Information Centre of the European Union, attached to the Dnipropetrovsk National University, organized a regional semifinal Ukrainian Youth Championship brain-ring "Learning Europe - Changing Ukraine" with the EU Delegation to Ukraine. Special guests of the event were Ambassador of EU Delegation to Ukraine Jan Tombinski and documentary officer of Press and Information Section of the EU Iryna Stadniychuk.
Intellectual competition on the European topic is a major project of the European Union "Euroquiz. Europe begins with you" is about to acquaint Ukrainian young people with the EU in casual form. Besides the championship of brain-ring, the project also includes an online quiz and video contest "To be European."
In the regional semifinals of the brain-ring there were six best teams from four regions of Ukraine - Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Odessa and Zaporizhzhya. The winners of this leg will compete for the All-Ukrainian championship in late June in Kyiv, where they will meet with the four best teams from around the country.
Head of the EU diplomatic mission in Ukraine Jan Tombinski personally arrived to greet lucky winners and participants of the regional semifinals of Ukrainian youth Championship in brain-ring. He noted that such events are very useful for young people of Ukraine. "I watched the participants and they were interesting for me, their impressions, emotions, dreams and desires. I can say that Ukrainian young people are the same as European ones. But first of all, I wish you safety, so that you could use your high potential, not losing the war,"- said Mr. Ambassador.
During the meeting, Jan Tombinski also answered numerous questions of the participants and guests of the event. The audience primarily was interested in the prospects for Ukrainian students as for the learning in the EU (the availability of academic programs and grants to increase the number of student visas) as well as the view of the diplomat on Ukraine's integration to the European Union, the introduction of visa-free travel for Ukrainian citizens and others.
Інформаційно-аналітичне агентство
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