SELECTION REPORT Selection Report for Editors and Vice Presidents of Kharkiv'17 — 11th NSC of EYP Ukraine, 10-15 July 2017 The Selection Panel composed by Maciej Krynski (President of the Session), Tetiana Lavrichenko (Project Coordinator of EYP Ukraine), Valeriia Nikitenko and Oleksandr Polishchuk (Head Organisers of the Session) has concluded the selection of two Editors and two Vice Presidents.
Editors Applications
The panel received applications from 5 applicants (3 female, 2 male) in total, with applicants coming from the following countries: Ukraine (2), Austria (3). Four applications were the joint ones. Consequently, the number of candidates was combined to 3. Deliberations During the selection process, every application was reviewed carefully. The panel discussed all applications thoroughly, taking into consideration the experience and personal motivation of the applicants, English language skills, creativity of their vision for the session and its accordance with the vision of the Selection panel, the profiles of potential Editors, previous media team experience as well as their insight into the responsibilities of the position they were applying for. As far as one of the candidates had a lack of sufficient EYP media team experience, not excellent English language skills and insufficiently disclosed the vision for the session, the choice was reduced to two candidates. These 2 applications illustrated the equal excellent level of English language skills, nearly the same experience (both general EYP experience and media team experience), high level of motivation and explained their vision in detail. However, the Selection panel have not understood fully one of the candidate’s visions. While the other vision demonstrated the outstanding ideas, truly inspiring and perfectly matching the session's vision. Moreover, this concept was introduced in a original way - a 360-degree video.