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On March 12, a “historical webinar” was held by “Tkuma” Institute and “Orion” Publishing House on the topic: “Ukrainian nobility; right and honor; what history can teach young people.” The guest speaker was Prof. Nataliya Starchenko, a research associate at the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies and the Institute of Ukrainian History of the NAS of Ukraine, co-author and scientific editor of history textbooks for grade 8 at the Orion UOC. The online meeting was moderated by Dr. Igor Shchupak.
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The 24th meeting of the Ukrainian-Polish Commission on Improving the Content of School History and Geography Textbooks was held in Uzhhorod on January 27-30. This year, the opening of the intergovernmental commission, which has been operating since 1995, was dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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On January 21-22, the XVI All-Ukrainian Methodological Seminar for Educators “New Ukrainian School: Teaching/Knowledge about the Holodomor and Other Genocides” was held in Kyiv, organized by the Ukrainian Research and Educational Center for Holodomor Studies (HREC in Ukraine). This is the first in a series of seminars in 2025 under the general theme “How to Tell History to Ukrainian Children,” during which leading scientists, methodologists, authors of programs and textbooks will discuss the process of creating the content of future educational materials on the history of Ukraine and the world: what is the most important thing that should be presented in textbooks, who are the heroes and who are the criminals, how to talk about the tragic phenomena of wars and genocides without traumatizing the child and helping him become stronger, how to fit Ukrainian history into European and world history, but at the same time not to lose, but to express his own. Dr. Igor Shchupak was invited to participate in the event.
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On December 3, a meeting was held at the premises of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in Kyiv, attended by Dr. Igor Shchupak, co-author of the Concept. The meeting was opened by Dr. Igor Khvorostyanyi, Head of the School Education Directorate of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, and the heads of the Working Group on the Development of the “Conceptual Principles of Reforming School History Education”: Raysa Yevtushenko, Chief Specialist of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, and Dr. Lyudmila Hrynevych, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Director of the Ukrainian Research and Educational Center for the Study of the Holodomor.
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On November 2-3, a series of educational events organized by “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies took place in Uzhhorod. The main attention was focused on the history of the Catastrophe of European Jewry, forms of resistance to the Nazi genocide, and moral dilemmas that face a person in times of war and genocide. Such activities are not only an important part of historical memory, but also a powerful tool for civic education and the formation of critical thinking in modern society.
The educational events were conducted by Dr. Yehor Vradii, Deputy Director of the Institute for Scientific Work, and Dr. Faina Vynokurova, a leading researcher of the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine, Deputy Director of the State Archives of Vinnytsia Region for Scientific and Methodological Work.