Ukraine

From Classrooms to Systems. From Practice to Policy. From Ukraine to the World.

EdCamp Ukraine is an educator-led movement and nonprofit founded in 2015, inspired by the original American EdCamp idea of peer-driven, participant-designed learning. What began as a grassroots experiment has grown into one of Ukraine’s largest independent professional learning communities — and a force shaping system-level change.

Peer-to-peer learning remains at the heart of the movement. Through national, regional, and local Ed Camp-format (un)conferences, teachers design their own learning, exchange practice, and carry new ideas back into their schools and communities.

Over time, the organization has expanded its role beyond professional learning into the policy space. It works with Ukraine’s Education Ministry, the Parliament, and education governmental agencies to ensure that teacher voices inform decision-making. Facilitating dialogue between classrooms and policymakers helps translate lived experience into systemic reform.

A strong commitment to evidence underpins this work. In partnership with the OECD, as Ukraine’s National Research Center, EdCamp Ukraine contributes to major International studies on teacher profession and social-emotional skills, helping situate Ukraine within the global education landscape and track its development over time.

Addressing learning gaps and losses has become a central focus. The organization’s innovative technology-based solution, POVIR, can be adapted across contexts — supporting Ukrainian students while offering insights relevant to other education systems.

Since *russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, the organization has also become a support infrastructure for educators and families under strain. Through resilience initiatives, trauma-informed programs, and partnerships with Emory University and Trauma Resource Institute, among others, EdCamp Ukraine helps communities stay connected, regulated, and able to move forward.

Ten years on, EdCamp Ukraine stands as more than a professional community. It is a living network of educators in Ukraine who continue to learn, lead, and reimagine what school could be — and begin building it together.

*Ukraine's National Commission on State Language Standards ruled that writing "russia" and similar terms (e.g., "moscow," "russian federation") in lowercase is not a violation of language norms in unofficial texts. This move reflects popular sentiment in Ukraine following the 2022 invasion, allowing the use of lowercase for "russia" to express defiance and disrespect, though official documents must still use proper capitalization.