Abstracts
Svitlana Kuzmina
V.I. Vernadsky Taurida National University
University on Messenger: survival experience in wartime
The report summarizes the experience of using Telegram messenger as a tool for virtual integration of the community and the educational environment of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology and Journalism (V.I. Vernadsky Taurida National University) starting from February 24, 2022.
The period of Covid-19 pandemic was the time when the institute rebuilt its activity following the concept of flexible educational management based on ideas of facilitation. As a result, a local distance learning platform was created, and it helped to save learning continuity. However, in the conditions of large-scale military operations and shortage of electricity, it turned out to be insufficient.
The challenges that the institute faced at that time were the threat of disintegration and the destruction of students' learning motivation. So, it was necessary to focus primarily on humanistic components – mutual support and self-organization, considering the learning process as a prerequisite for stabilizing the psycho-emotional state of the participants, and the educational environment as a place of strength and resistance.
An audit of internal resources, as well as available virtual tools, showed that Telegram messenger is the most suitable for solving current problems. Within a short time, a unique infrastructure of Telegram channels and chats was created: internal information channels, chats for operative horizontal communication and placement of materials, channels for publication and discussion of students' practical and creative works. Such activity allowed the institute to keep not only the continuity of education but also ensure the psychological well-being of students and teachers.
Svitlana Bulbeniuk
Institute of Law, Kyiv National Economic University
Some aspects of the realization of university autonomy in times of war
The article considers the responses of various higher education institutions of Ukraine to the challenges of a full-scale war after February 24, 2022 in the context of analyzing the peculiarities of implementing the national model of university autonomy. The possibility of borrowing and adapting the experience of the Polish model of university autonomy to optimize the distance format of the educational process is investigated. An example is the adaptation of the Polish experience of financial autonomy of universities, including at the level of structural units - faculties, which is an extremely important task for preserving the research base and highly professional teaching staff. Based on the SWOT analysis methodology, the author attempts to identify the strengths and weaknesses of asynchronous learning in wartime in higher education institutions, including taking into account the experience gained during 2020-2021, when the educational process took place remotely in a situation of pandemic restrictions. The result of this analysis is the identification of threats and opportunities faced by Ukraine's higher education system during and after the full-scale war. Particular attention is paid to the issue of preserving universities as a special social environment in which young people are socialized and develop their professional and civil identity. Thus, the main challenge and, at the same time, an excellent opportunity for higher education in Ukraine today is the need to preserve social capital for students and academic staff-without whom it is impossible to rebuild the country in the postwar period
Oleksandr Fedirko, Nataliia Fedirko
Kyiv National Economic University
Digital competencies in Ukraine under martial law: challenges and achievements in tertiary education
The full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, launched on February 24, 2022, dealt a deep blow to the Ukrainian educational sphere at all its levels, the consequences of which significantly exceeded the challenges of the COVID-2019 pandemic crisis. Military aggression of the Russian Federation causes a threat to the lives of all participants of the educational process throughout the territory of Ukraine, whereas massive missile attacks on the cities prevent the use of the existing technical base. Destruction of the energy infrastructure in Ukraine caused an additional challenge for both students and teachers, who are forced to adapt to the lack of stable electricity supply and irregular Internet access. In addition, the mass forced migration of Ukrainians abroad resulted in a stronger competitive pressure on the Ukrainian higher education institutions from the side of their foreign counterparts, which expanded the opportunities for our applicants to study. The challenges of the educational resistance to the aggressor include a need to strengthen the students’ functional literacy under conditions of the asynchronous studies mode, the use of online educational platforms, hosted at servers, which do not depend on power blackouts in Ukraine (e.g. Google), as well as their coordination with the local educational resources of the university, based on the Moodle. Such challenges stimulate the innovative use and strengthening of digital competences of both teachers and students, implementation of new flexible and adaptive forms of learning aimed at students’ individual needs and modes of information perception.
Maryna Silchenko, Iuliia Krasiuk
Kyiv National Economic University
A model of the organization of the educational process in crisis conditions — we hold the educational front!
Two challenges that Ukrainian education has faced in the past three years — the COVID-19 pandemic and full-scale Russian military aggression — have caused large-scale changes in the education system associated with the need for extremely fast organization of distance learning. In the abstract, we present a model of organizing the educational process in crisis conditions at all levels of activity of Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman. The choice of the model is based on the need to create safe conditions for participants of the educational process and ensure the quality of education.
