Over 1.7 million internally displaced persons in Ukraine, including 233,000 children, have been accepted into kindergartens, schools, and technical vocational schools. The largest numbers of IDPs are located in Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Kyiv, Kherson, and Lviv as a consequence of Russian aggression in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. The Ministry of Education and Science adopted 40 new legal acts and instructions to facilitate access to education for IDPs without bureaucracy through various learning methods. Programs have been implemented to build tolerance, provide psychological and social support, and ensure attention is paid to every child, including those from occupied territories.

1. 1,787,000 of internally displaced persons
(IDPs) (including 233,000 children)
Were accepted:
to the kindergardens – 55,000
to the schools – 137,000
to the technical vocational schools – 1,500
The biggest number of IDPs in:
Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Kyiv, Kherson,
Lviv
Consequence of Russian aggression in
Crimea and on the East of Ukraine

2. 40 new legal acts and instructions were adopted:
- Admission to the school and kindergardens
without the bureaucracy
- “Positive discrimination” while admission to
the kindergardens
- All types of learning: full-time study, part-
time evening study, distance learning,
individual learning
- Order of restoring of the lost documents
- In 2016: special order of school graduation
the and entering the universities
What Ministry of Education and Science
have already done:

3. - Building tolerance atmosphere
- Psychologist and social care-teacher work
- Social responsibility of the teachers, special
attention to children from occupied territories
- Art-therapy
- Involving volunteering
- The absence of the language barriers
Attention at the school to every child

4. Public, multicultural and multilingual
education projects
Cross-cultural education
in Ukraine.
Course “Good neighborliness”
530 kinder gardens
and schools
14,000 children
Human rights- and
democratic society-education
500 schools
10,000 children
“Democratic school”
100 schools
5,000 children
Practical media literacy
and journalists standards
475 schools
12,000 children
Project “Open Ukraine”
1,600 children
Multilingual education
5 kindergardens
5 schools
600 children

5. Yurii Kononenko
Head of the Department of Secondary and Pre-
School Education
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
y_kononenko@mon.gov.ua
yhkononenko@gmail.com
Thank you
for your attention!