🇺🇦 Ukraine - Education & Childcare

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How to issue IDP status for a newborn child?

Regardless of whether both parents have IDP status or not, the child can also get it. Important: at which address did you register the child. If the newborn is registered at an address other than the one indicated in the IDP status certificate of the father or mother, then they will not be able to receive a certificate of registration of the IDP. Accordingly, you will not have grounds for financial assistance from the state for her as an internally displaced person.

You can get a certificate of IDP status for a newborn child:

via the Diia portal (you only need to order a service for a child and add a child's birth certificate to your current application for IDP status (the data will be retrieved automatically, but you can also enter the document data manually);
at the community's administrative service centre (TsNAP), nearest to you , or at the Department of Labor and Social Protection of the Population (Hotline: 1539).

The list of required documents:

passport, ID card, or electronic document in Diya;
a document confirming your authority as a legal representative or as one of the child's parents;
child's birth certificate;
own IDP certificate of one or two parents.

What is the amount of financial assistance for a newborn child?

If you already have an application for the status of an internally displaced person for your child, you can apply for financial assistance.

The amount of financial assistance for one child is 3000 UAH per month.

Child benefit payments are provided regardless of whether the adult family members are employed or whether the family has any income, deposits, movable or immovable property.

Additionally: This payment does not apply to other financial benefits (such as one-time childbirth assistance, large families, social assistance for children with disabilities, etc.).

Is it possible to place children in preschools and institutions of general secondary education with a certificate of IDP?

Children with the status of internally displaced persons or children who have the status of a child who suffered as a result of hostilities and armed conflicts have the privilege of enrolling in municipal (state) preschool and general secondary education institutions. At the same time, when submitting an application for the child's enrollment, the parents or other legal representatives of the child must present the original document confirming the child's status - a certificate of registration at the place of actual residence.

What documents must be submitted to enroll a child with special needs in an inclusive group if the child has temporarily moved from the occupied territory?

It is necessary to submit an application from one of the parents (other legal representatives) of a child with special needs and a conclusion on a comprehensive psychological and pedagogical assessment of the child's development provided by an inclusive resource center. The head of the preschool forms an inclusive group and provides the inclusive education taking into account the level of support recommended by the inclusive resource center (Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On Approval of the Procedure for Organizing Inclusive Education in Preschool Education Institutions” (2019). No. 530 dated April 10, 2019) .

During martial law, to create an inclusive group, a certificate of IDP registration (Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated October 1, 2014, No. 509 "On Registration of Internally Displaced Persons") is additionally submitted if available. An inclusive group is formed for the validity period of the IDP certificate or until the departure of the person with special needs to another residence. Relevant recommendations on the organization of the educational process for persons with disabilities who moved to other regions of Ukraine for temporary residence have been provided by letter of The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated 03/28/2022 No. 1/3710-22 .

To enroll a child in a special and inclusive group of preschool institutions a conclusion of the inclusive resource center on a comprehensive psychological and pedagogical assessment of the child's development is required. How can it be recovered if lost during a move?

If the conclusion of the inclusive resource center on the comprehensive psycho-pedagogical assessment of the child's development, which was issued before the introduction of martial law in Ukraine is lost, then the parents (other legal representatives) of a child with special needs can get a copy of the conclusion on the portal AS "IRC" .

If it is impossible to obtain a copy of the conclusion on your own, the parents (other legal representatives) of a child with special needs can apply to the inclusive resource center at the child's place of temporary residence and obtain a copy of the conclusion or conduct an initial (secondary) comprehensive psycho-pedagogical assessment of the individual's development.

How to order a duplicate document on general secondary education?

A person who has lost a document on education must contact the educational institution that issued this document. The legal representative of the applicant can apply on their behalf. Persons who obtained general secondary education in educational institutions in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine, educational institutions in individual settlements of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as in occupied territories, can order a duplicate of the document on obtaining general secondary education according to the procedure established by order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated August 8, 2014 No. 917 . Such persons or their legal representatives have the right to apply to any institution of general secondary education of the appropriate degree at the place of temporary residence or stay of the graduate or their legal representative.

In the absence of a certificate or other written data regarding the results of the annual evaluation of educational achievements for filling out the supplement to the certificate of completion of basic secondary or complete general secondary education, the educational institution evaluates the academic achievements of such a graduate.

Before receiving a duplicate under the established procedure following the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated 28.03.2022 No. 274, it is necessary to apply to any general secondary education institution in the territory where hostilities are not taking place, with an application to provide information about a document on general secondary education received in Ukraine, submitted in any way.