The main problems that threatened the quality of education at the beginning of the pandemic were the insufficient level of digital competence of the faculty members, the insufficient amount of electronic educational content, the insufficient provision of students and the faculty members with the necessary computer equipment and various devices. At the management level, there was no experience in organizing the educational process in crisis conditions in the distance learning format.
During the last three years, a system of managing the educational process at the university in crisis conditions was formed step by step. The main components of this system were: 1) a set of documents for normative, methodical and methodological support for teaching disciplines; 2) LMS Moodle educational content management system for organizing asynchronous training; 3) Zoom cloud service for organizing synchronous training; 4) teacher training courses; 5) a system of comprehensive monitoring of students' success and their satisfaction with the educational process.
We believe that the presentation of the acquired experience will help other universities overcome the challenges of martial law and form a community of citizens capable of rebuilding the economy of our country in the future.
Iryna Degtyarova
Warsaw School of Economics
Social Responsibilities in a Times of War: The Case of SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Svitlana Tsymbaliuk
Kyiv National Economic University
Practices to ensure the educational process, psychological assistance, and project activities in a time of a war
On February 24, 2022, the world shuddered at the news of russia’s military attack on Ukraine. The occupation of part of the Ukrainian territory, the introduction of martial law, the destruction of infrastructure, constant air strikes, threats of bombing and shelling, limited communication capabilities, and the evacuation of a part of the population caused chaos in the country. It, in turn, led to the shutdown of educational institutions, which negatively affected the educational process, research, and project activities. Despite the new challenges faced by the KNEU, administrative and faculty staff were able not only to resume the educational process, research and project activities but, by the end of 2022, achieved results that are of strategic value for the development of the University. The presentation reveals the peculiarities of the organization of the educational process and communication with academic staff and students at the Faculty of Personnel Management, Sociology and Psychology during the war, changes in the priorities of applicants under the war influence during the admission campaign, and psychological support of the Centre for Social Adaptation and Psychological Assistance. The presentation contains the results of surveys of students on their satisfaction with the educational process under martial law. Particular attention is paid to the results of the implementation of Erasmus+ projects aimed at partnerships with stakeholders and human capital development: elaborating and adopting the Teaching Excellence Strategy, establishing the Teaching Excellence Centre, and launching the Professional Advisory Committee.
Oleh Horbunov
V.I. Vernadskyi Tavri National University
Computer system for improving the quality of the educational process under conditions of prolonged stress
An approach is proposed to improve the quality of the educational process in the face of new challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and military aggression, using a variety of physical practices and exercises that affect all components of human health. This approach allows, based on the analysis of video images of a person, to influence both his physical and psychological state, and social and communicative activity, and thereby ensure the reliability, safety and fault tolerance of the functioning of students during the educational process.
Based on mathematical models and the type-diversity algorithm, an approach is proposed for solving the problem of minimizing human errors through the purposeful organization of various physical exercises that help eliminate physical disabilities, which, for example, can be associated with human pain. Their elimination increases the reliability of the assimilation of educational material.
To implement the process of maintaining a normal physical condition of a student, a video analysis of his condition was organized by processing a video image using the "Skeleton" technology.
The formed set of exercises is intended for use by students independently, both in their free time and when performing professional activities (study) at the workplace with minimal participation of medical personnel.
The issues of integration of such a system into the educational process are considered.
Sergiy Kurbatov
Kyiv National Economic University
University education during pandemic situation and war in Ukraine: opportunities and threats
During last times university education in Ukraine faced numerous challenges “under the umbrella” of two mega-challenges: COVID-19 pandemic situation and war with Russia. In my presentation I want to analyze, how do these challenges influenced and continue to influence my work as the university professor.
Let’s start with opportunities. Firstly, this is development of distance education and opening of its great possibilities by majority of Ukrainian educators. Secondly, this is increasing of computer literacy among educators. Thirdly – and I want to make special stress on this point – activization of the contacts with foreign colleagues, their more active involvement in teaching process (here I have an example of implementation of COIL project).
Regarding threats – the main among them, according to my opinion, is “clinical death” of offline education. Also, we lost important dimensions of psychological communication with our students and, as a result, certain alienation from them (and vice versa). Also, past and current traumatic experience influences educational process.
