With the support of the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation, Kharkiv will host the educational and artistic project “Yellow Bus 2026: WORD” from May 18 to 24, 2026 — a seven-day film and journalism laboratory for teenagers aged 14–17.

This year, 556 students in Poland chose Ukrainian as their matura language — the national school-leaving examination required for university admission. It marks the first time in history that Ukrainian has officially become a matura subject as a foreign language, as reported by Polskie Radio dla Ukrainy.

On May 7, the exhibition “War. Made in Russia,” dedicated to Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine and its consequences for Ukrainian society, opened in the Czech city of Hradec Králové. The opening ceremony took place in the Primátorský sál at the City Hall building.

On May 6, 2026, a landmark event took place in Poland: graduates sat the state exam — the matura — in Ukrainian as a foreign language for the first time. The exam programme was developed with the support of the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation and published with the assistance of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Poland.

On May 7 at 3:00 PM, the Primátor Hall of Hradec Králové will host the opening of the exhibition “War. Made in Russia” — a project dedicated to artifacts of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. The exhibition’s partners are the Ukrainian Institute in Prague, the Magistrate of the City of Hradec Králové, and the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation.

The Presidents of the Czech Republic and Finland, Petr Pavel and Alexander Stubb, called for the fastest possible integration of Ukraine into the EU at the international conference “Europe as a Task” in Prague. This was reported by Volodymyr Yelchenko, Head of International Policy Research at the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation, who attended the event at the organizers’ invitation.

By Halyna Huzyo for Texty A public discussion titled “Ukraine’s Place in the New World” took place in Kyiv, dedicated to Ukraine’s role in the global security and technology landscape. The conversation focused on the opportunities and obstacles Ukraine faces in entering world markets for defense technology, artificial intelligence, and GovTech. The event was initiated by the Kyiv Institute of National Interest together with the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation.

On May 4, 2025, the Goethe-Institut — one of Prague’s key cultural venues — hosted a meeting with representatives of the Ukrainian community in the Czech Republic as part of the “Current Dialogues by Rostyslav Prokopyuk” project. The event brought together participants interested in strategic questions of Ukraine’s development and its role in the world.

The Pylyp Orlyk Foundation and the Educational and Research Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv have closed submissions for the all-Ukrainian student essay competition “Can Russia Be Expelled from the UN?” Entries were received from students in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Uzhhorod, Rivne, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Odesa, Nemyriv, Chernihiv, Vinnytsia, Poltava, Lutsk, and other cities across Ukraine.