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Author: Holovatsky Eugene
Born in 1988, in 2006 graduated with honors from the Secondary school № 10 of Marganets. The same year joined the Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy at First Medical Faculty. In 2012 he graduated the Academy and was sent as intern to the city of Krivoy Rog. Eugene was a member of the school Euroclub "Logos" in 2003. He took part in the Days of Europe in 2006 Dnepropetrovsk and Marganets. He also participated in a seminar for young researchers in the history of Tremso, Norway.
Author: Oleksandr Nayavko
Oleksandr is a former member of the Novyi Rozdil School Euroclub "Promin Europy". He thinks it was crucial for the development of his leadership skills to be engaged in such developmental opportunities, which are available to members of Euroclubs. He has learned a lot about the European Union and its structure. Participation in the Euroclub has influenced Oleksandr's personal development and leadership skills. Euroclub started promoting changes in the local environment and now School Euroclub has definite achievements. Participation in the euroclub work offered innovative approaches to engage children, youth and their parents in interactive activities and projects. They discussed different questions of European values, organized workshops and trainings, played Euro Bingo. Now Oleksandr is a student of Lviv Medical University. He travelled to Greece, Italy, Hungary with a dancing group promoting Ukrainian culture in these European countries. They were warmly met there. Being a student, he still participates in the Euroclub activities. This year Oleksandr was a volunteer during the celebration of the European Day in his home town of Novyi Rozdil. There was a regional forum of Euroclubs and 120 participants from the whole region came to this town. He helped with the organization and took pictures and shot the video. Oleksandr also helped the volunteers from different countries, who participated in the forum, to get around the town and to communicate with other participants. During Euro 2012 he was a volunteer at the medical center in Lviv.
Author: Valeriia Shyrokova
At the moment Valeriia is a 5th year student of the Journalism department and a graduate of the Belgian club. She is member of the organizing committee of the Estonian club and a deputy of the first convocation of the nationwide modeling of the government of Ukraine. Also she was part of the youth delegation to the NATO headquarters in Brussels and at the moment works as a reporter of regional representation on TV channel “Piaty Kanal” (5th Channel). Active social position is an integral part of Valeriia's life. She became a member of the European Club at the age of 13. Within the scope of the Belgian Club activities, she helped organize training sessions on leadership and modeling of the work of NATO, "Partnership for Peace", UN General Assembly and the local school self-government. Another area was volunteer work and holding of the celebration of Europe Day by Belgian club in several cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and city of Zaporizhzhia. Having finished the school, Valeriia moved to another city, where she became an active member of the twin-club "Estonian club". There she helped organize schools of democracy, round-table discussions on urgent topics, models of the UN, NATO, the European Parliament and of the City Council. Valeriia's responsibilities in the intellectual association "Estonian Club" include: organization of activities and moderating modelings and conferences. Also, during the last 3 months she conducted trainings on leadership in several European Clubs in Zaporizhzhia.
Author: Maria Panasii
Maria studies at the Donetsk national university on the major “International relations”. She graduated from the Mariupol School "Intellect" for the gifted children and Mariupol artistic school after A.Kuyndzhy. Maria was official volunteer from UEFA at EURO2012 in Donetsk. In 2009-2010 she was a volunteer at summer camp “Solnechnyj” on the Azov Sea, working with children from orphanages. She was a volunteer at the Donetsk-based Center for Political Studies, monitoring the 2010 presidential elections in Ukraine.
Author: Boris Us
Boris is a former member of Euroclub "Euro Mix" at Kharkiv school № 91. He currently studies law at the Kharkiv National University of Home Affairs.
Author: Oleksandr Goncharov
Oleksandr is a former participant of Euroclub "EuroMix" at Kharkiv school № 91. He currently studies telecoms at Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics. He is interested in modern technologies and photography - he had several personal exhibitions, participated in the Museum Night, received scholarship from the Gifted Youth Foundation.
Author: Anastasiia Zhurova
Anastasiia was elected to be the president of the Sumy Specialized School № 1 in 2008 and the President of Sumy Euroclub in 2009. Together with the Euroclub's coordinator she initiated the beginning of the club’s work on 1 February 2009. She took an active part in public life of the school, city and region as well as in Camp Excite movement, organized by American Peace Corps volunteers and the Center of European Initiatives in Sumy. They communicated there only in English, which was great practice for Nastia. She studied art, music and theater there. Since 2009 she has been taking part in the sessions of the European Youth Parliament in Ukraine. In August 2009 Anastasiia took part in the project "Leadership School of European Democracy" in Sumy. In June 2009 she participated in a project "Tolerance". In 2010 Nastia participated in the national competition “Europa Nostra” in Kyiv. Together with her teammates, she was defending the honor of Sumy region and they were among 5 prize winners. For 3 years she has been helping in the organization of Europe Days in Sumy and was awarded with a trip to Poland. Nastia was the author of Euro-planner project which was devoted to studying and communicating among the members of European clubs from Sumy region in an informal setting. Nastia also a member of Euro-foot quest and her team took the 3rd place in 2008 and the 1st in 2009.
Author: Mariana Taraunekh
Mariana studies International Relations at the Donetsk National University, in 2011-2012 she participated in an exchange program at the University of Washington. She volunteers at the Center for Political Studies in Donetsk. Mariana is an active participant in discussion and debates about European integration and considers herself a promoter of European principles and values in Ukraine. In summer 2011, she was an intern in the Democratic Initiatives Foundation in Kyiv and within her internship she was organizing a meeting of the Euro-Atlantic club. Marianna implements a project on gender issues supported by the Open Society Institute. She also does her research on Ukrainian NGOs in the position of confrontation with the government structure.
Author: Oleksandr Shvets
Before entering the Faculty of International Relations at the Volyn National University after Lesya Ukrainka in Lutsk, Oleksandr studied at Lutsk School # 25. He was in School Euroclub "Eurostar" from 9 to 11 form. When he was there he took part in diferent events and competitions. In April 2008 Oleksandr achieved 3rd place in the competition 'Knowledge about EU', among pupils of Lutsk. In May 2008 he achieved 3rd place in the competition for 'Knowledge about EU', among pupils from Ukraine and Poland. In October 2008, 2009 he was a member of the project “Secure Ukraine, Secure Europe, Secure World” among pupils from Volyn region. In December 2009 Oleksandr achieved 2nd team place in the competition “Europa Nostra” in Kyiv among pupils from all parts of Ukraine. In May 2010 he won the competitions on EU Studies among pupils of Lutsk and from Volyn region.
Author: Liliya Borovets
Two years ago Liliya finished school in the town of Velyki Mosty where she was a member of Euroclub “The children of Europe”. For several years activities in the Euroclub has been the key interest of Liliya and helped her choose her future speciality. Now she is studying at the faculty of International Relations at Lviv National University after Ivan Franko. Members of Euroclub were gathering every week, talking about global issues, they organized festival “Week of Tolerance”, participated in different contests. Liliya participated in the “All Ukrainian Olimpiad in European Studies” in Donetsk in 2008. For her this competition was like a breath of fresh air, because she realized how to combine my interests in Politics, History, Geography and other subjects. In 2009 was the event which divided Liliya's life on “before” and “after” – her team won the competition “Europa Nostra” among Ukrainian Euroclubs, awarded with an unforgettable study visit to Belgium. Being involved into non-formal education, Liliya also had a chance to participate in youth exchanges in Poland, Armenia and Sweden.