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ua.outsider.art: A Concise Guide to Inclusive Art Practices in Ukraine

Fellowship Summary: Research and promotion of inclusive art practices as a tool for empowering people with disabilities and enhancing local cohesion. Selected CSOs will receive training and production of a practitioners Guide.

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Country Ukraine
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Bomb Shelter: Is It Possible to Survive?

Fellowship Summary: Using ‘verbatim’ theatre methods to document and create a play (‘Bomb Shelter’) based on testimonies of victims of war. The Fellow, an experienced director, intends to work with IDP actors and amateurs to stage a production of the play in Odessa and use video for promotion to a wider audience.

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Country Ukraine
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Integration Roadmap for IDP’s in Zakarpattia

Fellowship Summary: Leading a Working Group, with CSOs and local authorities, to develop a Roadmap of assistance and integration for IDPs in Uzhhorod, and delivering a series of training activities to assist selected IDPs with developing social entrepreneurships.

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Country Ukraine
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IT Quality Assurance for Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Georgia

Fellowship Summary: Research and develop a set of guidelines on latest EU policies on public data and e-services and promote and debate these with key CSO and government stakeholders in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine.

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Country Ukraine
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Reducing the Legal and Social Isolation of IDPs living in Khmilnyk City

Fellowship Summary: Reducing the legal and social isolation of IDPs living in Khmilnyk City through tailored legal consultations and qualified psychological support.

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Country Ukraine
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Local Communities Development in Kyiv

Fellowship Summary: To provide local civic leaders and activists in the Pechersky district of Kyiv tools for mobilising the community and developing local development plans which support social cohesion and integration.

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Country Ukraine
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#StandWithUkraine. Stop Disinformation

Fellowship Summary: Building capacity within a cohort of 100 students across a network of 7 universities for cyber-security and mitigation of fake news through a series of online trainings and follow-up support.

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Country Ukraine
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Arts Summer School for Ukrainian Children

Fellowship Summary: Assisting Ukrainian refugees in Tbilisi through provision of educational and theraputic programmes to school-age children, and supporting their parents to network and identify assistance for integration.

Tinatin Bregvadze is the Chair of the Board of the Georgian Centre for Strategy and Development, a large, highly-regarded non-governmental organisation based in Tbilisi and operating through projects in Georgia, the Caucasus and Central Asia.  She has more than 20 years’ experience working with national and international CSOs, as well as a more recent rewarding experience as Director of the Diplomatic Training and Research Institute under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  In taking on the Institute directorship, Tinatin was tasked with reforming and strengthening the institution and applying her academic background, including her current pursuit of a PhD in Education.  After 3 years at the Institute Tinatin returned to her role at GCSD and pursuing her passion of creating opportunity for diverse groups in society and particularly the more vulnerable communities.

Tinatin has a long track record in developing and implementing interventions that support a more just and socially equal society, and ‘the community’ is at the heart of her motivations:

“Grassroots is where the ‘real’ life is, so when refugees from Ukraine began to arrive in Tbilisi I knew I had to do something”. That ‘something’ was to formulate a project which would combine an immediate humanitarian response with specific educational methodologies that would support both children and parent refugees. As Tinatin explains, “Ukrainian children who were suddenly ripped away from their normal life of playing with friends, going to school, having fun, and instead subjected to the horrors of being a refugee. Having met some of these refugees I immediately developed some activities to support them. Unfortunately, at that time in Georgia, there was limited access to resources to assist the refugees, so I was delighted to learn about the opportunities of the Solidarity Fellowships, which was exactly what I identified with.”

And so Tinatin’s Civil Society Fellowship began.

Tinatin together with her colleagues developed an approach that would engage the Ukrainian children and youth, and provide support to their parents to integrate into their new surroundings. She formed a team of artists and art educators, and counsellors, and managed to run a summer of art classes involving 50 children, and to organise movie screenings, talks and city site visits.  The children’s art classes even culminated in a final exhibition held at Tbilisi’s Centre of Contemporary Art.

“Interestingly, although my fellowship involved a number of carefully structured activities and provision of safe space for Ukrainian children, it was the informal coming together of the mothers of the children which may have had the biggest impact.”  By nurturing the involvement of the mothers, Tinatin was able to provide them with opportunities to talk about their experiences and to build up new friendships.  This process was the essence of the ‘solidarity’ fellowship.

Tinatin recalls that although there were many memorable moments, “I have a strong memory of one moment… While we were taking a group of Ukrainian children and their relatives to a museum in Tbilisi, as part of the process of helping them to integrate into the city, a young boy spent a lot of time by my side.  At the end of the trip he hugged me and said ‘next year, when I have my birthday, I’m going to invite you to my party in Odesa’.

Of course, as an educationalist, Tinatin is happy that the specific methodologies used in working with the children (and parents) during the art classes were effective and that they will be sustained.  The ‘package’ of art classes and methods have been institutionalised within a local parent/artists informal group and during 2023 a revised set of classes will be delivered to other vulnerable children through the organisation ‘Parallel Class’.

“The programme we developed is quite unique as it is more oriented on socialisation and the involvement of children in group activities. This is one of the reasons why ‘Parallel Class’ plans to continue the programme, incorporating into it the lessons learnt throughout this process. They will make it available for Georgian and Ukrainian kids. This is good news and was possible only because of all the hard work of the teachers, artists and other volunteers that helped me make it happen.”

Country Georgia
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Let’s hold on! Psychological Support to the Population in Kharkiv and Kyiv regions

Fellowship Summary: Strengthening a group of activists that provides psycho-emotional support to IDPs in Kyiv and Kharkiv oblasts through art therapy groups, support circles, and individual counselling.

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Country Ukraine
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