Section: Global Ukraine (Ukraine)
Space Call: International Space Station Commander talks with Ukrainian experts and students
On October 25, 2017 Commander Randy Bresnik of NASA Expedition 53 shared many interesting details about the ISS with the audience that gathered at the America House Kyiv, including the US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, America House Director Christi Anne Hofland, first astronaut of independent Ukraine Leonid Kadenyuk, co-organizer of...
Report on linguistic diversity in Europe
Today, the 19th of October the Council of Europe’s Congress for Regional and Local Authorities is discussing the report on linguistic diversity in Europe Rapporteurs are Lelia HUNZIKER, Switzerland, and Anna MAGYAR, Hungary. The issue of Ukrainian education law is a part of the discussion. Summary of the debate: The report takes stock of...
Ukraine should not Help Authoritarian Countries in Cracking down on Freedom of Expression
The Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) is deeply concerned about the detention of Azerbaijani opposition journalist Fikrat Huseynli in Kiev and calls on the Ukrainian authorities to immediately release him and stop contributing to the repressive steps of authoritarian countries aimed at intimidating their critics living...
The world’s first CosmoHack: space projects, high technologies and art
On October 4-5 Space and Future Forum continued at KPI University and Kyiv Planetarium. The world’s first CosmoHack started at Sikorsky Challenge premises where young enthusiasts worked in Teams of the Future on research and applied project proposals. Within the framework of the Forum, the Beginning of the Space Era Round Table was held in...
The German-Ukrainian Forum of Young Researchers: Call for Participants
University of Tübingen in cooperation with the German-Ukrainian Academic Society is organizing the German-Ukrainian Forum of Young Researchers, supported by the DAAD from the means of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). This event will consist of two parts: Part I: an exploratory and networking tour, visiting some of...
The winners of the 2017 Ukrainian PhD Thesis Presentation Contest have been announced
On the 6th of October 2017 in Augsburg the PhD Thesis Presentation Contest took place for the second time within the framework of the Annual Meeting of the German-Ukrainian Academic Society/ The UKRAINE Network. With this annual PhD Contest the Society aims to promote aspiring PhD candidates and foster academic cooperation with Ukraine. The...
Space and Future Forum and the first CosmoHack
International Youth Space and Future Forum and the CosmoHack were conducted in Kyiv, Ukraine on October 3-5, 2017. On October 3, the grand opening of the International Youth Space and Future Forum was held at the Kyiv City Municipal Administration. The organizers of the Forum were the Ukrainian Youth Aerospace Association Suzirya, UkraineIS,...
10 things you should know about Ukraine’s pension reform
Source: UkraineWorld group (ukraineworld.org) Prepared by Vitalii Rybak On 3 October, Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has voted for legislation to overhaul an outdated pension system. It was supported by 288 out of 450 Ukrainian MPs. Moreover, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has already signed the law on 8 October. Pension reform has...
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