“A spoonful of tar is in the tube of honey” – our proverb says. Unfortunately, in case of current Ukrainian situation for university education we have something the opposite – a spoonful of honey in the tube of tar. What is the balance between “honey” and “tar” can I identify currently? What are the ways of developing of the main opportunities and overcoming of the threats we faced with? How can we use opportunities in the optimal way? I will try to share my thoughts regarding these and other questions in my presentation.
Olena Savchenko, Denys Lavrynenko, Larysa Korvat
Kyiv National Economic University
Students` state of emotional exhaustion: dynamics, causes, forms of optimization
The prolonged situation of social tension caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the full-scale war on the territory of Ukraine leads to a decrease in students` cognitive functions, as they experience emotional exhaustion and do not have time to restore their own psychological resources after stressful situations. The authors proposed a resourcefulness model and applied the "Personal Resources" methodology (O. Savchenko, S. Sukach) to identify the students states at the beginning of the semester (September 2022) and at the end (December 2022). It was established that students optimistically assessed the sufficiency of their own resources, while their emotional exhaustion was increasing significantly. This had negative consequences, as students did not try to optimize the allocation and restoring of their resources, which negatively affected their well-being, especially social. 5 types of students were defined depending on the level of their resourcefulness.
Based on the reflection of their own experience, the authors identified the following means of optimizing the resource status of students in the learning process, namely:
- dosing of material and diversification of tasks, which allows maintaining a high level of concentration of attention against the background of exhaustion;
- reduction of the cognitive level of the material complexity while preserving its content through the adaptation of educational discourses;
- development of algorithms for performing practical tasks, which have a double meaning: educational material and a means of self-help in solving psychological problems;
- increasing visibility: schemes, illustrations, iconic symbols;
- reorganization of independent work in the direction of metacognitive development: reflection on one's condition, organization of the optimal learning regime, control and regulation of the level of tension, etc.
Larysa Antoniuk, Olena Tsyrkun
Kyiv National Economic University
The developing ecosystem of entrepreneurial education
The paper focuses on the development of the ecosystem of entrepreneurship education at Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman in a time of war. It reveals the peculiarities and societal impact of training students, capable of generating creative business ideas in a challenging time and choosing effective strategies for their implementation.
The authors analyze the results of the implementation of the Creative Spark project at Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, aimed at the continuous and balanced involvement of students, graduates and young entrepreneurs in various entrepreneurship courses and extracurricular activities with external stakeholders for the benefit of the society.
The paper outlines the role of the Center for Entrepreneurship at KNEU in coordinating such activities, as IDEAFEST 2022, business ideas competition, which, despite the war, gave KNEU students an opportunity to present their business ideas and got support in their further commercialization. All five teams - finalists presented projects aimed at solving the problems of Ukraine during the war and rebuilding Ukraine after the war ends.
The paper also highlights the importance of KNEU Business Clinic, which gives students an opportunity to discuss their business idea with experienced entrepreneurs or investors who help students determine the further development of their business ideas. Moreover, the practice of conducting Startup schools, or Bootcamps, 3-day courses aimed at providing students with knowledge about starting their own business from scratch, advertising, financial as well as legal issues, is analyzed.
Finally, the comprehensive strategy of entrepreneurial education at the university based on the development of a transdisciplinary model of interaction and cooperation with civil institutions is suggested by the authors of the paper
Gerald Groshek, Eva Muchova
Economic University in Bratislava
Ukrainian students abroad: Impressions on pursuing education in a time of war
Since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, millions of Ukrainians have fled the country with many seeking safe harbor in European Union (EU) countries. Currently, more than 4 million refugees from Ukraine are registered for temporary protection status in EU (Eurostat, 2023) with more than 93,000 in Slovakia alone. Consequently, educational institutions at all levels in Slovakia have experience a significant inflow of Ukrainian students. For Slovakia’s universities, Ukrainian students have become an important demographic group. In an effort to better understand the effects of the war in Ukraine on the higher education environment, we survey Ukrainian students studying at the University of Economics in Bratislava. The results of the survey reveal students' impressions of the educational conditions, student life, and challenges faced as they continue their studies away from Ukraine
Vira Haponenko, Marjana Kopanchuk
Kyiv National Economic University
The role of civil education in post-war reconstruction and reintegration
Today, Ukrainian society is experiencing a broken period of its history. All spheres are in crisis as a result of the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. Higher educational institutions as centers of formation of high level of civil culture and political and legal consciousness should now offer systematic and effective measures to enhance the education of democratic European values, patriotism and national identity, social pacification and consolidation.
