Born in the Ukraine on the 17 June 1980, Iryna Kravets will study at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus, Germany. She will lead a comparative study on the different world heritage management practices in use in the west in the view of adapting them, with all the appropriate modifications, in the Ukraine and in other countries of the former Soviet Union. To this effect, Miss Kravets will study, in situ, the heritage management of the Edinburgh's Old and New towns in the United Kingdom and that of the city of Kiev, cities inscribed on the World Heritage List.



Built to rival the church of Santa Sofia in Constantinople, the Santa Sophia Cathedral of Kiev symbolises the "New Constantinople", capital of the Christian principality created in the XI century in a region converted after the baptism of Saint Vladimir in 988. The spiritual and intellectual influence of the Laure of Kievo-Petchersk contributed widely to Orthodox faith and thought in the Russian world in the XVII, XVIII and the XIX centuries.



Built to rival the church of Santa Sofia in Constantinople, the Santa Sophia Cathedral of Kiev symbolises the "New Constantinople", capital of the Christian principality created in the XI century in a region converted after the baptism of Saint Vladimir in 988. The spiritual and intellectual influence of the Laure of Kievo-Petchersk contributed widely to Orthodox faith and thought in the Russian world in the XVII, XVIII and the XIX centuries.



Management in post Soviet countries is very different from that of western countries and remains imprinted with authoritarianism. The present project has as its object the study of western models of world heritage site management and their subsequent application to post Soviet countries, after appropriate modifications. Purely western models do not necessarily adapt well to countries which have had a long history of totalitarianism. This study of comparative management will achieve the formulation of categories that will allow comparison between different types of management employed in diverse countries and the setting up of specific heritage management strategies capable of being adapted to the Ukraine and in post Soviet countries. It will be a question of:

• Analysing the comparative values determining behaviour in business and work;
• Analysing the work environment in organisations of the two countries;
• Analysing management and workplace motivation principles;
• Analysing bureaucracy's role in organisations;
• Analysing the procedures of decision making and of coordination in work.

The results of the research will be presented in the form of a concrete cultural management project to be implemented in the Ukraine, by utilising an already existing organisation.