Projects for School and University Students

On December 10, 2015 the city of Artemivsk (Donetsk region) hosted Open Student Forum “The Document that has Survived for Centuries. History, Law, Modernity” (dedicated to the 800^th anniversary of the adoption of the Magna Carta). The Forum was organized by local government (Artemivsk City Council), Ukrainian Engineering and Pedagogical Academy and Artemivsk Multidisciplinary Lyceum # 11. “Tkuma” Institute researchers Yehor Vradiy and Valentyn Rybalka were invited to participate in the event.

The purpose of the Forum was to attract the attention of students to the problems of establishing and strengthening human rights and freedoms as well as their observance and protection, formation of youth legal consciousness.

The Forum gathered more than 50 pupils and students from different regions of Ukraine – Artemivsk, Kyiv, Ternopil, Soledar, Rubizhne, Syevyerodonetsk and Dnipropetrovsk.

“Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum staff presented the activity of both institutions in the field of youth historical and legal education. Speaking at the opening ceremony Valentyn Rybalka stressed the importance of the Forum being conducted in Artemivsk, which is a kind of outpost of the Ukrainian state in the east of our homeland. This is a place where issues of human rights, respect for the opinions of others, ethnic and religious tolerance, political and legal culture become particularly acute.

Yehor Vradiy in his presentation “The Right for Memory – to Prevent the Holocaust from Happening Again” focused on the nature of human rights, which from a philosophical point of view is the human ability to choose different options for his own behavior. Past experience provides many examples when neglecting the rights of certain groups on political, racial, ethnic or religious grounds led to disastrous consequences.

Presenting “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum in the field of tolerance education Yehor Vradiy presented International Contest for pupils, students and teachers “Lessons of War and the Holocaust - Lessons of Tolerance”, which will take place in September 2016 in Kyiv, and a number of major events (including youth project) dedicated to the 75^th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy.