Vidnova Fellows
We are proud to have supported over 230 fellows 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 fellows 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 Fellows
Khrystyna Slobodianiuk
Fellowship
Khrystyna is an actress, dancer, and performer. She moved from Kyiv to Paris and Wuppertal. She plans to study art therapy, improve mental health among her existing and new audiences, and create plays, videos, and performances designed to heal audiences in Ukraine.
Hanna Lodygina
Fellowship
Hanna moved from Kyiv to Warsaw, Poland. Hanna is a journalist who will work on recording 8 episodes of the podcast “Back to Yourself” about the decolonization of Ukrainian culture and science. Each episode will be dedicated to one prominent Ukrainian figure whom Russia appropriated.
Iryna Kudria
Fellowship
Iryna Kudria moved to Germany from Poland. She is an artist and researcher. She plans to work on a documentary about Ostarbeiters, which will later become the basis for a project about the Holodomor and her family history. Currently, the artist is collecting testimonies, including an interview with Ilya Dashevska from Kyiv, who managed to escape execution in Babyn Yar in 1941.
war crimes investigation
commemorative practices
commemoration of victims of Nazism
returnees
Alina Ponypalyak
Fellowship
Alina Ponypalyak moved from Kyiv to Krotosyn, Poland. Alina is a candidate for historical sciences. She will work on creating an educational and exhibition project dedicated to the heroes of the defense of Kyiv region, “Kyiv region – an outpost to freedom”, designed to show how the army, together with the people of Kyiv, repelled the attack of the enemy.
Petro comes from Donetsk and lives in Berlin. In frames of Vidnova Europe, he produced high-quality infotainment on YouTube channels to popularize quality Ukrainian content. The first block of the series “Nevihlasy” concerns sexual education, aiming to develop a public discussion about questions about sex. Petro’s host organization is Vitsche e.V.
sex education
videomaking
Inna comes from Lviv, where she blends the healing essence of nature with psychotherapy to brighten people’s lives.
In the frame of Vidnova Lab, Inna and Diana Popfalushi have combined their passion for climate activism and mental health and found an interconnection between the two topics in building resilience through green spaces. They do both, help with climate change mitigation and adaptation, which is the field of Diana’s research, and provide therapeutic assistance to restore and maintain mental health, so Inna’s research topic.
mental health
therapeutic horticulture
healing through nature
Oleksandra Naryzhna
Fellowship
Oleksandra moved from Kharkiv to Rotterdam. She is an architect and head of the Urban Reform NGO, which implements new approaches to developing and activating cities through urban projects. Will be engaged in the preparation of non-formal education programs to improve young people’s skills in urbanism for the reconstruction of Ukraine.
Maryna comes from Kyiv and moved to Berlin. In frames of Vidnova Europe, Maryna implemented a project that helps to increase the visibility of the Ukrainian perspective in German mass media and among the German audience. The project aimed to support Ukrainian civil society actors and NGOs in Germany in accessing international media through a networking campaign and a tailor-made booklet. Maryna’s host organization was iac Berlin.
public relations
mass media
Maryna Maikovska
Fellowship
Maryna Maikovska was born in Trostyanets, Sumy region, and now lives in Kyiv. Maryna is a director. As part of the Vidnova Ukraine Fellowship, she worked on the creation of a series of films about the evacuation of animals from Bucha. She plans to promote the film project to international animal protection and human rights organizations.
Daryna Antonenko
Fellowship
Daryna Antonenko lived in Kyiv before the full-scale invasion and moved to Astana, Kazakhstan. She founded Re:ban, an upcycling agency that gives a second life to used advertising banners, turning them into unique, custom-crafted products. Within the Vidnova Fellowship Ukraine program, she plans to restart the company and continue to develop it, trying to adapt to the new realities of existence.
Alina Holovatyuk
Fellowship
Alina moved from Kyiv to Hamburg, and later Athens. Alina is a Ukrainian architect and CGI artist, founder-CEO of the InTempo application and tactile case – a preventive device against panic attacks and stress. She is exploring the possibilities of using artificial intelligence in design and architecture on her Instagram blog.
Anastasia Pobidash
Fellowship
Activist Anastasia Pobidash lives in Irpin, Kyiv region. She held the “Culture for Nature” training festival to restore the nature of Ukraine with the help of cultural events. The first festival was in April, inviting 26 creative teams from the Kyiv region. The participants’ contributions aimed to restore the park zone of de-occupied Irpin.
Hanna Shestakova
Fellowship
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
Stanislava Artemova is a feminist activist and the head of the NGO Art of Aid founded by women and girls displaced from Eastern Ukraine. After her own displacement following the occupation of Luhansk, she and like-minded women established the organization in the frontline areas of the region. In February 2022, the team was forced to evacuate again, relocating to Dnipro. Since 2018, Stanislava has worked to protect the rights of internally displaced persons and vulnerable women, providing legal aid, psychosocial support, and integration services. In Dnipro, her team coordinates a center supporting women affected by the war. Stanislava is dedicated to amplifying the voices of displaced women and challenging bias through public storytelling and solidarity.
work with vulnerable groups
support IDPs
IDPs protection
IDP women protection
Ksenia Matskevich
Fellowship
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.
Iryna Solovey, Lera Lauda & Liubov Rakovytsia
Garage Gang
Local Media Development Agency ABO
Lab
Liubov is the head of Democratic Initiatives Incubator NGO. She is an expert in the communication of the reintegration of residents in occupied territories, countering propaganda, and verification of sources from the temporarily occupied territories. Lera is the head of Ukrainian Local Media Development Agency ABO in Kyiv, and co-founder of the Memorial platform. Iryna is the president of Garage Gang NGO, co-founder, consultant on strategic, sustainable urban development and social innovation.
Within Vidnova Lab, the trio’s research explores how experiencing the trauma of war and accepting its consequences, affect the future healing of the community and the country, as well as its further restoration and strengthening. The project envisions developing a tool for self-assessment for teams that engage in the community-led revival. They focus on the context of competent leadership for the democratic revival of Ukraine with a focus on resilience as the common ground between strategies of the grassroots civic forces, state, donors and local government institutions.
communication
communities
competent leadership
