A new stage within the framework of the project "Development of Cooperation between Business and Public Organizations in the Volyn Region" was the holding of a round table on the topic "Cooperation between Public Organizations and Business to Solve Community Problems." It is worth recalling that this project was supported by the city authorities and envisages involving business in solving public problems through the mediation of public organizations.
The round table was attended by the project executors and its participants. In particular, Serhiy Tarasyuk, deputy mayor of Lutsk, Yuriy Antsukh, head of the Volyn Regional Union of Entrepreneurs and Industrialists, Anatoliy Nosalyuk, head of the Association for the Protection of the Rights of Small and Medium Business "Business – Lutsk," and representatives of public organizations. The event was also attended by a guest from Rivne, Ruslan Kraplich, head of the council of the Princes Ostrozky Foundation, who spoke about the implementation of similar projects in the Rivne region.
Serhiy Tarasyuk, as a representative of the authorities, emphasized that now is perhaps the best time for introducing new relations in the triad "city authorities – business – public activists." Commercial enterprises and organizations, which constitute the overwhelming majority in the city (99%), are already working confidently and have the opportunity to allocate part of their profits for social purposes. The influence and weight of the public also need no confirmation. All that remains is to develop an algorithm for cooperation. In this regard, the city authorities see their role, for example, in informing about possible social projects of the city's public organizations through the official website.
Mykola Ivanyuk, executive director of the Association for the Protection of Youth Rights, sees the main task of public organizations as convincing business circles of the advantages of cooperation. Yuriy Antsukh, representing entrepreneurs, noted that cooperation is indeed possible provided there is competent motivation of entrepreneurial structures. Ruslan Kraplich noted the active position of the city authorities, which he observes in Lutsk, which is an additional condition for achieving the ultimate goal of the project – the formation of socially responsible business. Overall, the parties reached a common conclusion that information will play a significant role in the effectiveness of the cooperation's results. After all, such changes will not happen in one day; they depend on the internal self-organization of each individual. And it is precisely informativeness, according to Serhiy Tarasyuk, that is one of the elements of reforming the consciousness of both businessmen and the public.