Unveiling the plan, the founder and president of the Warsaw-based Freedom Institute think tank, Igor Janke, told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) in Kyiv that the school would train Ukrainian leaders to manage the post-war reconstruction of democratic institutions in Ukraine.
Janke, who is a former journalist, added: “We want to help Ukraine build their country anew, drawing on the Polish experience, as well as to help in shaping Polish-Ukrainian relations.”
The Polish-Ukrainian Leadership School will be run together with the "Ukrainian Prism" Foreign Policy Council.
One of its experts, Oleksandr Krajev, told the PAP news agency: “There is a need to talk today about a new generation of Ukrainians, primarily leaders, who will be more European, who will know how to cooperate with our Polish friends, and who will have the knowledge ... to build a new Ukraine rather than recreate the past.”
He added that Poland, "which went through the same problems," can come to Ukraine’s support with its experience of reforms and help Ukraine in its European integration process.
The Polish-Ukrainian Leadership School is due to start operating in the spring. Its faculty will be made up of experts from Poland, Western Europe and the United States.
In the first year, classes will be conducted online.
(mk/gs)