Stories
“When we go to class, it’s a holiday for us”
07/05/2025
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
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, Ukrain…
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 edu…
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), a…
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 Di…
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 l…
EU 4 Gender Equality partners with the private sector for family-friendly…
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…
A Spring in Their Step: Zhytomyr sock manufacturer enters new markets with…
12/12/2024
Zhytomyr brand Lehka Khoda (the name in Ukrainian means “Easy Walking”) is one of Ukraine’s largest hosiery manufacturers











