The Erasmus+ KA2 BURN project – “Enhancing the Psychological Resilience and Well-being of the University Community in the (Post)War Ukrainian State” (BURN – ERASMUS-EDU-2023-CBHE), funded by the European Union, continues.
According to the project program, our university prepared for the opening of the Center for Psychological Resilience in 2024-2025. During this time, with the support of the EU, training of the Center's specialists was organized and conducted, and special equipment was obtained that allows stabilizing a person's emotional state and increasing work capacity.
The grand opening of the Center took place on September 12, 2025. Among the invited participants were the administration of the main university: the rectorate and deans of the Donbas State Pedagogical University; management, staff and students of the Horlivka Institute of Foreign Languages, representatives of the Department for Veteran Policy of the Donetsk Regional State Administration and public organizations.
The head of the Center, Tetyana Borozentseva, reported on the possibilities of the center's work and the upcoming planned events. The Center's psychologist, Kateryna Zhurbilyuk, demonstrated how the equipment will be used when providing individual consultations, group work, or conducting online psychoeducational events.
The rector of the DSPU, Svitlana Oleksandrivna Omelchenko, noted the importance of providing timely psychological support to participants in the educational process, which, in fact, is the main goal of the Center for Psychological Resilience.
The possibilities of using the Center's resources to provide psychological assistance to community representatives (veterans, IDPs, etc.) were discussed in a further conversation with Artur Nasibyan, Head of the Department for Veteran Policy of the Don Regional State Administration, and Yulia Romashko, Psychologist of the Slavic Heart Charity Foundation.
The opening of the Center provides new opportunities for fruitful work towards increasing the mental resilience and psychological well-being of Ukrainians in the difficult conditions of war and post-war times.
