Is it really in Ukraine? NEZALEZHNI: TOP-6 unique projects created in Ukraine

Made in Ukraine

Made in Ukraine is a cluster aimed at increasing the popularity of Ukrainian products, places of interest, events, and companies and attracting the attention of consumers both within the country and abroad.

The project activity takes place in two main directions - public and commercial. The first direction works at promoting entrepreneurship among the population, training entrepreneurs and staff, and their protection. The second is about festivals and markets, travel agencies, marketing, production, and own production.

The history of the cluster began in 2013 with an experiment by journalist Yulia Savostina "In Search of Made in Ukraine." She had to live a year using exclusively Ukrainian products. The success of the experiment was impressive. It showed you could find almost all goods of Ukrainian origin for a comfortable life. Moreover, it caused a flash mob in support of Ukrainian manufacturing.

The journalist and the team organized the first festival "In Search of Made in Ukraine" a year later. There Ukrainians could buy more domestically produced goods.

For the first five years, Made in Ukraine tried to purchase goods of Ukrainian origin a habit. And it worked. During that time, it held more than 30 festivals of goods for Ukrainian producers. Visitors saw not only the market of Ukrainian producers of all categories of goods, but they also watched performances by Ukrainian performers and DJs, a large food court, lounge area, and children's area.

Now the activities of the cluster are aimed at creating an environment for civilized business in Ukraine.

Made in Ukraine cooperates with 8,000 small and medium-sized companies, each of which employs from 5 to 250 people.

To promote and support Ukrainian tourist locations and manufacturers Made in Ukraine launched three successful special projects - The most beautiful Ukrainian village, Svidomo Made and You are my antivirus. The cluster also published 14 books "In Search of Made in Ukraine" and a series of English pocket guides, consisting of twelve guides.

The project cooperates with the Ministry of Education of Ukraine, the Ministry of Information Policy, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the United Nations, and the StartUP Ukraine project.

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Prozorro

Prozorro is an electronic platform for public procurement, where customers announce tenders for the purchase of goods, works, and services, and businesses provide their commercial offers. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has named Prozorro a recommended model for procurement reform.

Today, the platform unites more than 35,000 state and municipal authorities and enterprises and about 250,000 commercial companies.

The idea for Prozorro came during the Revolution of Dignity when a team of volunteers decided to reform the procurement sector and make it transparent. It took two years to become a state-owned enterprise officially in 2016. At the same time, the Prozorro system became mandatory for all public customers.

Not a penny from the state budget was spent on developing the system. It was developed in cooperation with the public organization Transparency International Ukraine, private electronic platforms, the Lviv IT company Quintagroup and the Ministry of Economy. The amount of investment was $ 35,000.

All Prozorro purchases are made through an e-auction module, which is accessed by customers and suppliers through electronic platforms authorized by the system. There are a total of 13 accredited procurement sites.

Thanks to Prozorro, Ukraine has saved UAH 190 billion since 2016, of which UAH 56 billion was saved in 2020. Today, the system has 55,037 announced tenders and 258,952 active suppliers.

Not only entrepreneurs and government customers, but also public activists and journalists use the system every day. Now everyone can see what, from whom, and for how much the state buys.

The system includes a DoZorro monitoring portal, which allows you to keep track of controlled procedures and violations, prepare and submit official appeals to regulatory authorities, evaluate specific suppliers, analyze business feedback or make appropriate changes to the procurement process.

Prozzoro has repeatedly won international competitions, including World Procurement Awards, Open Government Awards, Communication For Future Davos Awards, Global Public Service Teams of the Year 2019.

Prozorro is also considered a role model for training in the international organization Open Contracting Partnership.

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«Фактор»

Factor is a group of companies, one of the largest enterprises in Ukraine, specializing in providing consulting services, publishing periodicals, and literature on the theory and practice of accounting and taxation, entrepreneurship, law, and record keeping. The association is a leader in the field of high-quality printing, production of newspapers and books.

Factor's mission is to promote the intellectual, professional, and aesthetic development of the business environment and society of Ukraine.

The history of the Group of Companies dates back to 1991. Then Serhiy Polituchy registered the research and production enterprise "Factor," which became the basis of the future company.

Initially, Factor conducted seminars for accountants and entrepreneurs and provided advice on accounting and taxation. Later, a publishing house of normative literature and forms of accounting and reporting appeared. Over time, the company developed and increased the scope and range of levers. So now the group of companies has a broad structure.

The "Factor" includes:

Factor-Druk. It's the largest full-cycle book and magazine complex in Ukraine. Today, every third book, every tenth newspaper in Ukraine is published by Factor-Druk. More than 15% of the company's products are books for European customers.

Vivat Publishing House. It annually produces more than 500 titles with a circulation of over 2 million and collaborates with publishers from 21 countries.

Factor Media. It is the creator and operator of the largest professional online platforms for accountants in Ukraine with a traffic of over 3 million per month. In 2017, the company received the status award "Enterprise of the Year 2016".

Audit firm "Factor-Audit" - a pioneer of the domestic market of audit services.

Educational Center "Academy Factor." It's created for the training and retraining of accountants online.

Project ROZUM. It is aimed at the intellectual development of children and adolescents includes a network of shops for educational games and toys.

"Factor" pays great attention to the promotion of reading. In 2015, it started to organize the KharkivBookFest book festival and the Book Mykolaychyk charity fair, whose mission is to make books accessible and instill a love of reading.

