Winners of the FOR UKRAINE Programme
PhD habil. Michał Federowicz
Dr. hab. Michał Federowicz, Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, leads there the Sociology of Politics, Economy, and Education Research Group. He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw (Institute of Sociology) and the Warsaw University of Technology (Faculty of Mechatronics). In 2005, he created the Team of Interdisciplinary Studies on Education, which developed new assumptions for the core curriculum of general education. From 2009 to 2015, he led the interdisciplinary research programme “Entuzjaści edukacji” (Education Enthusiasts). He was Director of the Institute of Educational Research and the Graduate School for Social Research of the Institute of Philosophy of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
PhD Serhii Terepyshchyi
Prof. Serhii Terepyshchyi, Assistant Professor at the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University in Kiev completed his Master’s degree in geography and briefly worked as a geography teacher. Subsequently, he obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy of education at the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University in Kyiv. He is currently working at the Faculty of Social Philosophy and Philosophy of Education at this university. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards and stipends, including the Presidential Grant of the President of Ukraine for Gifted Youth (in 2009), the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Fellowship for Young Scholars (2020–2021), and the Fellowship for Ukrainian Scientists of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences (in 2022). His current research interests focus on social philosophy, philosophy of education and the organization, globalization, and internationalization of higher education. He enjoys hiking in the Carpathian Mountains and Ukrainian literature. He values spending time with his family: his wife and his son Roman, who was born a few days before the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War in February 2022. At the time, he and his family were renting a flat in Irpen (near Bucza). Currently, he is also active as a volunteer: he is the founder of the charity foundation Roman, named after his son, and dedicated to helping children born during the war.
The researchers in the project “Democratic Values in Educational Practice: The Extended Presence of Ukrainian Children and Youth in Polish Schools after February 24, 2022.” will document social creativity emerging in schools under unprecedented circumstances and describe its interaction with institutional constraints. The School Support Center the researchers will organize will explore the creative solutions used in the education and care of Ukrainian children that were developed by Polish teachers with Polish and Ukrainian education experts. Polish teachers will receive the opportunity to conceptualize their own experiences. Moreover, they will acquire tools and resources to scale their activities. Furthermore, the project will aim to understand and interpret the complexity of the processes inherent in school ecosystems and local communities of the cities that have received refugees.
