Winter school on the training course ‘Ukraine on the Way to the Euro-Atlantic Community’ was held on February 16-18, 2022, based on Jean Monnet Transcarpathian Center for Studying European Development Strategies.

Bachelor’s and Master’s degree students, postgraduate and doctoral students, and, finally, anyone who wanted to increase their knowledge of international and European security, Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine became the target audience of the Winter School.

The organizer of the winter school – Ihor Todorov, a member of the teaching staff of the research project, Doctor of History, Professor of Uzhhorod National University, Director of the Information Centre for International Security and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Uzhhorod National University, Deputy Chairman of the Coordinating Council of the All-Ukrainian Civic League ‘Ukraine-NATO’.

Vice-Rector for Academic Policy and Research, Doctor of Political Science, Professor Myroslava Lendel, Head of the Department of International Relations, Public Communications and Regional Studies Vitaliy Andreyko, Associate Professor of the same Department Mykhaylo Shelemba, Director of the JMTC Petro Tokar, employees of the Educational and Research Institute of European Integration Studies took part in the opening of the winter school.

The winter online school was held via a video conferencing app Google Meet. Leading scientists and experts on international and European security, Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine became speakers at the Winter School.

Speakers of the Winter school:

	Svitlana Rotayenko, Project Manager of the NATO Information and Documentation Center
	Stanislav Shevchuk, Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (2018-2019). Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (2014-2019), Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of General Theoretic and State Legal Sciences, Faculty of Law, National University of ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’. Former UN Mission legal expert in the Republic of Tajikistan, World Bank, and OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, ad hoc judge of the European Court of Human Rights for Ukraine. Founder of the Ukrainian Bar Association, member of the Ukrainian Association of International Law. In March 2014, he was appointed Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
	Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk, Deputy Director of the Scientific Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Academician of the Academy of Political Sciences, Public and Political Figure
	Yevhen Mahda, Director of the Institute of World Politics, Political Scientist, Historian, Journalist, Associate Professor of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (NTUU KPI)
	Ihor Todorov, a member of the teaching staff of the research project, Doctor of History, Professor of Uzhhorod National University, Director of the Information Centre for International Security and Euro-Atlantic integration of Uzhhorod National University, Deputy Chairman of the Coordinating Council of the all-Ukrainian Civic League ‘Ukraine-NATO’
	Serhiy Dzherdzh, Chairman of the Coordinating Council of the Civic League ‘Ukraine-NATO’
	Yuriy Temirov, Dean of the Faculty of History and International Relations of Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University, Associate Professor of the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of DonNU, International Security Expert
	Ihor Chernov (Russian Federation) Manager of the Project ‘Information Center for International Security - ICIS GROUP’, Volhohrad
	Oleh Chubuk, Head of the Press Center - Press Secretary of the Command of the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (2010-2017), Senior Lecturer of the Department of Journalism, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Journalism of the National University ‘Odesa Law Academy’, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the BRIZ TV and Radio Company of the Ukrainian Navy
	Oleksiy Haran, Scientific Director of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Doctor of History, Professor of the Department of Political Science of the National University of ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’
	Vadym Tryukhan, Chairman of the Board of the European Movement of Ukraine, Director of the Coordination Bureau for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers (2008-2010)
	Serhiy Fedunyak, Professor of the Department of International Relations, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Doctor of Political Science, International Security Expert
	Oleksandr Kuchyk, Deputy Director of the Center for International Security and Partnership, Associate Professor of the Department of International Relations and Diplomatic Service of Lviv National University, International Security Expert

Listeners of the winter school ‘Ukraine on the Way to the Euro-Atlantic Community’ noted the high representative level of speakers and the relevance of the topics discussed: ‘Constitutional Changes of 2019 regarding the Geopolitical Orientation of Ukraine and their Significance for the Development of Constitutional Law’ (Stanislav Shevchuk), ‘Euro-Atlantic Integration: Global Challenges and National Security’ (Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk), ‘Hybrid Challenges on the Path to Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Integration’ (Yevhen Mahda), ‘Current Trends and Main Directions of Cooperation between NATO and Ukraine. Prospects for Ukraine’s Membership in the Alliance’ (Ihor Todorov), ‘Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Strategy as a Security Model’ (Serhiy Dzherdzh), ‘West VS Moscovia: The Illusion of the Cold War’ (Yuriy Temirov), ‘The Evolution of Russia’s Attitude to Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Integration’ (Ihor Chernov), ‘From the Territory of Freedom to Barbed Wire: what did the Crimeans ‘win’ in 2014 and will they be Asked to Return to Ukraine?’ (Oleh Chubuk), ‘Against Falsifications and Manipulations: the Ethics of the Social Scientist as a Component of Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Integration’ (Oleksiy Haran), ‘Ukraine’s Path to NATO: Main Achievements and Challenges’ (Vadym Tryukhan), ‘NATO and Subregional Security Systems: Complementarity or Competition’ (Serhiy Fedunyak), ‘Transformation of Secure Cooperation of International Organizations in Conditions of Tension’ (Oleksandr Kuchyk).

Nearly 500 participants from more than 40 Ukrainian universities have registered to participate in the winter school. A considerable part consisted of professors, associate professors, international teachers, and political scientists. The listeners noted the high level of organization of events in the framework of the winter school and its positive importance for increasing their competence in international and European security, Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine (final chat of the school).