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What we do

Support teachers’ professional development

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We want our kids to be
taught by the best

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Our main goal

We motivate educators:
  • to achieve goals,
  • to motivate each other and seek inspiration together,
  • to be happy and efficient in both their teaching careers and in life as a whole.

To ensure this, we offer a wide range of tools: from the unique model of (un)conferences to already popular online Tolokas (gatherings). From our American peers’ experience, we know that EdCamp has become one of the most popular professional development models in some U.S. states. The same holds true for Ukraine. We are sure even more formats will be added in the future.

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Each event follows the “law of two feet”
The participants themselves put together the program and schedule the sessions
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National (un)conferences

National (un)conferences by EdCamp Ukraine are our prevalent format of professional development for schoolteachers. Each event follows the “law of two feet”: the participants themselves put together the program and schedule the sessions. After the event, they enjoy its “long tail effect”: follow-up discussions, joint projects, discovery of new ideas and formats for their own professional development.

ALL EVENTS

Regional (un)conferences

Regional (un)conferences or mini-EdCamps have a similar format but are held locally and organized by local educators. EdCamp Ukraine develops and provides them with comprehensive support both in tangible form and otherwise, called EdCamp in a Box program. The biggest value of these events is that they spread knowledge among teachers in the provinces. This is where white crows meet and network.

In 2026, the EdCamp regional (un)conference model was named one of the top 10 finalists for the UNESCO-Hamdan Prize for Teacher Development!

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Mini-EdCamps are held locally
This is where white crows meet and network

The total of 374 regional (un)conferences were held between 2015 and 2026.

  • 2015—2016

    EdCamp in a Box 1.0

  • 2016—2017

    EdCamp in a Box 2.0

  • 2017—2018

    EdCamp in a Box 3.0

  • 2018—2019

    EdCamp in a Box 4.0

  • 2019—2020

    EdCamp in a Box 5.0

  • 2021

    EdCamp in a Box 6.0

  • 2022—2023

    EdCamp in a Box 7.0

  • 2023—2024

    EdCamp in a Box 8.0

  • 2024—2025

    EdCamp in a Box 9.0

  • 2025—2026

    EdCamp in a Box 10.0

Taking our experience abroad

As part of the National EdCamp for Joy, “Hold on Five, Education!”, a meeting of international EdCamp movement delegations took place. During the meeting, Oleksandr ELKIN, Head of the EdCamp Ukraine NGO, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with teams from the public sector and educational communities in countries that use the innovative EdCamp format in their work:

EdCamp community of the Republic of Belarus

Jaŭhen PUHAC*, co-founder

EdCamp community of the Republic of Armenia

Hasmik KYUREGHYAN, co-founder

EdCamp community of Georgia

Irina TSISKARIDZE, co-founder

EdCamp community of the Republic of Moldova

Nina STERPU, co-founder

EdCamp community of Romania

Dan Andrei ALBU, co-founder

Фото з події
Прапор Білорусі Прапор України Прапор Вірменії Прапор Молдови Прапор Грузії Декоративні стрілки

After signing the memorandum, we immediately got down to work and began sharing our experience with colleagues from other countries by providing consultations, guidance, and ongoing support. Since then, events have already taken place in Georgia and Moldova. Incidentally, our story also includes educators who, after becoming familiar with EdCamp abroad, went on to organize EdCamp events in their own countries. This is how events were held in Poland and Austria, for example.

* Jaŭhen is currently a political prisoner in Belarus.

ARTICLE

Coordinators’ Summits

EdCamp Ukraine’s regional events are coordinated by its most active members. Every two years we hold a special event for regional coordinators — the National Summit.

National Summits We Held
  • 2018

    A meeting in Odesa that took a summit / challenge format and gathered 140 coordinators of all regional events from all the years.

  • Fall 2021

    The second National Coordinator Summit was scheduled for fall 2021.

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August (un)conferences

For many decades Ukrainian teachers have been gathering at large pedagogical conferences in August, just before the start of the school year. They are held on national, regional, district, and school levels. Since 2017, we have been involved in organizing the largest one and turned it into an (un)conference – and now anyone willing can use this format as well. Every year, before educators start the school, we reach out to them with the words of inspiration and support and share some useful tools with them.

Video Messages from Every Year
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Every year before the start school of the school year, teachers gather at pedagogical conferences:
  • national,
  • regional,
  • district,
  • school.

EdCamp marathon

The EdCamp Marathon is similar in format to an online EdCamp, but it is more intensive, gamified, and based on teamwork rather than competition. Educators need it to bring them together, support them, and, of course, provide opportunities for professional development. Participants in our marathons identify their own needs, create an individual path forward, communicate with mentors and practicing educators one-on-one, enjoy this interaction, and reflect on their experiences.

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ЕдКемп-марафон

Similar in format to an online EdCamp

Based on teamwork

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79,3 %
(from around 9 000 people),
of those who participated in the study are ready to join training offered by other educators.
Learning sprint

My Educational Startup

“My Educational Startup” is an intensive, practice-oriented course — a learning sprint that, as they say, is two in one:

  • on the one hand, educators improved their qualifications through the relevant program and received a professional development certificate;
  • on the other hand, as a result of the course, they created their own professional development program, which they have been offering to colleagues on the Vektor platform on a peer-to-peer basis since September 1, 2021.
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Why a learning sprint?

