The project aimed to investigate the development of Kharkiv as a multicultural city in Eastern Ukraine at the present stage. The project was implemented in 2020.
As part of the project, an analytical report was prepared addressing the following issues:
- theoretical and practical challenges of multiculturalism in Ukraine and globally;
- Kharkiv in the context of memory politics, ethno-demographic trends, and migration processes;
- characteristics of the city’s symbolic space, including representations of the history and culture of ethnic groups in tourism initiatives, municipal museums, media, online resources, popular science and educational literature, and commercial branding;
- urban cultural and educational initiatives and festive traditions in the context of multiculturalism;
- major challenges in ensuring the cultural, educational, linguistic, and informational rights and needs of Kharkiv’s ethnic communities;
- the activities of national-cultural organizations in the city;
- interethnic and interconfessional tensions and conflicts in Kharkiv;
- practical recommendations for municipal and regional authorities, as well as civil society organizations, on promoting multiculturalism in Eastern Ukrainian cities.
Coordinator: Yevhen Rachkov (Head).
Participants: Hanna Bondarenko, Olha Vovk, Volodymyr Dyahilev, Maryna Kurushyna, Olena Mashyntsova, Sergiy Posokhov.
The project has become possible thanks to the financial support of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Foundation Office Ukraine).
