The project was launched in June 2022 by the Charitable foundation SpivDiia (Ukraine), together with the Office of the President of Ukraine, the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine, and in cooperation with the EU-funded EU4Youth Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Programme.

The project, with a budget of over €307,000, addressed the war-related needs of Ukrainian youth covering ten regions, including Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Odesa, Cherkasy, Lviv, and Chernivtsi.

Career counselling supported young people in all stages of employment: setting goals, developing a career plan, writing a CV, preparing for an interview with an employer. Almost 500 participants have succeeded in getting a job and building their careers without leaving their home country.

She added the Ministry of Youth was actively discussing with the Ministry of Education and Science, the National Agency of Ukraine for Public Service and Public Employment Service, and other state and non-state stakeholders active in education and employment to further promote the idea of a sustainable system of young talent acquisition, skills development, professional re-training and recruitment, in particular to strengthen the civil service.