Schedule
START TIME | LOCATION | SPEAKERS | TOPICS / DESCRIPTION |
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1:00 AM | KYIV | Andrii Vitrenko, First Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine (online) | Changes to the education system and the admission campaign 2023 Topics of focus: – The extended school year decision – what it depends on, and what body will consider it? – 12-year curriculum advantages and disadvantages and whether it will be implemented in Ukraine? – The National Multi-Subject Test registration procedure – what is the number of registered students, and what are the conditions for passing abroad? – Admission Campaign 2023 – what changes and innovations await applicants? |
3:00 PM | KYIV | – Svitlana Slipchenko, VoxCheck Project Manager (in person) – Allison Reed, Program Officer of DT Institute (online) | Presentation of the VoxCheck research “Propaganda diary-2022: the year of Russian disinformation in Europe” Topics of focus: – What were the most famous Russian propaganda false narratives about Ukraine in 2022? – Which countries trusted Russian fakes the most and least? – How do propagandists spread misinformation about Ukraine? – Education or censorship – how Russian propaganda can be countered in Europe? Why is it interesting? VoxChecks’ independent fact-checkers team monitored 93 popular media outlets in six European countries: Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary. Throughout 2022, VoxCheck detected 27 narratives shaping Russia’s war against Ukraine, 325 fakes, and 4,836 cases of fake news. For reference: VoxCheck is a fact-checking project of an independent analytical platform Vox Ukraine. The team exposes lies, manipulations, and Russian propaganda both in Ukraine and abroad. Since 2018, we have been signatories to the Code of Ethics of the Poynter Institute’s International Network of Fact Checkers, and since 2020, in partnership with Meta. |