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The military conflict in Eastern Ukraine, the annexation of the Crimea
-an effective and efficient system of educational institutions is disrupted;
- significant limitation of the constitutional right of children to education;
- school programs discrepancy to the Ukrainian educational programs in the uncontrolled territory;
- repression and restriction of movement
(passes) make it impossible to exercise their right to Ukrainian school certificate

The Project of Fund „Open Policy“
«The help to the pupils of 9 th and 11 th grades from the ATO area and Crimea : educational and social support»
Main tasks:
1 creating conditions for pupils from the ATO area and Crimea for school certificates
2 information campaign for pupils and teachers from the occupied territories
3 lobbying the propositions to resolve educational problems Crimea and Donbas at the state level
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5 resolving the issue of distance learning destruction of stereotypes in the public consciousness about the East and the West and setting peaceful relations

SUPPORTED by the Ministry of Social Policy and the
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

The problems of eduacation in Donbas and Crimea
Target audience
Governement:
- does not pay enough attention to the problems of education in Donbas and Crimea;
- slowly respond to challenges.
Media, government, children and teachers from the Donbas and
Crimea
Society has a stereotype
("it's their fault") and does not see the scope of the problem
Children:
- pay more attention to the military conflict;
- forget the importance of education.

Participants:
- MP Lilya Grinevich
- school teachers, university professors, scientists of Donbas
- CEO of the “Open
Policy Foundation”
Iryna Zhdanova
Results:
- announced the issue of the State final testing,
the external testing and attachment to external studies for pupils from temporarily the occupied territories and annexed Crimea, creating a unite information base of the pupils of 11th (9 th ) grades;
Presented:
- civic Platform activities of reforming science
(initiator - Fund "Open Policy")
- study program of Green school for young scientists from Donbas during the winter holidays.
The presentation can be viewed at the link: http://kno.rada.gov.ua/komosviti/control/uk/do ccatalog/list?currDir=63061

On the 6 February 2015 the Fund "Open Policy" organized a meeting of
Donetsk school teachers, the directors of boarding schools with the
Chairman of the Committee on science and education of the Parliament of
Ukraine L. Grinevich and the Minister of the Ministry of Education of
Ukraine P. Polyansky.
Results: extending of the registration dates for an external testing until the 20 April and additional sessions on June 9-July 9; the list of basic schools for distance external studies is published; the information on boarding schools that are willing to accept graduates is collected; the „hot line“ was opened in the Ministry of Education.

Press Conference "How to get the higher education to the pupils of Donbas and Crimea, passinf of the State final tasting and conducting of external testing, "Ukrinform “, February 19, 2015
Participants:
MP Liliya Grinevych, CEO of the „Open Policy Foundation“
Iryna Zhdanova, director of the Ukrainian center
Evaluation of Education Igor Likarchuk, Deputy
Minister of MES Pavlo Polyansky
The postponement of registration for external testing, additionalsession, and conditions for getting Ukrainian school certificate are announced
The conditions of the admission campaign in 2015 for graduates of ATO area and Crimea are announced.
The pilot project of International Green school of young scientists of Donbas „The help to the pupils of 11 th grade from
the ATO area: educational and social support.
More information: http://kno.rada.gov.ua/komosviti/control/uk/publish/article;jsessionid
=6C2728D9EC97EFE032F79D354FC35D00?art_id=63919&cat_id=44731

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The "Open Policy Foundation" in cooperation with the Ministry of
Education, UCEQA have developed step by step the instructions for 11th grade pupils from the ATO area and Crimea, following the recommendation of international experts from UNICEF.
-2200 pcs. - sent to the department of education in all regions of
Ukraine
-2500 pcs. - published by UNICEF were delivered in Severodonetsk
Instruction and hotlines available on the website of the Ministry of Education www.mon.gov.ua/usi-novivni/novini/2015/04/08/dorozhnya-karta-dlyavipusknikiv/

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Participants:
Ministry of Education, Ministry of Social Affairs, Migration Service, the Security
Service of Ukraine, ATC, UCEQA The Fund "Open Policy".
Results:
The pass to cross the boundary line for 11 th grade pupils from ATO area and for accompanying person will be easier.
The boarding schools will host the graduates form ATO area for the stay throughout the final and the admission campaign.
The step-by-step instruction about getting the Ukrainian school
certificate will be posted on the official websites of Ministry of Education,
Ministry of Social Policy, UCEQA.
Approved inter-ministerial financial and organizational issues for the delivery of additional session DPA-testing for students Donbass, Crimea.

Outdoor meeting of the relevant Committee of the Parliament in
Severodonetsk
“On the educational needs of different categories of pupil
from ATO area», 2 April 2015
Location: Severodonetsk
Results:
- the meetings with the teachers of of preschool and secondary education (250 people) took place;
- the instruction and measures about solving the problem were presented;
- the question about passes was raised and the offers of educators were listened;
- visiting to a boarding school, where 350 places were allocated for graduates from the ATO area during the final and the admission campaign.
- 160 children living in a boarding school in
Severodonetsk.

