VUM online began its activities on October 1, 2015, with five remote courses and became the first online platform for civic education in Ukraine. Over these years, 251 instructors have created 114 open and closed distance learning courses. Nearly 237,000 users have registered on the platform, generating almost 131,000 certificates of successful completion for VUM’s educational products.
During this time, “civic education” has transformed from a little-understood phrase into a compulsory school subject, and we are proud to have contributed to this change. Today, adult courses in civic competencies are no longer rare and are available on other educational platforms, but we will always remain the first to develop civic education online systematically. We have much to be proud of, yet new challenges lie ahead, and we see there is still a great deal of work to do.
We are grateful to all our listeners, partners, instructors, donors, and friends! We remain committed to building a strong civil society in Ukraine through civic education and are always open to new partnerships and ideas!