A group of Silicon Valley-based engineers from Ukraine have launched UA Internships, a non-profit initiative to help Ukrainian students get an internship at US technology giants. The news was reported earlier this week by Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA. Internships may take place in either the European or the American offices of these companies.
Multimillionaire Vasyl Khmelnytsky, 50, couldn’t even wait for the construction workers to finish the new IT school that he’s building in the northwest part of Kyiv. Reflecting the fast pace of the IT industry, Khmelnytsky went ahead and opened the first classroom in the semi-constructed building in August. Today — two months before opening, — 300 applicants …
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Preply, a platform to find foreign language tutors for home or Skype lessons, has closed a $1.3 million seed round to fund its expansion across Europe and further R&D activities. The round was led by Mariusz Gralewski and the Hedgehog fund, from Poland, with support from former Booking.com CMO Arthur Kosten and Przemysław Gacek, another Polish business angel. …
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Andreas Flodström and Gustav Henman, two young Swedish entrepreneurs, came to Ukraine in September 2012 knowing “OK Russian” and with the shared goal of setting up a business in Eastern Europe “from scratch.” That same year they set up a software development company in Poltava, a provincial capital of 290,000 people some 350 kilometers east …
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BrainBasket Foundation, a Ukrainian NGO dedicated to IT education, has announced that George Soros has offered its support to its Technology Nation program. “Mr Soros is supporting the program personally through the International Renaissance Foundation,” BrainBasket’s PR manager Andrii Petrunia told Ukraine Digital News. This foundation was created by the US billionnaire and philanthropist as early as 1990 …
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A new center for startup entrepreneurship, christened ‘California in Ukraine,’ was launched last week by California-based business angel Igor Shoifot in Kyiv (Kiev). The initiative will be run jointly with the Science Park of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University and the Maksymovych Scientific Library.
Earlier this week BrainTV, a non-profit media project that aims to cultivate IT specialists in Ukraine, launched in beta mode on multimedia OTT service Divan.TV in 200 countries around the world. The channel has become the first Ukrainian one to provide access to educational content about IT. Already included in its free programs are Harvard’s CS50 …
Earlier this month the BrainBasket Foundation, a Ukrainian NGO established in 2014 to support IT education in the country, launched its national education program Technology Nation. Offered free of charge, the program combines courses on programming from leading international technology universities, including Harvard and the MIT, with practical exercises led by experienced mentors. Involving no less than 800 …
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Last week a Pro.Svit, a non-profit initiative for innovative education in Ukraine, launched an online platform for teachers to fund educational projects. Christened ‘Go Funded,’ the site aims to support grassroots initiatives in education. For the last two years, teachers have been developing a number of projects as part of Pro.Svit teaching programs. Crowdfunding seemed …
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A new business accelerator, christened “iQSpace,” was launch in late December in Odessa, southern Ukraine, to promote both entrepreneurship activity and IT literacy. It has three activity areas: technology school, lectureship and IT incubator. Using curriculum provided by the Lviv IT School, the school teaches the elderly basic IT skills and young professionals sophisticated programming languages.
The BrainBasket Foundation, an NGO aiming to develop IT education in Ukraine, is to set up the first television channel in Ukraine about the IT industry. According to the foundation’s director Vladimir Liulka, the channel will be able to expand the information environment of those Ukrainians who are interested in IT, as well as enhance the Ukrainian …
Held on Dec. 17 in Kyiv (Kiev), the “Synergy: IT Education & IT Industry” conference aims to “create an efficient platform for dialogue and strategic cooperation between government bodies, domestic and foreign universities as well as leading IT companies.” The event — the larger of its kind in Ukraine — is organised by industry association IT Ukraine. Also supporting the event …
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