Meeting of Fund "Open Policy" with Deputy Minister
Pavlo Polyansky and employees of the Department of
Secondary Education (April 9, 2015)
Results of the meeting
An action plan for the school year and priority directions for next year were developed.
The letter concerning the cooperation between the
Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Social
Policy, coordination on graduates from temporary immigrants was agreed.

Conducting a series of meetings in
Paris (October 11-13, 2015) with representatives of UNESCO, the
French Ministry of Youth, diplomatic corps and Diaspora to discuss the problem of pupils of 9 th and 11 th grades from the ATO area and
Crimea.

Partitipation of CEO of the fund "Open Policy" in Extended and visiting session of the Committee on Science and Education in Kramatorsk
(November 19,2015)
Results:
The Ministry of Education and Science was proposed to to better meet the challenges, to update the website
During the meeting with the head of the
Donetsk VCA P.Zhebrivsky it was agreed to put the record on the channels ODTRK.
The problem of the preparation and conduction of the State final testing and
external testing was raised.
The helding of large-scale information
campaign was discussed.
Were established communication with the
Department of Education, University of machine. Kramatorsk.

Director General of NGO "Open Policy Foundation“ in the extended session of the Committee on Science and
• Participants:
Education, November 25, 2015
• Proposals from the Fund:
Sergii Kvit, Minister of Education the need to lay the rules are designed andScience, Lilia Hrynevych to correct the law "On education" on the otherDeputies profile committee, territory of ATO and holding in Crimea.
school principals, teachers,
• Video: https://youtu.be/2grvXDtkdOk
Representatives of non-formal education universities, vocational education. Around 300 people.

The results of the meeting of experts of the "Open Policy
Foundation" with the Minister of Education Sergey Kvit,
Deputy Minister Pavlo Hobzey, the employees of the
Department of Ministry of Education, November 2015
Updated and posted on the website of the Ministry of
Education the step-by-step instructions about getting
Ukrainian school certificate (2015-2016)
The list of schools of distant and external studies was published.
The "hot line" improved: the involvement of several specialists and the ability to call on numbers of different national operators.
A decree on the establishment of a list of educational websites for distance learning was published.

• Since 2014 the Foundation has been actively involved in the meetings of the
Education Cluster UNICEF.
• Some proposals were supported by the
Fund as well as by UNICEF in Ukraine and other members of the cluster.
• By initiative of March 5, 2015 met
Giovanna Barberis Head of Mission and
Lilia Hrynevych. From Foundation scientist from Donetsk, Expert Fund
Evgenii Karpichev
The news of the meeting on March 5: http://kno.rada.gov.ua/komosviti/control/uk/pub lish/article;jsessionid=F616D68581FA862633244
9BCDCDBC236?art_id=64221&cat_id=44731

Press conference in the UNIA
«Ukrinform», dedicated to the start of project
«Good gift for Christmas!
Help the Children of Donbass!»
Date: 10 November 2014.
Video press conference link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i
MIZ8NbnBO4 .

Activities conducted under the project
"Good gift for Christmas! Help the
Children of Donbass! "
- Charitable scientific weekends for families
(November-December 2014).
- Skype conference with Ukrainian community of Rochester (USA). The members were the
Minister of Youth and Sports Igor Zhdanov,
Deputy Minister for European Integration
Mykola Movchan and volunteers of the project.
- Meeting Donbass students at the Kyiv
Mohyla Academy
Attache for Scientific
Cooperation of the
French Embassy in
Ukraine Gilles
Mamets, November
5, 2015

Results: intensive preparations course for external testing was conducted in the camp "International Green
School" in the Carpathians;
15 children of the lyceum at Donetsk National
University, Donetsk 6 teachers from schools, the family of the village Schastya passed the social and psychological rehabilitation and training; the volunteers and teachers from universities from
Kyiv and Donetsk were attracted to cooperate
The clip winter session of the International
Green School "School near the stove": https://youtu.be/SZbRItKCjN8

The goal is to provide educational services, social and psychological rehabilitation,to create an environment for co-creation of artists, scientists, children and their parents, young people from different regions of Ukraine, including the ATO area.
Participated in the project:
- 32 people from families from the ATO area and ATO participants took part in the project
- 6 children (delegation of pupils - members of Luhansk Regional Small Academy of Sciences ( Rubizhne, Belovodsk, Severodonetsk), 1 teacher.
Total 130 participants from different regions of Ukraine and France.

30 October 2015 an expert from
France, Mrs. Cloete Marishal
Genivieve, professor of geochemistry in University of Lyon 1 Claude Bernard managed a Skype lecture for pupils and teachers of Severodonetsk, with the support of the Luhansk Regional
Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical
Education.
Video: https://youtu.be/B787F-2kmsY
(part 1) https://youtu.be/ZIQ09GB2lLI (part 2)

All pupils of the session noticed the improvement of the knowledge on the course of school program*.
* The results of the final survey among the participants.
The psychological condition is becoming stabile* .

* The results of the final survey among the participants.

OUR CONTACTS
Mail ngo.openpolicy@gmail.com
Our websites: ptahy.com.ua, openpolicy.org.ua
Tel .: 063 750 45 52, dm.yaroslava@gmail.com
Yaroslava Dmitruk, director of social programs NGO "Open Policy Foundation"