategy for the development of territorial communities, demonstrated the link between strategic planning and achievement of specific results of economic, social and inclusive development, emphasizing separately on the formation of skills to evaluate the effectiveness of implementation of strategic measures on the example of real cases and indicators. The lecture was prepared for the leadership of the Head of the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Marketing of the Poltava Polytechnic, PhD in Economics, Associate Professor Marina Chizhevska.

The information outlined called a lively discussion among the participants, during which the speaker answered numerous and difficult questions of graduate students. 

Such measures contribute to the deepening of communication and the establishment of scientific cooperation between institutions of higher education and scientific institutions, professional training of graduate students, the development of critical thinking of the third level of education applicants.