2nd Leadership Mission to EU · n epedition to the EU 11-18 May 2017 page 3 250 participants from all regions of Ukraine and the Autono- mous Republic of Crimea. 22 cities — 25

CREATING YOURSELF - CREATING UKRAINE!

2nd Leadership Mission to EU11-18 May 2017

Students ULA Kharkiv in the Parliament of Austria, Vienna

page 1An expedition to the EU, 11-18 May 2017

Dear friend! Today, we are witnessing a historical event: the opening of European space for the Ukrainian people. Visa-free travel is the second symbol (after the Maidan) for the new generation who create changes for the benefit of flourishing Ukraine.

We understand: in order to make Ukraine stronger, develop its potential, bring wellbeing and multiply respect for our country in the world, we have to learn from the success of others. That’s why open communication with democratic countries of the world is so important for us. We have common values and common future.

As young leaders, we change the perception of Ukraine for the better when visiting other countries and establishing direct contacts with locals. The free travel opportunities opening with the abolition of visas to the EU allow young people to bring the best ideas and examples to Ukraine and make them happen in our country tomorrow.

For the new generation of Ukrainians ready to assume responsible leadership, nothing is impossible. Born free, they are capable of changing not just Ukraine but the whole world. They have to work very hard to do that. If we all will give our time, efforts and love to our country today, in just a few years, we will see a new Ukraine – the country in which we dream to live.

CREATING OURSELVES — CREATING UKRAINE!

Flash-mob by ULA Mykolayiv students in Mechelen, Belgium


250 participants from all regions of Ukraine and the Autono-mous Republic of Crimea.

22 cities — 25 000 friends — in commemoration of the

25th anniversary of diplomatic relations with EU member states.

ExpeditionAn expedition of Ukrainian Academy of Leadership to EU states: the biggest youth mission of independent Ukraine’s cultural diplomacy.

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Components of the expedition:

Cognitive 50%Аdvocating 20%Communicative 30%(cultural diplomacy)

The goalsof our Expedition are to advocate Ukraine abroad and study models of EU’s public institutions, decision making mechanisms and examples of rational organization of infrastructure and everyday life by meeting with representatives of European institutions, central and local public authorities, think tanks, educational organizations and NGOs.

It took centuries for Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, France and Austria to develop their statehood, but we don’t have that much time!

Ukrainian Academy of Leadership is an example of how Ukrainian society meets historical challenges and raises the new generation!We unite Ukraine, having students from all regions, and create space for development of a viable society today!


ULA students meeting with the EU Ambassador of Ukraine Mykola Tochickyy, Brussels, Belgium

ABOUT UConveying three

messages

to 22 EU cities

KRAINE

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Ukraine is changing despite difficulties:reforms (ProZorro, police, decentralization), education (Ukrainian Academy of Leadership, Teach for Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic University).

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Flash-mob by ULA students in Brussels, Belgium



A strong civil society is in the making in Ukraine:by 2030, we expect to have 20 000 active graduates of Ukrainian Academy of Leadership and a powerful volunteer and entrepre-neurial movement by developing the culture of social service and entrepreneurship that unites the country.

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Ukraine is a new space for cognition and implementation of innovative ideasWe bring information about Ukraine and identity of interestinglocations in Ukraine via such platforms as 50 INVENTIONS BESTOWED BY UKRAINE TO THE WORLD, Ukraїner, Ukraine. Open for U, Bridge EU-Ukraine, Building UkraineTogether.

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National dance “Hayivkas” by ULA Kharkiv students in Senlis, France

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“In the past two years, a new generation woke up in Ukraine. This is a generation of Ukrainians full of energy, responsibility and action. A generation where everyone trusts everyone, with dedication arising not just from sentiments but from the sense of responsibility and conscientious will to turn our country into the space of freedom and dignity. This is a generation of Ukrainians who dream together about a strong and wealthy Ukraine. We must give this generation tools to make their dreams come true. Our goal is to ensure that values that unite us become daily instruments of decision making. In the maze of contradictions existing in Ukraine, values are what can unite us. We want Ukrainian society to become stronger and of greater benefit to the humanity. In fact, we can do much more interesting and useful things”.

Roman Tychkivskyi,Head of Ukrainian Academy of Leadership


ULA Kharkiv students at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland


The expedition, devoted to the 25th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations with the EU, encompassed seven countries: Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland and Austria.

In one week, Ukrainian Academy of Leadership students traveled over 25 thousand kilometers, visited 22 cities, held almost 100 meetings with representatives of European, national andmunicipal institutions, experts, public, religious and cultural activists; visited 15 best universities in Europe, and befriended over 25 thousand residents and visitors to the EU.

