The help to the pupils of
9th and 11th grades from
the ATO area and
Crimea : educational and
social support
Situation
The military conflict in Eastern Ukraine, the
annexation of the Crimea
-an effective and efficient system of educational
institutions is disrupted;
- significant limitation of the constitutional right
of children to education;
- school programs discrepancy to the Ukrainian
educational programs in the uncontrolled
territory;
- repression and restriction of movement
(passes) make it impossible to exercise their
right to Ukrainian school certificate
The Project of Fund „Open Policy“
«The help to the pupils of 9th and 11th grades
from the ATO area and Crimea : educational and social support»
Main tasks:
1
creating conditions for pupils from the ATO
area and Crimea for school certificates
2
information campaign for pupils and teachers
from the occupied territories
3
lobbying the propositions to resolve educational
problems Crimea and Donbas at the state level
4
resolving the issue of distance learning
5
destruction of stereotypes in the public
consciousness about the East and the West and
setting peaceful relations
SUPPORTED by the Ministry of Social Policy and the
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
Risks
The problems of eduacation
in Donbas and Crimea
Target audience
Media, government,
children and teachers
from the Donbas and
Crimea
Governement:
- does not pay
enough attention to
the problems of
education in Donbas
and Crimea;
- slowly respond to
challenges.
Society
has a stereotype
("it's their fault") and
does not see the scope
of the problem
Children:
- pay more
attention to the
military conflict;
- forget the
importance of
education.
The meeting of Working Group in the Parliamentary
Committee on Science and Education,
January 20, 2015
Participants:
- MP Lilya Grinevich
- school teachers,
university
professors, scientists
of Donbas
- CEO of the “Open
Policy Foundation”
Iryna Zhdanova
Results:
- announced the issue of the State final testing,
the external testing and attachment to external
studies for pupils from temporarily the occupied
territories and annexed Crimea, creating a unite
information base of the pupils of 11th (9th)
grades;
Presented:
- civic Platform activities of reforming science
(initiator - Fund "Open Policy")
- study program of Green school for young
scientists from Donbas during the winter
holidays.
The presentation can be viewed at the link:
http://kno.rada.gov.ua/komosviti/control/uk/do
ccatalog/list?currDir=63061
The meeting of Donetsk school teachers, directors of
boarding schools with
L.Hrynevych, I. Likarchuk, P. Polyansky,
February 6, 2015
On the 6 February 2015 the Fund "Open Policy" organized a meeting of
Donetsk school teachers, the directors of boarding schools with the
Chairman of the Committee on science and education of the Parliament of
Ukraine L. Grinevich and the Minister of the Ministry of Education of
Ukraine P. Polyansky.
Results:
extending of the registration dates for an external testing until the 20 April
and additional sessions on June 9-July 9;
the list of basic schools for distance external studies is published;
the information on boarding schools that are willing to accept graduates is
collected;
the „hot line“ was opened in the Ministry of Education.
Press Conference "How to get the higher education to the pupils of Donbas
and Crimea, passinf of the State final tasting and conducting of external
testing, "Ukrinform “, February 19, 2015
Participants:
MP Liliya Grinevych, CEO of the „Open Policy Foundation“
Iryna Zhdanova, director of the Ukrainian center
Evaluation of Education Igor Likarchuk, Deputy
Minister of MES Pavlo Polyansky
The postponement of registration for external testing,
additionalsession, and conditions for getting Ukrainian school
certificate are announced
The conditions of the admission campaign in 2015 for
graduates of ATO area and Crimea are announced.
The pilot project of International Green school of young
scientists of Donbas „The help to the pupils of 11th grade from
the ATO area: educational and social support.
More information:
http://kno.rada.gov.ua/komosviti/control/uk/publish/article;jsessionid
=6C2728D9EC97EFE032F79D354FC35D00?art_id=63919&cat_id=44731
The steps for 11th grade pupils from
the ATO area and Crimea
The "Open Policy Foundation" in cooperation with the Ministry of
Education, UCEQA have developed step by step the instructions for 11th
grade pupils from the ATO area and Crimea, following the
recommendation of international experts from UNICEF.
