Opinion & Interviews

Tetiana Kovalchuk: mentoring programme ‘gave me ability to reveal my vulnerability’
December 06, 2019One year ago, the EU Advisory Mission and the Folke Bernadotte Academy teamed up to deliver a Skype-based one-on-one High Level Mentoring Programme on Gender Responsive Leadership to Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Tetiana Kovalchuk. Last week in Kyiv, Tetiana met her mentor, Dr Leslie Groves Williams (FBA), in person for the first time. […]
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Selfless and proud: the service dogs of Ukraine’s Civilian Security Sector
December 05, 2019Several of Ukraine’s civilian security sector institutions use service dogs during the course of day-to-day law enforcement operations. They are the unheralded heroes when it comes to keeping Ukraine safe. EUAM is supporting the dogs (and their trainers) on an ongoing basis, and here we pay tribute to just four of the finest.
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Heike Kottmann, EUAM Adviser/Trainer on Criminal Investigations (Odesa)
October 31, 2019Have you met Heike? She is an investigator from Germany, currently working as an EUAM Advisor in Odesa. She explains what it feels like to wear men’s protection gear whilst serving as one of the first women in a Riot Unit in Germany. Heike is not alone. Women are an integral part of the civilian […]
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The European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM) Ukraine is a non-executive mission of the European Union that formally began operations from its headquarters in Kyiv on 1 December 2014.
The goal is to achieve a civilian security sector that is efficient, accountable, and enjoys the trust of the public.