In addition, a person who has information about the series and the number of the document on general secondary education has the opportunity to issue an electronic request on the website of the unified state electronic database on education (EDEBO) and receive by email all the information about the document on education contained in the Register of Education Documents of the unified state electronic database on education, including in the form of an electronic extract with a qualified electronic signature and seal of the technical administrator of the unified state electronic database on education.

What targeted support does the state provide for studying in professional, vocational, and higher education institutions?

State-targeted support is provided in the form of:

full payment of education using the funds of the general fund of the state or local budgets in the case of enrolling of the prospective students under the state (regional) order;
partial payment of education at the expense of state or local budgets by providing enrolled persons at the cost of individuals and legal entities preferential long-term loans for obtaining professional (vocational-technical), professional pre-higher and higher education;
priority transfer of applicants for education enrolled following the conditions and rules of admission to study based on agreements concluded with a physical or legal entity, to study at places under the state (regional) order in state or municipal institutions of professional (vocational-technical), professional higher education and higher education obtained due to the redistribution of the available volumes of the state (regional) order by the institution of professional (vocational), professional pre-university, higher education or the relevant state customer;
social scholarship - for persons who are studying under state or regional order for full-time education, in accordance with the Procedure for the use of funds provided in the state budget for the payment of social scholarship to students (cadets) of higher educational institutions;
free provision of textbooks - at the expense of the library fund of the relevant educational institution;
free access to the Internet, database systems in the state and municipal educational institutions;
free accommodation in student dormitories or accommodation in student dormitories with preferential payment - for persons who are studying in a full-time form of education.

What categories of citizens are provided with state-targeted support?

State-targeted support for obtaining professional (vocational and technical), professional pre-higher and higher education is provided for:

persons recognized as participants in hostilities, persons with disabilities as a result of the war, victims of the Revolution of Dignity in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On the Status of War Veterans, Guarantees of Their Social Protection";
children of persons recognized as participants in hostilities, persons with disabilities as a result of the war, victims of the Revolution of Dignity in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On the Status of War Veterans, Guarantees of Their Social Protection";
children living in settlements on the contact line;
to children, one of whose parents died (missing) during the participation in the ATO, implementation of measures to ensure national security and defense, rebuffing and deterring the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, hostilities or armed conflicts, or died as a result of injury, contusion or mutilations received during the participation in ATO, implementation of measures to ensure national security and defense, rebuffing and deterring armed aggression of the Russian Federation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, hostilities or armed conflicts, as well as due to illness acquired during the period of participation in the ATO, implementation of measures with ensuring national security and defense, rebuffing and deterring armed aggression of the Russian Federation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions;
children of persons who died as a result of wounds, mutilation, contusion, or other health damage received during participation in the Revolution of Dignity, as well as children of persons who were posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine for civic courage, patriotism, heroic defense of the constitutional principles of democracy, human rights and freedoms, selfless service to the Ukrainian people, revealed during the Revolution of Dignity;
children registered as IDPs.

What documents confirm the right to benefits for education?

List of documents:

certificate of a participant in hostilities of the standard form;
an identity card of the person with a disability as a result of the war of the standard form;
a certificate of a family member of the deceased (for children of deceased persons before they reach the age of 16 – a certificate issued to the mother or another adult family member of the deceased person, or the guardian) of the standard form;
child's birth certificate; certificate of registration of IDPs of standard form;
a certificate of the registration of an IDP of the standard form;
a certificate of registration of a person's place of residence of the standard form.

How to get a certificate of education at a professional (vocational and technical) education institution to submit to the military commissariat?

To obtain a certificate of study, you must contact the administration of the educational institution.

If the professional technical school is located in a war zone and it is impossible to contact the institution's administration it is necessary to contact the Department of Education and Science of the relevant Regional Military Administration.

Additionally: Students and employees of vocational education institutions were exempted from the draft during the mobilization.

How to transfer to another region's professional (vocational and technical) education institution?

The student (parents or legal representatives) must submit an application to the vocational education institution where he studied or to the Department of Education and Science of the Regional Military Administration.

The application must indicate the profession and the institution to which the student wants to transfer.

The application can be submitted in any way (via mail, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, etc.). If it is not possible to submit an application to the educational institution or the Department of Education and Science of Regional Military Administration, it can be submitted to the institution where the student plans to transfer or to the Department of Education and Science (depending on the location of the institution).

How to recover lost documents on higher education? What to do if the documents on documents are lost or damaged and the Educational Institution that issued them is located in a temporarily occupied territory or a combat zone?

