Освітні проекти
"Tkuma" Institute has experience in organization and conduction of educational events for school and university students, school teachers. In cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, regional institutes of advanced teacher training, "Tkuma" Institute organized special system of seminars for improvement of teachers' skills.
"Tkuma" Institute has unique experience in creating textbooks. School History textbooks created by "Tkuma" Institute won All-Ukrainian State Contests and were released in hundreds of thousands of copies.
"Tkuma" Institute effectively cooperates with regional office of Junior Academy of Sciences. On the base of "Tkuma" Institute winter and summer sessions of JAS are conducted. During this events school students have an opportunity to work with the Holocaust museum holdings, consult the Institute and Museum research associates and meet famous Ukrainian and foreign scholars.
“Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations”: a lecture for students at the Ukrainian Catholic University
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On February 17, Dr. Igor Shchupak held an online lecture for students at the Ukrainian Catholic University. The meeting was dedicated to the topic “Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations and Other Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust: Historical Sources."
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On January 13, “Tkuma” Institute, together with “Orion” Educational and Cultural Center, held an online event from a series of seminars for history teachers. This time, an online meeting was held between Dr. Igor Shchupak and Dr. Yehor Vradii with history teachers from the city of Brovary and other settlements in the Kyiv region.
The seminar discussed current issues of the reform of history education in Ukraine, new history curricula, as well as history textbooks for 9th grade and the profile level of 11th grade, planned for use from 2026. Attention was paid to the Ukrainian vision of the historical process and modern approaches to teaching history.
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For the second year now, Vinnytsia has become a meeting place for participants in educational projects of “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies. Last year, the Institute’s Summer Pedagogical Studies took place here, and in the fall – on November 11-12 – the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Seminar for History Teachers and Methodologists. The event, which is the result of fruitful cooperation between the Tkuma Institute and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, brought together 35 talented teachers and methodologists from all regions of Ukraine, as well as academic researchers of history, and specialists in the publishing sector.
The staff of the Vinnytsia Academy of Continuing Education, as well as local teachers, particularly Iryna Matkovska, a teacher of civic education at Vinnytsia Lyceum No. 18, provided great assistance in organizing the event in Vinnytsia. Iryna is one of the winners of the competition “Lessons of War and the Holocaust – Lessons of Tolerance,” which took place in late September in Chernivtsi.
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On November 4, 2025, as part of the seminar series “Ukrainian Tuesdays” (Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences), an online lecture “Ukrainian and Polish Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust in Eastern Galicia” was held. The event for Ukrainian and Polish teachers and students was conducted by Dr. Igor Shchupak.
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On October 2, “Tkuma” Institute, together with the Ukrainian Educational and Publishing Center “Orion”, held a one-day educational and methodological seminar for history and humanities teachers in Lviv. During the seminar, Dr. Igor Shchupak, together with the editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian Educational and Publishing Center “Orion” Iryna Krasutska, presented the latest examples of history textbooks prepared over the past few years.
Read more: Educational and methodological seminar for history and humanities teachers in Lviv