Victor Pinchuk Foundation to hold 6th Zavtra.UA" Youth Forum “From Idea to Action”

From May 25 through to May 27, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation will hold its 6^th Annual Zavtra.UA Youth Forum, entitled “From Idea to Action”. Traditionally, the event will gather this year’s winners of Zavtra.UA nationwide scholarship program of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation – over 300 best students selected among 1 900 candidates from all over Ukraine.

One of the main objectives of this year’s Forum entitled “From Idea to Action” is to encourage talented young people to generate their own ideas and bring them to life. Today startup approach is considered to be a progressive way of turning an idea into reality: in business, philanthropy and science. During three days of the Forum young Zavtra.UA scholars will learn about the mechanisms of startups, and will have an opportunity to test sustainability of their ideas, as well as to develop them to the stage of the business model and a prototype.

This year’s partner of the Forum is EastLabs – Kyiv-based startup accelerator founded in 2012. Eastlabs looks for ambitious projects in the field of IT, providing them with investments, offices, mentor support; it also helps to find investors for the following stage. To date, Eastlabs has invested in 11 teams.

More details on Zavtra.UA program are available at zavtra.in.ua and facebook.com/Zavtra.UA