At the meetings of the Group of Experts of the project LINK-UN in 2008 the medium term assessments of the main macroeconomic indicators and structure of foreign commerce were presented along with the report 'Ukraine's Economic Development Outlook'.

The institute's Director, Academician V.Heyets took part in the work of the Second Session of the Team of Specialists on Innovations and Competitiveness Policies (TOS-ICP UNECE) held in Geneva February 13–15, 2008.

Comparative Analysis', where the matters of cooperation were also discussed, was held jointly by the IEF and Lodz University's Institute of Econometrics and Statistics (Poland) in Kyiv.

IEF and Russian Humanity Sciences Foundation (Russian Federation) jointly research such topics as 'The Innovative Approach in Economic Development of Russia and Ukraine', 'Strategy of Development of Agricultural and Food Market of Russia and Ukraine', 'Effectiveness of the Public Support of Agrarian Sector of Economy'.

Under this project the round table 'Monetary and Credit Policies of Ukraine and Russia during Global Financial Shocks' was conducted at Institute of Economics of Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) on October 6, 2008.

Preliminary consultations were conducted with Romanian Academy of Sciences with regard to future cooperation and the topics of joint research were determined.