These are the tasks declared in the statutory documents of KNEU, in particular its Strategy, which is based on the high level of social responsibility of universities. According to sociological data, the civic values of Ukrainians have become solidarity after the beginning of a full-scale invasion, traditional regional discordations have been minimized, readiness to fulfill their civil duties is observed.
However, realizing the importance of the informational and propaganda component of the war, it is necessary to emphasize the growing role of stimulation of critical thinking skills, media literacy, mechanisms of Convention public participation and control over representatives of state institutions, display of historical and modern facia. First of all, these aspects of civic culture are important for the higher education graduates who are likely to be the elite’s reserve in different fields of activity. Note that the choice of methods of teaching democratic values seems to be a difficult task.
After all, the value level of consciousness presupposes not mastering knowledge and skills, but their transformation into internal imperative and regulator of behavior. This means that the applicant must not only learn the theoretical foundations of civil education, but also accept them as well as the generally recognized ones.
Vasyl Derbentsev, Vitalii Bezkorovainy, Nataliya Golovko
Kyiv National Economic University
IT skills as the basis for competitiveness of Ukrainian university graduates in the post-war period
Today it is already generally recognized that informational components should dominate in a prospective education system. Education should not only provide the necessary knowledge and practical skills to use it in applied aspects, but also form a new worldview in them, which should be based on understanding the determining role of information in human society.
These problems have been exacerbated by the COVID19 pandemic, which has significantly disrupted the established traditional communication channels and contributed to the rapid implementation of various online services for communication, organizing online education and work.
As a result of the Russian war these challenges are particularly acute in front of the Ukrainian society, especially for Ukrainian students. One of the consequences of the war is significant destruction of infrastructure, a catastrophic drop in production in many basic industries and sectors, the closure or reduction of many businesses.
Many graduates will either have to go abroad or retrain and get a new specialty. In these conditions, the availability of IT skills can significantly increase their competitiveness both in the national and in the global labor market.
Therefore, the staff of the Department of Informatics and Systemology of the Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman focused on integration into the educational process of modern scientific achievements in the field of IT, in particular, Artificial Intelligence, Machine and Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Big data analytics.
In our opinion, these disciplines together with traditional courses in informatics and business informatics will create the necessary basis and IT skills for future university graduates
Victor Chuzhykov, Olena Tsyrkun
Kyiv National Economic University
Maintaining international cooperation among universities in a time of war
Almost a quarter of a century has passed since the Millennium celebration, which global society associated with democracy, sustainable development, and technological progress. However, not all analysts agreed with such an optimistic view of the future. That is why alternative forecasts appeared: fatal strategies by Jean Baudrillard, virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature and computer science by Katherine Hayles as well as creative education by Ken Robinson.
Over the last eight years these definitions have been mixed and turned into an encouraging model of societal development, dominated by hybrid development models, technological systems, education… hybrid wars. A vivid example of such hybridization is russian-Ukrainian war with its ideological and media prejudices, deep psychological impact on the society, infiltration of historical distortions into university programs and. finally military acggression, which led to the destruction of university premises , loss of the part of scientific and teaching staff and students as a result of masssve rocket attacks.
The characteristic features of higher education during the russian aggression can be identified on the the example of Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman :
• reducing the number of the faculty members and students as well as related funding;
• outflow of international students;
• the energy crisis that arose as a result of the destruction of the part of the critical infrastructure;
• significant aid to the university provided by partner universities in the USA, the UK and the countries of the European Union.
