Calendar of Events

March 2003

March 1, 2003 -- Deadline for submitting applications for the Muskie
Alumni Leadership Award.

March 1, 2003 -- Kyiv. The Third Annual Charity Ball organized by the
Freedom Support Act Programs Alumni Association in support of Kyiv
orphanage "Malyatko."

March 1, 2003 -- Uzhhorod. Training workshop for the Community
Connections program alumni hosted by Project Harmony.

March 5, 2003 -- Kharkiv. IREX will host an alumni lecture on public
health issues.

March 7, 2003 -- Kyiv. Meeting with Bohdan Havrylyshyn, International
Center for Policy Studies, hosted by the Kyiv Alumni Resource Center.

March 7-8, 2003 -- Luhansk. Project Harmony conducts a Needs Assessment
Meeting and training workshop for the Community Connections program
alumni.

March 14, 2003 -- Kyiv. Alumni Resource Center Coordinating Committee
meeting.

March 15, 2003 -- Dnipropetrovsk. Distance learning seminar hosted by
the American Councils.

March 21-22, 2003 -- Kyiv. Project Harmony hosts a Judicial conference
for the Community Connections program alumni.

March 21, 2003 -- Kyiv. Roundtable "Journalistic Techniques for
Compiling Informational Materials and Working with Public" organized by
IREX with the help of Ukraine Media Partnership Program (UMPP) American
partners traveling to Ukraine.

March 22, 2003 -- Kharkiv. FSA Flex alumni of Kharkiv region are holding
the 1^st^ Charity Ball to support the Kharkiv Orphanage #1, a special
establishment for children with disabilities related to the central
nervous system.

March 28-30, 2003 -- Kyiv. Regional Conference for JFDP alumni organized
by the American Councils.

March 29, 2003 -- Kyiv. Official opening of the Kyiv Alumni Resource
Center. Training

March 29, 2003 -- Kharkiv office of the American Councils for
International Education will conduct a training seminar and presentation
of a manual on Civic Education.

End of March -- Kyiv. ECA alumni are invited to a presentation "Ecology
and Chornobyl" by Sara Bishop. The presentation will focus on the
effects Chornobyl disaster had on the Ukraine's environment.

End of March - Kyiv. IREX will host a presentation on Green Tourism by
Richard Shepard, Director of Eurasia Foundation. Information about
Eurasia Foundation\'s Eco-Tourism grants will be included in the
presentation.

March 31, 2003 -- Deadline for submitting applications for the Alumni
Local Initiative Grants Program.

**Internet Access and Training Program Sites:**

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# Event type: seminars

**Event name:** Working with KIDLINK portal

**Event date:** four seminars and a chat session in March

**Event location:** IREX/IATP access sites throughout Ukraine

**Description:** IATP will conduct a series of seminars of secondary
school teachers and their students devoted to the worldwide resource for
both. The seminars will highlight the opportunities proposed by the
portal Kidlink and assist the participants get through the registration
stages after which they will be able to use multiple forums, chats and
projects with participation of kids from all over the world. Please
contact your IATP access site for more information and registration for
the seminars.

**Url:** [http://www.kidlink.org](http://www.kidlink.org/)

**Cherkasy**

# Event type: Alumni Club meeting

**Event name:** Devoted to International Women's Day

**Event date:** March 6

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Cherkasy

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** "Model United Nations"

**Event date:** March 21

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Cherkasy

**Description:** IATP Alumni Leader in Cherkasy Olga Rybalka, FSAU
alumna, will conduct the seminar for students, to explain what a UN
Model is and found this initiative in the city.

**Chernihiv**

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# Event type: presentation for media and community

**Event name:** Third Issue of Magazine "Royal City Shield"

**Event date:** March 12

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Chernihiv

**Description:** the magazine is aimed at stimulating collaboration of
Chernihiv citizens in various social spheres -- education, anti-drug
policies, safety and other community projects. The leader of the
initiative is Valery Ryabukha, CI alumnus.

**Url:** <http://www.shield.iatp.org.ua/>

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Search Engines\"

**Event date:** March 19, 26

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Chernihiv

**Description:** this seminar will be conducted for law college students
by CI alumnus Valery Ryabukha

# Event type: training

**Event name:** \"Web Design\"

**Event date:** March 24, 31

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Chernihiv

**Url:** <http://iatp.org.ua/>

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"English on the Internet\"

**Event date:** March 28

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Chernihiv

**Description:** the seminar will be conducted by Anatoliy Gavro and
Tatyana Potapenko, Americans for Democracy in Ukraine alumni, for
teachers of English.

