On October 26, the Horlivka Institute of Foreign Languages hosted the grand opening of the Center for Social Integration and Personal Development of Youth from the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine.

This important event for our institute was attended by Deputy Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Inna Oleksandrivna Draganchuk, Deputy Head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration Yulia Oleksandrivna Kostyunina, Adviser to the Head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration Tamara Oleksiivna Lukyanchuk. administration Tetyana Volodymyrivna Sidasheva, Deputy Mayor of Bakhmut Inessa Yevhenivna Melnyk, Rector of Donbas State Pedagogical University Svitlana Oleksandrivna Omelchenko.

Working with young people from the temporarily occupied territories is one of our main tasks.

The director of the institute, Yevhenia Mykolaivna Belitska, told about the preconditions of the Center for Social Integration and Personal Development of Youth from the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine and shared with guests the history of the Horlivka Institute of Foreign Languages since moving from Horlivka.

The opening was attended by the Head of the Department of Psychology Tetyana Valerievna Borozentseva, who together with students of summer courses in preparation for admission to state institutions of higher education of young people from among those residing in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. on the line of contact, the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, and now our first (bachelor's) higher education students Shvets Vladislav, Shatalkin Alexander, Kutepova Anastasia and Kutepova Anastasia and Osyka Alexander presented the first direction of the Center for Social Development. occupied territories of Ukraine - diagnosis of emotional state and values of youth.

Dean of the Faculty of Social and Linguistic Communication Valentina Gavrilovna Marakhovska together with the second (master's) higher education students Vlasov Nazar and Landik Anna presented another area of the Center's activity - development and implementation of adaptive technologies taking into account Ukrainian social realities - and told about our achievements. fields.

An important component of the Center for Social Integration and Personal Development of Youth from the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine is the formation of young people from the temporarily occupied territories of civilized humanistic worldview content and socially responsible view of personal development prospects. Our achievements and successes in this part of the work were presented to all present by the head of the educational center "Donbass-Ukraine" Olena Volodymyrivna Gorlova.

The opening ceremony was also attended by friends of the Horlivka Institute of Foreign Languages, in particular, the head of the workshop "Oberig" Bakhmut Svetlana Anatolievna Kravchenko, who together with our graduates presented 3 models of Ukrainian costume (for women of all ages) and told the history of Donetsk regional embroidery.

Galyna Petrovna Dokashenko, Head of the Department of Domestic and Foreign History, told the guests about another direction of the Center's work - building the higher life trajectory of higher education as an active, responsible participant in social processes of formation and strengthening of a democratic state. Ivan Naumov and Natia Patsatsia, graduates of the institute, shared their stories of professional growth and development.

The Center includes a laboratory for the study of hybrid threats, created within the Erasmus + project "Academic Counteraction to Hybrid Threats".

Therefore, the grand opening of the Center for Social Integration and Personal Development of Youth from the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine marks the beginning of a new cluster for inspired and productive work of the Horlivka Institute of Foreign Languages.