Svitlana Plotnytska – on rebuilding Ukraine
Today Svitlana Plotnytska shares her experience and ideas with us.Svitlana Plotnytska is a researcher at the GRANEM laboratory at IAE Angers, University of Angers, France. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions4Ukraine fellow (2023-2025).With over 20 years of experience in management and marketing research, she is deeply passionate about enabling digital and artificial intelligence sustainability in digitalization transformation.Our traditional question is: how to bridge two worlds?Svitlana: as for me, it is important to meet the dual challenge of digitization and sustainability. How to combine digital technology and sustainable development for the benefit of health, equality and the environment?To understand this, we develop a challenging field - digital sustainability which refers to the effort of developing and deploying digitalization to secure sustainable economic growth while integrating sustainable objectives. We therefore need to understand how to enable this change, given the current lack of skills and knowledge on how to manage this…
Adelaida Kovalkovska – on rebuilding Ukraine
Natalia Mishyna, one of EADHC founders, speaks: today I present one of my best friends Adelaida Kovalkovska. She is an electrophysicist (specialising in electroacoustics and ultrasound), now retired. Adelaida has 3 children, so she advises on youth and education.Before the war, Adelaida lived in the centre of Odessa and spent a lot of time doing sports and cultural activities. She was my main partner in crime when it came to the opera, ballet and other theatres. Now she lives in Ulm, Germany.Adelaida likes to see that children and young people in Germany have a very serious extracurricular education - in sport, music, art. The events for children and youth are always organised at the highest level with the participation of the best possible professionals (for example, in Odessa the ballets for children always use phonograms, never live orchestra - but in Germany there are spectacles with the orchestra, always with…
To the High-Level Conference on the European Social Charter – Chișinău, 2026, Council of Europe
We are glad to share our Association's submission to the High-Level Conference on the European Social Charter – Chișinău, 2026, Council of Europe.We would like to draw attention to the topic 'Localising Social Rights: Developing Subnational Indicators and Benchmarks for the European Social Charter'.In our opinion, the role of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe in the social rights ensurance might be more visible.
Resilient Communities: Legal Reform for Civil Self-Organization Under Martial Law
Project Summary: In response to the growing legal uncertainty surrounding the activities of local self-organization bodies (organy samoorganizatsii naselennia – OSNs) in Ukraine during wartime, our organization is launching a research and advocacy project aimed at adapting the previously developed Draft Law “On Bodies of Self-Organization of the Population” to the realities of martial law and the post-occupation context. This initiative builds on legal work initiated before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and recognizes the new and complex challenges faced by civic actors operating under duress, including in temporarily occupied territories. Key Problem Addressed: In many occupied communities, informal and semi-formal OSNs have played a crucial role in ensuring day-to-day survival: distributing aid, maintaining order, and coordinating with remaining municipal services. However, after de-occupation, such actions have at times been mischaracterized as “collaboration with the enemy” due to the absence of a legal framework that distinguishes between civic duty under…
French Constitutional Experience for Ukraine – From Strasbourg to Dnipro: Sharing Human Rights & French Legal Perspectives
How do you explain personal non-property rights, le droit à l’image, or the right to be forgotten - through the lens of French civil law - to Ukrainian students?You open a conversation. You listen. You compare realities. And you build bridges.On 16 May 2025, our director and founder, Natalia Mishyna, gave a guest lecture at the Dnipro Polytechnic Law School (Ukraine) on how France protects dignity, privacy, and personal identity in the digital age. Yuliia Leheza, many thanks for the invitation!Students explored:- personal rights under French civil law- the role of courts in defending moral and digital integrity- what Ukrainian law could learn from the French modelAt EADHC, we are proud to support the international exchange of ideas and help legal communities rethink rights, reform law, and deepen democratic practice.
Alla Fedorova – on rebuilding Ukraine
Today Alla Fedorova replies to our questions.Alla Fedorova is Associate professor of the Chair of Comparative and European Law of Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.At present she is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions 4Ukraine postdoctoral fellow (2023-2025) at the Faculty of Law of Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic (2023-2025). She is infinitely grateful to the Faculty of Law of Palacký University Olomouc for a warm welcome and support that they offered her and her daughter.Alla answers:If I could bring one thing from Czech Republic as well as other EU States to help rebuild Ukraine, it would be their libraries for the Universities’ students.The ability to find almost all books, articles that you would like to read give the inspiration for the research and incredible motivation. Ukrainian Universities would need to think how to fill the libraries with well-known books, textbooks, journals and…
Preliminary results on our Domestic Violence project – at the scientific conference
Natalia Mishyna had the honor to present our Association’s project "Empowering Local Authorities to Combat Domestic Violence in Ukraine" at the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference “Problematic Issues of Domestic and Gender-Based Violence in Ukraine under Martial Law” (March 18, 2025).In times of war, territorial communities in Ukraine face enormous challenges - but also demonstrate resilience and leadership. Strengthening the capacity of local authorities to prevent and respond to domestic violence is critical for protecting the most vulnerable.Grateful to be part of this important conversation and to share our practical experience from the field.You can read the conference proceedings here: http://catalog.liha-pres.eu/index.php/liha-pres/catalog/view/377/11646/26336-1
Domestic Violence project news
Our expert contributes to the fight against domestic violence.We are proud to share that Jeyhun Garajaev, Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan and expert affiliated with our Association, participated in the Council of Europe event "Protection of victims of domestic violence: legal and social aspects" held in Baku on 19 April 2025.This high-level discussion brought together judges and lawyers to explore the challenges faced by victims, the importance of recognising psychological abuse, and the role of legal professionals in ensuring justice and protection.Judge Garajaev delivered a powerful contribution, analysing the constitutional foundations of the Law on Preventing Domestic Violence and highlighting relevant jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. His intervention underlined a crucial point: effective investigations and zero tolerance are not optional — they are obligations under human rights law.As an Association committed to the advancement of social rights, rule of law, and local…
EADHC as Co-Organiser of the International Conference on Administrative Law in Times of Transformation
EADHC is proud to join as a co-organiser of the International Conference on Administrative Law in Times of Transformation, to be held on 14 May 2025 in Irpin, Ukraine.We believe that administrative law is key to upholding human rights, transparency, and justice — especially in times of crisis and post-war recovery.Together with scholars and partners from Ukraine and across Europe, we will support academic dialogue and the voice of young researchers.Conference details and call for papers are in the carousel.