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On Friday, October 8, conclusions of work of round-table sessions in the framework of 3rd Ecumenical Social Week were drawn at National University “Lviv Polytechnics”. During this day, out of 8 sessions, participants from Ukraine and abroad had opportunity to present their own view of continuous theme of Ecumenical Social Week – trust, responsibility and philanthropy.
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Participants had an opportunity to listen to the speech of Kateryna Yushchenko, Chairman of the Board of the International Charitable Foundation “Ukraine 3000” and Doctor of Philosophy, the director of Nonprofit Executive Education at the University of Notre Dame, Marc Hardy.
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6 October – third day of 3rd Ecumenical Social Week passed under the theme of “Trust as a base of building of effective business.”As a special guest of the day was present Martin Raiser, chief representative of World Bank for Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, who in his report made review of empirical examples concerning social capital and economic performance in transition economies. And on its basis has proven, that low social engagement and undeveloped civil society is a menace in transition of country to a higher economic level, as level of trust between people and trust to state depends in particular on them.
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4 October solemn opening of 3rd Ecumenical Social Week eventuated by press-conference at small session-hall of Lviv City Hall. All-Ukrainian social forum will be conducted from October 4 till October 10 under the slogan “Trust. Responsibility. Philanthropy.” Participants of Ecumenical Social Week are Churches, authority, business, public sector, educational institutions of Ukraine and the world.
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Establishing National net of Ecumenical Social Weeks became main event of October 5 in the framework of the second day of 3rd Ecumenical Social Week in Ukrainian Catholic University. Honorable guest of the session became Bernard Cheneves, vice-president of Social Weeks of France and other participant and partners not only from Lviv, but also Mykolayiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Ternopil, Sum, Donetsk, Poltava.
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LVIV - The commencement ceremony for the graduates of the Master’s Program in Ecumenical Studies took place on July 2-3. The ceremony was part of the wider commencement ceremony for graduates of the Philosophy-Theology, and Humanities Departments of the Ukrainian Catholic University, as well as the Cathechethical-Pedagogical Institute and the Holy Spirit Seminary of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
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LVIV - Seminars for teachers of the “Medical-psychological, and Social Support for People with Special Needs” certificate program took place on June 21-22, 2010.
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LVIV – The second All-Ukrainian Reporters of Hope in Ukraine competition started on June 8. The goal of the competition is to reward the best article, report or program which would «provide information and solutions», or, in other words, not merely elcidate important problems of conemporary society, but also provide concrete answers to these problems, and point to ways of resolving them, by encouraging people to act.
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The new academic program is called “Medical-psychological and social support for individuals with special needs.”
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The 84th French Social Week was organized at the Seine-Saint-Denis department from the 20th to the 22nd of November, 2009.