Vidnova Fellowship Ukraine 2024 selection results
Vidnova Fellowship Ukraine is a fellowship program designed to provide financial and mentorship support to those who worked in the public, educational, and cultural sectors before the full-scale war, were forced to leave their homes, but want to return to Ukraine and resume their work.
In this call, we will support 50 activists, artists, and cultural workers who work with the LGBTQIA+ community, commemorative practices (such as the theme of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Jewish history, and memory of victims of Nazism), as well as with protecting the rights of national minorities and combating discrimination against Roma. The program includes a fellowship of 20,000 UAH per month to resume activities in Ukraine and an additional 10,000 UAH for renting workspaces, mentorship, or training.
During the open call, we received 93 applications, from which independent experts selected 50 fellows of the Vidnova Fellowship Ukraine 2024:
- Volodymyr Yakovenko
- Vira Dranhoi
- Saf Homin
- Alina Ponypalyak
- Iryna Kudria
- Maria Yasinska
- Alina Rodina
- Maryna Bublyk
- Tetiana Storozhko
- Olena Romanenko
- Artur Ivanenko
- Dmytro Tkachuk
- Alina Zhuravel
- Mariia Shevchenko
- Victoria Palma
- Svitlana Jamal Eddin
- Anzhelika Ustymenko
- Alina Panasenko
- Natala Omelchuk
- Nataliia Bukhta
- Ivan Orlenko
- Natalia Pukha
- Yulia Solokha
- Daria Zimenko
- Maria Leonova
- Natalia Diachenko
- Victoriia Fedoriv
- Anna Shestakova
- Nataliia Pedan
- Yana Gederym
- Olena Yegorushkina
- Sofia Lugova
- Vitalii Zinchenko
- Margarita Tristan
- Olena Solodovnikova
- Alina Neskreba
- Julia Uvarova
- Anatolii Levchenko
- Kateryna Sakevych
- Kateryna Bagrych
- Olena Filipova
- Svitlana Raschepkina
- Maria Valtina
- Galina Fedyura
- Tamara Dovhych
- Yana Gergel
- Anna Burban
- Anton Zhdankin
Some of this year’s fellows cannot disclose their identity for security reasons. We respect their decision, so we are publishing the list only of those program participants who have agreed to public disclosure. All winners have received emails with further steps to receive the fellowship. Thank you all for participating and your time!
The applications were evaluated by an independent jury consisting of cultural managers, curators, volunteers, artists, and activists:
- Semenyuk Kateryna – curator, cultural manager, co-founder of the cultural platform “Past / Future / Art”;
- Oleksandra Koriak – Romani activist and human rights defender;
- Petro Dolhanov – PhD in History, assoчfessor at the Department of Pedagogy and Educational Innovations at the Rivne Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education;
- Kateryna Sergatskova – journalist, TV presenter, writer, co-founder of Kyiv-based Zaborona Media, co-founder and CEO of the 2402 Foundation (Ukraine) and Daily Humanity (Denmark), co-founder of the Photographic Archive of War in Ukraine (Warchive);
- Berh Diana – activist, cultural manager, and artist, a founder of the protest movement Donetsk is Ukraine and founder of the TU Platform;
- Korotkevych Yaryna – cultural manager, works with the Lviv Heritage Bureau;
- Olha Bozhko – Volynska – journalist, documentary filmmaker, writer, and human rights defender;
- Sharyhina Anna – program director of KyivPride 2015-2018, co-organizer of KharkivPride and Women’s Solidarity Weeks;
- Roman Zimenko – expert in nondiscrimination, Romani integration, and development and implementation of programs in the non-governmental sector.
The programme is implemented by Insha Osvita in partnership with Commit by MitOst gGmbH and with the support of the Foundation “Memory, Responsibility, and Future” (EVZ).
