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Project Manager:
 Myroslava Prykhoda 
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of the book 
Roman Alle Tage by Terezia Mora.
Total:
 $ 4,000 
Grantee: 
“Kastalia Social Adaptation and Integration 
Foundation” (04210, Kyiv, Frunze St., 103А, Building 4, 
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Yevheniya  Byelorusets 
Project Summary:
 “Prostory” – site dedicated to literary 
translation, literary and art critcism.
Total:
 $ 7,176 
Grantee: 
“Universe” Publishers, Ltd. (08293, Kyiv Oblast, 
Bucha, Tarasivska St., 32, Office 165,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Andriy Savchuk 
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of the book 
Brockhaus. Deutsche Geschichte in Schaglichtern by 
Helmut M. M
üller.
Total:
 $ 8,500 
Grantee: 
“Calvaria” Publishers Charitable Foundation 
(01054, Lviv, PO Box 108, tel. [phone], 
221-47-58)
Project Manager:
 Anetta Antonenko
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of the book 
Wie der Soldat Grammofon repariert by Sasa Stanisic.
Total:
 $ 4,500 
Grantee: 
Charitable Foundation “Satellites of Social 
Programs “Vysoka Polytsia” (High Shelf) (04080, Kyiv, 
PO Box 76, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Leonid Finkelshtein 
Project Summary:
 Publication of a collection of poems by 
Bas Boettcher. 
Total:
 $ 3,000 

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Grantee: 
Private Enterprise “Nauka” Publishers (03124, 
Kyiv, M.Vasylenka St., 13a, Office 68,  
tel. [phone]) 
Project Manager:
 Andriy Ishchenko 
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of the book 
Der Staat Hitlers. Grundlegung und Entwicklung seiner 
inneren Verfassung by Martin Broszat.
Total:
 $ 7,500 
Grantee: 
International Charitable Foundation “Academy of 
Ukrainian Press” (01030, Kyiv, PO Box 26,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Valeriy Ivanov
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of the book 
Medienpolitik in der Informationsgesellschaft by Manfred 
Mai.
Total:
 $ 4,000 
Grantee: 
International Charitable Foundation “Academy of 
Ukrainian Press” (01030, Kyiv, PO Box 26,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Oksana Volosheniuk 
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of the book 
Handbuch Journalismus und Medien by Siegfried 
Weischenberg, Hans J. Kleinsteuber, Bernhard P
örksen 
Total:
 $ 7,800 
Grantee: 
“Ukrainian Catholic University Press” Enterprise 
(79011, Lviv, Svientytskoho St., 17,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Andriy Yasinovsky 
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of the 
book Glanz und Elend des Mittelalters: Eine endliche 
Geschichte by Ferdinand Seibt.
Total:
 $ 7,000 
Grantee: 
International Charitable Foundation “Academy of 
Ukrainian Press” (01030, Kyiv, PO Box 26,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Valeriy Ivanov
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of the book 
Die Realitaet der Massenmedien by Niklas Luhmann.
Total:
 $ 3,500 
Grantee: 
“Universe” Publishers, Ltd. (08293, Kyiv Oblast, 
Bucha, Tarasivska St., 32, Office 165,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Andriy Savchuk 
Project Summary:
 Additional financing for project №37844: 
acquiring the copyright for publishing the book Studien 
ueber die Deutschen by Norbert Elias.
Total:
 $ 700 

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Translation of Contemporary Polish Literature  
and Essays into Ukrainian in cooperation with  
the Polish Institute 
Number of Projects: 
7  
Total: 
$ 20,396 
Share of the Total Grant Amount:  0.31 %
Projects Supported by the Program:
Grantee: 
“Calvaria” Publishers Charitable Foundation 
(01054, Lviv, PO Box 108, tel. [phone], 
221-47-58)
Project Manager:
 Anetta Antonenko
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of W 
cudzym pi
ęknie by Adam Zagajewski.
