 Welcome everyone and thank you for having us in the Open Education Conference 2022. I am Paula Corti, I am from Italy, and I am the Open Education Community Manager at Spark Europe, working with the European Network of Open Education Librarians in order to implement as far as possible the UNESCOI recommendation. And we need today, I am, I have the privilege to share the session with Tatiana Kolesnikova from the Nipro University and transmitting from the basement over all in the Nipro, in the Nipro. And Mira Buistuk, who is also from Ukraine and is with us from the Netherlands, from Groningen University. And I'm turning my microphone off because I want to leave the floor to them and mainly to Tatiana, to share her experience. Tatiana, you may begin. Dear colleagues, my sincere greetings. I would like to begin this presentation by saying that I am a very happy person for many reasons. First of all, because my family and I are alive, despite the terrible war that Russia is waging in Ukraine with the intention of occupying its territory, destroying the Ukrainian people as a nation and erasing its history, culture, science and education. Secondly, I am happy that I was born and live in Ukraine, among the working, intelligent, talented, husbandly and free people. Thirdly, I am happy that I have a favorite job and a wonderful collective of single-minded people, both in the library and in the university. Secondly, because I was born and live in Ukraine, among the hardworking, intelligent, talented, courageous and free people. Thirdly, because I have my favorite job and a wonderful team of like-minded people, both at the library and at the university. Fourthly, I am happy thanks to Spark Europe and NOEL. I, my library and my university have made it to a wonderful mission to be ambassadors of open world and open world resources in Ukraine. And also, I am incredibly happy that I can be at this conference among thousands of colleagues from all over the world, who are leaders of the mind of the open world and its ambassadors of each country. Ukrainian libraries continue to work in the military and often in extreme conditions. The libraries are working under the guise of evil. So, in most of the territory of Ukraine, we have become physically inaccessible, because our libraries are closed, but we are working remotely. We provide various services and support for students' learning. We provide scientific and scientific activities, including events, increasing information literacy and the fight against fake news, checking academic texts on the signs of the plagiarism, administering repositories, providing access to the content of the world databases, services of digital publishing of newspapers. We continue to work in wartime, often in extreme conditions. Librarians work under the slogan of intimate ability. True, in most of Ukraine, we have become physically inaccessible, because our libraries are closed, but we work remotely. We provided a variety of services to support student learning, teaching and research activities, including measures to improve information literacy and fight fake news, checking academic texts for signs of plagiarism, administering repositories, providing access to the content of global databases, digital library publishing services of journals, and so on. We took care of the preservation of old prints and ensured the transfer of backup IT structures to the cloud environments. And of course, we used the opportunity to introduce solutions to open the world to satisfy the needs that are not easy to satisfy in other ways. We took care of the preservation of old prints and ensured the transfer of backup IT structures to the cloud environments. And of course, we jumped at the chance to implement open educational solutions to meet the needs that are not easy to meet in any other way. And this was and remains our information front. But in almost eight months of the bloody war, the libraries were led to the steps that do not carry the purpose of the library, and there is a manifestation of humanity and mutual help. This is, for example, improving the volunteer movement, humanitarian and psychological assistance, providing protection for the needs of the military, the courses with the first medical aid, the equipment, the collection of money for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and others. During these almost eight months of the bloody war, our librarians took actions that do not always have a pure library purpose. These actions are rather a manifestation of humanity and mutual assistance. This includes, for example, joining the volunteer movement, providing humanitarian and psychological aid, weaving protective nets for military needs, organizing courses in first aid in case of injury, fundraising for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and so on. The philosophy and practice of openness for Ukrainian libraries is not something new. In 2007, academic and university libraries accepted openness and explained it to the scientists. The libraries, working on OpenSchool ошиб, developed open academic thinking, were able to learn the tools and experience of the library. Today in Ukraine, more than 100 libraries are supported by the university libraries. The libraries also work on projects of digital publishing, supporting university scientific journals on the UGS platform. The philosophy and practices of openness are not new for Ukrainian libraries. Since 2007, academic and university libraries have embraced openness and are explaining it to scholars. While working on OpenSchoolership, these librarians have developed open academic mindsets, skill sets, experiences, and tools. Today, most repositories in Ukraine, almost 100, are supported by university libraries. University libraries also implement digital publishing projects, supporting university scholarly journals on OJS platforms. They fill out the