-2200 pcs. - sent to the department of education in all regions of
Ukraine
-2500 pcs. - published by UNICEF were delivered in Severodonetsk
Instruction and hotlines available on the website of the Ministry of Education
www.mon.gov.ua/usi-novivni/novini/2015/04/08/dorozhnya-karta-dlyavipusknikiv/
The results of interdepartmental meeting on 11th
grade ATO area (March 30, 2015)
Participants:
Ministry of Education, Ministry of Social Affairs, Migration Service, the Security
Service of Ukraine, ATC, UCEQA The Fund "Open Policy".
Results:
The pass to cross the boundary line for 11th grade pupils from ATO area and for
accompanying person will be easier.
The boarding schools will host the graduates form ATO area for the stay
throughout the final and the admission campaign.
The step-by-step instruction about getting the Ukrainian school
certificate will be posted on the official websites of Ministry of Education,
Ministry of Social Policy, UCEQA.
Approved inter-ministerial financial and organizational issues for the delivery
of additional session DPA-testing for students Donbass, Crimea.
Outdoor meeting of the relevant Committee of the Parliament in
Severodonetsk
“On the educational needs of different categories of pupil
from ATO area», 2 April 2015
Location: Severodonetsk
Results:
- the meetings with the teachers of of
preschool and secondary education (250
people) took place;
- the instruction and measures about solving
the problem were presented;
- the question about passes was raised and the
offers of educators were listened;
- visiting to a boarding school, where 350 places
were allocated for graduates from the ATO area
during the final and the admission campaign.
- 160 children living in a boarding school in
Severodonetsk.
Meeting of Fund "Open Policy" with Deputy Minister
Pavlo Polyansky and employees of the Department of
Secondary Education (April 9, 2015)
Results of the meeting
An action plan for the school year and priority
directions for next year were developed.
The letter concerning the cooperation between the
Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Social
Policy, coordination on graduates from temporary
immigrants was agreed.
Meeting at UNESCO and the Ministries of France
Conducting a series of meetings in
Paris (October 11-13, 2015) with
representatives of UNESCO, the
French Ministry of Youth, diplomatic
corps and Diaspora to discuss the
problem of pupils of 9th and 11th
grades from the ATO area and
Crimea.
Partitipation of CEO of the fund "Open Policy" in Extended
and visiting session of the Committee
on Science and Education in Kramatorsk
(November 19,2015)
Results:
The Ministry of Education and Science was
proposed to to better meet the challenges, to
update the website
During the meeting with the head of the
Donetsk VCA P.Zhebrivsky it was agreed to put
the record on the channels ODTRK.
The problem of the preparation and
conduction of the State final testing and
external testing was raised.
The helding of large-scale information
campaign was discussed.
Were established communication with the
Department of Education, University of
machine. Kramatorsk.
Director General of NGO "Open Policy Foundation“ in the
extended session of the Committee on Science and
Education, November 25, 2015
• Participants:
• Proposals from the Fund:
Sergii Kvit, Minister of Education
andScience, Lilia Hrynevych
otherDeputies profile committee,
school principals, teachers,
Representatives of non-formal
education universities, vocational
education. Around 300 people.
the need to lay the rules are designed
to correct the law "On education" on the
territory of ATO and holding in Crimea.
• Video: https://youtu.be/2grvXDtkdOk
The results of the meeting of experts of the "Open Policy
Foundation" with the Minister of Education Sergey Kvit,
Deputy Minister Pavlo Hobzey, the employees of the
Department of Ministry of Education, November 2015
Updated and posted on the website of the Ministry of
Education the step-by-step instructions about getting
Ukrainian school certificate (2015-2016)
The list of schools of distant and external studies was
published.