**Chernivtsy**

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Scanning and Editing Pictures and Texts\"

**Event date:** March 13

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Chernivtsy

**Description:** the seminar is designed to assist alumni in preparation
of materials for their websites.

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Digital Photography\"

**Event date:** March 20

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Chernivtsy

**Description:** photographer Volodymir Tsytrak will conduct this
seminar for alumni.

# Event type: Alumni Club meeting 

**Event date:** March 30

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Chernivtsy

**Description:** a regular Alumni Club meeting headed by Alumni Leader
Svitlana Kurish, PIE alumna.

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# Dnipropetrovsk

# Event type: seminar 

**Event name:** \"The Experience of Using Internet in Ukrainian
Schools\"

**Event date:** March 15, 12 a.m. -- 3 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Dnipropetrovsk

**Description:** Svitlana Shabotina, CC alumna, secondary school
director, will conduct this seminar for teachers and directors of the
city schools, to share her experience of using Internet in her school.

# Event type: Alumni Club meeting

**Event name:** \"Internet at Schools\"

**Event date:** March 22, 12 a.m. -- 2 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Dnipropetrovsk

**Description:** the discussion will continue the topic of the previous
seminar by Svitlana Shabotina, CC alumna. The opportunities provided for
teachers and kids by Kidlink portal, will be presented as well.

**Url:** [http://www.kidlink.org](http://www.kidlink.org/)

# Event type: seminar 

**Event name:** \"Searching for News on the Internet\"

**Event date:** March 29, 12 a.m. -- 2 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Dnipropetrovsk

# Event type: Alumni Club meeting

**Event name**: \"Licensing Software and Intellectual Property\"

**Event date:** March 29, 2 p.m. -- 4 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Dnipropetrovsk

**Description:** the discussion will be centered on the license issue
and pirated software in Ukraine.

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# Donetsk

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Learning English with Internet\"

**Event date:** March 6, starting at 4:30 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Donetsk

**Description:** this seminar will be conducted by CC/CI alumna
Valentyna Annenkova.

# Event type: Alumni Club meeting

**Event name:** International Women's Day Celebration

**Event date:** March 7, starting at 3 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Donetsk

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Traveling Through Countries and Continents\"

**Event date:** March 14, starting at 3 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Donetsk

**Description:** Larysa Saevych, CC alumna, will tell alumni about all
the countries she has been to, and these are more than thirty!

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"The Business of America\"

**Event date:** March 28, starting at 3 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Donetsk

**Description:** the seminar was prepared together with the Embassy
resource center "Window on America" and its Director Galyna Chupryna ,
CC/CI alumna.

# Ivano-Frankivsk

# Event type: Alumni Club meeting

**Event name:** International Women's Day Celebration

**Event date:** March 7

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Ivano-Frankivsk

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Websites about Ivano-Frankivsk\"

**Event date:** March 14

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Ivano-Frankivsk

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \" Format of Files in Computer Graphics\"

**Event date:** March 27

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Ivano-Frankivsk

# Kharkiv

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# Event type: INTERACADEMIA Alumni Club meeting

**Event date:** March 26

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Kharkiv

# Kryvyi Rih

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# Event type: Alumni Club meeting

**Event date:** March 5

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Kryvyi Rih

**Description:** Alumni Club meets a group of new CC alumni (group of
working with disabilities).

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Working with English Economic Web Resources\"

**Event date:** March 26

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Kryvyi Rih

**Description:** Olena Koroleva, JFDP alumna, will conduct the seminar
for students of the Institute of Business Administration.

**Kyiv**

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Specialized Internet Search\"

**Event date:** March 15

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Kyiv

# Luhansk

# Event type: seminars

**Event name:** \"Internet for Interpreters\"

**Event date:** March 5, 12 , 19 and 26

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Luhansk

**Description:** SABIT alumna Iryna Tverdokhlebova for university
students.

# Lviv

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# Event type: round table

**Event name:** \"Changing Your Job: Is Internet of Any Help?\"

**Event date:** March 18

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Lviv

**Description:** Lesya Kotsiumbas, Muskie alumna, will give a
presentation on the topic and moderate the discussions.

# Lutsk

# Event type: alumni meeting

**Event name:** \"The Place of a Woman in Ukrainian Society\"

**Event date:** March 6

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Lutsk

**Description:** for this meeting alumni had conducted a survey among
Lutsk citizens. The results will be presented at the meeting, which is
aimed at not only celebrating the International Women's Day, but also at
discussing the actual life of a woman in contemporary Ukraine.

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# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Internet Resources as the Means for Life Safety
Education\"

**Event date:** March 27

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Lutsk

**Description:** Presenter: Chepurnyj Volodymyr, CC 1998 alumnus, the
Head of the Life Safety\
Department of the Lutsk City Administration.

