Not easy but move

Illia Halychanivskyi Vlada Mahotska Oleh Malets Yuliia Martyniuk Maria Pihura

Lviv has won the title of European Youth Capital 2025! This is a unique event for the world, as Ukraine is in a state of war with Russia. Many processes have been put on pause, but we understand that young people cannot be put on pause. Youth must move forward and develop. Youth will become the driving force of Ukraine in the post-war period. Our goal is to motivate young people not to stop... to learn, create, develop, support, unite, fight, in short, to move forward. We have created the first motivational video as part of Lviv's status as the European Youth Capital 2025 to convey the main idea: Not easy but move. At the core of the video, we used the poem "Kamenyari" written by Ivan Franko back in 1878, which is as relevant now as ever. Visually, we wanted to show the state of young people experiencing war in Ukraine, as if they are "standby" between yesterday and tomorrow. But no one knows what tomorrow will be like! Waiting for better times is not an option - we need to move now. We believe that youth is the future, shaping up now.