content of Ukrainian Wikipedia with their own documents and teach students to look for strategies for OER. Moreover, they enrich the content of the Ukrainian Wikipedia with their own posts and teach students search strategies for open access resources. The process of opening and rebuilding digital structures has been accelerated since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Without a doubt, this was oriented by university libraries to provide online services and to activate various types of guidance and support for OJS and OER. The processes of supporting openness and rebuilding educational and scientific digital infrastructures have accelerated with the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Undoubtedly, this has reoriented university libraries to the provision of online services and activated various areas of implementation and support for open education and OER. So far, there is no way to talk about specific actions and achievements of the open world and OER in the middle of all of Ukraine. In recent years, the Ministry of Science has made its priority more systematic work from increasing and approaching academic skills of Ukraine with European research and innovation skills. It is too early yet to talk about specific actions and achievements in open education and OER across Ukraine. In recent years, the Ministry of Education and Science has made it a priority to work more systematically to bring Ukrainian academia closer to the European research and innovation community. Several institutions in Ukraine have made it a priority to work more systematically to bring Ukrainian academia closer to the European research and innovation community. Several institutions have already embraced some open practices, but open education and OER are not yet mentioned in official national documents. In August of 2022, we saw the first positive impacts. For example, Opytol-Volnyk-Mon for the establishment of a higher education system of implementation and recommendation to open UNESCO World Resources, which was proposed to fill with the goal of carrying out the first consultations between the Ministry and the academic community. However, in August 2022, we saw the first positive developments. One of them was the Ministry questionnaire for higher education institutions on the state of implementation of the UNESCO recommendation on OER, which is meant to inform the first consultations between the Ministry and the academic community. For a more concrete explanation of the topic, as the war in Ukraine became a catalyst for the development of OER, we saw how the work with OER in the scientific library of the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technology and the director of which I have something to be. For a better understanding of the topic of how the war in Ukraine became a catalyst for the development of OER, let's take a look at how and where the work with OER began at the scientific library of the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, USUST, which I have the honor to be the director of. The topic of OER and OER was developed in 2019 and at the beginning it was an analysis of official UNESCO documents and research articles and practical research of the world's academic libraries. We began working on the topic of open education and OER in 2019. In the beginning, we analyzed official UNESCO documents, research articles and practical experience of academic libraries around the world. By having a theoretical basis, we understood that the library should act as an organizational structure that would provide an optimal balance between the efforts of the teachers, including the number of authors, and the mechanism to help with understanding of OER, as well as creating and using and publishing OER. Already having a certain theoretical basis, we understood that the library should act as an organizational structure that would provide an optimal balance between the efforts of the teachers, who also function as authors, and the mechanism for helping to understand OER, as well as to create, use and publish OER. As far as the library's activities are concerned, in the direction of OER, they had a local character. They should, first of all, rely on certain foundations at the university and, secondly, have a strategic meaning for the years ahead. And the correctness of such our view already confirms today, when we stand before the calls of a trivary and complex war. And we would move from model Sprint to model Marathon. Since the OER efforts of the university library were local in nature, they should, firstly, be based on a certain foundation at the university itself, and secondly, have strategic importance for years to come. And this vision of ours is being confirmed today when we are facing the challenge of a long and exhausting war. We seem to be transferring from the Sprint model to the Marathon model. The philosophy and practices of openness in the university library take root in 2009. Back then, the library deployed and began to administer the first institutional repository in the Dnipro region on the DSPACE platform. Since 2011, the library has already begun to work as a digital publisher and, together with various faculties, created the first open access scientific journals in the regions on the OJS platform. Parallel, the libraries worked with the platforms of open conferences at the OKS, and since 2021, they have begun to develop long-term processes of books on open monograph press. For example, since 2018, our library has been present in the library publishing directories. In parallel, librarians started working with open conference platforms on OCS, and in 2022, began to master the book publishing processes on OMP. For example, already six years ago, the library started working with open conference platforms on OCS, and in 2022 began to master the book publishing processes on OMP. For