In case of loss of the document on higher education the educational institution makes a duplicate of the document on higher education. Duplicates of the document on higher education and its supplement are issued upon written application of the person in whose name the document on higher education was issued, which is submitted by him personally or by an authorized representative to the educational institution that issued the document on higher education.

If the educational institution that issued the document is reorganized through merger, merger or liquidation, the application is submitted to its legal successor. In the absence of a legal successor of an educational institution that has ceased its activities, as well as if the educational institution does not carry out educational activities (the license for carrying out educational activities has been canceled, the educational institution has not been moved from a settlement located on the territory beyond the control of the Ukrainian authorities), the application must be submitted to Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine, which establishes the educational institution that creates the request to the unified state electronic database on education (EDEBO), makes and issues a document (duplicate document) on the higher education to a person.

The application for issuing a duplicate must include the following data:

surname, first name, patronymic (if available), date of birth;
series (if available), number, by whom and when the identity document confirming Ukrainian citizenship or the identity document confirming its special status was issued;
taxpayer registration card number (if available);
unique record number in the Unified State Demographic Register (if available);
place of residence, phone number (if available) of the person in whose name the document on higher education was issued;
the name of the educational institution and the year of its graduation;
the name of the document on higher education, a duplicate of which is ordered;
the name of the specialty (field of training, specialization, educational program), the reason for ordering a duplicate of a document on higher education and other information that the person in whose name the document on higher education was issued considers essential for obtaining a duplicate.

If the educational institution was moved from the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine to the territory under the control of the Ukrainian authorities or is located outside the war zone, the owner of the document (or their representative) can apply to the educational institution for the issuance of a duplicate of the document on education. If you do not have the opportunity to renew the document on education, the certificate about the obtained educational qualification or the period of study at an educational institution based on the data contained in the Unified State Electronic Database on Education and other sources can be useful. The certificate will indicate the right to continue studying (academic rights) if possible.

To check the availability of the necessary information specifically regarding your documents and the possibility of obtaining such a certificate, you must write to the email: center@apostille.in.ua and send copies or photos of following documents on education:

documents on education that need to be confirmed;
the previous and subsequent documents on education and their supplements;
other documents on education.

What is the "Universities for Ukraine" grant program?

This is an aid program for Ukrainian scientists who are currently in a crisis situation due to the war.

How does it work?

Academic researchers and scientists in Ukraine can receive a one-time grant of $5,000 to continue their research during the war. To do this, you need to apply through the Universities For Ukraine Economists for Ukraine website at the link: https://econ4ua.org/u4u-fellowships/.

To be selected, candidates must demonstrate the following:

the fact of receiving a scholarship while staying in Ukraine (for example, publications made before the Russian invasion while working in a Ukrainian institution of higher education or a research institution);
desire to stay in Ukraine, confirmed by the applicant;
a research plan describing how the fellowship will enable them to conduct additional research activities.

Those scientists who have left for another country but wish to return to Ukraine can also submit an application. This initiative is managed by "Economists for Ukraine" and "Science for Ukraine" with the institutional support of the AI for Good Foundation and funding provided by many universities in the USA and Europe.

Free online Polish language courses for schoolchildren.

The Language Supp Ukraina project will teach Ukrainian immigrant children the Polish language for free. The main goal is to help schoolchildren overcome the language barrier and integrate into the Polish education system. Children from 6 to 18 years old can apply for the course.

To register for the course, you need:

Create an account on the LanguageSupp.org platform .
Pass the test to determine the level of Polish language proficiency.
Based on the test result, the student will be enrolled in the corresponding course (A1, A2 or B1).

Training is held online on the platform in groups of up to six people twice a week. The lesson lasts an hour and a half. 12 weeks are allotted for learning the level, after which the child passes the test and, if successful, moves to the next level.

More details at the link: https://www.languagesupp.org/.

What is "The Education Equality Institute"?

On the UFU platform, you can find resources to help you improve your professional skills. One of them is The Education Equality Institute (TEEI).

Free TEEI advanced training courses:

vary from introductory classes to specialized training;
combine self-study with teacher-led classes, workshops and mentoring in collaboration with leading companies and experts;
suitable for any skill level: from beginner to advanced;
available in Ukrainian, English, German and Norwegian languages.

TEEI's professional development courses are diverse: web development, software development, data science, machine learning, automation, HR, marketing, project management, business intelligence, communication, CV and job interview, training, entrepreneurship, finance, and business.

The list of professional development courses can be found at the following link: https://is.gd/ZDZlYm.

TEEI also has a mentoring program where experts on subjects help students with advanced learning. Support includes ongoing support, motivation and advice on achieving your learning goals.