Vitalii Naida

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Stories of Victory

The content of the project is to promote understanding of the tragedy of the Russian-Ukrainian war as an individual tragedy of each individual (disclosure of the versatility of the personality of a young Ukrainian) by creating a collection of individual three-level stories of participants in the School of Scientific Leadership of the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs (currently 70 people, all are in Ukraine), which will consist of stories in which they describe
1) their pre-war values, hobbies, areas of activity and projects;
2) the actual history of life in the war;
3) post-history in which they describe their plans, projects for the future after the end of the war
with the subsequent translation into English of such a collection of stories, its publication - placement on information resources (websites, pages on social networks), as well as holding an online meeting with the opportunity for participants to present their stories.

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  • Education in the Shelter: Testimonies of Teaching and Learning during the War
    University professors teaching classes from trenches, children doing homework by candlelight, teachers giving lectures after being evacuated from their hometowns – this is the new “normal” of Ukrainian education. According to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, as of late October 2022 2,677 schools and universities have been damaged by the war and 331 have been destroyed. More than half a million students and over 25,000 teachers fled abroad as refugees.  But while the education process continues online and in hybrid forms, there is an acute need to understand and assess the experiences and needs of students and faculty. Documenting Ukraine supports several initiatives that collect testimonies and record such experiences.