Resultsof the Expedition

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Expedition to the EU250 members / 17-18 May 2017

722

Number of countries visited:

Numberof cities visited:

Flash mobs

22Number of friends

25,6kNumber of kilometers

25,5k

Netherlands

Belgium

Germany

Poland

France

Switzerland

Austria

Ukraine


Meetings with representativesof European institutionsand international organizations

9Meetings with representatives of central and local authorities

17

Meetings at universitiesand youth organizations

17

4Meetings with representativesof businesses and entrepreneurs

Meetings at analytical centers, nonprofit organizations and development foundations

10

Meetings at diplomatic missionsand with Ukrainians abroad

13

Meetings at cultural, informationand religious centers and museums

29Meetings at healthcareinstitutions

1Total meetings

100

A flash mob in rain at La Monnaie De Munt in Brussels

Successful transformation of Ukraine is the key to the bright and peaceful future of not only our country but the whole Europe as well, the discussion at Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies pointed out.

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ULA in Brussels11-12 May 2017

Flash mobs

1Number of friends

1,9k

Belgium

Brussels


Meetings with representativesof European institutions andinternational organizations

Rebecca Harms (member of the European Parliament), Kaja Kallas (member of the European Parliament), representatives of the Office of the European Commissioner Johannes Hahn, European Commission Support Group for Ukraine, European Committee of the Regions, European Economic and Social Committee, and European Commission Working Group for Strategic Communications

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Meetings at cultural, informationand religious centers, museumsand universities

Parlamentarium

1Mykola Tochytskyi (Ukraine Ambassador to the EU), the Society of Ukrainians in Belgium, Andrii Lavreniuk (Ukrinform), Ukrainian World Congress

Meetings at diplomatic missions and with Ukrainians abroad

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Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, The Open Dialog Foundation, Centre for European Policy Studies, Centre for European Politics, European Foundation for Democracy, Human Rights Houses, etc.

Meetings at analytical centers, nonprofit organizations, development foundations and mass media

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ULA students meeting with Rebecca Harms, Brussels, Belgium


The expedition started in Brussels, the city where most institutions of united Europe are located, on 11 May, the day when Ukraine was granted the long-awaited visa-free regime. During two days, the students attended 15 meetings with representatives of European institutions, public authorities, think tanks, educational organizations, media and NGOs, including member of the European Parliament Rebecca Harms, members of European Parliament committees, Ukraine Ambassador to the EU Mykola Tochytskyi, Executive Director of the Brussels Liaison Office of Ukrainian Analytical Centers Olena Prystaiko, and many others.

“The expedition is a very apt word to define the format of this event and its three key objectives: cognitive, advocating and communicative. The perception of goal is like the team’s disposition before an important sporting game. It’s when you’re traveling not for the sake of traveling, not to get another stamp in your passport. It’s when you realize that you have the whole country behind you”.

Marichka Nadverniuk,ULA Mykolaiv student

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ULА Lviv13-18 May 2017

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Numberof countries visited:


Flash mobs

8Number of friends

4kNumberof kilometers

5768

Netherlands

AmsterdamLeidenThe HagueRotterdam

Belgium

Brussels

Germany

Berlin

Poland

Warsaw, Oświęcim



Joint program in Brussels

17

Meetings with representativesof businesses and entrepreneurs

TQ Amsterdam

1Meetings with representativesof central and local authorities

The Senate and the House of Representatives of the States General of the Netherlands, Federal Foreign Office (Germany)

3Meetings at universitiesand youth organizations

The Hague University of Applied Sci-ences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Office Berlin, etc.

4


Anne Frank House, Amsterdam Museum, Corpus Museum, Auschwitz

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ULA Lviv“Today, the Netherlands is perhaps the most comfortable country in Europe for cyclists. However, it has not always been so: their struggle for comfortable use of and riding on bicycles lasted for decades. And today, citizens of this country enjoy personal freedom, but on top of that, feel responsibility for their future and the future of their descendants”.

Mariana Ulanova,ULA Lviv student

“There are many things that will come handy and many people who will support you. All you have to do is to make the first step”.

Ruben Nieuwenhuis,an expert in trends and business innovations,

author of Startup City book, Amsterdam

“Europe is communication, search of common winning strategy for all participants of communication, proactive stance on overcoming today’s challenges, a look into the future and huge daily work. It is not a paradise land, not a picture from the TV screen but a difficult school of coexistence of very different people for the sake of common peaceful future”.