example, already since 2018, our library has been present in the library publishing directories. That is why librarians in the research environment, as well as in the ecosystem, were already full-fledged partners of scientists, publishers, and traditional university studies. That is why librarians in the research environment ecosystem have already been full-fledged partners for scientists, teachers, and traditional university publishing. That is the university community trusted the library and continues to trust it. Since 2019, by February 24, 2022, the library has improved the knowledge of publishers and librarians themselves about the importance of OJS and OER and their advantages. We discussed how formally at webinars, at meetings with the lecturers and lecturers, lectures with students and PhD students, and also informally with users during their study in the library department. From 2019 to February 24, 2022, the library was raising awareness among teachers and librarians about the importance and benefits of open education and OER. We communicated both formally on webinars at meetings with department heads and teachers and during lectures for PhD students and informally with users during their visits to library departments. But frankly speaking, it did not arouse much interest among our teachers and students at that time. At that time, the library was slowly moving forward, using a tactic of small steps, a little bit, but constantly. On the website of the library, a new information block of the open education resource was created that was systematically filled and renewed with new resources. We created and published articles about research and social media. However, librarians have been moving forward a bit slowly, using the small steps tactics, little by little, but constantly. A new information block OER was created on the library's website, which was systematically filled and updated with new resources. We created and published articles in professional publications and posts on social networks. On the national level, the West was working together with the university libraries of Ukraine. This morning, on the 21st of the year, I was held an all-Ukrainian webinar on the open education resources of the role of the university library. In addition, my colleague Olena Matveyeva was held an all-Ukrainian research that was carried out by all Ukrainian researchers in the library of the West, that I research Ukraine, and that is ready to work with OER. At the national level, the activities were aimed at the community of university librarians in Ukraine. Thus, in May 2021, I conducted an all-Ukrainian webinar OER, the role of university libraries. In addition, in 2021, my colleague Olena Matveyeva and I conducted an all-Ukrainian study among the libraries of Ukrainian higher education institutions on the readiness to work with OER. The university administration and community trust the library can see its initiatives and pilot projects as a set of strategic opportunities to invest in infrastructure for the dissemination of scientific knowledge. It was during wartime that director and vice-factor of our university gave the green light to the OER community. They support the library's calls for the introduction of new models of information support for distance learning and teaching in Ukrainian. In addition, we understand that after the war, hundreds of people with disabilities affected by the Russian aggression will want to get higher education or retrain, but they might not be able to come to the university physically. And it is the library that should be ready to support the library and the community. The library of OER is also ready to support the library and the community. And it is the library that should be ready to support inclusiveness with its resources and services. And this is the social justice we are talking about. The university hosts an original center for higher education for persons with disabilities. And one of the first steps in the direction of ensuring social justice and supporting OER was the introduction of a clause on the possibility of using OER in educational programs in the regulations of our university. We started to conduct a library consultation for teachers and post-school teachers on the issue of copyright and licensing. We also saw that more than 200 teachers and scientists visited the West online, what we never saw before. Until their course, the scientific information system for students in PhD, I, as a teacher, gave lectures on OER and OER and received from them, at the end of the semester, the independent work of the search strategies of OER for this dissertation. This is a short video for 5 minutes. As a result of this support, we held meetings with key stakeholders and started holding library consultations on copyright and licensing issues for teachers as potential OER authors. We also saw over 200 teachers and researchers attend a thematic online event, something we had never seen before. As an associate professor, I added a lecture on OER to my course for PhD students. At the end of the semester, the students submitted their independent assignments on OER search strategies and created short videos of up to 5 minutes. We studied the technical possibilities for creating, curating and maintaining open textbooks and using multimedia in them. Additionally, we prepared for public discussion regulatory documents on creation of open textbooks and open access teaching guides. In the framework of the pilot program, we also prepared for public discussions on OER and OER and open access teaching guides. In the framework of the pilot program, we also prepared for public discussions on OER and OER and open access teaching guides. In the framework of the pilot program, we also prepared for public discussions on OER and open access teaching guides. In the framework of the pilot program, we also prepared for public