Moreover, university educational management system has become more efficient
Denys Ilnytskyy, Larysa Antoniuk, Larysa Ligonenko, Olha Denisova
Kyiv National Economic University
Acceleration academic innovation projects for post-war recovery and development of Ukraine
The role of innovation in building a competitive economy has long been the subject of research by KNEU's scientific schools. Its representatives have long cooperated with the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils, which is making efforts and providing consulting support to develop joint recommendations for the Ukraine Recovery Plan. In the summer of 2022, KNEU initiated the creation of the Global Network of Researchers on Ukraine's Economic Recovery, whose vision is "Ukraine – a competitive country of happy people". One of the important components of the Economic Recovery and Development Plan of Ukraine (section "Economic Recovery and Development) is the Innovation Menu. It is intended to lay the foundation for the innovative competitiveness of our country. The formation of the Innovation Menu requires diverse work and efforts during at least 4 stages: preparatory; organizational; expert and analytical; automation of the processes of forming and using information on innovative projects of Ukrainian educational and scientific institutions. We have started from establishing communication with the authors of 57 innovative projects, which were divided into five clusters (according to OECD approach): digital technologies; biotechnology (digital medicine); energy and environment; new materials; infrastructure for the development of high technologies; and others. The first version of the Digital Platform "Innovation Menu" is already available at https://www.innovationukraine.com/. It has been presented to a wide range of stakeholders (representatives of ministries, embassies, international organizations, venture capital funds, etc.). The platform's functionality already allows you to:
1) post information about projects; 2) search for innovative projects by various criteria; 3) establish contacts and partnerships; 4) see generalized analytical information on technology clusters. The KNEU team has ambitious plans to further develop this web platform to transform it into a smart infrastructure of the innovation ecosystem - the Digital Accelerator of Innovations. This project is proposed to implement these plans on the basis of public-private partnership and act as a tool for accelerating innovative projects developed in Ukrainian higher education and science.
Jessica Zychowicz, Serhiy Zaitsev
Fulbright Program Ukraine
Strengthening Ukrainian Displaced Universities for Sustainability (SUDUS)
A panel discussion largely on the work of the SUDUS program that has been in support of administrators from 14 universities mostly displaced from Donetsk, Luhansk, Crimea.
Krukivskyi Vasyl, Turchaninova Viktoriia, Aleinikova Maryna
Kyiv National Economic University
European practice of involving ukrainian refugees in education
Education is a fundamental human right recognized in a number of international conventions.
Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine has created the biggest crisis of forced displacement in modern history. According to the UN as of 31.01.2023, only 8,046,560 of Ukrainian refugees were registered in Europe. Among Ukrainian refugees about 2% are students and 672,000 are schoolchildren.
This review article informs about the European experience of involving Ukrainian refugee students who fled Ukraine in the wake of the Russian-Ukrainian war, as well as about the possibility of receiving higher education in Europe. The article notes that for the first time in the history of the application of the Directive on the Temporary Protection, which offers swift assistance and a clear legal status, is an illustrative example of how the EU accepts those who enter its territory. Already since the beginning of the Russian invasion, access to education for children and youth who fled Ukraine has been recognized by European countries as an "immediate priority". The article describes what specific measures have been taken to ensure the right to education at the pan-European, national, regional level, by local institutions and individual private entities and even individuals.
The article states that students-immigrants always find themselves in rather difficult situations. Even more than money, they need cultural, social and human support to integrate into their new environment. Since every request corresponds to a unique situation, universities are very attentive to each particular case, which requires considerable investment of time and energy. It is concluded that, keeping in mind the many stresses that refugee students experience during the armed conflict, proper support, supervision and encouragement are vital, as well as the attention to their safety. The EU is an example of this. It has demonstrated great solidarity with the Ukrainian people, particularly in the field of education
Olena Savchenko, Denys Lavrynenko, Larysa Korvat
Kyiv National Economic University
Ukrainian language adaptation of modern psychodiagnostic methods
The availability of modern Ukrainian-language psychodiagnostic tools is an important condition for organizing and conducting applied psychological research. The adaptation of foreign research methods became especially important in the conditions of the unfolding of a full-scale war on the territory of Ukraine, when the use of Russian-language methods, which was previously considered a peculiar scientific norm, is no longer permissible.
Considering the extremely limited number of modern psychodiagnostic methods adapted to the Ukrainian language, the authors chose 10 methods based on their scientific interests and current research issues and began the process of their adaptation and verification of psychometric indicators. The pool of these methods, in particular, included: The Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI), PERMA Profiler та Work Place PERMA Profiler (for diagnosing 5 components of psychological well-being in general and professional dimensions, based on the theory of positive psychology), The EPOCH Measure of Adolescent Well-Being, Metacognitions Questionnaire-30 (MCQ-30), Metacognition Self Assessment Scale (MSAS), Engaged Living Scale (ELS), State Optimism Measure (SOM), Self-Control and Self-Management Scale (SCMS) та Organizational Obedience Scale (OOS).
Most of the indicated psychodiagnostic methods are currently at the final stage of the adaptation procedure, which takes place on a sample of students and persons working in organizations. The involvement of students in scientific work in the direction of Ukrainian-language adaptation of modern samples of psychodiagnostic methods has also been initiated.