  • Systematic training on a set schedule
  • Professional guidance and supervision from leading experts
  • Successfully completing several short but ambitious stretches toward the goal — the learning modules

The course opens up new opportunities

This course is a unique opportunity to present your professional development program in any field nationwide, based on the principles of transparency and openness and with educators’ needs in mind.

COURSE PLANNER
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Teachers’ academy

The Teachers’ Academy is a center for the development of teacher education at Karazin University. We have supported the Academy since the very idea of its creation, and now we are delighted to see it grow and launch new initiatives in its new space, designed by Pominchuk Architects and made possible with our support.

The main goal of the Teachers’ Academy is to develop and implement a new model of teacher education and transform teacher training and professional development in Ukraine. The Academy also aims to prepare proactive professionals who are able to respond effectively to the challenges of modern education and contribute to Ukraine’s recovery and rebuilding.

ACADEMY WEBSITE

Nurturing teachers who inspire

Online courses

Course

Discrimination-free education, Barrier-free language

The quest course “Discrimination-free education, Barrier-free language” is an innovative online product — a quest because each participant partly determines their own learning path — focused on nondiscrimination in education and unlike anything else available.

This online resource brings together and summarizes the most important information about discrimination, presenting it in an accessible and easy-to-understand way so that teachers can explore the topic and apply what they learn in their everyday practice. The course is implemented by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine as part of the National Strategy for Creating a Barrier-Free Environment in Ukraine through 2030, an initiative of First Lady of Ukraine Olena ZELENSKA.

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  • Inclusive
  • Free
  • Nondiscriminatory
Course

SEL Online Course

This online course provides educators with practical tools for social and emotional learning. You will learn methods for teaching and assessing SEL skills to help transform the learning environment into a space of safety and support.

We share Ukraine’s unique experience, where SEL has become a tool for post-traumatic growth and resilience during the war.

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  • Social-emotional
  • Evidence-based
  • Free
Course

How to hold an EdCamp for your community

We have developed an online course for teachers on how to organize and run EdCamp-format events in communities of different sizes. The course “How to hold an EdCamp for your community” is available free of charge on the VUM Online platform. In the course, we introduce modern approaches to the professional development of school teachers — from the core values and an explanation of why EdCamp works to a step-by-step plan for organizing such an event, along with feedback and advice from educators who already have experience organizing (un)conferences.

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  • Step by step
  • Free
  • Open
Course

Unlocking your potential

This course is designed for people who want to create a positive future for themselves, their families and friends, their communities, and the planet, but feel held back today by anger, regret, sadness, disappointment, and other emotions. Especially for educators and all Ukrainians, Edith EGER (1927–2026) and Jordan ENGLE provided free access to three of the ten modules, which we translated, subtitled, and dubbed into Ukrainian.

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  • in Ukrainian
  • Free
  • Empowering
Course

Professional development for educators: New requirements and opportunities

n 2021, the course “Professional development for educators: New requirements and opportunities” was launched on the Prometheus platform. In this course, we examine all relevant documents and clarify the details that may be difficult to understand, explain everything through examples, and provide recommendations for all parties involved.

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  • Online
  • Free
  • Professionally empowering
Course

Teacher coaching: Supporting the development of sustainable change

We translated the course “Teacher Coaching: Supporting the Development of Sustainable Change,” available on Coursera, into Ukrainian. It helps educators develop skills in observing a colleague’s work and using what they learn from that experience to support the professional growth of both colleagues.

The course, which includes video lectures, learning materials, and assessments, was developed by American scholar Orin GUTLERNER. Coaching is widely used among educators in the United States: teachers can rely on the support of colleagues who observe their lessons and help them develop a personalized professional growth plan.

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  • Adaptive
  • Free
  • Professionally empowering

Current professional development programs

  • SEL in education: Developing cross-cutting skills of teachers and students

    SEL in education: Developing cross-cutting skills of teachers and students

    The programme aims to draw the attention of the educational community to the relevance and importance of shifting from subject-centred to human-centred approaches to organising the educational process and fostering interaction in today’s world, based on the principles and foundations of social and emotional learning (SEL); to build a shared understanding of SEL and social and emotional skills and promote the development of these skills among teachers and students; to provide assistance and support to teaching staff in educational institutions and other education professionals in strengthening the competencies necessary for their own development and for fostering students’ cross-cutting skills through SEL; and, drawing on Ukraine’s experience, to inspire other countries to embrace SEL as a key focus of education and as an evidence-based tool for fostering resilience, empathy, and post-traumatic growth among school and university students and teachers facing the most challenging life circumstances.

    30 hours
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  • Online intensive course for primary and lower secondary school art teachers

    Online intensive course for primary and lower secondary school art teachers

    Presentation and promotion of innovative approaches to teaching visual arts, providing teachers with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to diversify their teaching practices.

    15 hours
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  • Gender-based violence: How to prevent and respond to it
in general secondary, specialized,
and vocational education and at the community level

    Gender-based violence: How to prevent and respond to it
in general secondary, specialized,
and vocational education and at the community level

    The goal of the course is to develop educators’ civic and social competencies in the areas of equal rights and opportunities for women and men, preventing and addressing gender-based violence and sex-based discrimination, supporting vulnerable groups, and creating a safe educational environment; and to strengthen educators’ readiness to apply a nondiscriminatory approach in education.

    2 hours
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