The Center for Ukrainian Experience and Resilience (CUDR) is a platform created to collect, preserve, systematize, and interpret Ukraine’s unique experience gained during a full-scale war.
Today, Ukraine is experiencing an experience that no modern European state has. In conditions of constant military threat, the country not only continues to fight, but also maintains the work of state institutions, communities, businesses, critical infrastructure, medicine, and education. Ukrainians create volunteer networks, restore the destroyed, launch new production facilities, develop technologies, and find solutions for situations that could not be prepared for in advance.
Behind each of these processes is practical experience – specific decisions, people, mistakes, conclusions, and models of interaction.
Our mission
To preserve the truth, transform experience into knowledge, and pass it on to the world – for restoration, development, and future generations.
We seek to record not only what happened to Ukraine during the war, but above all – how Ukrainians acted in response to unprecedented challenges.
How they made decisions in conditions of uncertainty. How they adapted to new threats. How they created solutions where there were no ready-made algorithms. How they united people and resources. How they restored and are restoring work after attacks. How they transformed and are transforming the crisis into an impetus for technological, managerial and social changes.
It is this experience that shapes the phenomenon of Ukrainian resilience.
We collect not only cases – we accumulate knowledge
The Ukrainian Resilience Center collects the experience of people, teams, organizations, enterprises, communities and institutions that continue to operate in conditions of war.
We are interested not only in successful cases. No less important are difficult decisions, unsuccessful approaches, mistakes and conclusions made in crisis situations. After all, the real value of experience lies in the ability to understand why some solutions work and others do not.
We strive to turn individual cases into systematized knowledge: to identify patterns, analyze practices, record effective models and make the conclusions obtained available to those who will be able to apply them in the future.
Thus, personal or local experience ceases to be just a memory of a specific event and becomes part of shared Ukrainian knowledge.
What we research
Ukrainian resilience is manifested simultaneously in many areas, so the Center for Sustainable Development works with experience in key areas that determined the country’s ability to withstand war and continue to develop.
These are defense and security, volunteering, recovery, business, innovation, humanitarian logistics and public administration.
We explore the experience of the military and civilians, state structures and local communities, volunteer organizations and public initiatives, Ukrainian entrepreneurs, engineers, technology teams and specialists from various industries.
For us, decisions at the state level and the experience of a small community, technological development and volunteer initiative, the transformation of a large enterprise and the decision of a small team that helped it continue to work during a crisis can be equally important.
Because Ukrainian resilience consists of thousands of such decisions.
Ukrainian experience, important for the world
Ukraine’s experience goes far beyond the borders of our country.
The war showed how quickly modern states can face complex crises: attacks on critical infrastructure, energy threats, cyberattacks, large-scale population displacement, disruption of logistics, information operations and the need to make decisions in conditions of constant uncertainty.
Ukraine is already finding practical answers to many of these challenges.
That is why the Ukrainian experience can be valuable for state and local authorities of other countries, international organizations, universities and research centers, NGOs, businesses, security, crisis management, reconstruction and development specialists.
We strive to make this knowledge understandable and accessible to an international audience so that the experience gained by Ukraine at an extremely high cost can help other societies to be better prepared for future challenges.
For the reconstruction of Ukraine
The knowledge gathered is needed not only to understand the past. It is necessary for Ukraine to rebuild and develop further.
Rebuilding the country is not a return to the state that existed before the war. It is an opportunity to use the accumulated experience to create stronger institutions, more resilient communities, more modern infrastructure, competitive businesses and more effective governance systems.
Therefore, the experience of the war must become one of the resources of Ukraine’s post-war transformation. What helps us survive today should help us recover and become stronger tomorrow.
The Center for Ukrainian Experience and Resilience is a place where Ukraine’s experience becomes knowledge, and knowledge becomes a resource for recovery, development, and the future.