Освіта і наука Archives

Under the Nuclear Shadow. Documentary film.

10-11-2024 10:06 Nataliya Zubar

In the northern part of Kharkiv city, 22 kilometers from the Ukrainian-Russian border, lies the verdant campus of Piatyhatky. Since 2022, this region housing nuclear facilities has been subjected to consistent Russian bombardment.
Amidst this ongoing threat of nuclear catastrophe, how do the residents endure? How do they perceive their future?
What prospects do scientists have in such an environment? How does warfare impact the natural world? What activities do children engage in? And what source of strength allows individuals to persevere? […]

The Russian attack on Ukraine as the highest stage of deviant behaviour of a fascist regime and a socially depressed society – views from criminologists.

09-07-2022 17:19 Petr Pojman

The situation we observe today on the Ukrainian battlefield provides an answer to the question of why the Russian leadership has purposefully cultivated violent and criminal subcultures. […]

Destruction of Schools in Kharkiv Region by Russian Air Strikes

23-05-2022 20:31 Майдан Інформ

In order to plan for resuming education in Kharkiv’s schools, the damage needs to be categorized to create a basis for decision making in regards to strategies for restoring these institutions and the possibility of conducting the educational process inside them, when the situation becomes safe and stable. […]

Information Self-help Groups as Information Security School Development

06-10-2021 19:17 Nataliya Zubar

Information Security School is the response of Maidan Monitoring Information Center to the challenges facing Ukrainian society and the state, including a hybrid war, and the COVID-19 pandemic, and the bad governance, and the tendency of the majority of the society to believe in all sorts of miracles.
We teach people information hygiene skills, practices of organizing and supporting groups with common interests, skills of effective communication with opponents, and practices of safe existence in information and cyberspace. […]

“Pray because tomorrow will be the end of the world”: how an activist from Vinnytsia fights fake news on COVID-19

20-05-2021 14:45 Майдан Інформ

Oksana Yatsiuk, a civic activist from Vinnytsia, has proposed an idea to establish self-help groups to counter COVID-19 disinformation. To set up the groups, Oksana focused on her personal and information security training experience. […]

Seeking to publish his book in Ukrainian in order to lose, not gain, money: story of Dr Pinteric

29-05-2020 19:25 Marko Pinteric

I still hope that some publisher will show interest. I think that some of the issues in the book – such as, how to decrease energy consumption in buildings – are very important for Ukraine who is dependent on Russian fossil fuels. The increased knowledge could help the fight in this direction. […]

What Was New in the 2nd Session of the 5th Social Intermediaries School

14-01-2020 15:54 Nataliya Zubar

Before we started cooperation with Kurve Wustrow the topic of non violent activism and non violent communication was present in SIS curriculum only in Zbignew Bujak’s lectures and workshops. During SIS 5 it has become the main focus of the school. […]

Fifth Year of Social Intermediaries School – the Next Step to a New Profession in Ukraine

23-09-2019 19:13 Nataliya Zubar

The theoretical base of social intermediation will be presented to the students during the second session in December, however most of them had already grasped the concept of the new profession via the practical trainings. […]

Fourth graduation of Social Intermediaries School for Ukraine. New knowledge and skills.

15-03-2019 00:18 Nataliya Zubar

Fourth year of Social Intermediaries School was dedicated to conflicts between the groups of citizens and the authorities. Traditional training modules were complemented by the new ones, created as a result of cooperation with Kurve Wustrow – our partner organization from Germany. […]

Security in Russian Language. Is the Mission Impossible?

04-07-2018 18:53 Nataliya Zubar

What could the outcomes be for the people who use the word that defines the most fundamental human need and this word describes the unreachable state? […]

Building Energy Efficiency

17-09-2017 19:14 Marko Pinteric

Why is energy efficiency important for EU and for Ukraine? What legislative incentives for building energy efficiency improvement are implemented in the European Union?

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Roman Serbyn. Holodomor: The Ukrainian Genocide

26-08-2017 21:07 Майдан Інформ

The first scholar to posit a conceptual framework for analyzing what we now call “the Holodomor” was Raphael Lemkin. A renowned authority on international law, well versed in the Soviet legal system, Lemkin called upon his vast knowledge of the political realities in the Soviet Union to give a penetrating insight into the mechanics of the Ukrainian tragedy in his essay entitled “Soviet Genocide in the Ukraine.” […]

Вклонімося великим тим рокам. Забуті герої Другої Світової.

18-02-2017 17:57 Майдан Інформ

За всіх часів зустрічаються герої. Це особлива каста людей, здатна в будь-який момент прийти на допомогу і стати муром на захист Вітчизни. Їх життя настільки не підвладне ніяким правилам, що іноді схоже на міф. […]

This is about true meaning of Nobel price

19-10-2016 16:13 Marko Pinteric

Nobel prize is usually awarded to scientists. People nobody hears about, ever, people which humble work is profoundly changing our world. Which work eradicate illnesses and brings new technology to our life, making it easier to bare. […]

A Lepton “God”: Proof of the Collapse in the Ukrainian Scientific Degree Awarding System

02-09-2016 21:27 Майдан Інформ

In January 2016 Ukrainian scientists were shocked to discover the thesis in the field of Pedagogy that was written by Mrs. Kateryna Kyrylenko containing pseudoscience and plagiarism. Subsequent development of the story became a proof of the collapse in the Ukrainian scientific degree awarding system. […]