The Ministry of Culture has started updating the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation

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The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has announced the start of accepting documents for joining the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.

This was reported by the press service of the ministry.

“I order to announce the beginning of the procedure for the election of representatives of cultural institutions and public associations to the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Cultural Fund“, says the relevant order signed by Acting Minister of Culture Rostislav Karandeev.

Documents with an electronic digital signature of the head of a cultural institution or public association will be accepted from October 26 to December 26 in 2023. They should be sent to the email address: [email protected]

Members of the UKF Supervisory Board will be elected by online rating voting. Its results will be published on the website of the ICIP.

Representatives of the field of culture called on those willing to join the formation of the new Supervisory Board of the UKF. Cultural manager, ex-deputy minister of culture Halyna Hryhorenko urged to be active in the processes of updating the Supervisory Board.

“Now there is a short period when the selection of a new member of the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation will be carried out. 2 representatives from cultural institutions, 2 representatives from public associations. These are the positions that our cultural community should influence“, Grigorenko wrote.

Founder of the Ukrainianer project Bohdan Logvinenko urged to be active in submitting documents so as not to repeat the situation surrounding the previous composition of the council.

“I would like to remind you that 3 years ago, you and I screwed up the UKF, without putting enough effort and attention into an important competition. As a result, members of the Supervisory Board under the guidance of the then Minister Tkachenka became such notable characters as, for example, Oleksiy Adolfovych Kiryushchenko… I will not bore you with a list of all the worthy members of the Supervisory Board of the current composition. And I ask you to draw the attention of organizations and institutions working in the field of culture to this competition and send one of your representatives there. I plan to apply as well“, Logvinenko wrote.

Cultural manager, probable candidate for the post of Minister of Culture Yulia Fediv urged organizations and institutions working in the field of culture to apply.

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Ukrainian Cultural Fund – a state institution that provides financial assistance to Ukrainian cultural projects based on competitive selections. The Supervisory Board is one of the governing bodies of the UKF.

The current composition of the Supervisory Board was formed at the end of 2020 and was elected for three years. So her term of office expires at the end of 2023. The same person cannot be a member of the Supervisory Board of the Fund for more than two terms in a row.

In May 2021, cultural figures accused the UCF Supervisory Board of manual management and wrote a corresponding open letter to President Volodymyr Zelensky, the then Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko, and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.

The letter claimed that the council fundamentally refused to finance a significant part of the projects that took high places in the rating. Instead, UKF decided to give money to projects with fewer points and a lower place in the rating.

Photo: UKF

The signatories reported that the Supervisory Board did not explain its decisions, deprived the participants of the competition of the right to appeal, and did not inform about changes in priorities in conducting the competitive selection. Then they demanded from Zelensky to dissolve the Supervisory Board of the UKF and cancel its decision.

In response, Oleksandr Tkachenko stated that a crisis regarding the system of management approaches had long been brewing in UKF. He also recommended the resignation of two members of the Supervisory Board: Oleksandr Suslenskyi and Ihor Tuluzov.

In June of the same year, Oleksandr Tkachenko appointed the executive director of the UKF. He became a specialist in public policy in the archival field and candidate of historical sciences. Vladyslav Berkovskyi. Berkovsky won the competition for this position.

In April 2023, the UKF announced that this year it lacked funds to finance cultural and artistic projects.

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