# Mykolaiv

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# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Using Photoshop in Web Design\"

**Event date:** March 13

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Mykolaiv

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"E-commerce\"

**Event date:** March 21. 22

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Mykolaiv

**Description:** the seminar will be conducted by American Fulbright
professor Dr. Snaider for CC alumni. The trainer will tell about
Electronic Business Models Fulbright, seven types of shoppers, answer
the question "What makes a winning site?" and show how to use WWW to
conduct electronic commerce, net deliverable products and services, and
business models on the Web.

# Odesa

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# Event type: Alumni Club Meeting

**Event name:** a regular event

**Event date:** March 21

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Odesa

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"E-commerce\"

**Event date:** March 28

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Odesa

**Description:** seminar by JFDP alumna Natalia Medzhybovskaya. Natalia
is the author of a book on electronic commerce.

**Rivne:**

# Event type: presentation

**Event name: "**Media Centers in Rivne Schools"

**Event date:** March 4, starting at 4:30 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Rivne

**Description:** Olena Franchuk, TEA alumna, will present to Alumni Club
the project she won in cooperation with other alumni, members of
"Association of School Partners".

# Event type: training

**Event name:** "Creating a Website"

**Event date:** March 6, 13, 20 and 27; 3 p.m. -- 5 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Rivne

**Description:** training for alumni in the course of which every
participant will create a website.

# Event type: Alumni Club meeting

**Event name:** "Whose Website is the Best?"

**Event date:** March 28, starting at 3 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Rivne

**Description:** Alumni Club members will present their websites, choose
the best and award the winners with prizes.

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** "Creating Presentations in PowerPoint"

**Event date:** March 29

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Rivne

**Sevastopol**

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Teaching English - new ways and new technologies\"

**Event date:** March 10

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Sevastopol

**Description:** this seminar will be conducted for alumni by FSAFLEX
alumna Svitlana Buko. The participants will learn how to plan English
language classes, how to use Internet for preparation and download
sample materials for their students.

# Event type: FLEX Club meeting

**Event date:** March 31

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Sevastopol

**Description:** the Alumni Club members get together to discuss their
past activities and plan events for the future.

**Sumy**

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Alumni's Educational Initiatives\"

**Event date:** March 14, 2 p.m. -- 5 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Sumy

**Description**: this seminar is aimed at introducing various
educational initiatives of alumni in NIS and their reflection on the
Internet.

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Organizations-donors Online; Creating a Successful
Proposal\"

**Event date:** March 20, 3 p.m. -- 6 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Sumy

**Description**: Marina Bakhmut, FLEX alumna, will conduct the seminar
for alumni.

**Ternopil**

# Event type: alumni meeting 

**Event name:** FSA Holiday Meeting and chat session with Hilary Brandt

**Event date:** March 5

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Ternopil

**Description:** the event will include congratulations, reports,
success stories, exchange of ideas, e-mail letters to FSA fellows who
are in the USA.

# Event type: workshop

**Event name:** Resume Writing and a chat session with Kyiv Alumni
Resource Center's Consultant David Larson on the topic

**Event date:** March 19

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Ternopil

**Uzhhorod:**

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Working on a Grant Proposal\"

**Event date:** March 13

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Uzhhorod

**Description:** seminar by CC alumna Olena Ryabukhina

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Regulations on Governmental Organizations\"

**Event date:** March 27

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Uzhhorod

**Description:** seminar by CC alumnus Illya Ilchuk

# Vinnytsya

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# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** \"Time Management\"

**Event date:** March 12

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Vinnytsya

**Description**: seminar by CC alumnus Oleh Levchenko for alumni and NGO
representatives

# Zaporizhya

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# Event type: alumni social meeting

**Event name:** Celebrating International Women's Day

**Event date:** March 6, 4 p.m. -- 8 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Zaporizhya

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# Event type: alumni meeting

**Event date:** March 13, 4 p.m. -- 6 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Zaporizhya

**Description:** The first meeting of Zaporizhzhia alumni initiative
group to determine its structure and set up the guidelines of its
activities. Moderator - PIE'2000 alumna Larysa Lyutaya. 15 PIE and TEA
alumni are invited to participate.

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# Event type: alumni meeting

**Event date:** March 18, 5 p.m. -- 7 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Zaporizhya

**Description:** The first initiatives of the Zaporizhzhia Alumni
Association and the new guidelines for its activities. The registrations
of new members. 20 alumni of different exchange programs.

# Event type: seminar

**Event name:** "Information technology and secondary education"

**Event date:** March 28, 1 p.m. -- 3 p.m.

**Event location:** IREX/IATP center in Zaporizhya

**Description:** this seminar will be conducted by PIE'2002 alumnus Oleg
Kolesnik, a school director. The trainer will tell about creation of
media catalogs and mediateques at schools which considerably upgrade the
content of education.

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