The Center of Social Expertise and Prognosis  of the Institute of Sociology of National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences

 

251021, Київ, Шовковична 12,
Tel: (38-044) 291-55-41, 291-55-41 
Fax: 291-54-83
E-mail: csep@i.kiev.ua  
Contact Name: Y. Privalov


The Center of Social Expertise and Prognosis (CSEP) was founded as a department of the National Academy of Science with the purpose of development and implementation of a social expertise program, creation of a social rates system and monitoring of various regional and national projects.

Since inception, the Center has implemented twelve projects of national and regional levels for the total amount of US$ 320,000.  The orders of these projects were international organizations such as UNO, USAID, International Fund “Renaissance ”, Fund “Eurasia” and governmental structures of Ukraine.

The Center accomplishes projects of scientific research and application-oriented character, runs a publishing business, conducts marketing research and holds conferences, seminars and presentations.

The central strategic purpose of the Center is the establishment of a national board of experts, monitoring of social development and creation of a social rate system.  The Center is a leading research public establishment for the problems of social expertise of national programs and projects.  The mission of the Center consists of establishment of a social rates system aimed to estimate the quality of social policy of Ukraine.

Highly qualified specialists work at the Center, among them: sociologists; specialists of political science; economists; and, philosophers.  There are ten  permanent workers, three of whom hold Ph. Ds.  The Director of the CSEP is Y. Privalov, Ph.D. in philosophy.  The research advisor of the Center is Ph.D. in economics and professor Y. Sajenko. 

The Center has two regional offices: in Donetsk (the Southeastern region) and in L’viv (the Western region), in which highly qualified professionals and watchers hold their activity.  The Center is experienced in effective running of study grants that provide financial accounting.  The following are among the projects carried out by the Center:

 

Last updated:    May 2001


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