Project | Visions for coal regions

First meeting participants in Cottbus, Germany.

https://youtu.be/L-RqEXmOxAw

Second meeting participants in Essen, Germany.

https://youtu.be/H7jxeUXurz8

Third meeting participants in Minsk,Belarus.

https://youtu.be/qSGcrC27Has

Participants about the project

Meet the project participants

Mariia Kryvokhyzhyna

Viktoriya Slobodchikova.
Organizer and participant of the project. I live in Berlin and engaged in organizing international projects on the topic of environment and climate protection in “German-Russian Exchange” organization.

Diana Popfalushi.
eco-activist (Zero waste Lviv) and project manager (Austrian Cooperation Office in
Lviv).
“The transformation of coal regions is important in the context of transition to renewable energy,
especially in the era of climate change. We must maximally facilitate this transition without losing any
human face.”

Pavlo Medyna.
Novovolynsk, Volyn, Ukraine. Head of the NGO Youth Resource Center “New Wings”.
Public activist, trainer, media coordinator, marketer.

Toni Weniger.
32 years old. I was born in Hoyerswerda, region Lausitz in Germany. My profession is in the field of garden therapy/children and youth systemic coaching. Currently I live in Berlin.

Tatiana Sigaeva.
32 years old, trainer in conflict management and community mobilization,
project manager of the NGO Vugledar City Development Agency, Donetsk Region,
Ukraine.

Zhenya Knyazeva.
25 y.o., Kemerovo. Multifunctional specialist from the heart of Syberia. Love to meet really interesting people, also dream of becoming one of them.
Favourite phrase: “If you want something to be done well, then do it yourself.”

Roksolana Mudrak.
Journalist, civic activist. I work and live in Lviv, Ukraine. I`ve finished my master`s at the Ukrainian Catholic University. After studying there, I`ve worked at the radio “FM Galicia” in the news department. Today I am the head of the production studio in the media holding TRC “Halychyna”

Maksym Tkachenk.
28 years old, specialist in social work of the
Chervonohrad City Center for Social Services for the Family, Children and Youth, coordinator of the youth center HUB “Kosmodrom”, head of the circle “School of Young Leader”. I work with families in difficult living conditions, youth of the city and region, I am engaged in volunteering, a trainer, a teacher of sociology. The vital philosophy is based on two Latin sententations: “Primus inter pares” – “The first among equal” and “Alta alatis patent” – “The sky for those who have wings”.

Valeria Bereza.
26 years old. I was born in miner’s family. Now I live in Kemerovo, the capital of Kuzbass, and work an analyst in an energy sales company.

Maria Medvedeva.
I live in the Russian coal region – Kuzbass. I work as a journalist and write about the life of my city and region, including talking about the problems associated with coal mining.

Liya Garaeva.
23 years old. I was born in a small coal-mining town Leninsk-Kyznetsky, in Russia.
Now I live in Kemerovo and I work in a journalistic and marketing sphere.

Nikita Semenov.
Passionate about renewable energy and professionally has been involved in helping facilitate financing decisions for clean energy projects for the last 3 years.