OKTOWN was selected for the Vidnova Fellowship Ukraine

The results of the evaluation of OKTOWN's application within the Vidnova Fellowship Ukraine scholarship program, implemented by Insha Osvita in partnership with commit gGmbH and with the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. This program is designed for female and male activists, artists, social entrepreneurs, cultural figures, and activists who have gone abroad since the start of the full-scale invasion but plan to return to Ukraine to resume their professional activities.

The program provides three-month financial support in the amount of UAH 18,000 per month to resume activities in Ukraine, additional one-time funding of UAH 10,000 for renting workspaces, mentoring or training. The program will also facilitate networking with Ukrainian and European partner organizations.

During the competition, we received 750 applications, of which we will support 50. Congratulations to the Vidnova Fellowship Ukraine 2023 scholarship winners:

Daria Antonenko

Maria Semenchenko

Shaza Musa

Polina Choni

Yana Tymoshenko

Lyubov Malikova

Yulia Koval

Alla Vyshina

Oksana Sigareva

Yevhenia Melkonyan

Kateryna Pavlovska

Anna Aliyeva

Olena Braichenko

Alina Bogdanovych

Valeria Guevska

Kateryna Strelchenko

Ksenia Matskevych

Khrystyna Semerin

Olga Solovyova

Lyubov Lisovenko

Maria Kondratieva

Andrii Savych

Oksana Stomina

Anna Lodygina

Tamila Pedan

Khrystyna Slobodianiuk

Alina Golovatyuk

Olena Kasyan

Yulia Nechai

Maryna Ryzhova

Iryna Savytska

Alina Neskreba

Yulia Kysil

Yulia Antonova

Valentyna Prytula

Olena Pinkovska

Taras Prodaniuk

Iryna Shcherba

Liudmyla Mishchenko

Solomiya Tomashchuk

Teresa Barabash

Alina Ponypalyak

Tetiana Dashkovska

Olga Ruban

Hanna Bohachuk

Nadiia Voronova

Iryna Yatsyk

Oleksandra Koryak

Anastasia Leonova

Yulia Pylypchatina

Each application was evaluated by a pool of three juries. They are independent experts: cultural managers, curators, volunteers, and artists:

Viktoriia Shvydko is a project manager at the Lesia Ukrainka Lviv Academic Drama Theater and the head of the Drabyna Art Workshop;

Anna Pohribna, Deputy Director General for Programming at Mystetskyi Arsenal;

Natalia Yaroshenko, cultural manager (School of City Ambassadors, Sumy Rock Fest, Rock Fight Sumy), grant manager at the Sumy Promotion Agency, organizer of the She.Fest Taras Shevchenko Festival;

Yulia Filipieva is a cultural manager at House of Europe;

Iryna Matolich, PhD in Art History, Head of the Design Department at King Danylo University, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, curator of the Bastion Gallery;

Natalia Kernytska, international cooperation manager at the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation;

Halyna Hryhorenko, former Deputy Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, co-founder of the Open Opera Ukraine NGO;

Olena Onohda, international cooperation program assistant at House of Europe;

Yuriy Veselsky, Head of Grant Programs at the Danish Cultural Institute in Ukraine, Ukrainian-Danish Youth House;

Tetyana Kablova, PhD in Art History, member of the National All-Ukrainian Music Union, professor and Academic Secretary of the Kyiv City Academy of Circus and Performing Arts;

Inna Pakhomova - coordinator of Creative Spark Poltava, board member of Co-Impact, grant manager, project manager, trainer, fundraiser;

Ilona Demchenko, cultural manager at House of Europe;

Halyna Hleba, co-curator and editor-in-chief of the Martial Law Art Archive project at the Museum of Contemporary Art;

Victoria Lunochkina, grant manager of the Stabilization Fund at the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine;

Olga Logvinovska, coordinator of the Vidnova Fellowship Ukraine 2022 program.

The program is implemented by Insha Osvita in partnership with Commit by MitOst gGmbH and with the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

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