On June, 22, 2010, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation announced the names of 17 winners of the first competitive selection process under the WorldWideStudies program. They received grants to pursue a master’s degree in the world’s top Universities, as ranked by QS - Times Higher Education. The finalists were selected on the basis of a competition between more than 260 applicants. The total grants provided by the Foundation for the pilot project this year amounts to 390 138,00 USD.
This year the Victor Pinchuk Foundation grants are awarded to: Anna Afanasiyeva (Zaporizhzhia), Anna Bilous (Kyiv), Nataliya Bugayova (Lugansk Region), Anna Danyliak (Kyiv), Olga Dolynina (Dnipropetrovsk), Nataliya Katser-Buchkovska (Lviv Region), Julia Kondratska (Kyiv), Julia Kosulko (Kyiv), Galyna Mykhailiuk (Odesa), Olga Nahorna (Khmelnytskyi), Maria Pavlovska (Kyiv), Natalia Stranadko (Sumy), Artem Trofymenko (Donetsk), Marta Tsvengrosh (Lviv), Marta Schavurska (Ternopil), Lesya Vasylenko (Kyiv) and Maksym Yavorskyi (Zhytomyr).
On the occasion of the end of the first WorldWideStudies competition, the Foundation held a solemn ceremony where Victor Pinchuk and the project grantees signed the declaration on mutual intentions and commitments aimed at fostering a new generation of Ukrainian professional elites. Additionally, the finalists had a chance to communicate with successful diplomats, business leaders, and representatives from government and public organizations.
Addressing the grant winners, Victor Pinchuk stated: “This Program is our joint investment in the future of the country. We do it jointly with the students present here. We are partners: each of us makes a contribution; each of us expects certain dividends. We will equally share the responsibility for the outcome. The outcome is success of Ukraine that begins from your personal success”.
Talking with winners he also added: “It is sad when young people leave the country. But it is a different case this time. In this case, it is not about brain drain, but it is about brain sharpening. Focusing it on bringing new civilization genes you are going to implant here having got the right education”.
Judith Gardiner, Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy: «This is very much a domestic Ukrainian initiative. It is a very positive symbol of the investment Ukraine is making in itself. I agree that the impact of the students is huge when they come back to their countries. It is not just beneficial for Ukrainians, Czechs, Polish or Lithuanians; it is also a hugely beneficial for us in the UK. I am confident that this pilot project will be a great success».
The winners of the first competition commenced their education in autumn 2010 at the Universities of Great Britain (8 students), the USA (3 students), Sweden (3 students), Switzerland (2 students) and Germany (1 student) in the fields of law (9 students), environment and ecology (5 students), public administration (2 students) and sport management (1 student).
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Winners of the first competition of the “WorldWideStudies” program - 2010
Anna Afanasiyeva
Age: 24
University: University of Chicago
Country: USA
Degree: LL.M.
Graduation: 2011
Anna Bilous
Age: 22
University: Jagellonian University
Country: Poland
University: University of Kent
Country: Great Britain
Degree: MA in European Studies and Europen Governance
Graduation: 2012
Nataliya Bugayova
Age: 21
University: Harvard University
Country: USA
Degree: Master in Public Policy
Graduation: 2012
Lesya Vasylenko
Age: 23
University: University College London
Country: Great Britain
Degree: LL.M.
Graduation: 2011
Anna Danyliak
Age: 24
University: Lund University
Country: Sweden
Degree: International Master’s Programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science
Graduation: 2012
Olga Dolynina
Age: 25
University: London Metropolitan University
Country: Great Britain
Degree: MA Sports Management
Graduation: 2011
Nataliya Katser-Buchkovska
Age: 27
University: University College London
Country: Great Britain
Degree: LL.M. in Law and Economics of Corporate Law
Graduation: 2011
Julia Kondratska
Age: 24
University: Queen Mary, University of London
Country: Great Britain
Degree: LLM in Banking and Finance Law
Graduation: 2011
Julia Kosulko
Age: 22
University: KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Country: Sweden
Degree: MSc in Innovative and Sustainable Energy Engineering
Graduation: 2012
Galyna Mykhailiuk
Age: 23
University: University of York
Country: Great Britain
Degree: LLM in International Corporate and Commercial Law
Graduation: 2011
Olga Nahorna
Age: 22
University: Technical University of Munich
Country: Germany
Degree: MSc. In Sustainable Resources Management
Graduation: 2012
Maria Pavlovska
Age: 22
University: Uppsala University
Country: Sweden
Degree: MSc in Biology – Ecology and Conservation
Graduation: 2012
Natalia Stranadko
Age: 28
University: University of Leicester
Country: Great Britain
Degree: MSc Global Environmental Change
Graduation: 2011
Artem Trofymenko
Age: 23
University: University College London
Country: Great Britain
Degree: LL.M. in International Business Law
Graduation: 2011
Marta Tsvengrosh
Age: 22
University: University of Geneva
Country: Switzerland
Degree: Geneva Master in International Dispute Settlement
Graduation: 2011
Marta Shchavurska
Age: 21
University: University of Pittsburgh
Country: USA
Degree: LL.M. for Foreign Law Graduates
Graduation: 2011
Maksym Yavorskyi
Age: 21
University: University of Geneva
Country: Switzerland
Degree: Geneva Master in International Dispute Settlement
Graduation: 2011