Participation in the program
16.11.2021
The participation of the team of the Faculty of Foreign Languages in the UPSHIFT program continues.
UPSHIFT is a global innovation program of UNICEF, implemented in more than 20 countries by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). In Ukraine, the program is implemented jointly with the NGO “Kharkiv Professional Development Foundation”. UPSHIFT is a program that allows adolescents and young people to offer and implement innovative solutions to pressing problems in school, community, city, etc. based on the Human Centered Design approach human-oriented). With the help of an experienced mentor, the team of participants step by step explore the selected problem, study the target audience and test their ideas. As a result, teams create project ideas and have the opportunity to raise funding for their implementation.
The UPSHIFT program combines training on social innovation, mentoring and financial support. It provides young people with the skills and resources to identify the problems of their communities and offer innovative solutions to those problems. The program develops the resilience of young people, and their communities benefit from the solutions offered by young people. The participation of the team of the Faculty of Foreign Languages in the Upshift program continues. UPSHIFT is a global innovation program of UNICEF, implemented in more than 20 countries by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). In Ukraine, the program is implemented jointly with the NGO “Kharkiv Professional Development Foundation”. UPSHIFT is a program that allows adolescents and young people to offer and implement innovative solutions to pressing problems in school, community, city, etc. based on the Human Centered Design approach human-oriented).
With the help of an experienced mentor, the team of participants step by step explore the selected problem, study the target audience and test their ideas. As a result, teams create project ideas and have the opportunity to raise funding for their implementation. The UPSHIFT program combines training on social innovation, mentoring and financial support. It provides young people with the skills and resources to identify the problems of their communities and offer innovative solutions to those problems. The program develops the resilience of young people, and their communities benefit from the solutions offered by young people. Of the 86 teams that applied for the 25th wave of UPSHIFT in Ukraine, Valeria Lykhachova, Kateryna Grechyshkina and Maryana Maksylevych went to the next stage and started working with the mentor – Oksana Husakova, a teacher of the Department of Oriental Languages. Participation in the UPSHIFT project consists of the “Inspiration / Research” preparatory phase and the Boot Camp, where all selected teams will work on a prototype project and present it for evaluation by experts. So far, the girls have successfully mastered the problem and are working with the target audience. Ten teams from Luhansk and Donetsk regions will start working on November 26 in Sviatohirsk. As a result of this work, 5 teams will be able to receive funding for their project and absolutely all teams will continue their work with mentors.