The authors see great prospects in the continuation and strengthening of this direction of scientific activity and its possible implementation at higher levels of coverage.
Denys Ilnytskyy, Dmytro Barabas
Kyiv National Economic University
Ukrainian university in wartime: first trends
Wartime has made a dramatic short and longtime impact on universities and whole system of higher education in Ukraine in 2022. We offer one of the first attempts to find proved short time trends and keep emotions calm, but get ready for long ones. While many citizens (millions in fact, including school graduates) choose to emigrate or move within Ukraine, others decide to go to meet and stop the aggressor. The wisdom of the crowd could be learned in university when thousands of people are affected.
The circumstances of years 2022 (open aggression of russian federation against Ukraine) and 2020-2022 (the COVID-19 pandemic) caused the transfer of functioning of Ukrainian universities to a qualitatively new organisational, technological and instrumental base with its systematic digitalization. It covered both the content of educational disciplines at bachelor's and master's levels, as well as the methods and technologies of teaching disciplines online.
Despite harsh and strict working conditions under martial law (power cuts, rocket strikes, displacement of people from permanent residences, etc.), the number of students studying at KNEU postgraduate and doctoral programs has shown a significant increase. The growth was about 1/3 year to year according to rector’s annual reports. The bachelor and master student recruitment campaigns have made the reason for net increase in number of students at KNEU despite international outflow of Ukrainian and foreign students.
The focus of scientific research by the faculty moved to research the topics of economic security and anti-crisis management, digitizing production and the labour market; social, technological and financial innovations, rebuilding national economy and development in the post-war period; introducing flexible forms of employment. Many fellows and faculty got international grants for research, travel and educational activities. Meanwhile national budget appropriations for research dropped and many researches stopped
Kateryna Ilikchiieva
Kyiv National Economic University
Gender issues in education in a time of war
The war interrupted the educational process in both schools and higher education institutions. Many preschools, schools and higher educational institutions have been destroyed or significantly damaged. This has complicated or made it impossible to provide quality educational services.
Internal and external migration changed the number of recipients of educational services in the regions. Accordingly, the organizational and pedagogical burden on education workers has also changed.
There are a few more problems in universities. The first one is male students’ education rights violations. According to the Law of Ukraine “On mobilization training and mobilization”, students cannot be mobilized, and their educational rights are not limited. In particular, they have the right to use students' exchange programs. However male students do not have possibility to realize this right because of the gap in legislation. The Decree of the Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine “On approval of the rules of crossing the state border by citizens of Ukraine” does not contain the mechanism of crossing the state border by male students for exchange programs. The same situation with male academic staff.
The second one is connected with a pedagogical burden and labour market. There is a tendency to take a pedagogical burden from women academic staff to male academic staff. According to the Law of Ukraine “On mobilization training and mobilization”, male academic staff have armour from mobilization. and because of that, many men returned to the education sphere for employment.
The main question is how to solve these problems and do not discriminate against women and men in an academy in a time of war. I want to present the way of solving from my point of view
Andrii Chuzhykov, Yuriy Tkachuk
Kyiv National Economic University
Blockchain regulation in EU: the case of Ukraine crisis response
One advantage of using blockchain technology for charitable donations is that it can provide greater transparency and accountability for donors and recipients. With a blockchain-based system, donors can see exactly where their funds are going and how they are being used and have confidence that their donations reach their intended recipients.
In addition, blockchain can help reduce transaction costs and increase the speed of transactions, which can be especially important in disaster relief or other urgent aid efforts.
In the case of the Ukrainian crisis response, blockchain technology is used in this context to provide greater transparency and efficiency in the donation process in several countries of the EU. Worth to remind that at the beginning of the financial monitoring of several European Union countries blocked direct possibilities of Ukrainian Army donations, and the blockchain platforms were the only solution.
However, it's important to note that blockchain is not a panacea, and any use of the technology would need to be carefully evaluated to ensure that it is appropriate and effective for the specific needs and challenges of the situation in Ukraine.
Realizing the situation, blockchain technology has been gaining traction in the European Union recently, with several initiatives underway to explore its potential applications.
The EU's approach to blockchain regulation has generally been technology-neutral, meaning that it seeks to regulate the use of blockchain technology in a manner consistent with existing laws and regulations, rather than imposing new rules or regulations specifically for blockchain.