On October 5, 2020, bachelor students of the М-82ан group took part in an action under the slogan "The United in Europe - 30 years of German unity", which aims to promote the idea of Ukrainian-German unity. The innovation project #TagderEinheit initiated by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kyiv city, in particular by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ukraine Anka Feldhuzen. Sumy has become one of the 14 cities of the all-Ukrainian project, which is held as part of the “German Weeks in Ukraine”. The coordinators of the #TagderEinheit project in Sumy city are the NGO "Youth Media Union (YMU)" and the SSU Media Center, “U-lab“. The project showed how modern technologies allow us to get closer to each other.
Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University
Online lecture for 4th-year students on the educational program 028.00.01 "Management of socio-cultural activities." On October 7, 2020, as part of the study of the discipline "Strategic and Innovation Management", an online lecture was held for students of KD-71 group on the topic: "The essence of strategic planning" by the chief economist of "Pishchane" Victoria Vakhtinskaya. During the online lecture, the following issues were considered: definition and purpose of strategic planning, goals, and principles of strategic planning, stages of strategic planning, barriers to strategic planning, and overcoming them. The lecturer told the necessary theoretical foundations of strategic planning. Based on her own experience, she told how strategic planning is carried out at Pishchane LLC, outlined the main problems faced by the company in a changing business environment and ways to solve them.
The event was organized by Associate Professor of Management, Onishchenko Marharyta.
The Department of Management sincerely thanks Victoria for a meaningful and exciting lecture.
On October 8, 2020, a рractice-oriented online event was held on the discipline "Operational processes in public administration". Sergey Manzhara (Head of the department for the implementation of measures of state architectural and construction control, Department of State Architectural and Construction Control of Sumy City Council) - the invited specialist for bachelor students of PU - 81 group (specialty "Public Management and Administration") and postgraduate students of the Department of Management.
Many exciting and practical issues were considered in the framework of the topic "Operational planning of operational processes in public administration".
In particular, issues of operational control were discussed. Examples in the field of state architectural and construction control were considered. Sergey Manzhara talked about the procedure of control and the process of planning control. They also spoke about the peculiarities of state regulation of activities in this area.
On October 8, 2020, the Department of Management hosted a practice-oriented event, a lecture on “The state of implementation of the Law of Ukraine “On Strategic Environmental Assessment” in Sumy region and problematic issues of integration of environmental requirements during the development and approval of state planning documents” and “Current state and state policy in the field of waste management”. The lecture was given by Iryna Volodymyrivna Kashpur, Acting Director of the Department of Environmental Protection and Energy of the Sumy Regional State Administration. The event was held for students of the 4th year of the specialty “Public Management and Administration” of the educational program “Public Management and Administration” within the discipline “Strategic Management in the Public Sphere” (teacher Bondar T.V.); students of the 1st year in the specialty “Public Management and Administration” of the educational program “Administrative Management” within the discipline “State Control” (teacher Demikhov O.I.); students of the 2nd year in the specialty “Public Health” of the educational program “Public Health” within the discipline “Strategic Management in Health Care” (teacher Demikhov O.I.).
In mid-September 2020, the Ministry of Digital Transformation launched the educational show "Open Data for Civil Servants" on its Diya.Tsifrova osvita (Action.Digital Education platform), created with the support of the USAID / UK aid project "Transparency and Accountability in Public Administration and Services" / TAPAS.
And our fourth-year students majoring in "Public Administration" are already taking it as part of the discipline "Monitoring and Management Evaluation"
This course will help future civil servants to understand how to work competently and manage with data in the public sector.
By the way, our second-year students, of the same specialty, also take a course on this platform - "Digital Literacy for Civil Servants 1.0. based on Google tools".
Initiator of the introduction of educational courses from the platform Diya.Tsifrova osvita (Action.Digital Education) -
Lecturer of the Department of Management Halyna Mishenina.
Students of the group AM.m-01 (1st year of master’s degree, speciality «Administration») on October 2 attended an online lecture by the chief specialist of the Sumy Landscaping Inspection Department of the Sumy City Council - Kotlyarova Tatiana.
The event was organized by a senior lecturer of the Department of Management, Ph.D. of public administration Demikhov Oleksii.
The topic of the lecture was the organization of measures to control the activities of economic entities in the united territorial communities. The lecturer explained students about the basic principles of the inspection of landscaping, legal and regulatory framework. It was interesting to hear about practical cases – how inspectors monitor the order in the city! Employment opportunities for young people in the mayor’s office units were also discussed!
The questions voiced by the students were related to the topic «Control at the level of united territorial communities» within the work program of the discipline «State Control».
On October 1, bachelor students of the M-71 group majoring in Management listened to an online lecture on the policy of formation and practice of asset management in the activities of a modern manufacturing enterprise.
The financial director of Ekovudprom LLC, Kobushko I.M., addressed the students. The event was organized by a senior lecturer of the Department of Management, Ph.D. Kobushko Ia.V.
The online lecture addressed key issues regarding the choice of sources of asset formation in the enterprise, strategic priorities in choosing the type of management policy for different types of assets, features of current assets planning in production and financial cycles, the main problems of inventory arising in production.
4th-year students of group M-71 of the Department of Management got acquainted with modern trends in the formation and use of budgets in the controlling system in the practical activities of the production enterprise JSC "Technology", on the example of the import department. Lecture-online on the topic: "Budgeting in the controlling system" was held on October 7, 2020, the students were addressed by the head of the import department of JSC "Technology" Lapina Julia.
The event was organized by Associate Professor of Management, Onishchenko Marharyta
The Virtual Module “International Business Strategy” was started on the 1st of October in cooperation with the professors and authorities of Washington State University (USA). The online learning became an effective tool for knowledge sharing. Now we may teach and learn in Seattle, being in Ukraine or Australia. Professor Dipra Jha, Associate Professor at the Carson College of Business and Assistant Director of the School of Hospitality Business Management, initiated the joint lecturing with several Business Schools from different countries (USA, UK, Ukraine and India).
The first session was successfully presented by Professor Hanna Shvindina and her students in Management Studies, Maryna Deineka and Faith Emmanuel Umo Otong. The first seminar was devoted to the topic “To Do Business in Ukraine”, and the main discussion was about the strategic ploys of running a business in Ukraine taking in account the strengths and weaknesses of the economy, development of institutions, the trust crisis in the society and decentralization processes. This Virtual Module is a part of the course “Management: Advanced” provided at SumDU and is aimed to bring new insights to the students from both countries.