On October 26, 2023, a meeting of student associations was held in the Assembly Hall of the main building of Lviv Polytechnic National University. The event was organized by the public organization «Ukrainian Student Association» as part of the international project «Dialogue of Student Unity: Ukraine and Poland». The Association was created in 1999 to protect the rights and freedoms of students. Over the years it has experienced a number of organizational transformations and since 2007 it is the only student association representing Ukrainian students at the international level. Its participants are students, self-governing student organizations that support economic, social, legal and cultural interests on a voluntary basis.
The international project is implemented jointly with the student parliament of the Republic of Poland and with the support of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine. Its purpose is to help establish interaction between students in the conditions of martial law, to support student initiatives aimed at overcoming the consequences of the war, to promote the information dissemination about the needs of Ukrainian students in both countries, about youth exchanges, etc.
Nataliya Chukhrai, Vice-Rector for Education and International Relations, Lviv Polytechnic National University, welcomed the participants, emphasizing the importance of cooperation between the youth of different countries, the implementation of joint projects and the support of students in wartime. The president of the Association, Polina Hombalevska, received as a gift the Internationalization Strategy of Lviv Polytechnic.
Khrystyna Barvinska and students of the Department of Transport Technologies, the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Transport, Lviv Polytechnic, presented the activities of the student volunteer center Buddy System, which operates under the slogan #on_the_way_to_ESNUkraine and is eager to cooperate on various initiatives. The president of the Polish Student Parliament, Kevin Lewicki, and members of Polish student organizations joined the meeting online.
Taking into account the fact that most of the participants were in the unique premises of the University Assembly Hall for the first time, the head of the Center for International Education Nataliya Hots and its employee Oleksandra Stepaniuk told about Jan Matejko’s works of art in Ukrainian and Polish. Some participants also visited Zachariewicz Hall. These premises cannot fail to impress.
We hope that this meeting will continue Ukrainian-Polish student cooperation, and give fresh impulse to existing projects and start new ones.