Yaroslav Yurchyshyn,Executive Director, Transparency International Ukraine

ULA Lviv students in Amsterdam, Netherlands

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ULA Mykolaiv13-18 May 2017

28

Flash mobs

3Number of friends

3,2kNumberof kilometers

3752

Poland,

Warsaw, Oświęcim

Belgium

Brussels, Ghent, Leuven,Mechelen, Antwerp, Bruges






17

Meetings with representativesof central and local authorities

Mechelen City Council,Bruges City Council

2

Ukrainian House (Ihor Khokholiuk / Anna Yavorska, Brussels), Ukrainian House (Ruslan Pikh / Liubomyr Movcha-nov, Antwerp), the Society of Ukrainians in Belgium, Barvinok Organization


6


Port of Antwerp,Anglo Belgian Corporation


University of Antwerp, Universityof Leuven, Ihor Cherkashyn (Bruges)

3Meetings at cultural, informationand religious centers and museums

Bruges Museum, Auschwitz 2

Universitaire ziekenhuizen Leuven

Meetings at healthcare institutions

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ULA Mykolayiv students meeting with Bart Somers - Mayor Mechelen, Belgium


“The openness, transparency, simplicity and absence of blood relation greatly improve the chances of creating a cool, interesting city”.

Dmytro Domanskyi,ULA Mykolaiv student, during the meeting

with Bart Somers in Mechelen, Belgium

“In 1989’s Berlin, I realized how important freedom is. I had the same feeling in Kyiv’s Maidan. The moments like these motivate for implementation of changes in a democratic way on the basis of discussions. Tell everyone how proud we are of changes with which our city lives. And although everyone is a personality who has own identity, we have a lot in common”.

Bart Somers,Mayor of Mechelen, Belgium (winner of the World Mayor

Prize 2016 as the best mayor of the world)

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ULA Mykolaiv“In my opinion, expeditions like this are an excellent example of how Ukraine can tell about itself. It’s hard to imagine better diplomats for the country than these bright young people. At the same time, we are very pleased that our country finds itself on their radar. This cooperation does benefit both our countries”.

Luc Jacobs, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

of the Kingdom of Belgium to Ukraine

“Today, thanks to the world wide web, people have access to any information in the world. So, one would think, use this information to the fullest: read, study, analyze. Just don’t copy it, for copied information doesn’t have your thoughts, your work. The University of Leuven has zero tolerance of plagiarism. If any duplication is found in your work, it means that you have violated the university’s values and must leave it. As simple as that.

“I’d like to believe that in the future, our universities will rise to the level of the Catholic University of Leuven, becoming a place to raise free thinkers capable of changing our world for the better”.

Anastasia Blazhko,ULA Mykolaiv student


Flash-mob by Kyiv ULA students in Munich, Germany

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ULA Poltava13-18 May 2017

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Flash mobs

5Number of friends

3kNumberof kilometers

5548Belgium

Brussels

PolandWarsawOświęcimKrakow

France

StrasbourgParisSenlis


Meetings with representativesof European institutions and international organizations

Joint program in Brussels, Councilof Europe (Strasbourg), UNESCO

19


Senate (Paris)


Paris Institute of Political Studies, Panthéon-Assas University in Paris, National School of Administration

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Eparchial house of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Anne of Kiev Cultural Center, Cultural Information Center of the Embassy of Ukraine in France, Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Auschwitz

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Ukraine Action, Senlis, Taras Piniazhko, Euromaidan-Warsaw


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Embassy of Ukraine in France, Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the Council of Europe, meetings with the Ukrainian diaspora in Senlis


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ULA Poltava “We should tell people more about Ukraine. And the best way is to establish direct contacts. People know nothing about Ukraine other than Eurovision, Klitschko and Chornobyl… In my future travels abroad, I will wear our symbols and tell people that this is not an island in the Atlantic, and not even a Japanese cuisine dish. I have many thoughts, but need more actions. Now, I have better understanding of the idea of the Academy and why I am here. The most important thing is to realize that every one of us is Ukraine!”

Marta Sanduliak,ULA Poltava student

“These students are very bright, educated and positive; the depth of their thinking and appropriateness of questions are impressive. That they are future agents of changes, I have no doubts”.

Olena Halushka, ex-Head of International Relations Department

at Reanimation Package of Reforms (RPR)


ULA Poltava students sing the anthem of Ukraine, Paris, France

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ULA Kharkiv13-18 May 2017

58

Numberof countries visited


Flash mobs

4Number of friends

3,5kNumber of kilometers

7120

France

ParisSenlis

Belgium

Brussels

SwitzerlandGenevaBern

PolandWarsaw Oświęcim

Austria

Vienna



Joint program in Brussels, WTO

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Parliament of Lower Austria, Vienna City Council, Austrian Parliament, Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs (Austria), Claude Bourdin (ex-Mayor of Beaugency), Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (Switzerland), Ostap Yukhymovych, Chargé d’affaires ad interim of Ukraine to the Swiss Confederation

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Meetings at universities

Pierre and Marie Curie University

1


Eparchial house of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Anne of Kiev Cultural Center, Cultural Information Center of the Embassy of Ukraine in France, Auschwitz

4

Human Rights House, Amnesty France, Geneva Center for Security Policy, International Republican Institute

Meetings at analytical centers,nonprofit organizationsand development foundations

4

Irena Karpa (diplomat), meeting with the Ukrainian diaspora in Senlis, meeting with the Ukrainian youth in Paris, Euromaidan-Warsaw, Andrii Luzhnytskyi (Head of Ukrainian Community in Switzerland)


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ULA Poltava and Kharkiv students meeting with Bishop Boris Gudziak, Senlis, France


ULA Kharkiv“To be free means to have good relationship with God and the neighbor, living in sacrifice and with gratitude. To be sincere, open and celebrate the gift of live every day”.