discussions on OER, which had been organized in institutional repository and was integrated in thebellary system of OER. So far it is the only Ukrainian open hands in OER. And in the process of preparation, As part of the pilot project, creative and determined teachers of our university created four open textbooks as OER in partnership with librarians. These textbooks have been placed in the institutional repository and integrated in the international system OERC. So far, these are the only Ukrainian textbooks in the OERC. Two more textbooks are being prepared as we speak. The OERC was created and published on YouTube for the first time in June 2022. The cycle of the open world and the open world resources is important for the Ukrainian higher world. During June 2022, three open video lectures out of ten of the cycle on open education and OER were created and published on YouTube. The creation of open lecturers and the cycle of open video lectures is an example of an intellectual volunteer, publishers and libraries. When the motivation of the staff became a useless desire to work for the benefit of the university, the cafes and students, and not for personal benefit. The creation of open textbooks and a series of open video lectures is an example of intellectual volunteering of teachers and librarians. The librarians, when the motivating factor was a selfless wish to act for the benefit of the university, department and students, not for personal gain. The scientific library of OERC is an organizer of the annual international conference of the university library on the new stage of the development of social communications, on which, in the new year and this year, the powerful team of NOL speakers has performed. The current answer is confirmed by the fact that, according to the results of the online conference, the trends of the library of the universities of Ukraine in the military are open science, inclusion and open world resources. In addition, the NOL performance team has visited three leaders in the nomination of the best speaker. Our university library is the organizer of the annual international conference, university library at the new stage of social communications development, at which a powerful team of NOL speakers presented last year and again this year. The relevance of their presentations is confirmed by the results of a conference survey. The survey reveals that the trends among Ukrainian university libraries in wartime are open science, inclusion and open educational resources. Moreover, the performance of the NOL team entered the top three in the best speaker nomination. And this is very, very important for the NOL and the OERC. Our library would never have been able to achieve this tragic military time and in such short term achieve the results that we have today without the active support of the NOL and OERC. And this part is also very important. I'd like to say a few words about NOL and OERC. Our library would never have been able to achieve the results we have today in this terrible, tragic wartime and in such a short time without the active support of Spark Europe and NOL. This is not just the professional support of highly qualified experts who teach, answer questions, provide their suggestions and offer possible solutions to the difficult problems we're facing. This is the sincere support of friends who care about us and our families. I feel their warmth even at a great distance through the monitor screen, because this is humanity. And my university is the only Ukrainian member of Spark Europe, and it is a great honor for us, but also a great responsibility. And my university is the only Ukrainian member of Spark Europe, and it is a great honor for us, but also a great responsibility. Ukraine has received its initial, difficult period of war, and we will continue to become stronger. Each of us has its own service. And right now, like never before, we are aware of the importance of our work, of service to the interests and needs of the university community, often even in dangerous conditions. And this is our contribution. The contribution of university librarians to approaching withive the contribution of university librarians to approaching our victory. And I sincerely believe that with such international support, noble and strategically important ideas and practices of open education and OER will spread very quickly across Ukraine. The University Library is and will be the ambassador of open education and OER The university library is and will be the ambassador of open education and OER at the university region and also in the country, despite the fact that the war is our new reality. Despite the fact that the Usus library sorely lacks modern computer equipment, despite the fact that many young researchers, many young teachers have gone to the front to defend their homeland, while more senior teachers do not have sufficient training to create videos or multimedia and are not always ready for OER, despite the fact that librarians need training on open education and OER in Ukrainian language. And I also sincerely believe that the black struggle of the Ukrainian world, due to the terrible war of Russia against Ukraine, will soon become an incitement struggle. And it will also be thanks to global practices of openness. And this will happen thanks to, among other things, global practices of openness. Together, we will achieve the advantages over Russia, as well as over the country by aggressor, and we will defend the rights of each country to the highest human rights, democracy, different cultures, national science and the open world. Librarians in Ukraine in 2022 are modern heroes, who together with colleagues use digital open materials to support students in this time of violent crisis and do their best to maintain their cultural resources available for all, at least in their digital format. The annual