For three days, from 22nd till 24th of September, the VII International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference “Social Development Towards Values Ethics – Technology – Society” has taken place in Beskida Mountains Hotel Gołębiewski, Wisła, Poland. The Head of the department, Dr. Hanna Shvindina, was a guest speaker at this conference in the section devoted to social development and innovations in teaching and research. Dr. Shvindina shared her experience in Global Online Learning projects and her recent finding in coopetition research. The presentations were bright and insightful and had given rise to lengthy discussions within EU bodies. This event became a starting point for further cooperation with colleagues from Poland.

The conference organizers are the Department of Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian University of Technology.

The partners of the conference were The London Academy of Science and Business (London, England), Institute of Industrial Economics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine), Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (Kyiv, Ukraine), Sumy State University (Sumy, Ukraine), National Aviation University (Kyiv, Ukraine), Uzhhorod National University (Uzhhorod, Ukraine) & Pavel Sukhoi State Technical University (Gomel, Belarus).