About us
The NGO “PLATFORM OF STUDENT JOURNALISM” is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in March 2021 by teachers and students of the V. I. Vernadsky Taurida National University. It is an organization that unites students, scientists, journalists, lawyers, community activists.
The public organization operates on the basis of involuntariness, equality of its members, self-government, legality, and transparency and is free to choose the directions of its activity. It operates on the basis of free choice, absence of property interest of its members (participants), publicity. It is a non-profit, so its main purpose is not to make money.
The main goal of the Organization is to satisfy and protect the legitimate rights and interests of its members, as well as satisfy public interests in various spheres of public life.
The main areas of activity are:
- protection and development of freedom of speech and thought, adhering to the standards of free and independent media, basic principles of democracy, following social, economic and cultural interests of citizens;
- support of a student media platform for collecting, analyzing and disseminating information;
- recording and publicizing specific cases of violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as publicizing the facts of gender, racial, age or other kinds of discrimination, in particular and not exclusively, in higher education institutions;
- implementation of educational, cultural and awareness-raising activities to promote the establishment of a democratic civil society in Ukraine, raising the legal and civic culture of young people.
Since the NGO is a non-profit organization, the activities of its members are carried out exclusively on a voluntary basis. Projects are implemented on a volunteer basis and / or at the expense of charitable contributions / grants.
Founders
The founders of the organization are:
VIKTORIIA HUMENIUK
The head of the organization
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- 07.2022-present – Information support of the EUAA organization (European Union Agency for Asyum) – simultaneous interpretation for people fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ITM Srl Interpreti Traduttori Mediatori, Bucharest, Romania.
- 01.2021-present – Assistant, Lecturer at the Department of Slavic Philology and Journalism. Vernadsky Taurida National University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- 08.2021-09.2022 – Leading specialist in publishing and printing production, specialist in public relations and press. Vernadsky Taurida National University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- 02.2020-08.2021 – Specialist of the Dean’s Office of the Educational and Research Institute of Philology and Journalism. Vernadsky Taurida National University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- 07.2017-10.2019 – Journalist, Executive Secretary. Ukraine Business Publishing House LLC, Kyiv, Ukraine.
EDUCATION:
- 2019-2021 Educational degree: Master’s degree. Specialty: Journalism. Taurida National University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- 2015-2019 Educational degree: Bachelor’s degree. Specialty: Journalism. Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine.
Volunteering and public activities:
2019/2021
Volunteer at the Equality March – a human rights march in support of equal rights for LGBT+ people, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2020-2021
Participant of the Women’s March – march in support of equal rights for women and ratification of the Istanbul Convention, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2019
Participant of Odesa Pride, Zaporizhzhia Pride (human rights march in support of equal rights for LGBT+ people), Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
SVITLANA KUZMINA
Co-founder, Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- 2017—present – Vernadsky Taurida National University (Kyiv). Director of the Educational and Research Institute of Philology and Journalism. Professor of the Department of Foreign Philology. Courses: “Fundamentals of Pedagogy and Linguodidactics”, “Methodology and Organization of Scientific Research”, special course “Philosophy of Education”.
- 2013-2016 – project “Kyiv Theological Academy in Names. 1819-1921” (encyclopedic bibliographic dictionary), National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Author of more than 180 articles, reports at international scientific conferences.
- 1994-2014 – Vernadsky Taurida National University. Assistant, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Pedagogy. Courses: “Pedagogy”, “Pedagogy and Psychology of Higher School”, “History of Pedagogy”, special course “Philosophy of Education and Upbringing in the Kyiv Academic Tradition of the XIX – early XX centuries”, etc.
- 2002-2014 – Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Senior Research Fellow on the research topics “Philosophical and theological thought in the Kyiv Theological Academy in the early twentieth century” (state registration No. 0109U000442) and “Philosophy in the context of culture: history and modernity” (state registration No. 0110U001268). Author of scientific reports, articles, co-author of a collective monograph.
- 2000-2004, 2007-2013 – Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University. Part-time as an associate professor of the Department of Pedagogy. Courses: Philosophy of Education, Methodology and Methods of Pedagogical Research, etc.
- 1986-1994 – teacher of history and social studies in schools of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH:
Author of 2 monographs, more than 180 articles and reports on philosophy of education, history of philosophy, history, pedagogy.
EDUCATION:
- Doctor of Philosophy in the specialty “History of Philosophy” (2011). Doctoral studies at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine (2004-2007).
Doctoral monograph “Philosophy of education and upbringing in the Kyiv academic tradition of the XIX – early XX centuries”.
- Candidate of Philosophy in the specialty “History of Philosophy” (2001). D. candidate at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine (1998-2000).
Dissertation, monograph “Philosophical and pedagogical concept of P. D. Yurkevych”.
- Historian, teacher of history and social science. Faculty of History of Simferopol State University. Specialization – archeology (1986).
IVAN CHEPAYKIN
Co-founder, editor-in-chief
EDUCATION:
- 2022-present—doing Master’s degree. Specialty: Journalism. Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- 2018-2022 Educational degree: Bachelor’s degree. Specialty: Journalism. Vernadsky Taurida National University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Volunteering and public activities:
2021
- Participant of the program for journalism students “School of Convergent Journalism”, Odesa, Ukraine
Completed an internship at Ukrinform (Ukrainian online media) from Souspilnist Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine.
