Stories
Frontline digitalisation: Kharkiv IT Cluster collaborations
The Kharkiv IT Cluster in Ukraine is actively working to attract funding and partnerships and to strengthen the ecosystem that supports technology businesses, even in times of crisis
How EU4Youth is driving opportunity and success among young Ukrainians
Every success story begins with an opportunity – a moment when someone dares to take a step forward
“When we go to class, it’s a holiday for us”
Nina Gladenka lives with her husband in the city of Pryluky, in the Chernihiv region. Now the couple is retired, so they devote almost all their time to caring for their youngest daughter Olena
“Local School Rehabilitation for Resilience” Initiative
“Local School Rehabilitation for Resilience” Initiative
Restoring community and environment in northern Ukraine
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, Ukrain…
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
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
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 edu…
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), a…
Supporting Ukrainian civil society during Russia’s continued aggression
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 Di…
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 l…
EU 4 Gender Equality partners with the private sector for family-friendly…
According to the World Bank, gender inequality continues to limit women’s full participation in the labour force across Europe and Central Asia