Trust, partnership and shared responsibility became the main values of our year. Together with international friends and Ukrainian communities, the All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum NGO team worked for education, freedom of speech and preservation of cultural memory.
We were supported by the people of Taiwan. A technologically advanced, democratic state provided charitable assistance for the development of Ukrainian education. We jointly implemented the project of computerization and innovative education “Leave no one behind partnership”
96 schools from Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Poltava regions received new equipment for computer science classrooms and robotics laboratories. 33 computer science teachers advanced their qualifications in STEM teaching, Python programming, and robotics. High school students from 72 schools gained practical experience in teamwork, startup development and business negotiations.
Together with the editors of the Ukrainian mass media, we learned to counter propaganda and develop the community of modern media. We are grateful for the cooperation of Fundacja Geremka, Fundacja Liderzy Przemian and the Polish-American Freedom Foundation.
Editors of national and regional Ukrainian media visited the Republic of Poland, visited the editorial offices of leading Polish media, talked with European diplomats and experts in order to strengthen professional ties and discuss common challenges in the field of information security.
Forum Via Carpatia 2025 was held in Lviv – this year we held it in a circle of friends. We are glad that the Vincenz Circle is expanding, and interest in the history of the Carpathian region and its identity is growing.
We will continue to talk about the legacy of the outstanding thinker and humanist Stanisław Vincenz, who opened the Hutsul region to the world, made it recognizable and showed the depth of the ancient and extremely rich Hutsul culture. This is the heritage of Ukraine, our land and our past, which is worth knowing, exploring and appreciating.
We continue to recognize the contribution of our contemporaries to humanistic service and regional development and talk about such great people. This year, Professor Ola Hnatiuk became the laureate of the Stanisław Vincenz Prize.
Within the framework of Via Carpatia 2025, we presented a unique edition of the heritage of the outstanding Ukrainian Vasyl Mudry, who created politics in the interwar period of the last century and for whom the values of democracy were important then.
We enter the New Year with new plans and ideas. We are preparing the following projects.
The team of the All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum is open to cooperation, partnerships and interaction.
Thank you all for this year.
We wish goodness, inspiration, endurance and strength.
Let’s take care of each other.
