The UNDP Chornobyl Recovery and Development Programme, the Oxford University Ukrainian Society, and the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", with the support of the UN Volunteers are happy to announce applications call for the fourth-year running, Oxford Volunteers for Chornobyl scheme.
Deadline for applications: 30 June 2010
When: 15 August - 4 September
Where: Ukraine, Kyiv and northern region of Ukraine (Polissia)
Who: Postgraduate Students
OXFORD VOLUNTEERS FOR CHORNOBYL SCHEME
Brief Description
Five volunteers from the University of Oxford or any other foreign university and five volunteers from National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" or other Ukrainian university will spend three weeks in August-September 2010 working on specific developmental projects in Ukraine in line with the targets of the UNDP Chornobyl Recovery and Development Programme.
The goal of the programme is to provide knowledge resources and strengthen the developmental process in the Chornobyl-affected area through international cooperation, as well as to increase awareness of and share knowledge about the consequences of the Chornobyl accident and the developmental approach for overcoming them through the involvement of students from the University of Oxford (UK) and the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" (Ukraine).
Volunteers will be familiarised with the area, history of the Chornobyl accident and under the supervision of CRDP team would conduct a small research resulting in a written report on one of the topics linked to the developmental agenda in a specific area. Depending on the selected projects, volunteers will work with the UNDP, local authorities, national experts, local businesses, community organisations, etc.
During their stay volunteers will work at the territories that are safe for living, but are recognised as Chornobyl-affected: the fourth (zone of intensified radiation control), zone of radioactive contamination; as well as territories where resettled people from the first zone (exclusion zone) live. The volunteers are not expected to work within the Chornobyl exclusion zone or on the territory of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station (Information about Chornobyl zones is provided below).
Volunteers from foreign universities will be linked with students from Ukrainian universities to work on one or similar project.
For more information and application form please see the scheme flyer (word document).
For more information, please contact: Nadiya Kravets.
Nadiya Kravets
DPhil Candidate
Politics and International Relations
University of Oxford
