THE CENTRE OF UKRAINIAN RESILIENCE EXPERIENCE
Turning what Ukraine has learned into knowledge others can use
The Centre of Ukrainian Resilience Experience (CURE) collects, preserves and systematises what Ukraine has learned during the full-scale war, and turns it into knowledge that can work beyond Ukraine.
Ukraine is facing a combination of pressures that no European state has had to manage in modern times. Under constant military threat, the country continues to fight — and at the same time keeps its institutions, communities, businesses, critical infrastructure, healthcare and education running. Ukrainians build volunteer networks, rebuild what has been destroyed, open new production lines, develop technologies and find answers to situations no one could have prepared for.
Behind every one of these processes lies practical experience: specific decisions, specific people, mistakes made, conclusions drawn, and working models of cooperation.
Our mission
To preserve the record, turn experience into knowledge, and pass it on — for recovery, for development, and for those who come after us.
We set out to document not only what happened to Ukraine during the war, but above all how Ukrainians responded to it. How decisions were taken under uncertainty. How people adapted to new threats. How solutions were built where no procedure existed. How resources and people were brought together. How work resumed after each strike. How crisis was turned into an impetus for technological, managerial and social change.
This is what forms the phenomenon of Ukrainian resilience.
We do not collect stories. We build knowledge
CURE gathers the experience of the people, teams, organizations, enterprises, communities and institutions that keep working through war.
Successful cases are not the only ones that matter. Difficult decisions, approaches that failed, mistakes and the conclusions drawn from them are no less valuable. The worth of experience lies precisely in understanding why some solutions work and others do not.
Our task is to turn individual cases into systematised knowledge: to identify patterns, analyze practice, record what works, and make the findings available to those who will need them.
Personal or local experience then stops being the memory of a single event and becomes part of a shared body of Ukrainian knowledge.
What we work with
Ukrainian resilience shows itself across many fields at once. CURE therefore works with experience in the areas that have determined the country’s ability to withstand the war and keep developing: defence and security, volunteering, recovery, business, innovation, humanitarian logistics and public administration.
We study the experience of soldiers and civilians, of state bodies and local communities, of volunteer organizations and civic initiatives, of Ukrainian entrepreneurs, engineers, technology teams and specialists across industries.
A decision taken at state level and the experience of a single community can matter equally. So can a technological breakthrough and a volunteer initiative; the transformation of a large enterprise and the decision of a small team that kept it working through a crisis.
Ukrainian resilience is made of thousands of such decisions.
Experience that matters beyond Ukraine
Ukraine is already living through scenarios that other states are still preparing for.
The war has shown how quickly a modern state can face converging crises: strikes on critical infrastructure, energy shortages, cyberattacks, mass displacement, broken logistics, information operations, and the need to decide under permanent uncertainty.
Ukraine is already finding practical answers to many of them. That is why this experience is of value to national and local authorities in other countries, to international organizations, universities and research centres, to non-governmental organizations and business, and to specialists in security, crisis management, reconstruction and development.
Our task is to make this knowledge clear and accessible to an international audience — so that what Ukraine has learned at an extraordinarily high price can help other societies prepare better for what may come.
For Ukraine’s recovery
This knowledge is not needed only to understand the past. Ukraine needs it to rebuild and to develop.
Recovery is not a return to the state of things that existed before the war. It is a chance to use what has been learned to build stronger institutions, more resilient communities, more modern infrastructure, competitive businesses and more effective systems of governance.
The experience of the war must therefore become one of the resources of Ukraine’s post-war transformation. What helps us hold on today should help us recover and grow stronger tomorrow.
The Centre of Ukrainian Resilience Experience is where Ukraine’s experience becomes knowledge, and knowledge becomes a resource for recovery, for development and for the future.