The Ukrainian-American Concordia University strives for the comprehensive development of the personal potential of its students. During the academic year, our students have the opportunity to participate in a huge number of activities and offer their own.
For many years, thanks to the fruitful cooperation of the university with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine, our students have had the opportunity to be direct participants in B2B negotiations between Ukrainian entrepreneurs and businessmen from all over the world.
This experience is expanded by the Kyiv Chamber of Commerce and the International Trade Club in Ukraine, which unites more than 60 diplomatic and trade representatives of foreign embassies in Ukraine.
At the end of 2021, students of the 2nd and 3rd years organized the LaunchPad Startup Club, which aims to create and support student startups by the university’s academic and business-oriented communities.
Talented students are talented in everything! The annual talent contest reminds us of this every time (the authors of the paintings are Anastasiia Kosharna, Anastasiia Bayuk, and Anastasia Chubenko):
Every year, on the birthday of Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko, teachers, and students express their thoughts, read poems, and draw pictures, and posters celebrating the national poet’s birthday. Works by Anzhelika Halasiuk and Anastasiia Kosharna:
A separate event in student life is the celebration of World Poetry Day. Since 2016, students and teachers have been reading poems by their favorite poets and sharing their videos on social media with the hashtag #ConcordiaUAPoetryDay.
Popularizing and spreading Ukrainian culture to the world, we celebrate World Embroidery Day and share our vision of Ukrainian traditional embroidered clothing.
We do not forget about the surrounding world and join the “Greening the Planet” campaign of the “Greening of Ukraine” charity fund. The goal of the project is to draw attention to the problems of ecology and the restoration of the planet’s ecosystem and to form a positive image of Ukraine in the world through a collective history of success and unification of the people of the planet around the fight against global environmental challenges.
The European Day of Languages is celebrated on September 26. The holiday was established on December 6, 2001, by the Council of Europe with the support of the European Union with the aim of inspiring the inhabitants of Europe to learn languages because the preservation and development of languages, in particular small ones, is declared the official language policy of the European Union. The European Commission notes that the European Day of Languages aims to go from popularizing multilingualism to lifelong learning of foreign languages by EU citizens and non-governmental cooperation.
We do not miss the largest annual national flash mob of the fall for the Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language – All-Ukrainian radio dictator of national unity.
Our warm, homely, and family traditions help university students feel connected even at a distance. Every year before Christmas, we share recipes and photos of festive dishes and New Year’s decorations.
Business-oriented workshops at FedorivHub, 1991 Civic Tech Center, TedTalks, TseHab, American House Kyiv, and Unit City are important to students’ professional development.
The volunteer efforts of our students do not go unnoticed. Our student, Kateryna Bondar, has been a member of the Irpen Youth Council since August 2022 and represents the youth who, after the de-occupation of Irpen, are motivated to rebuild and improve the life of the hero city after the war. One of the large-scale activities of the Irpin Youth Council was Ecoshow, a volunteer initiative for temporary garbage collection.
4th-year student Anastasia Cherepashchuk, together with a team of Ecodia volunteers, monitors 24 regions of Ukraine and records cases of potential damage to the environment caused by the large-scale invasion of Russia: “We receive information from official sources and enter it into a database that forms an interactive map: https:// ecoaction.org.ua/warmap.html…. Collected information and its availability in open access help keep the topic of environmental damage in the focus of both Ukrainian and international media. For example, such world-famous publications as: The Washington Post, The Independent, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Le Monde, Euronews, Politico, and many others created their materials on the basis of this database.
At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, many of our students, who were located in various parts of the world, protested in their cities. In this photo, our student, Tereshkin Pasquale, with the Ukrainian diaspora living in a small town in southern Italy, Castrovillari of the Calabria region, took to the streets in order to draw the attention of EU residents to a problem that undoubtedly affects every European.
No one was left out. Our student Anastasia Stets says, “We are now in Poland, and we organize weekly Ukrainian food fairs for Poles. Let’s mold dumplings and dumplings. The money goes to the refugees.”
And this is our student, Arseniy Litus, and a photo from an event organized with the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada on the anniversary of the invasion, he is going to donate and draw attention to the situation in Ukraine.
