Within the scope of continuing close cooperation of the university with the YEP Accelerator, the Democracy Changers Ideathon took place the other day in OPEN OFFICE. YEP is an ecosystem of innovative entrepreneurship, which since 2016 has provided young people with opportunities to realize themselves through entrepreneurship, incubation and acceleration programs, university courses and mentoring.
Organizers of the event: YEP Accelerator, NUWEE and the Danish organization Alliance of Democracies. Three cities of Ukraine - Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lutsk - were chosen by YEP to hold qualifying rounds and the subsequent participation of the winning teams in the finals in Kyiv.
Mentors of the event: Andrii Matviichuk, Professor of the Department of Legal Nature Protection Disciplines, Vitalii Prokopets, Head of the Public Relations Department, and Vita Chaban, Head of the Center of Innovation and Technology Transfer.
During the day, three teams from two Institutes – Economics and Management and the Institute of Law – generated their unique solutions for solving such challenges of democracy as restrictions on freedom of speech, the influence of social media on democracy (disinformation and manipulation of public opinion) and low political citizen participation (electoral and political process). As a result, all teams made it to the final pitch, which will be held in Kyiv in the fall. The main prize of the Democracy Changers Ideathon is a trip in the spring of 2025 to the annual Copenhagen Democracy Summit (Denmark), which will be held for the eighth time next year at the Royal Danish Playhouse.
Nataliia PARKHOMCHUK,
Public Relations Department
