10 December 2025

We are pleased to share the news that this year our team participated in the Responsibility Award from Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Family Foundation with a project to develop STEM competencies among students as part of the ChillPro Tech Students Awards 2025 competition, which was held in accordance with the standards of the global movement to raise the prestige of blue-collar and engineering professions, WorldSkills, on 19-21 February 2025 at the International Exhibition Centre as part of the main exhibition in the field of low-temperature technology in Ukraine, Chill Pro Expo 2025.

9 December 2025

On 9 December, the KAI Huawei Excellence Centre was opened – an educational and research space that has set a new standard for technical education in Ukraine.

For the Educational Initiatives Foundation, this is an important step towards creating a modern engineering environment where KAI students will work with technologies that define today’s telecom industry: 4G/5G/6G, WiFi7, IoT, Smart City, cybersecurity, and modern network architectures. The centre already has a Huawei ICT Academy with HCIA certification courses, practical laboratories, technical workshops and hackathons — a format that allows future engineers to develop their skills through real-world tasks and practice.

The space combines a lecture area, an R&D lab, and a team hub where students can apply their knowledge, work on projects, and test network solutions on real equipment. An important part will be “KAI Huawei Talks” — regular deep-dive lectures and practical sessions from Huawei engineers that will help students transition from academic training to real industry challenges.

“We thank KAI and Huawei Ukraine for their partnership and vision for the future of education. Today, we didn’t just open a lab — we created a point of entry into the profession for hundreds of Ukrainian students,” said Nadiya Omelchenko, founder of the Educational Initiatives Fund.

The KAI Huawei Excellence Centre has officially opened. Ahead are the first courses, workshops, and hackathons.

11 November 2025

The Educational Initiatives Foundation, together with its partners — Charitable Organisation Mazal T, the Professional Association of Educators, UNITED ANTS, and the STEAM train Training Centre — held a training session on “Fundraising Strategy for Educational Institutions” at School No. 226 in the Obolonskyi district of Kyiv.

The speakers shared practical advice on preparing grant applications and explained how to create projects that can successfully work with grant funds and scale up in the future.

The event was held in an interactive format: Kahoot, discussion of questions from directors. Participants shared their own experiences and sought solutions for the development of the educational environment.

Educators also divided into two teams and, under the guidance of mentors, analysed case studies involving social initiatives for submission in future grant applications.
After completing the training, participants received certificates of professional development.

29 October 2025

The Educational Initiatives Foundation, in partnership with NIBULON, donated 16 computers to Chyhyryn so that every student would have the opportunity to learn, create and develop even in the most difficult times. Because where there is knowledge, there is always a future.

This year’s All-Ukrainian competition in modelling “smart” devices, “STEAM House”, was innovative in both form and content.

During the event, a panel discussion was held, where students and educators discussed side by side the problems and prospects of education in Ukraine, with an emphasis on STEM development.

The main points of the conversation can be summarised as follows:
Education must be constantly updated in terms of both content and practice.
The introduction of STEM approaches into the educational process will promote a more practical use of theoretical knowledge.
Artificial intelligence in the educational process is not an enemy, but it must remain an assistant.

Ukrainian education needs more practice and creativity.
The project approach (the very basis of the STEM philosophy) should be widely applied in the study of all disciplines.

Without a doubt, competitions in modelling “smart” devices help not only to identify talented young people who see their future in STEM specialities.

It is an opportunity to get feedback from students who are not always heard by adults, as well as a kind of guide on the directions of transformation of the education system.

We would like to thank the partners and sponsors of the Competition for their significant contribution to the development of STEM education and the technological future of Ukraine.

We invite socially responsible businesses to support the country’s talented young people in the 2025 STEM competitions!

Together towards victory!

Organising committee: mail@eif.org.ua

Telephone: 044 3503635