On June 2, 2022, a webinar was held by NEO Ukraine together with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine "Challenges to the implementation of existing Erasmus + projects: Capacity building of higher education and other cooperation projects for martial law in Ukraine", attended by #MultiEd and #WARN from the Horlivka Institute of Foreign Languages. The event was attended by about 80 members of the teams of existing Erasmus + projects, as well as coordinators from EACEA - the European Executive Agency for Education and Culture, which oversees all Erasmus + projects.

At the beginning of the meeting, it was emphasized that, despite the martial law, the Government of Ukraine, including the Ministry of Education and Science, has identified the implementation of international obligations as a priority.

The head of the National Erasmus + Office of Ukraine Svitlana Shitikova sincerely congratulated all participants of the webinar, expressed awareness of the situation of some Ukrainian universities due to Russian aggression, temporary occupation of certain territories, destruction of infrastructure, internal relocation and loss of equipment and project documentation. All these risks, of course, are detrimental to the timely implementation of commitments and are officially recognized as force majeure, which will be taken into account when considering the suspension or extension of the deadline for submission of final results of projects.

Svitlana Shitikova thanked the teams for their work and assured NEO Ukraine of its readiness to provide consulting support to designers 24/7. In her presentation, the leader outlined the challenges faced by Ukrainian universities and elaborated on ways to address them together with NEO Ukraine.

We believe in Ukraine, every citizen, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, partners and work together for the result to win! Everything is and will be Ukraine!