On February 10, 2021, there was an online meeting of employees of the International Institute of Education, Culture and Diaspora Relations, Lviv Polytechnic National University, with Oksana Vynnytska-Yusypovych, Honorary Consul of Canada in Ukraine, Doctor of Philosophy, Chairman of the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) International Educational Coordinating Council (2008–2018), pedagogue, scientist and public activist.
The Institute has been cooperating with Oksana Vynnytska-Yusypovych for more than ten years. This time the topic of the meeting was not only a number of issues of Ukrainian education abroad and the creation of textbooks on Ukrainian as a foreign language, but first of all discussing and planning of joint events on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of Ukrainian migration to Canada that will be celebrated during 2021. In addition, IECDR is actively building bridges between our country and Canada to create opportunities for the presentation in Ukraine unique diaspora publications created in Canada, which was also discussed at the meeting.
The attention was paid to the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Lesia Ukrainka’s birth. It was agreed with Oksana Vynnytska, the author of the personally-oriented approach «face to face with a child», to distribute for the public materials about the writer on various resources.
Taking the opportunity, Iryna Kliuchkovska, Director of IECDR, expressed her gratitude to Oksana Vynnytska-Yusypovych for many years of cooperation, advisory assistance in the implementation of educational projects of the Institute, and invited the Honorary Consul to participate in further public events of the Institute.
