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The Victor Pinchuk Foundation is launching scholarship program "Zavtra.UA"
In September The Victor Pinchuk Foundation is launching "Zavtra.UA" program. This is the first nationwide program on supporting the talented youth which is implemented with private funds. The program "Zavtra.UA" is a part of projects complex within the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in the educational and scientific sphere.
The project's strategic goal is a formation and consolidation of the new generation of intellectual and business elite in Ukraine out of the best Ukrainian students. The program is aimed at assisting the talented students in finding places, which are relevant to their intellectual and professional level, in various sectors of economy and public life of the country, as well as to become a powerhouse for Ukraine's progressive changes to be taken in the nearest years.
Additionally, the program will facilitate the solve of a number of challenging issues faced by today's Ukrainian society, in particular, the problem of maintaining a status and quality of higher education, succession of generations in the scientific and specialized fields. The program will eventually contribute to creation of a base for Ukraine's long-term competitiveness through human potential development.
Within the ZAVTRA.UA program, The Victor Pinchuk Foundation will select and support the talented students with high intellectual potentials, thirst for knowledge and leadership qualities. For this purpose, The Foundation holds the annual national contest for senior students of Ukrainian Universities covered by this program. The 2006 contest will be running in September - December. In the first phase the students are selected by the Universities themselves based on students' academic and research rates. In second phase the students' research papers will be evaluated by independent experts. In the third phase the face-to-face contest procedures will be run. The aggregate results of the second and third tours will qualify around 200 winners who will become stipend holders of the ZAVTRA.UA program.
The winners of the scholarship program "ZAVTRA.UA" will get a monthly 500-hrivna stipend (6 000 hr. yearly). The Foundation intends to open up additional opportunities for personal development, as well as to assist with employment in the advanced spheres after graduation. In particular, there is a plan to support the stipend holders' participation in Ukrainian and international scientific conferences and short-term trainings, establishing of an information and resource center to be operating as a data base of talented youth of Ukraine, setting-up the Foundation-based informal club for scientific issue-related meetings, etc.
The program is carried out in close collaboration with above 10 Universities- participants and this number will be increasing in the next phases. The program actions, its relevance to the declared goals and principles are supervised by the Board of Trustees - a collegial advisory public body which comprises the scientists, public figures and art intellectuals. They are: Yaroslav Yatskiv, chairman of Ukrainian international committee on science- and art-related issues at the National Academy of Ukraine, head of the Central Astronomic Observatory; Dmytro Melnichuk, rector of the National Agrarian University; Volodymir Shevchenko, rector of the National Donetsk University; Mykola Drobnokhod, president of the Academy of Sciences of the Higher School.
Official web-site - www.zavtra.in.ua
