Stories
MARTA gets an “A”
In 2021, a development team of the medical chatbot from Mariupol ‘Open Data Lab – Ukraine’ won the competition of civic tech instruments ‘Act to connect’ from the Eastern Europe Foundation (EEF), f…
Bridges of Trust Serve People
In September 2021, Kyiv hosted a plenary gathering under U-LEAD’s initiative ‘Bridges of Trust’ where representatives of 16 Ukrainian and 11 Slovenian municipalities shared experiences of local sel…
New mobile services for elderly in remote areas of the Starobilsk community
In remote villages, single elderly people and people with disabilities lack elementary handyman’s services, such as help with mowing the grass, sawing firewood, removing snow, making minor repairs …
Moms and dads as one team: EU supports development of Tatohubs
Tatohubs are clubs for dads, where they can communicate, exchange experience, get advice from various specialists, and spend some quality time with their kids. As of the end of 2021, there were 12 …
“European” bicycles as a way to fight isolation of the old and vulnerable
3.4 million people continue to live in the populated areas located along the dividing line in the East of Ukraine, requiring humanitarian aid. A large number of them are elderly people that also re…
EU helps civilians and military establish dialogue in the communities af…
The Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) oversees the establishment of the dialogue between the military and the civilian residents of the front-line communities in Donetsk Oblast as a part of …
How R/V Belgica became Borys Aleksandrov
The distance from the Zeebrugge, Belgium to Odesa, Ukraine is 8,600 km. The journey of Belgica to its new home ran across the North Sea, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. The t…
Chief Klopotenko explains about HACCP
“HACCP is a chain consisting of several main links,” says the chef. “You only need to make everything safe at each link and then the children will be healthy and well fed.”
The school you won’t recognize now
Secondary School No. 15 became one of the 246 projects, which were reconstructed in 2015-2021 within the framework of the Ukraine Early Recovery Programme (UERP). UERP is targeted at the key munici…
European loan for surgeries for Vyshgorod residents
JSC Kredobank is one of the five partner banks of the Program for supporting financing of investment projects of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Amida Medical Center received a UAH 1.76 million…
European transformations at 47 Kyivska Street
There are around 180,000 multi-storey buildings in Ukraine, with 144,000 of them requiring modernization. These are mostly the buildings that were built before the country gained its independence i…