The "hot line" improved: the involvement of several specialists
and the ability to call on numbers of different national
operators.
A decree on the establishment of a list of educational websites
for distance learning was published.
"Open Policy Foundation" member of the
Education Cluster of UNICEF
• Since 2014 the Foundation has been
actively involved in the meetings of the
Education Cluster UNICEF.
• Some proposals were supported by the
Fund as well as by UNICEF in Ukraine
and other members of the cluster.
• By initiative of March 5, 2015 met
Giovanna Barberis Head of Mission and
Lilia Hrynevych. From Foundation scientist from Donetsk, Expert Fund
The news of the meeting on March 5:
Evgenii Karpichev
http://kno.rada.gov.ua/komosviti/control/uk/pub
lish/article;jsessionid=F616D68581FA862633244
9BCDCDBC236?art_id=64221&cat_id=44731
Activity
of the „Open Policy
Foundation“ with
pupils of the
Donbass, Crimea
Press conference in the UNIA
«Ukrinform», dedicated to the start
of project
«Good gift for Christmas!
Help the Children of Donbass!»
Date: 10 November 2014.
Video press conference link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i
MIZ8NbnBO4.
Activities conducted under
the project
"Good gift for Christmas! Help the
Children of Donbass! "
- Charitable scientific weekends for families
(November-December 2014).
- Skype conference with Ukrainian community
of Rochester (USA). The members were the
Minister of Youth and Sports Igor Zhdanov,
Deputy Minister for European Integration
Mykola Movchan and volunteers of the project.
- Meeting Donbass
students at the Kyiv
Mohyla Academy
Attache for Scientific
Cooperation of the
French Embassy in
Ukraine Gilles
Mamets, November
5, 2015
SUCCESSFUL pilot project
"Good gift for Christmas.
Help the Children of Donbass! "
Results:
intensive preparations course for external testing
was conducted in the camp "International Green
School" in the Carpathians;
15 children of the lyceum at Donetsk National
University, Donetsk 6 teachers from schools, the
family of the village Schastya passed the social and
psychological rehabilitation and training;
the volunteers and teachers from universities from
Kyiv and Donetsk were attracted to cooperate
The clip winter session of the International
Green School "School near the stove":
https://youtu.be/SZbRItKCjN8
Summer session of
International green school
The goal is to provide educational services, social and psychological
rehabilitation,to create an environment for co-creation of artists, scientists,
children and their parents, young people from different regions of Ukraine,
including the ATO area.
Participated in the project:
- 32 people from families from the ATO area and ATO participants took part in the
project
- 6 children (delegation of pupils - members of Luhansk Regional Small Academy
of Sciences ( Rubizhne, Belovodsk, Severodonetsk), 1 teacher.
Total 130 participants from different regions of Ukraine and France.
Skype lecture of the expert from France, Mrs. Cloete
Marishal Genevieve for the teachers of
Severodonetsk
30 October 2015 an expert from
France, Mrs. Cloete Marishal
Genivieve, professor of geochemistry
in University of Lyon 1 Claude Bernard
managed a Skype lecture for pupils
and teachers of Severodonetsk, with
the support of the Luhansk Regional
Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical
Education.
Video: https://youtu.be/B787F-2kmsY
(part 1)
https://youtu.be/ZIQ09GB2lLI (part 2)
All pupils of the session
noticed the improvement
of the knowledge on the
course of school
program*.
Results
The psychological condition is
becoming stabile*.
* The results of the final survey among the
participants.
The wall of stereotypes is ruined *.
* The results of the final survey among the
participants.
Let’s dream, act, and
work together and be friendly!
OUR CONTACTS
Mail [email protected]
Our websites: ptahy.com.ua,
openpolicy.org.ua
Tel .: 063 750 45 52,
[email protected]
Yaroslava Dmitruk, director of social
programs NGO "Open Policy Foundation"