Category: Stronger Society

EU provides grant to study work of German theaters

EU provides grant to study work of German theaters

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“Critical” theaters have been actively developing in Ukraine in recent years. During the performances poignant and sometimes tabooed topics are raised: domestic violence, LGBT rights, etc., and the viewers can discuss them. Actress Oksana Cherkashyna from Kharkiv learnt how Ukrainian independent theatre differs from the German one. Thanks to the EU Culture Bridges’ grant, she worked at the ArtiSchocken Theater in Nuremberg for one week and attended four theater and art festivals in Berlin. Oksana is currently planning a summer school in Germany for Ukrainian and German students from theater colleges and other joint projects. Read more →

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EU-funded inclusive children dance studio in Kharkiv

EU-funded inclusive children dance studio in Kharkiv

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Contemporary choreography, excitement and joyful faces of children – this is how the first lesson in the Total Answer Dance’s new inclusive dance hall passed. Together with the choreographer, the participants of the eponymous dance group, students of the Regional Center for Vocational Education of Innovative Technologies in Construction and Industry, teach here. Read more →

How does EU help Ukraine in science and innovation

How does EU help Ukraine in science and innovation

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From 2014 to 2018, the EU Horizon 2020 programme provided 184 projects of 110 Ukrainian private and public enterprises, research institutes and universities with grants worth a total of nearly EUR 21.7 million. The National Aerospace University “KhAI” received the largest funding of more than EUR 1.8 million in Kharkiv. The university implements several projects to make airplanes more powerful, reduce fuel consumption and harmful emissions into the atmosphere. Read more →

EU supports reform of vocational education and training reform in Ukraine

EU supports reform of vocational education and training reform in Ukraine

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There are seven vacancies for one skilled metalworker, and ten vacancies for one welder. This is evidenced by the monthly vacancy-CV ratio on the job search website Rabota.ua. And according to another job search portal Headhunter Ukraine, vocational professions were in the top five most demanded in 2018. If for one vacancy of a lawyer there are 6.8 CVs, then for labor vacancies, this figure is 0.8. Read more →

EU helps displaced women from Crimea to open mini bakery in Kakhovka

EU helps displaced women from Crimea to open mini bakery in Kakhovka

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In 2016, two residents of Alushta, researchers of the Crimean Natural Reserve moved from Crimea to Kakhovka in the Kherson region. Iryna Mamrotska and Olena Burziieva decided to start it from scratch. And if in Crimea they once explored trees and insects, they are now cooking dishes of the Crimean Tatar cuisine and implementing their own mini-business project. They are happy with their business. They bake 400 pirozhki, yantiks and chebureks each every day. Read more →

EU finances demining of Luhansk region

EU finances demining of Luhansk region

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Thorns keep getting into boots, burrs stick to legs. The fragment protection visor gets in the way, constantly sliding down from the head: it’s heavy, and it doesn’t stay in place on the face when you are not used to it. Keeping fast pace, we traverse a hilly terrain, trying not to fall behind the four people carrying a stretcher and the paramedic. The team is training to evacuate a wounded deminer: the medical vehicle is waiting on a clear site, and we are walking to it on the crispy grass among different-color spikes. Read more →