Total:
 $ 3,380 
Grantee: 
“Dukh i Litera” (Spirit and Letter) Scientific 
Publishing Association NGO (04070, Kyiv, Skovorody 
St., 2, Building 4, Office 210, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Leonid Finberg 
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of the book 
Selected Works by Adam Michnik. 
Total:
 $ 5,000 
Grantee: 
NGO “Ukrainian Center for Museum 
Development” (04070, Kyiv, 22-А, Borychiv Tik St.,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Vladyslav Pioro 
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of the book 
Wedrowki Ludow. Historia Niespokojnej Epoki IV I V 
wieku by Magdalena Maczynska.
Total:
 $ 3,500 
Grantee: 
“Information. Step. Perspective” Private Company 
(79000, Lviv, Yuriya Drohobycha St., 4/2,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Iryna Lonkevych 
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of the book 
Unia Europejska we wspolczesnym swiecie by Dariusz 
Milczarek.
Total:
 $ 2,400 
Grantee: 
“Astrolyabiya” Publishers, Ltd. (79000, Lviv, PO 
Box 66, tel. [phone]) 
Project Manager:
 Kateryna Kotiuk 
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of the book 
Z Golowy by Janusz Glowacki.
Total:
 $ 3,220 
Grantee: 
“Nash Chas” Information-Analytical Agency 
(01034, Kyiv, Pavlivska St., 17, Office 81,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Nina Slyusarenko  
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of the book 
Jakbys kamien jadla by Wojciech Tochman.
Total:
 $ 2,500 
Grantee: 
International Renaissance Foundation
Project Manager:
 Iryna Kuchma 
Project Summary:
 Promotion of initiatives related to the 
translation of modern Polish scientific literature and 
essays into Ukrainian. 
Total:
 $ 396 
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Open Access and Socially Balanced  
Intellectual Property Rights 
Number of Projects: 
11  
Total: 
$ 57,835 
Share of the Total Grant Amount:  0.87 %
Projects Supported by the Program:
Grantee: 
“Informatio-Consortium” Association” NGO 
(01010, Kyiv, PO Box 110, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Tetyana Yaroshenko 
Project Summary:
 Tetyana Yaroshenko’s participation in 
the 5th International Seminar “Innovations in Scholarly 
Communication” in Geneva, Switzerland, April 18-20, 
2007. 
Total:
 $ 947 
Grantee: 
International Renaissance Foundation
Project Manager:
 Iryna Kuchma 
Project Summary:
 Series of seminars “New Means for 
Spreading Knowledge, Innovations and Creativity – 
Global Trends and the Ukrainian Context.” 
Total:
 $ 13,000 
Grantee: 
International Renaissance Foundation
Project Manager:
 Iryna Kuchma 
Project Summary:
 Iryna Kuchma’s participation in the 
summer course on international copyright at the Institute 
for Information Law in Amsterdam, July 9-13, 2007.  
Total:
 $ 2,700 
Grantee: 
“Libra” Publishing House Ltd. (01032, Kyiv, PO 
Box 68, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Sofia Hembrovska 
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of the book 
Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network 
Economy by Carl Shapiro and Hal R Varian.
Total:
 $ 5,000 
Grantee: 
All-Ukrainian Association of Patent Attorneys 
(03062, Kyiv, PO Box 132, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Iryna Abdulina 
Project Summary:
 Researching flexible approaches to 
copyright in the digital environment in Ukraine and 
abroad – copyright exceptions and restrictions, etc. 
Developing recommendations on additional changes 
to the Ukrainian copyright law and associated 
rights. Conducting a student competition on flexible 
approaches to copyright in the digital environment and 
open content licenses. Organizing the all-Ukrainian 
scientific student conference “Socially Balanced 
Intellectual Property Rights and Open Access to 
Scientific Information.” Conducting a concluding 
seminar/conference.