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Diia

Diia is a mobile application and portal where you can find all the necessary documents and quickly get all the services online.

Diia appeared in December 2019, when the beta test of the application was launched. It can be used to access the digital driver's license and vehicle registration certificate from a smartphone.

In less than six months, there were available 27 government services on the Diia portal. Also, documents such as digital student tickets and domestic and international passports appeared in the application.

A large-scale update of Action (Action 2.0) took place in 2020 and 2021. New services appeared on the portal and in the application, including automatic registration of private individuals, which remains one of the most popular services.

Thanks to the Diia Ukraine became the first country in the world where electronic passports have the same legal force as their physical counterparts.

The project is funded by several international projects, so public funds are not spent on it. The Ministry of Digital Transformation is implementing it.

In 2020, more than 10 million Ukrainians used the portal and application of digital public services "Diia." Currently, 53 public services are available on the portal, and 9 digital documents are available in the mobile application: passport of a citizen of Ukraine in the form of ID-card, biometric passport, taxpayer card (RNOKPP), driver's license, vehicle registration certificate, vehicle insurance policy, student card, IDP certificate, your child's birth certificate.

In addition, several platforms have been created under the Action:

Action.Business that helps entrepreneurs to create, develop and scale business.
Interaction. It allows you to quickly and easily submit petitions to local governments
Action. Digital education that teaches digital literacy in the form of educational series
Action. Open data. It is aimed at increasing the level of knowledge about open data, their impact, and benefits for citizens
Open Data Portal that provides access to public information in the form of open data and government information with the possibility of its subsequent use

It is expected that by 2024, 100% of public services will be available in Action Online.

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Monobank

Monobank is the first bank in Ukraine to work exclusively on mobile devices. It is enough to have a smartphone on Android or iOS to become a customer. You need to download the bank application. That's all.

Work on the creation of Monobank began in 2017. The developer was Fintech Band, which cooperated with JSC "Universal Bank."

At the same time, the bank won the nomination "Best Ukrainian FinTech-startup" of the PaySpace Magazine Awards. It won the main award in the category "Neobank of the Year" of the FinAwards in 2018.

The bank provides branch-free service - only through a mobile application. It offers a wide range of banking services - free money transfers, payment of utility bills, replenishment of mobile, payments on details, deposits, loans, installments, statements, and certificates, payment of fines and taxes, and even the opening of a private individual.

Debit Mastercard World and Visa Rewards Credit cards are issued. There are several options for cards: black, white, children's, platinum, and iron. You can open accounts in UAH, EUR, USD, and PLN, deposits - in UAH, EUR, and USD.

Monobank відрізняється швидкою й професійною службою підтримки, зв’язатися з якою можна як у месенджерах (Telegram, Viber, Facebook Messenger) так і за телефоном.

Monobank has a fast and professional support service, which can be contacted both by messengers (Telegram, Viber, Facebook Messenger) and by phone. In 4 years, 4 million people became the bank's clients, and the total amount of loans reached 4 billion hryvnias. Every day the number of active users is 1.3 million people.

A feature of the bank is cashback, which returns part of the funds from purchases. Each month, you can choose two categories of goods and receive a refund of a few percent of your purchases. The maximum amount of cashback from the bank is UAH 500. You can also get cashback from the bank's partners. 2.3 billion cashback was returned during the entire period of the bank's activity.

The bank has launched a section "Awards" for active users. You can get cats for various achievements. There is an opportunity to receive 103 awards.

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Vsi.Svoi

Vsi.Svoi is a multi-brand platform that unites a large number of Ukrainian manufacturers in various fields.

The project appeared in 2015 with the desire of the founder Anna Lukovkina to unite different products of Ukrainian production in one place. At the same time, she organized the first Vsi.Svoi market with clothing, footwear, and accessories.

Now Vsi.Svoi is the largest marketplace of Ukrainian goods, with six thematic areas of markets: clothing and footwear, home and decor, ceramics, gastronomy, children's products, jewelry, and gifts. The peculiarity of the markets is that each of them presents brands of only a separate thematic group of goods.

Markets take place in 4 subjects:

"Clothes. Shoes. Accessories"
"Gastronomy"
"Home and decor"
"Children"

In 2016, the world's largest store (4 floors) of Ukrainian clothing and footwear brands was opened on Khreshchatyk. Currently, it features more than 250 of the best Ukrainian brands of women's and men's clothing, footwear, and accessories, as well as children's goods, souvenirs, and gifts.

In two years Vsi.Svoi opened a second store, which brings together more than 200 brands of home decor and interior: ceramics, textiles, furniture, lighting, gifts, and souvenirs. During 2019-2020, there were opened two more stores in the shopping and entertainment centers Lavina Mall and RETROVILLE.

Vsi.Svoi has four stores in Kyiv and an online store.

The project has its own creative space, where all markets and parties take place. In total, more than 300 events were held there. You can also rent space for your events of various scales. There're 3 floors and 3 large open terraces in the center of Kyiv. It's the ideal place for festivals, concerts, lectures, exhibitions, and conferences.

Vsi.Svoi is a project that is not used to silence. It is ready to show problems and not to stay away from politics. So Vsi.Svoi posted posters in Ukrainian and English with a portrait of Sentsov and his biography in the shop windows in 2018. As part of the "Damn package" campaign in 2019, the shop windows were filled with plastic bags to draw attention to the excessive use of polyethylene.