{"id":16396,"date":"2021-12-06T16:21:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T13:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/?p=16396"},"modified":"2021-12-06T18:42:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T15:42:18","slug":"edu-3-0-high-profile-education-for-designers-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/edu-3-0-high-profile-education-for-designers-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"EDU 3.0. HIGH-PROFILE EDUCATION FOR DESIGNERS IN UKRAINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything that surrounds us is designed by people, from notebooks to cars. For humanity to one day achieve the global goals of sustainable development, to move into closed-loop economies, designers around the world must acquire progressive knowledge and skills of the highest level. When it comes to Ukraine, we need to make a real \u201cquantum leap\u201d in design, and start, first of all, with education, explains Olena Dobrorodneva, Organizational Development Director at <a href=\"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/\">UFuture<\/a>, Vice President at Vasyl Khmelnytsky\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/impact-investment\/k-fund\/\">K.FUND<\/a> and leader of European Design Upgrade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfund.ua\/en\/projects\/european-design-upgrade-transnational-capacity-building\/\">European Design Upgrade<\/a> \u2013 an ambitious project designed to develop creative industries, support talented designers, artists and technologists \u2013 was held in Ukraine for the second time. 80 Ukrainian designers in two cities, Kyiv and Kharkiv, completed an updated interdisciplinary course developed in collaboration with leading trainers from Belgium, Ukraine and Finland.<\/p>\n<p>Within the course participants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>listened to lectures by Ukrainian, Belgian and Finnish lecturers;<\/li>\n<li>had the opportunity to visit creative laboratories of designers and practice new skills;<\/li>\n<li>visited NEST Hub at <a href=\"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/our-companies\/unit-city\/\">UNIT.City<\/a> in Kyiv, where they got acquainted with successful Ukrainian design startups, including S.Lab, effa, Neverdark;<\/li>\n<li>developed their own European level creative idea;<\/li>\n<li>passed hackathons and presented their ideas to the business environment;<\/li>\n<li>received valuable networking, contacts, and support from mentors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything that surrounds us is designed by people, from notebooks to cars. For humanity to one day achieve the global&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-new.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16403,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16396\/revisions\/16403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}