Total:
 $ 5,000 
Grantee: 
“Pravius” Center” NGO (33027, Rivne, Kyivska St., 
77/63, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Oleh Zhukovsky 
Project Summary:
 Developing recommendations for NGOs 
on balanced approaches to copyrights (especially 
if these organizations’ projects are financed by 
commercial companies or charitable organizations) 
and encouraging them to use open content licenses 
for their publications. Organization of seminars and a 
conference. Preparation of informational newsletters on 
open content licenses. 
Total:
 $ 5,000 
Grantee: 
Ukrainian Regional Branch of the International 
Informatization Academy (01601, Kyiv-10, PO Box 110, 
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Larysa Simak 
Project Summary:
 Electronic version of the National 
Aviation University’s professional magazine “Electronics 
and Management Systems” - creating an open access 
magazine. 
Total:
 $ 5,000 
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Grantee: 
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Institute 
of Software Systems (03187, Kyiv, Hlushkova Ave., 40, 
Building 5, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Valeriy Reznichenko 
Project Summary:
 Creating, developing and popularizing 
the open access scientific repository of the National 
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Institute of Software 
Systems. 
Total:
 $ 5,000 
Grantee: 
“Informatio-Consortium” Association” NGO 
(01010, Kyiv, PO Box 110, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Oleksiy Vasyliev 
Project Summary:
 Creation of a functioning electronic 
open access archive for Ukrainian universities and 
scientific-research institutions. 
Total:
 $ 5,000 
Grantee: 
Lviv City Public Organization “Center for 
Humanities Research” (79005, Lviv, Universytetska St., 
1, Office 208, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Olena Haleta 
Project Summary:
 Development of the Open Archive of 
the Center for Humanities Research at the Ivan Franko 
National University of Lviv. 
Total:
 $ 6,188 
Grantee: 
Kherson National Technical University (73008, 
Kherson Oblast, Kherson, Beryslavske Hwy, 24,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Yevhen Bahanov 
Project Summary:
 Creating electronic versions of scientific 
journals with free access at the Kherson National 
Technical University. 
Total:
 $ 5,000 
Ukrainian Book Project
Number of Projects: 
4  
Total: 
$ 147,918 
Share of the Total Grant Amount:  2.22 %
Projects Supported by the Program:
Grantee: 
“Summit Book” Subsidiary Enterprise (04060, 
Kyiv, M. Berlinskoho St., 9, 1st Floor,  
tel. [phone]) 
Project Manager:
 Ihor Stepurin 
Project Summary:
 The “100 Thousand Books” project 
involving book wholesalers “Dzherela M” and “Summit 
Book” plans to establish 16 regional distribution centers 
plus 2 centers in Kyiv within three years. All regional 
centers will have warehouses, office space and 
means of transport. The staff of the regional centers 
will establish cooperation with bookstores, schools, 
libraries, institutions of higher education, enterprises, 
etc., to supply books to regional bookshops, monitor 
sales and manage promotional campaigns of publishing 
houses. 
Total:
 $ 14,772 
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Grantee: 
“Dzherela M” Ltd. (04073, Kyiv, Frunze St., 160-
Shch, tel. [phone]) 
Project Manager:
 Vitaliy Kapranov 
Project Summary:
 The “100 Thousand Books” project 
involving book wholesalers “Dzherela M” and “Summit 
Book” plans to establish 16 regional distribution centers 
plus 2 centers in Kyiv within three years. All regional 
centers will have warehouses, office space and 
means of transport. The staff of the regional centers 
will establish cooperation with bookstores, schools, 
libraries, institutions of higher education, enterprises, 
etc., to supply books to regional bookshops, monitor 
sales and manage promotional campaigns of publishing 
houses.
Total:
 $ 62,137 
Grantee: 
“Dzherela M” Ltd. (04073, Kyiv, Frunze St., 160-
Shch, tel. [phone]) 
Project Manager:
 Vitaliy Kapranov
Project Summary:
 The site www.vsiknyhy.com.ua is being 
created for servicing the “100 Thousand Books” project. 
