Global education: A tool for the Europeanization of Ukraine?

According to some estimates, some 30.000 Ukrainian students go West annually to seek education. Before the project "Western Education - A Tool for Europeanization of Ukraine?" no substantial analysis has been carried out as to what impact these graduates have upon their return home. The project's goals were to define whether Ukrainian graduates of foreign universities are "agents of change" in Ukraine’s Europeanization and how to make the most of their potential, drawing on, where possible, the experience of the Visegrad countries.

Based on the findings of the project, the event will discuss the role of youth, and Western educated youth especially, in social change - a timely topic in nowadays' Ukraine where the young generation played an important part in the events of Maidan and what followed throughout the past year. A short video will be presented summing up lessons from and advices of key actors in Ukraine and the region concerning the reforms to be undertaken in the country.

Participants:

Iryna Ozymok, Project coordinator, Ukrainian Institute for Public Policy
Zsuzsanna Végh, Research assistant, Center for EU Enlargement Studies

Chair:

Péter Balázs, Director, Center for EU Enlargement Studies

The discussion is the final presentation of the results of the one-year research project "Western Education - A Tool for Europeanization of Ukraine?" supported by the International Visegrad Fund.