Mykyta Kovalevskyi, the second-year student of Management, is an author and coordinator of the project “Kids-Friendly City”. The main idea is to reduce the stress in the process of preparation and testing of the pupils who are passing the External independent evaluation (EIT). The statistical data proves that approximately 20% of mistakes are done due to stress. It’s not a secret that EIT causes a lot of stress that leads to health damage, including emotional disorders.

Within the “Kids-Friendly City” project the meeting took place in 21st of January at Congress-Center of Sumy State University. The discussion was provided by first-year student Vlasdyslav Piven, the member of Small Academy of Science, and civic activist and public figure Evgenyi Kozolup.

This project is supported by many city institutions and city activists. Galyna Plahotnykova, director of Informational Center of the Department of Education and Science of Sumy City Council, gave a speech to support this project. The pupils who are going to pass the EIT this or coming years had an opportunity to meet the professional phycologists of Sumy State University psychological service, Ludmila Kolisnyk and Anna Chernyakova. Mykyta mentioned as an author and coordinator of this project moderated the event.

The next stage of the project is the set of training “EIT without the stress”. The first pieces of training are planned to take place on the 5th and 7th of February. It’s notable that the registration has been going on till 20th of December 2019. More than 100 people have been registered and more than 10 gave a call to the organizers to join after the first meeting because of positive feedbacks.

We should add that during the project is not just for the leaning process. During the coffee-breaks, there will be meeting with successful people for experience sharing. Also, there is a plane to provide the trainings for the parents and to make demo-EIT for the participants with the proper certificates.