The site is used by regional branches, clients of regional 
branches, bookstores, libraries, individuals and other 
regular buyers of books. The site contains three main 
sections: a book database, news and information, and 
additional databases and pages. The book database 
contains all necessary information about books by 
Ukrainian publishers, including price, short annotation 
and cover (for new books and hits). The database can 
be searched by author, title and text of annotation. 
The information about the book should be enough 
for regional branches and clients to select and place 
an order. The news and information section contains 
information about new publications, detailed book 
reviews, reports from important events, announcements, 
interviews and other information that helps one find 
their way around the book world. There are additional 
databases of Ukrainian publishers, libraries, reference 
information about Ukrainian authors and a platform for 
youth authors. 
Total:
 $ 25,335 
Grantee: 
International Renaissance Foundation
Project Manager:
 Iryna Kuchma 
Project Summary:
 Conducting seminars for publishers 
and book distributors, called upon to professionalize 
the Ukrainian book markets, specifically: training for 
participants of the “100 Thousand Books” project in 
Holland; BMR, Krakow, Poland conducted the seminars 
“Book Market Research,” “Publishing Management” 
and “Successful Book Selling in Bookstores” in 
Kyiv and Lviv; the Deputy Chairman of the Dutch 
Booksellers Association Guus Schut in cooperation 
with the regional managers of the “100 Thousand 
Books” centers conducted the seminars “Book 
Selling for Bookstore Managers” in Vinnytsia, Rivne, 
Zaporizhzhia, Simferopol, Kherson, Mykolayiv, Odesa 
and Dnipropetrovsk; in cooperation with the Goethe-
Institut and with the support of the Dutch Embassy 
and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the seminar 
“Running a Successful Small Independent Publishing 
House” was conducted by German publishers Daniel 
Zeehl (Kookbooks Publishing House) and J
örg 
Sundermeier of the Verbrecher Verlag Publishing House; 
the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine and the International 
Renaissance Foundation, in cooperation with the 
Literary Colloquium Berlin and support from the German 
Embassy in Ukraine and the German Ministry of Foreign 
Affairs, organized the seminar “Marketing Strategy in 
Publishing,” which was conducted by Ralf Tornov, head 
of the marketing department at the Rowohlt Verlag 
Publishing House in Germany.  Administrative support 
for project implementation.
Total:
 $ 45,674 

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Noncompetitive and  
Innovative Projects 
Number of Projects: 
7  
Total: 
$ 25,050 
Share of the Total Grant Amount:  0.38 %
Projects Supported by the Program:
Grantee: 
Dmytro Burago Publishing House (03034, Kyiv, 
Olesya Honchara St., 52, Office 15,  
тел.[phone])
Project Manager:
 Oksana Bokhan 
Project Summary:
 Rebirth and development of the 
best traditions of Ukrainian culture and humanitarian 
knowledge in Ukrainian through the publication of 
a series of 5 pocket books Poetic Stars of Ukraine 
that contain the finest examples of Ukrainian poetry, 
specifically the works of Vasyl Stus, Maksym Rulsky, 
Oleksandr Oles, Yevhen Malanyuk and Yevhen 
Pluzhnyk. 
Total:
 $ 5,000 
Grantee: 
International Renaissance Foundation
Project Manager:
 Iryna Kuchma 
Project Summary:
 Expert assessment of translations 
published with support of IRF. 
Total:
 $ 1,000 
Grantee: 
International Renaissance Foundation
Project Manager:
 Iryna Kuchma 
Project Summary:
 Exhibition of books published with 
support of the IRF Social Capital and Academic 
Translations Program’s Translation Project held on April 
23 – May 21, 2007 in the Museum of Books and Printing. 
Total:
 $ 1,050 
Grantee: 
Foundation for the Support of Publishing and 
Polygraphy named after Printing Pioneer Ivan Fedorov 
(65044, Odesa, PO Box 7, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Nataliya Khalikyan 
Project Summary:
 First international forum “Information 
Support for the High School Teaching Process.” 
