Press Spring ― 2025

The updated XXIII International Media Festival "PressSpring on the Dnieper Slopes" has started at the Kyiv Palace of Children and Youth.
During the online meeting, the organizers gathered educators and youth from the Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Cherkasy, Lviv, Chernihiv, Kyiv regions, and Kyiv.

The event announced not only the traditional activities but also some changes in the structure and conduct of the festival. "This year, we are not offering participants subtopics, as we usually do. In our opinion, it is modern to write and film about what is relevant, taking into account new global and Ukrainian trends. The main overarching theme of this year's media festival is 'I Believe,'" explains the festival coordinator, the head of the "YUN-PRESS" agency, Nadia Illyuk.

Themes of global trends:

• Protecting one's identity from the use of AI;
• Alternative education;
• Immersion in digital space simulation;
• The pursuit of intense emotions against the backdrop of burnout;
• A stronger focus on community after experiencing isolation;
• The revival of etiquette in light of instances of outrageous behavior in public spaces;
• Analog tourism without digital technologies and mobile phones, etc.

Among Ukrainian trends, there is a conditional division into two vectors: the rear and the front.

• Rear (volunteering; hacking blackouts; fighting enemy IPSOs; bidding farewell to post-colonial heritage, etc.)
• Front (new technologies in creating domestic weapons, strengthening society and its unification, etc.)

Серед модифікацій, зокрема, презентація «Міжнародної відкритої освітньої медіаплатформи» та бонусної системи за участь у профільних іграх, майстер-класах та конкурсах у період від старту фестивалю до подачі конкурсних робіт.

Запрошуємо стати учасником цьогорічного фесту. Пишіть, фотографуйте, знімайте відео на фестивальну тему — 2025 «Я ВІРЮ». Формулюйте власні підтеми в контексті головної теми фестивалю.