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Who We Are

We Are Proud of

The HUNDRED Rating

Since 2019, the international EdCamp movement has been listed among Top 100 Global Educational Innovations by Finnish organization HundrED which gathers breakthrough school initiatives into one of the most popular ratings.

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Experience on OECD Portal

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) together with the World Bank and Harvard’s Global Education Innovation Initiative have been listing online events by EdCamp movements in U.S. and Ukraine as solutions worth following globally during the coronavirus pandemic.

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A publication by the World Bank

In 2021, the World Bank published its report “The Impact of COVID-19 on Education — Recommendations and Opportunities for Ukraine,” in which it mentioned the experience of EdCamp Ukraine.

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Award from Oxford

Our team took part in Oxford Symposium on School-Based Family Counseling. During the closing session of the event, Brian Gerrard, director of the SBFC symposium gave us the annual School Family Counseling Best Practice Award for innovative programming that empowers teachers in ways that promote student and parent resilience.

Award

Best Public Report

Counterpart Creative Center (CCC) regularly holds National contest of public CSO’s reports. In the Fifth National Contest in 2018, our 2015–2017 report was named the best.

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Ken Robinson

Education Expert

Ken Robinson Speaking about EdCamp

Globally renowned education expert Sir Ken Robinson mentioned our movement in his book You, Your Child, and School, in which he recommends the readers to take a closer look at the efficient EdCamp model.

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Meetings with the Dalai Lama

Tips of the Dalai Lama to Ukrainians

In 2019, during our team’s EdMandry (EdTrip), Ukrainian educators’ delegation was invited by the Buddhist spiritual leader and Nobel Prize winner 14th Dalai Lama to speak about Ukraine and education, and human problems, hopes, and dreams.

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Live Broadcast with
the Dalai Lama

On Oct. 20, 2020, the 14th Dalai Lama communicated with Ukraine for the first time in a live dialogue organized by EdCamp Ukraine themed Education and Peace amid Pandemic, during which he answered questions by Ukrainian viewers.

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Three National Records

During the past three (un)conferences we set three records that were included to the National Record Registry, the national partner of the Guinness World Records.

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1 Record 2018

The largest number of teachers gathered in one location on the Constitution Square in Kharkiv, where 600 educators came together to declare in one voice that Ukrainian teachers support the idea of school as a space safe for children.

2 Record 2019

The largest number of towns and cities took part in the teachers’ flash mob held live, covering 58 educational communities from across Ukraine.

3 Record 2020

The most attended online conference for educators, with 10,019 participants.

online conference

10019 participants

EdCamp in GOZNAMY!

“Civil Society is YOU” communication campaign was initiated by the European Union and talks about brilliant, efficient, and important organizations and initiatives from around Ukraine. EdCamp Ukraine has been included.

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Trust and Recognition

Our team have been praised by Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman, Minister of Education and Science Lilia Hrynevych, the head of Kharkiv state regional administration Yuliia Svitlychna, and greeted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and First Ladies Maryna Poroshenko and Olena Zelenska.

Chair of EdCamp Ukraine Board Oleksandr Elkin and Vice Chair of the Board Olena Masalitina worked as advisers to the ministers of education and science from 2016 to 2020 (three heads of the Ministry were in office during this period).

Oleksandr Elkin

Chair of the EdCamp Ukraine Board

In May 2022, he became a member of the Supervisory Board of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University.
In 2021, he was included in the list of the 100 most influential people of Ukraine according to the rating of FOCUS magazine. Received the title of Ukrainian Prometheus from the publishing house «NV».
Since 2021, Oleksandr Elkin has been Member of Presidential Advisory Council on Promoting the Development of the General Secondary Education System.
The photograph of Oleksandr with his daughter Emma was included in the “Swedish Dads. Ukrainian Dads” photo exhibition.
In 2019, Oleksandr made it to the Top 5 in “Educator Dad” category of the “Dad of the Year 2019” prize.
In 2018, Focus magazine listed Oleksandr Elkin in “Geniuses. Ukrainians who change the nation and the world”.
Since 2016, Oleksandr Elkin has been a member of the Community council at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Olena Masalitina

Vice Chair of the Board

In 2020, Olena was listed 68th in the Top 100 Most Influential Women of Ukraine by Focus magazine.
In 2018, Olena Masalitina was listed in Top 5 of the “Middle Education” category of the “Woman of Ukraine” National Independent Prize. In 2020, she was declared the winner in the same category

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Special Book Circulations

Several books by Vydavnytsvo publishing house, including She Did This, She Also Did This, Maia and Her Moms, and This Mariia Used to Draw Beasts, have been published specially for EdCamp Ukraine in extra circulations and with special marks, with support from Heinrich Böll Foundation Kyiv – Ukraine. We offer these special books as gifts to the members of the responsible teachers’ community during our events.

She Did This

She Also Did This

This Mariia Used to Draw Beasts

Maia and Her Moms

Website Awards

EdCamp Ukraine’s new website designed by the team of Cosmos Studio was recognized by CSS Design Awards, the international design award, in the late 2021.

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Things You Can Keep

We always try and give little pleasant surprises for our educators, like items made of felt by L-Pack and of cardboard by Cartonator. The bags made of felt have been a huge hit.

Our trademark protection masks have also gained popularity during the pandemic. We offer them as gifts and use them at all regional EdCamp Ukraine events during quarantine measures.

Our green flash-drive-pens, the symbol of the NUS reform, have been a huge hit among educators.

Surprises we give:

protection masks
green flash-drive-pens
felt bags, etc.

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We Are Proud of

The HUNDRED Rating

Experience on OECD Portal

A publication by the World Bank

Award from Oxford

Best Public Report

Ken Robinson

Ken Robinson Speaking about EdCamp

Meetings with the Dalai Lama

Tips of the Dalai Lama to Ukrainians

Live Broadcast with the Dalai Lama

Three National Records

1

Record 2018

2

Record 2019

3

Record 2020

online conference

10019 participants

EdCamp in GOZNAMY!

Trust and Recognition

Chair of EdCamp Ukraine Board Oleksandr Elkin and Vice Chair of the Board Olena Masalitina worked as advisers to the ministers of education and science from 2016 to 2020 (three heads of the Ministry were in office during this period).

Oleksandr Elkin

Olena Masalitina

Specially for EdCamp

Special Book Circulations

She Did This

She Also Did This

This Mariia Used to Draw Beasts

Maia and Her Moms

Website Awards

Things You Can Keep

Surprises we give:

protection masks

green flash-drive-pens

felt bags, etc.

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Live Broadcast with
the Dalai Lama