Vidnova Alumni
We are proud to have supported over 230 alumni across all program lines. These dedicated professionals from Ukraine continue to shape civil society through their work in activism, human rights, education, culture, mental health and more.
Our alumni form a growing network — a space for connection, collaboration, and peer learning. We support them through community meetings, networking events, and access to the Bosch Alumni Network.
Our Alumni
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Yuliia Melnyk is a Ukrainian activist, co-founder and director of the NGO Ekoltava, and a former regional campaigner with the international climate organization 350.org. With over a decade of experience, she works to advance environmental reforms, strengthen the rule of law in Ukraine, and defend environmental rights. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in law through the Rule of Law for Development program at Loyola University Chicago. Yuliia is also a single mother to a 12-year-old daughter and a portrait photographer passionate about women’s empowerment.
green recovery
waste management
climate adaptation
rule of law
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Anna Aliyeva
Anna Aliyeva from Kharkiv moved to Germany because of the war. In Germany, she began researching the provenance of artworks exported to Germany from Ukraine during the Second World War. Having returned to Kyiv, she plans to start work in Ukrainian archives to identify the works whose traces were found in Germany.
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Tatiana Korzhova
Tatiana moved from Ochakiv to Poland. At first, she was in Łódź, then moved to Warsaw. She is an artist who plans to open an art studio to teach children and adults painting from nature and hold an exhibition dedicated to the nature of the Kinburn spit. This territory is still under Russian occupation.
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Julia Koval
Julia Koval from Lviv was forced to move to Rzeszów, Poland, because of the war. She is an activist and a volunteer. Julia plans to organize a shelter for IDPs and a warehouse for humanitarian aid, which will go to the east of Ukraine.
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Tetyana Ganzha
Tetyana was born in Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region, and now lives in Kyiv. Tetyana is a philologist interested in urbanism and a documentary filmmaker. In frames of the Vidnova Ukraine, she continues to develop the script for the movie “Occupied” about rape as a tool of war and works on an information campaign for women who are victims of violence.
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Natalia Ukraynets
Natalia was born in the Shchaslyve, Kyiv region. She has directed her efforts toward developing children with autism and developmental delays. With the support of Vidnova Ukraine Fellowship, Natalia opened the Early Development Center “PrEkRASni” to increase the number of early development professionals in Ukraine during the war.
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Alina Rodina
Alina Rodina lived in Guliaypole and moved to Tallinn, Estonia. She is an activist who documents war crimes to help counter Russian propaganda. She also participates in events aimed at restoring cities in the frontline zone.
film production
social activism
war crimes investigation
returnees
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Kateryna, originally from Kyiv and now based in Stuttgart, co-curated the “From 1914 till Ukraine” exhibition, urging a reassessment of European values and the continent’s destiny amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. She produced a trilingual exhibition catalog in German, Ukrainian, and English, encapsulating a century of European conflicts with a focus on World War I and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. The catalog also documents the exhibition and marks a collaborative precedent between German and Ukrainian entities.
art exhibition
history
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Mariia Gryshchenko
Mariia Gryshchenko holds a Master’s degree in sociology and has over 10 years of experience in the public sector, specializing in urban studies, spatial development, and community engagement. She has collaborated with organizations such as Cedos, Canactions School, and the Centre for Urban Studies. Mariia is also a co-founder of the Citè participatory planning bureau, alongside Vadym Denysenko. Currently, she focuses on researching grassroots initiatives in communities for sustainability and recovery during the war, while teaching planning students and promoting public education. Her interests include social research, community participation, inclusive recovery, and documenting the resilience of Ukrainians.
media
social research
documenting war
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Olena is a researcher, cultural manager, senior analyst, and project coordinator. Her professional and research include cultural labor and cultural infrastructure, public participation, and grassroots activism.
In the frame of the Vidnova Lab topical cluster, Olena and Anna Karnaukh work on cultural infrastructure on a local level. They aim to find solutions to make cultural actors at the local level more capable of self-organization and regeneration. Strong local cultural actors can drive changes in their communities, even when state policies on reforming cultural infrastructure are paused or limited.
culture
local level
local culture
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Ganna Bogachuk
Ganna moved from Brovary to Vilnius, Lithuania. She plans to work on the project “Identity”, which investigates the factors that influenced identity formation through the prism of personal memories of women from the eastern, southern, and central regions of Ukraine. Plans to conduct 15 more interviews.
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Hanna Shestakova
Hanna Shestakova is from Odesa, and moved to Donville le Ban, France. She is a cultural manager, host of Listening Hour support sessions, and an actress of participatory practices (playback, doc/postdoc theater). As part of the fellowship, Hanna will conduct social, psychological, and artistic activities for young people and people who were forced to move to other regions of Ukraine because of the war and need to integrate into new communities.
social activism
support for vulnerable groups
theater
returnees
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Andriy Savych
Andriy moved from Lviv to Spain. Andriy is a musician. His musical career went through various orchestras in Ukraine and abroad (Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia, and others). He returned to resume his activities, develop his vlog, and share his knowledge there.
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Anna Bugaiova
Anna is originally from Odesa. After a time in Nuremberg, she returned to Odesa and transferred to the sister program of Vidnova Europe – Vidnova Ukraine. She implements her project, Inclusive Workshops, of wartime socialization and psychological support groups for internally displaced persons with mental forms of disability. Part of the budget was reserved for creating a production component based on a socialization group so that in the future, the project could grow into a social enterprise, bring income, and be self-sustaining.
inclusiveness
workshops
Vidnova Europe > Vidnova Ukraine
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Ksenia Matskevich
Ksenia Matskevich lived in Kyiv and moved to Poland. After returning to Ukraine, she wants to prepare materials and conduct a series of offline trainings on communication, presentation of gained experience, and dissemination of information for colleagues from the public sphere and employees of state social centers.
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Natalya Korbut
Natalia Korbut was born in Zhytomyr and now lives in Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Region. Natalya decided to focus her activities on supporting people who temporarily moved to Berdychi due to the war. She was engaged in charitable coaching sessions for women who need support, organized clubs for youth, women, and entrepreneurs, and organized an online project on conscious living in 2023.
