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.
Alina Panasenko
Fellowship
Alina Panasenko is originally from Sievierodonetsk, lived in Kyiv, and moved to Poland later. She is a filmmaker and visual artist. As part of the fellowship, she will work on the script for the feature film Vine, as well as on the development of a curatorial project, namely the next edition of the book Practice. Cinema and / as Politics”.
social activism
visual arts
film production
returnees
Kateryna Sakevych
Fellowship
Kateryna Sakevych moved to France from Kyiv. She is a social activist who works to restore the resourcefulness of women volunteers foundation workers, and other women who experience burnout. She has completed her training as a master of sound therapy with Tibetan bowls and is already conducting free therapy sessions for women. She also plans to organize outreach events for volunteers from Kharkiv.
social activism
support for vulnerable groups
women support
returnees
Veronika Skliarova is a cultural manager, theatre producer, and art curator, currently serving as the program director of “Parade-fest.” She has participated in international residencies and produced projects such as “Crimea, 5am” (an intersectoral performative project) and Ukrainian Odyssey, a series of performances across five Ukrainian cities. Since February 2022, Veronika created Anthology24, a collection of theatre texts written after the full-scale invasion. She also leads “Art Therapy Force,” a large-scale educational initiative that reorients creative university programs toward certifying art therapists and supports direct work with Ukrainian children, IDPs, veterans, and children in shelters and hospitals.
culture
cultural management
art and health
memory studies
Oksana Orel
Ev. Paul-Schneider- Gemeinde
Fellowship
Oksana comes from Odesa and lives in Berlin. In the frames of the project of Vidnova Europe, Oksana organized an annual performance of “AdlerA dance”, a dance studio for children and young people who arrived in Berlin after February 24, 2022. The colorful music and dance program thanked Berlin’s residents, administration, the Steglitz-Zellendorf Lankwitz district, and all partners and sponsors.
dance studio
dancing classes
Julia Koval
Fellowship
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.
Anastasia comes from Donetsk and lives in Ukraine. Her project in frames of Vidnova Ukraine, “Ukraine Known Unknown,” aimed to shed light on some lesser-known personalities in the Ukrainian cultural scene. It was a three-day series of documentary screenings in Berlin dedicated to prominent but unknown figures of Ukrainian culture and art – artists, poets, and musicians.
Ukrainian culture
documentaries
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.
Within Vidnova Lab, Liubov together with Iryna Solovey and Lera Lauda research 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
Oksana Liutik is the CEO of the NGO Zminotvortsi, an educator, facilitator, and mentor with over 10 years of experience in formal and non-formal education. A graduate of the University of Warwick’s “Leadership for Educational Transformation” program, she leads projects that support young people across Ukraine. Her current focus is working with teens from small towns and villages, helping them grow through real-life experiences, role models, and strong support networks. She believes education, dialogue, and community-driven collaboration are key to Ukraine’s recovery and long-term transformation.
education
transformative education
youth empowerment
Natalia Ukraynets
Fellowship
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.
Oksana Potapova & Annegret Wulff
Ukrainian Feminist Network for Freedom and Democracy
Commit
Lab
Oksana is a feminist activist and researcher based in London. Currently, her research focuses on the intersectional gendered impacts of the war in new realities of peace and security. Annegret is based in Berlin and is co-founder and managing director of the NGO Commit by MitOst gGmbH and a board member of the association MitOst e.V., where she developed the Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg program. She is an expert in citizenship education, new democracies, capacity building, and fundraising.
Within Vidnova Lab, Oksana and Annegret are researching the international donor landscape and narrative construction around Ukrainian recovery. This work aims to bridge the gap between the unacknowledged expertise and the needs of civil society with donors’ resources for an inclusive, sustainable, dignified, innovative recovery of Ukraine.
civil society
partnerships
meaningful participation
Oksana Borovets
Fellowship
Art director Oksana was born in Mala Divitsia, Chernihiv region. Currently lives in Kyiv. Her project “Keys” addressed the topic of Ukrainians losing their homes due to Russian aggression. In social networks, she shows traumatic experiences caused by war events and shares stories of people who lost their homes/were forced to leave them. On the anniversary of the full-scale invasion, Oksana hosted a broadcast with psychologist Olena Starynina on “anniversary syndrome”.
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
Dmytro Tkachuk
Fellowship
Dmytro Tkachuk moved from Zhytomyr to Warsaw, Poland. He is a public activist and trainer in non-formal education for teenagers. He plans to implement the project “Unbreakable Righteous Among the Nations in Zhytomyr Region,” which will showcase prominent personalities of the Jewish community in Zhytomyr region during the Holocaust. As part of the project, young mentors will also conduct history games.
support for Jewish community
support for vulnerable groups
non-formal education
returnees
Oksana Stomina
Fellowship
Oksana moved from Mariupol to Germany, Munich. Oksana is a poet, writer, public figure, and founder of the NGO “Paperovi Shchy”. During the three weeks of the Mariupol blockade, she worked in a volunteer center and documented the horrors of Russian aggression. Now she has started work on a documentary book about Russia’s war in Ukraine – “WAR ON PEACE AVENUE. Stories of the blockaded Mariupol”. It is a collection of stories of Mariupol residents who suffered from the Russian invaders.
Olha comes from Odesa and lives in Cornwall. She was hosted by Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change. In the frame of Vidnova Europe, Olha realized a project related to the professional realization of women, gender equality, and women empowerment studies by interviewing the HR departments of STEM companies in the UK, mostly related to IT, engineering, and construction. Olha researched women empowerment programs and gender policies in these companies.
women empowerment
gender equality
