On 18 November 2011 the Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the National Academy and the Swiss-Ukrainian Project "Decentralization Support in Ukraine" (DESPRO). The National Academy was represented by Yuriy Kovbasyuk, President of the Academy, Vitaliy Malaschenko, Vice President, and Andriy Zhuravlyov, Head of the Innovative Education Technologies Management; the DESPRO project – by Oksana Garnets, Project Manager for DESPRO in Ukraine.

To ensure the consistency of processes of creating, analyzing, storing and disseminating the information resources and knowledge in the area of Public Administration and local self-government, the Parties have agreed to establish the Internet portal of the Interregional Information and Education Network for integrating the information resources of the National Academy, regional institutes of Public Administration and other educational institutions that provide educational services in the area of Public Administration, to develop distance learning courses (e-courses) within the Master's programmes and advanced training programmes of the National Academy.