Stories
“Local School Rehabilitation for Resilience” Initiative copy
06/05/2025
“Local School Rehabilitation for Resilience” Initiative
Restoring community and environment in northern Ukraine
11/04/2025
Working in Ukraine is harder now due to the Russian war, but I believe there is always a silver lining
Rising from ashes: EU loan helps revive paper factory in Chernihiv, Ukra…
13/03/2025
The story of Amethyst, a company that produces high-quality toilet paper and paper towels, begins in 1990, and in more than one way it’s a story of invention being born of necessity
On the forefront of emergency medicine
12/03/2025
What Anton Atroshyn loves most about his job is a specific moment: coming home after a long shift, exhausted but carrying the feeling of having done his duty.
Protect and rebuild: Ukrainian veterans successfully adapt to peaceful life
25/02/2025
When Ukrainian veteran Vadym Holoyuk was demobilised, he found the world around him and the labour market had changed beyond recognition
New skills – new opportunities for development: EU supports vocational e…
24/02/2025
Olha Ostapenko, aged 36, lives in the village of Vepryk, in the Poltava region of central Ukraine. She is a single mother raising her three-year-old son alone, an internally displaced person (IDP),…
Supporting Ukrainian civil society during Russia’s continued aggression
03/02/2025
Hennadii Vypynashko is a Ukrainian human rights defender who has coordinated the Protection Programme of the Educational Human Rights House Chernihiv
Year Two of the Deregulation Action Plan in Ukraine: e-Permits, Updated …
24/01/2025
The Ukrainian government, along with international organisations supporting this important initiative, set an ambitious goal of easing conditions for entrepreneurs and introducing a new digitalised…
EU 4 Gender Equality partners with the private sector for family-friendl…
14/01/2025
According to the World Bank, gender inequality continues to limit women’s full participation in the labour force across Europe and Central Asia
Unconditional love: how dogs are healing the hearts of children in Ukraine
08/01/2025
A library in Odesa is full of children accompanied by their parents, though they are not there to trawl the shelves for books. Today is a special day for them, the books are left untouched, as they…
A Spring in Their Step: Zhytomyr sock manufacturer enters new markets wi…
12/12/2024
Zhytomyr brand Lehka Khoda (the name in Ukrainian means “Easy Walking”) is one of Ukraine’s largest hosiery manufacturers
Comfortable Future: EU4Business helps Ukrainian street furniture maker f…
12/12/2024
For the past six years, the Ukrainian village of Zymna Voda, strategically located next to the ring road leading to the Polish border town of Przemyśl