We intend to focus our attention on and to study and elaborate an experts' view of the following subjects:

1. Economy. 

- The trends of Ukraine's external economic links diversification and their possible social-economic and social-political consequences.

- The Globalisation as a mean of the capital accumulation and concentration, a formation of the world ruling elite: possible consequences for Ukraine.

2. Social-political trends.  

- A basic economic structure of modern Ukraine: a realized and not realized  potential, the limits of development, possible directions and methods of transformation.

- A political class consciousness in the post-soviet society and the trends in formation of political parties and civil organizations on its basis.

- The trade unions movement: an experience of the �old� and �new� Europe with a reference to Ukrainian realities.

- Social movements as a form of the citizens' self-organization and self-government in the way to a civil society formation.

- The forms, means and methods of the government and opposition interaction.  The means of internal political conflicts settlement.

- Causes of tension in the ethnic and confessional relations in Crimea, Transcarpathia and other regions of Ukraine: the estimation of risks and the ways of possible conflicts prevention.

- The xenophobia and anti-Semitism: causes of revival, perspectives of  upgrowth, estimation of the consequences, forms and methods of  counteraction.

- The role of women in Ukrainian society: myths and realities of emancipation, foreign experience with a reference to Ukraine.

3. Ecology. 

- An alternative power engineering in Ukraine: an experience, technologies and a problem of investments.

- The ecology of bordering territories: the interstates conflicts and an international cooperation.

- A change of climate in Ukraine: internal reasons, regional and global consequences.

- Social-economic factors of degradation of the environment and health of Ukrainian population.

4. International integration processes: the aims of and a place of Ukraine. 

- The trends in the European Union development, in its policy in regard to the member-candidates states. The prospects and conditions of Ukraine's participation in a formation of an all-European economic, political and defence space.

- The integration processes in the post-soviet space: positive and negative consequences of Ukraine's participation or nonparticipation.

- A formation of the Black Sea�Baltic confederation: pro and contra.

5.  Defence and security policy. 

- Radical nationalist and separatist movements as a factor of threat of armed conflicts with bordering states: an origin and causes of rise, the estimation of the level of threat to a territorial integrity and the state independence of Ukraine.

- Potential and real territorial demands of bordering states: an estimation of the risk and  a search of ways of conflicts prevention.

- Ukraine and the structures of collective security: a choice of variants and alternatives.

In the course of activity of the Club, its members may initiate the projects on other issues in which they are experts and which coordinator they are ready to become.