Reverend Borys Gudziak

“I am convinced that a true European, with his values and beliefs, understands very well that after he dies, the Earth won’t cease to exist. For his descendants, and descendants of his descendants will continue to live on it. That’s why he understands that if we continue to dump half a ton of CO2 into the atmosphere every day and if waste recycling plants in his country won’t work, the crisis will hit not him but his children or grandchildren”.

Maksym Zolochevskyi,ULA Kharkiv student

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ULA Kyiv13-18 May 2017

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Flash mobs

2Number of friends

10тис.

umber of kilometers

3285

Belgium

Brussels

Germany

Frankfurt MunichBerlin

Poland

Krakow




17


Delivery Hero

1


Bundestag

1Meetings at cultural, information and religious centers and museums

Historical Museum in Frankfurt, Jewish Museum, Cathedral of the Intersession of the Most Holy Theotokos and Saint Andrew the First-Called (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church), Goethe Museum, Old Museum, New Museum, Pergamon Museum, Old National Gallery, Bode Museum, East Side Gallery, Glyptothek in Munich, BMW Museum

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Heinrich Böll Foundation, Institute for European Politics, Democracy Reporting International


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Flash-mob dance by ULA Kyiv students in Frankfurt, Germany


ULA Kyiv “Despite the differences in mentality, there are obvious things in which I wish Ukraine were similar with EU states. The attitude toward people with special needs, bike paths and many other important and convenient things. But that’s just something that lies on the surface. These, seemingly insignificant implementations and differences are the consequences of much bigger reforms – social, economic, political, reforms in mentality. Without that, people in Ukrainian cities will continue to walk on bike paths, not even noticing and not understanding why they are needed”.

Bohdan Paskar, ULA Kyiv student

“The understanding of one’s own culture, knowledge of other cultures and ability to use their differences are extremelyimportant today, when Ukraine strives for becoming a full-fledged part of European community”.

Dmytro Oliinyk,ULA Kyiv manager

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“The conflict in the East may last for years, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait. You have to act. You are important, because you are those who can change the course of history”.

Hans Falenski,advisor of the CDU/CSU faction in the Bundestag

“By 2025, Germany plans to abolish nuclear power generation and switch to alternative energy sources. I have realized that in Germany, responsibility for changing the common space is borne mostly by the government, while in our country, it is the business of activists. But in my opinion, this is a good thing, because it indicates that any changes begin with the simple desire to change something. First of all, these deeds make us change our mentality and expand the worldview. I believe that sooner or later, the same attitude toward the environment will prevail in Ukraine”.

Tigran Sogoyan,ULA Kyiv student

ULA Kyiv


ULA Kyiv students in Berlin, Germany

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ULA Kharkiv students at the celebration of Anna Yaroslavna Day in Senlis, France


WNISEF became the main partner of the ULA Expedition to the EU

“The Academy of Leadership is one of our first projects. We want to help these students develop and become leaders of the country in the future. We believe in these youths, and support them in all their endeavors”.

Yaroslava Johnson, President and CEO,

Western NIS Enterprise Fund, Chair of the SupervisoryBoard of Ukrainian Academy of Leadership

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Partners and friendsWe thank for support:

• President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko

• representatives of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Government Office for Euro-pean and Euro-Atlantic Integration

• representatives of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium and personally Luc Jacobs, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipo-tentiary of the Kingdom of Belgium to Ukraine, Embassy of the French Republic, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ukraine, and Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine

• representatives of Reanimation Package of Reforms coalition, Transparency International Ukraine civic organization, Astarta Agro Holding Company, and Voice of Ukraine newspaper.


Kingdom of the Netherlands

Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany

Embassy of the Kingdomof Belgium in Ukraine

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Ukrainian Academy of Leadershipis a personal and social development program featuring, as the key element, a 10-month formation course for secondary school graduates, built by combining elements of value-based physical, emotional and intellectual development.

ULA missionInfluencing profound social processes in the Ukrainian society by developing a generation of young people who assume responsibility for our nation and possess the necessary abilities.


Academy mentors and managers in the main square in Brussels, Belgium

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2nd Leadership Mission to EU · n epedition to the EU 11-18 May 2017 page 3 250 participants from all regions of Ukraine and the Autono- mous Republic of Crimea. 22 cities — 25