Participation in the project from UNICEF

20.1.2022

Students of the Facullty of Foreign Languages continue to participate in the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) project.

Kateryna Hrechyshkina, Mariana Maksylevych and Valeria Lykhachova, students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, together with Upshift Ukraine mentor Oksana Husakova, a teacher of the Department of Oriental Languages, continue to participate in the project from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Currently, participants are developing an action plan for their own educational project, which aims to acquaint teachers of secondary education with the latest technologies and opportunities to use them in lessons. Teams learned how fundraising works and how crowdfunding differs from grant writing.

The speaker of the meeting was Lyudmila Nikitina – communication manager of the platform “My City” in Kharkiv, founder of the youth platform “Your space of opportunities”, workshop “Take and do” and the Kharkiv branch of the program “Building Ukraine Together”, communication manager of the festival of social innovations and new music Plan B and Music Day in Kharkiv, grantmaker of the Bohdan Havrylyshyn Family Foundation in the program “Youth will change Ukraine” in 2019, mentor in the program “Strengthening civic activism among young people” in 2021 and 2022).

UPSHIFT is a program that allows adolescents and young people to offer and implement innovative solutions to current problems in school, community, city, etc. based on the Human Centered Design approach. 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 social innovation training, 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.