Promotional Website of the UCU Student Government

UCU Student Government: A Digital Business Card for an Organization Where the Team Changes Every Year

The Student Government of the Ukrainian Catholic University is one of the most active in Ukraine: 9 years of activity, a branched structure consisting of the Government, the Student Council, an NGO, and dozens of student organizations. But the old website matched neither the level of activity nor the needs of two key audiences: external partners who needed an “institutional business card”, and students who needed a living guide to the community.

We created a bilingual promo website on Drupal that solves both tasks at once.

Dual Role — One Platform

For an external visitor, the website works as a representative resource: the structure of the student government is shown clearly, with access to reports for each term, documentation, and regulations. For a student, it is a practical tool: an events calendar through an embedded Google Calendar, guides for first-year students, a catalog of partner discounts, and direct contact with each department.

The design is built on a burgundy-and-white palette using the licensed Ukrainian typeface “Robochyi” by Tsankotype — a deliberate choice that emphasizes the autonomy of the student government from the university brand. Live photos of the community are integrated into every section so that people are always visible behind the official structure.

Architecture Designed for Rotation

The main technical feature of the project is the complete change of the student government team every term. The people who will fill the website next year may not even know about its existence today. That is why the admin panel was designed with maximum simplification: team members, reports, organizations, discounts, events, documents — everything is edited through intuitive forms. The “History” section with a year-by-year chronology allows each term to add its own layer while preserving everything that came before.

Notifications from contact forms are sent both to email and Telegram. Migration from the old website was secured through 301 redirects while preserving accumulated SEO value.

Result

A website that precisely matches the nature of the organization: serious enough for partners, convenient enough for students, and simple enough for each new team to take over without onboarding.