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Ihor Lameko
Vilnius, Lithuania · [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація») · [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація») · [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація»)

PROFILE
Researcher and civil-society professional working on disinformation, media, migration and youth engagement in the context of the war
in Ukraine. Experienced in building partnerships with public institutions, embassies and NGOs, running public events and humanitarian
fundraising, and conducting field and media research. Combines analytical skills with project coordination, communication and
facilitation in multilingual, international settings.

CURRENT ENGAGEMENTS
Investigator (intern), Media4Change Vilnius · Sep 2026 – present
• Research on the killing of journalists in the Israeli–Palestinian war and on media narratives in Lithuania and Ukraine.
• Developed a coding protocol and code Lithuanian media coverage in comparison with coverage of the war in Ukraine; write
analytical memos and present findings to the team.
• Upcoming: interviews and focus groups with journalists, comparative report and recommendations for newsrooms.
Skills: Media monitoring, content analysis, coding-protocol design, OSINT verification practices, analytical writing, presenting
findings.
Project Coordinator, Youth, Peace and Security: Nordic Baltic Youth Resilience Initiative Vilnius · Sep 2026 – present
• Represent UYGL in a regional youth initiative on disinformation, hybrid threats, rapid AI development and social divisions.
• Develop workshop concepts for the project’s Final Forum and coordinate with partner organisations.
Skills: Workshop and curriculum design, non-formal education, partner coordination, youth engagement, resilience and counter-
disinformation topics.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Co-founder and International Relations & Partnerships Manager Nov 2023 – present
Ukrainian Youth Group in Lithuania (UYGL), Vilnius — first Ukrainian youth civil-society organisation in Lithuania
• Co-organised 60+ public events for diverse audiences — young people, the Ukrainian community, the Lithuanian public, diplomats,
parliamentarians, security-sector and media professionals — from conferences, forums and panel discussions to exhibitions, film
screenings, charity runs and cultural evenings; led events from concept and speakers to logistics and delivery.
• Developed cultural projects presenting Ukrainian history and the experience of war to Lithuanian audiences, including exhibitions
on prisoners of war and combat medics hosted by public institutions and under parliamentary patronage.
• Built and maintain a network of 30+ institutional partners (Embassy of Ukraine, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, universities,
NGOs and international organisations).
• Raised €20,000+ for humanitarian needs and the rehabilitation of Ukrainian veterans and defenders through charity auctions,
fundraising campaigns, charity parties, charity runs and other community events.
• Coordinate a team of 5–15 members and volunteers; lead the organisation’s communications and social media; represent UYGL in
speeches at public institutions and in media interviews.
Skills: Partnership building, humanitarian fundraising, charity event organisation, event management and protocol, team
leadership, volunteer coordination, strategic communication, social media, public speaking, media relations.
Survey Enumerator, UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) Lithuania Sep 2022 – Mar 2024
• Conducted 500+ structured face-to-face interviews with Ukrainian refugees across five research waves on displacement-related
needs, integration and vulnerability, in the major Lithuanian cities with the largest Ukrainian communities (KoBoToolbox).
• Ensured data quality by checking and cleaning survey entries; referred respondents to relevant support services and NGOs.
• Prepared and presented a fieldwork summary to ambassadors of 10+ countries at a diplomatic briefing in Vilnius.
Skills: Survey fieldwork, structured interviewing, mobile data collection, data quality control, research ethics with vulnerable
groups, referral and case sensitivity, reporting to diplomatic audiences.
Head of Student Council, School of Sociology, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Oct 2021 – Oct 2023
• Led the student council team and represented sociology students in university-level student self-government and before the
administration; advocated for student rights.
• Ran three applicant recruitment campaigns and integration programmes for first-year students; organised 10+ civic, academic and
educational events.
• After the full-scale invasion, coordinated volunteer and fundraising campaigns raising €7,500+ to support displaced students and
students who joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Skills: Leadership, student representation and advocacy, recruitment campaigns, event organisation, crisis response, volunteer
fundraising.

EDUCATION
BA in Social Science, Politics of Global Challenges, Vilnius University Sep 2023 – present
• Final-year student; thesis in progress on civilian OSINT communities and their relations with the state in wartime Ukraine.
Erasmus+ exchange, Political Science, University of Zurich Feb – Jul 2026
• Political polarisation; social data science; nationalism and national identity; cultural diplomacy; Switzerland in the modern world.
MA in Social Science, Digital Society, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Sep 2023 – Dec 2024
• Best Graduate of the School of Sociology; thesis on digital capital and social inequality (survey, regression analysis).
BA in Sociology, Vilnius University Sep 2022 – Jun 2023

SELECTED RESEARCH
2026 Research design on political polarisation in wartime Ukraine, University of Zurich (supervised by Prof. Marco
Steenbergen).
2026 Term paper on Ukrainian cultural diplomacy (Ukraine WOW), University of Zurich.
2025 Conference paper on social cohesion and institutional resilience of Ukrainian universities in wartime, Aurora International
Peace Conference, Innsbruck (co-author).
2025 Paper on local, global and digital advocacy for Ukrainian prisoners of war (#FreeAzovstalDefenders), Vilnius University.
2024 MA thesis: “Digital Capital as a Tool of (Re)Production of Social Inequality”, 164 pp.

SKILLS
• Research methods: Research design; survey design and structured interviewing; semi-structured and expert interviews; focus
groups; content, discourse and thematic analysis; media monitoring and coding-protocol design; comparative case studies;
secondary analysis of survey data.
• Analysis: Descriptive and inferential statistics, regression, confirmatory factor analysis, scaling, social network analysis, open-
source research and source verification.
• Policy, projects and facilitation: Policy analysis and policy-brief writing, negotiation, stakeholder mapping, project cycle
management, workshop facilitation and moderation, mentoring and guest lectures.

TECHNICAL TOOLS
• Statistics and data: SPSS; R / RStudio (tidyverse, ggplot2, igraph); SQL; Python (basic); Excel / Google Sheets (pivot tables, lookups,
charts).
• Qualitative analysis: NVivo, MAXQDA; AI-assisted transcription.
• Surveys and fieldwork: KoBoToolbox, Google Forms.
• Networks and visualisation: Gephi (social network analysis), Datawrapper, Flourish.
• OSINT: Geolocation and satellite imagery (Google Earth Pro, Sentinel Hub, SunCalc); Telegram channel analytics (TGStat, Telemetr).
• AI tools: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity; Claude Code and agent-based research workflows; NotebookLM for source-based
literature review.
• Collaboration and project management: Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint), Notion, Trello, Miro; Zoom and
Teams facilitation (breakout rooms, Mentimeter, Slido).
• Design and content: Canva, Figma, CapCut.

LANGUAGES
Ukrainian (native) · English (C1) · Russian (fluent) · German (A1, learning) · Lithuanian (A1, learning)

SELECTED TRAININGS AND CONFERENCES
2025 Network Governance course, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech); SQL and R courses (Codefinity).
2025 Aurora International Peace Conference, Innsbruck; “Educating for Tomorrow”, Ukraine–Canada — presenter.
2024 International Winter School “Risk and Crisis Management Education”, Mid Sweden University, Östersund.
2023 WMGIC x NATO Countering Disinformation Challenge competition.