Brief description
of the project

Ukraine Calling is a project-oriented capacity building programme for organisations from Ukraine, Belarus, France, Poland, and Germany. In its 2021 edition, it offers seminars and workshops to provide orientational and applied knowledge on the topic of local development, as well as to assist its participants in developing cross-sectoral competences and to foster international networking.

Actors from various fields (i.a. education, human rights, culture, media, academia) are invited to apply, introducing a project idea for cross-sectoral transnational cooperation, that they want to develop for subsequent implementation after the programme.

Besides contribution to a sustainable transnational dialogue, a special focus of Ukraine Calling concerns the way complex societal challenges can be tackled better with the help of projects involving actors from different sectors (i.e. civil society, culture, city administrations). Therefore, the programme invites its participants to collectively deliberate on the following questions: What are success factors for cross-sectoral collaborations? How to bring differing expectations and logics together to serve a common goal? Which formats can enable knowledge transfer in a dialogical manner?


A Laboratory for Belarusian Diaspora Encounters

A Laboratory for Belarusian Diaspora Encounters

2020 has brought Belarus on the spotlight, as the country witnessed the most severe political crisis of this century. Brutally silenced for demanding free and fair elections, peaceful demonstrators have been praised internationally for standing up against Lukashenko’s government. Meanwhile, thousands of Belarusian migrants mobilized as part of a transnational grassroot movement to make the […]

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Co-creating visions for the New Belarus

Co-creating visions for the New Belarus

“Should I stay or should I go” was the question raised in the eponymous song by the British punkrock band “The Clash” in 1982. Similarly, in 2020 when there is political discontent people either migrate or protest, so it seems. But what if some leave and nevertheless want to involve themselves in protest or political […]

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Museum of Ukrainian Female Migration

Museum of Ukrainian Female Migration

Gender plays a fundamental role in migration processes, since being a Stranger due to her origin, a migrant woman is also an Other due to her gender, which results in the risk of her double exclusion. Regardless of their motives and threats, however, independent female migration is a valuable personal resource that helps free oneself from […]

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