Representatives of UzhNU took part in the All-Ukrainian Forum of Youth Work “United by Light”
From November 28 to December 01, 2024, the head of the Center for Humanitarian and Educational Work, Career Guidance and Employment Mariia Yatskiv and the head of the YouthHub Youth Center Dmytro Koytyuk took part in the All-Ukrainian Forum of Youth Work “United by Light”. It was a unique opportunity to share experiences, get inspired by ideas, and unite around important youth development issues.
Mariia Yatskiv joined the panel discussion “Youth Centers in Higher Education Institutions: Bug or Feature?” as a speaker and shared her experience of creating the YouthHub Youth Center at UzhNU, the first youth center in Ukraine to be established as a structural unit of the university, and spoke about its achievements, best practices, and youth engagement. The discussion also focused on the strengths and weaknesses of university youth centers. Together with Dmytro Koytyuk, Yevhen Kuznetsov, Program Manager of the UNICEF Lviv Regional Office, and representatives of Lutsk National Technical University, they moderated the workshop during group assignments and discussions.
Participation in the forum provided new knowledge, an opportunity to share their unique practices, and to meet representatives of other youth centers and spaces in Ukraine.
The All-Ukrainian Forum of Youth Work “United by Light” was organized by the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine and the All-Ukrainian Youth Center in partnership with the OSCE Support Program for Ukraine, the USAID “Dreaming and Acting” program, implemented by IREX, the USAID DOBRE Program, implemented by Global Communities and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the EU4Youth IV project, co-funded by the European Union and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), UNICEF Ukraine, the British Council in Ukraine, the humanitarian organization “Person in Need” with the financial support of the Czech people, within the framework of the project “Democratic Integration, Resilience and Engagement” (Ukraine-DARE), implemented by Democracy Reporting International (DRI) with the financial support of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, and the UNDP Ukraine project “Support to Civil Society and Youth” funded by the Government of Denmark.
