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On August 22-23, Executive Director of the Open Policy Foundation Iryna ZHDANOVA made a working trip to the East, during which she participated in the V Congress of Donetsk Educators and took part in a meeting of the Ukrainian Education Cluster of UN.

On August 22, during the V Congress of Donetsk Educators “NEW UKRAINIAN SCHOOL: LET'S LEARN TO TEACH IN A NEW WAY” in Kramatorsk, Iryna ZHDANOVA in her speech emphasized the importance of continuing the work of the hotline and the information campaign for residents of non-government controlled areas of Ukraine in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, territories along the “contact line”, and enhanced cooperation in the development of innovative education.

You can find the Iryna Zhdanova’s presentation at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4pqbpM01-A 

On August 23, in Slovyansk, Iryna Zhdanova attended a meeting of the Education Cluster, where she underlined the need to include the following issues in the educational needs project 2020:

- DISTANCE EDUCATION (researches, provision of every school with fiber optic internet, a model of school);

- RECEIPT OF STATE-RECOGNIZED EDUCATION DOCUMENTS by NGCA residents, using the “Donbas-Ukraine” Education Centers in GCA, CL;

- TRAINING OF TEACHERS AND PARENTS;

Preparation of programs to train the following skills:

1. a) Emotional intelligence;
2. b) Digital learning;
3. c) Distance learning through smartphones and the use of friendly, modern distance learning resources;
4. d) Gamingization;
5. e) Training of parents whose children are involved in distance education;
6. e) Institutional support for non-governmental organizations providing training services for teachers.

- Modeling of innovation hubs in communities along CL 

(an educational environment with integrated STEM/STREAM training and vocational guidance, with employers (at a school/vocational school/youth center/university/college) with blended learning (formal and non-formal education);

- CAMPS in different regions, MOBILITY;

- Free transfer, hostels, and convenient logistics

(cash/vouchers to cover these costs);

- AN INFORMATION CAMPAIGN (mobile information teams, a national hotline);

- WORK WITH STUDENTS OF THE “DONBAS-UKRAINE” EDUCATION CENTERS

(over 5,000 from NGCA, CL).

The meeting was also attended by Chief Specialist of the Division of Normativity and Quality of Pre-school and General Secondary Education of the Donetsk Regional State Administration Mira MELOMEDOVA, who emphasized the importance of distance learning, Education Centers and the education hotline.

“This year, the number of children involved in distance learning and external studies has almost doubled,” the Division’s employee said.

For information. For 4 years of the hotline work, more than 35,000 calls have been received. More than 7,000 of them were from the East and the Crimea. A record number of calls from the East were received this year, during the admission campaign. For one and a half month, it was more than 1500 calls to the Open Policy Foundation’s hotline, which worked in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Science, with the support of UNICEF. It is three times more than last year.

On 29 August, in Kramatorsk, during the 2020 Humanitarian Needs Overview seminar of OCHA, UNICEF Project Coordinator Iryna ZAGORODNIA also spoke about educational needs in NGCA, CL. In particular, she expressed the Foundation’s position on needs and obstacles in access to education for children and young people. This position was also voiced by the hotline manager Olga KRAVCHENKO, who participated via Skype in the OSNA General Coordination Meeting on August 28.

The Open Policy Foundation’s team submitted proposals to the new Minister of Education and Science Hanna NOVOSAD and received a prompt response.

Innovative education – for Everyone!