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>EaP Fellows Stories

EaP Fellows Stories

Learn more about our Eastern Partnership Civil Society Fellows through these Featured Stories. The Fellowship programme has been running since 2017 and today the Fellowship alumni network has 200 Fellows from across the six countries of the Eastern Partnership. Details about all Fellows and their Fellowship projects can be found here.

EaP Civil Society Fellows Standing Up for Human Rights Today and Every Day

December 10, 2024

via GIPHY In 2004, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights established that “no ‘qualification’ is required to be a human rights defender” and the only minimum standards for human right defenders

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Astghik Karapetyan

#EaPFellows / Building a Family-Friendly Workplace Culture in Armenia: Astghik Karapetyan’s Story

November 27, 2024

‘I hope that one day, women in Armenia will not have to choose between family and work, proper childcare or sufficient income.’ This ‘hope’ has been the driving force for Astghik Karapetyan, an EaP Civil

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#EaPFellows / Building Bridges for Ukraine through Global Volunteering: Story of Diana Daiub

November 23, 2024

For Diana Daiub, co-founder and director of Support Ukraine Now, the Russian invasion of Ukraine wasn’t just a national crisis—it was deeply personal. As a long-time advocate for civil society, she knew that Ukraine’s civil

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#EaPFellows / Empowering Youth: Ketevan Tvildiani’s Mission for Inclusive Arts in Georgia

July 28, 2024

Ketevan Tvildiani’s first degree was in English language and literature, but her interest in understanding the concept of social justice and the everyday life of people in her community drove her to take a Masters

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#EaPFellows / Oleksii Marushchak: “The time is never right”

July 3, 2024

To save. To support. To promote. With these three ideas in mind Oleksii Marushchak, a junior researcher at the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a co-founder of the

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#EaPFellows / Nino Chincharauli’s Project Brings Autism Awareness to Georgian Cities

June 17, 2024

Nino Chincharauli never really expected to be a Civil Society Fellow. She spent most of her adult life involved in the creative industries and contributing to the cultural fabric of Georgia and other countries.  Her

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#EaPFellows / Empowering Communities: Rostyslav’s Journey to Civil Society Leadership

May 15, 2024

As a student, Rostyslav Semka got his first taste of international volunteerism in a summer camp in Istanbul under the ‘Myself My World’ project.  The experience was a game-changer: “I was really impressed about the

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#EaPFellows / Vitalii Razik: The Power of Networks

April 15, 2024

“Civic activism is an opportunity to give back to society, something you often cannot fully do in your professional work”, says Vitalii Razik, 2021 EaP Civil Society Fellow from Lviv, Ukraine, who has been combining

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#EaPFellows / Gohar Khachatryan’s Journey in Mental Healthcare Advocacy

March 20, 2024

In parallel with academic studies, with a MA in Social Work and a nearly completed Doctorate in Sociology, Gohar Khachatryan has charted her civic activism through a range of CSOs and Thinktanks in her native

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Mykola Ostapiak

#EaPFellows / Mykola Ostapiak’ Dream of Justice

September 5, 2023

From the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ivano-Frankivsk, the hometown of the 27-years-old lawyer and PhD law student Mykola Ostapiak, became a transit hub for thousands of Ukrainians who

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Meet our Fellows Tinatin Bregvadze

#EaPFellows / Building Bridges of Hope: Tinatin’s Endeavor to Empower Ukraine’s Young Refugees

August 8, 2023

Tinatin Bregvadze is the Chair of the Board of the Georgian Centre for Strategy and Development, a large, highly-regarded non-governmental organisation based in Tbilisi and operating through projects in Georgia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. 

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Mihai Mogildea, EaP Fellow

#EaPFellows / Enabling the Diaspora to Have a Say in the Next Elections is Crucial for Real Representativeness in Moldova

April 12, 2023

Imagine having to travel to another city or country, wasting precious time – sometime days, and spending your own money just to be able to vote. Unfortunately, this is the reality of many Moldovans living

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Nataliia Yaroshenko, EaP Fellow and civil society activist from Ukraine

#EaPFellows / Combining Creativity and Science to Raise Awareness on Environmental Impact of War

March 31, 2023

Nataliia Yaroshenko has been active in civil society since 2015.  Her early years of activism were mostly focused on supporting cultural events, such as the Sumy Rock Fest, but then she experienced the ‘Active Citizen’

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Lado Javakhishvili, EaP Fellow and civil society activist from Georgia

#EaPFellows / Restoring Justice for Juvenile Victims: The Story of Lado

February 21, 2023

Lado Javakhishvili is a lawyer by training and has spent nearly 10 years in public service working within the Georgian justice system.  Up until the end of 2021 Lado served as the Deputy Director at

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#EaPFellows / I Feel Like I Was Born to Volunteer! The Story of Nensi

December 20, 2022

“I feel like I was born to volunteer!”, says Nensi Mkrtchyan as she explains about her first experience with European Volunteer Service (EVS) in Armenia.  “It was a wonderful learning experience, meeting with young people

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#EaPFellows / We Can Claim Democracy as Truly Ours: The Story of Sandro

December 12, 2022

Trained in political sciences and international relations, Sandro Megrelishvili’s career oscillated between the academic world, civil service, and civil society involvement. Since 2020 he has been working for the Georgian Centre for Strategy and Development,

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