Total:
 $ 1,000 
Grantee: 
“Kyiv Mohyla Academy” Publishing House, Ltd. 
(04070, Kyiv, Kontraktova Sq., 4,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Iryna Zhodani 
Project Summary:
 Publication of a collection of documents 
and materials that reveal the causes, course of events, 
scale and consequences of the 1932-1933 Holodomor. 
Total:
 $ 10,000 
Grantee: 
“Taxon” Publishing House, Ltd. (04119, Kyiv, 
Biloruska St., 21, Office 2, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Nina Finikova 
Project Summary:
 Translation and publication of the 
book The University and the State: a Study into Global 
Transformations by Marek Kwiek.
Total:
 $ 4,000 
Grantee: 
Poltava Regional Branch of the All-Ukrainian 
Public Organization “Dobrobut” (Prosperity) (36026, 
Poltava, Bystrovsky Lane, 6, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Stepan Vovkodav 
Project Summary:
 Publication of a bilingual collection of 
works by the contemporary Ukrainian author Stepan 
Vovkodav called Best Friends (in Ukrainian and Russian) 
and its distribution to preschools and schools in the city 
of Poltava and the Poltava oblast, as well as southern 
and eastern regions of Ukraine (AR Crimea, Sevastopol, 
Donetsk, Luhansk and Dnipropetrovsk). 
Total:
 $ 3,000 
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EDUCATION 
PROGRAM
I N T E R N A T I O N A L   R E N A I S S A N C E   F O U N D A T I O N

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EDUCATION PROGRAM 
Number of Projects: 
16  
Total: 
$ 386,659 
Share of the Total Grant Amount:  5.80 %
Program  Goal  in  2007:  to  help  employ  the  potential  of  the  Ukrainian  third  sector  and  scientific–
educational establishments for the sustainable development of the educational system and improving 
the quality of education in Ukraine.
Program Priorities in 2007:
• 
University autonomy.
• 
Involvement of the academic community in the development of educational policy.
• 
Further  development  of  the  system  of  monitoring  and  ensuring  quality  middle  and  higher 
education.
• 
Development of inclusive education in Ukraine.
The Program is Implemented through the Following Operational Projects:
• 
The project “University Autonomy as a Component of Civil Society is intended to create a 
new model of relations between the university, society and the state in which the university will 
emerge from the framework of the vertical hierarchy, becoming an institution that establishes 
its own priorities and is accountable for the results of its activity to society, embodied in its own 
academic staff, student body, and local community, ensuring that its mission corresponds to 
national priorities.
 
The project is being
 
implemented with participation of representatives of the Ministry of Education 
and Science of Ukraine, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ivan Franko Lviv National 
University, Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, 
University of Economics and Law “Krok” (Kyiv), Dnipropetrovsk National University, V Karazin 
Kharkiv National University and Donetsk National University.
 
Within the project framework, a consortium of eight universities organized a series of roundtables, 
seminars and conferences aimed in discussing the idea of the university autonomy The second 
public opinion poll on university autonomy was conducted in the consortium universities. The 
analytical report based on the results of the second stage of the public opinion poll can be read 
at: (http://www.irf.kiev.ua/ua/programs/edu/news/?doc:int=5757). A special issue of the journal 
“Dukh  i  Litera”  dedicated  to  the  problems  of  university  autonomy  is  published.  International 
seminars and conferences dedicated quality education in Ukraine and in the post-Soviet space 
were  held  in  Yalta  and  Antwerp  in  cooperation  with  European  Association  of  Education  Law 
and Policy. An analytical report and proposals for changes to the system of higher education 

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quality assessment in Ukraine were drafted and sent to the MSE. As a result of the project, the 
government initiated a national experiment on introducing university autonomy in Ukraine (July 
2007). 
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