Register for value-based project management educational program

On March 21, the Media Center “Ukraine” in Lviv held a briefing on the launch of a competition for Lviv cultural institutions to study value-based project management. The project is implemented by the Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Family Foundation in partnership with expert Dina Volynets and the Lviv City Council.

Due to Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, in 2023 most cultural institutions faced numerous challenges:

  • lack of budgetary funding;
  • lack of skills to create and manage projects in conditions of uncertainty (martial law);
  • lack of experience in attracting extrabudgetary funds/grant history;
  • rapid burnout of employees.

These challenges prompted the Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Family Foundation, the Lviv City Council and Dina Volynets to unite and allow culture managers to complete an educational course and develop skills in creating and implementing value-oriented projects, raising extra-budgetary funds and, thus, strengthening and developing the local cultural community by joint efforts.

“This project is a certain continuation of the projects that we have already implemented in cooperation with Dina Volynets for three years. It was the project “Creative youth will change Ukraine” for youth from the sector of cultural and creative industries. We have more than 400 graduates of the program, and during this time we have seen the effectiveness of the program and the methodology of value-based project management. And the mission of the Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Family Foundation is to support change-makers in the development of value-oriented Ukraine,” shared Marianna Yeleyko, director of the Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Family Foundation.

“In times of war, culture itself is the most sensitive industry, which reflects a lot… And, in fact, our team and partners thought about how we can help culture workers to improve their skills, acquire new ones. And in the end, our ultimate goal is that every willing person, every willing culture manager becomes better tomorrow than today, presenting our culture on the territory of Ukraine and abroad,” commented Nataliia Bunda, director of the development department of the Lviv City Council, acting chairwoman of the culture department.

Representatives of cultural institutions of the Lviv city territorial community can apply for the competition in teams of 2-3 people from each institution.

During 4 days of offline training, participants will be able to:

  • determine the values, mission, and vision of your institution;
  • prioritize areas of activity;
  • develop a project idea through the Design Thinking methodology;
  • to formulate the goals and objectives of the necessary projects;
  • draw up a project budget;
  • develop an application for project financing;
  • identify donors and tenders for which a specific project will be relevant;
  • implement the project with efficient use of resources.

“This methodology is timely today because it adapted project management to conditions of chaos. Everything is changing rapidly in our country, and it started to change even before the war, so we need to adapt the tools we are used to applying… The course, which the selected participants will take, is a combination of two methodologies – Curly Management and Design Thinking… Such a combination gives understanding to managers of the cultural industry, how to build projects in line with your strategy, and how to tie strategy to your values… Strategy through values allows not only to explain to people what they want to achieve and what they want to do but also to attract funds for the projects they want to implement,” said Dina Volynets, developer of the Curly Management methodology, social change analyst and strategist, facilitator, trainer, a member of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF).

The training will consist of two offline modules, which will take place on April 28-29 and May 5-6 in the city of Lviv. The application for participation in the competition can be filled out at the link: https://bit.ly/42g4nvf. Registration will continue until April 18 (11:59 p.m.).

“This war is the war of values. This is the war of two approaches to life – tyranny and democracy. And we are defending European values in this war, which are best manifested through culture, through our historical heritage, the culture that is being created now, and the culture that will be in the future… We have great hope that many projects that are common between different countries will appear in the EU and Ukraine. We want to be as ready as possible for these challenges, and the cultural institutions of the city of Lviv have the appropriate skills and abilities to effectively implement projects,” commented Mykhailo Kobryn, director of the Music Memorial Museum named after Solomiya Krushelnytska, a graduate of the program “Creative youth will change Ukraine”.