network and what we did with the members and Spark Europe are just helping from afar from providing practical support and creating tools and resources that can be adapted and translated into local language. We as a community are learning from them. Resilience is a word we sometimes overused during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was nothing compared to the ground and open literally underground work. Librarians and teachers are doing in Ukraine. We have members from different European countries, and we consider open education and OER, a field rush that can now offer chance to keep the doors of dialogue open. And in the future, a road to reveal the trust and cooperation. As the open education community at large, we must continuously and consciously choose to do our best to help these brave librarians support students and local communities as they are now. While the whole world is watching with admiration, Ukrainian people protecting their homeland amidst the brutal war waged by Russia, Ukrainian librarians are fighting their own battles, often less visible, to provide access to education and support scientific research. They are undertaking and successfully implement implementing open education and open science projects that are essentially directed at social justice and inclusion for current and future generations of students, teachers and researchers. They are leading by example and setting high standards of resilience and indemnitability for all of us. And these are the values that all of us at NOL stand for. As a Ukrainian and as an open education librarian myself, I'm grateful to the NOL for providing the platform on which we can join our efforts to support our colleagues in Ukraine. Support them in their noble and often pioneering role of paving the way for open education in times of crisis and unleashing the transformative potential of OER for the times of reconstruction that will inevitably follow with the victory of Ukraine. I'm honored and privileged to be working alongside Tatiana and Paola and our wonderful colleagues all over the world, the inspiring volunteers and down to earth dreamers that moved education forward. Thank you all for your attention. Glory to Ukraine. Tatiana, there is a question for you. What can we do to help? So if you want to ask someone something, this is the moment for you. If you already have something very clear in your mind. Tatiana, there is already a question for you. What else can our participants do to help? If you already have any specific requests, now or maybe later, please send them. Okay, if possible, I will send a request a little later, but I have already sent that we have a lot of such problems that need to be solved, but this will be done gradually. There are quite a lot of issues that need to be resolved, but they will approach step by step and Tatiana will get back to you. I think it was Catherine who asked about any additional support. Yeah, it was Laura, but there are many more. Yes, so Tatiana would like to also get back to you a bit later and, well, to sort of establish communication and connection and ask for some specific support that could be provided. Thank you very much for offering that. And thank you all for your nice approach in the chat and consider that we are more than happy to connect you with Tatiana and to work together. As you can see, we are overcoming barriers of languages and doing our best to support each other, even using automatic translation. Don't think that we are all professionals here. I'm thankful for having Mira, because she knows both languages, but we can do this together. So it's just to be willing to do something and we can have a step by step approach. So it's small things or big projects, we can do a lot together. And thank you for adding us. Mira, I would like to work in some specific project with our library, some specific project. And Tatiana would be really interested in joining some specific projects with their library, of course. So if all of you wonderful colleagues from all around the world have specific projects in mind where a Ukrainian scientific library could participate, your suggestions are really welcome. And thank you a lot for your proposals and for support. Any other questions for Tatiana? We still have one minute. Meanwhile, let me thank Tatiana personally for the work that she's doing, which is incredible, amazing, and really she is my hero. Tatiana, I would also like to thank you personally for the incredible work that she's doing and for her true heroism. And also for many people in the chat, who are also enjoying their job, the work that you and your colleagues are looking forward to doing. Thank you, thank you, because I'm going to cry now. Tatiana is grateful and emotional. So just so you know, her library is a finalist for the Open Education Award for Open Resilience in 2022. So even, I mean, the final results of this award will be published on the 20th of October, but she's a finalist with her work and we are grateful for what you are doing. Paola, she announced that your library has become a finalist of this award that you were talking about on the Friday. And on the 20th of October, the finalist will be announced specifically in this category, but in any case, you are a finalist. And that's wonderful. Thank you, thank you. And welcome to the chat. Thank you, colleagues. Thank you. I want to say once again that I'm happy that such an audience. It's the first time I'm performing in front of such a respected community from many countries. That's why I'm very grateful, maybe something was wrong, but I'm happy that I'm here with you. Tatiana is really grateful for this opportunity to talk in front of you and to you and with you, all of you. Because this is her first experience of, well, such a large international conference and she's really grateful to be here, honored and humbled and happy.