On the 18th of December, the successful defence took place presented by Pavlyk Anatolii who is the apprentice of Arkadii Zhulavskyi, PhD. This the 12ve PhD student who performed successfully under the supervision of Professor Zhulavskyi. We asked our colleague, what is his motivation in contributing to PhD training. “When I work with youth, I myself am becoming younger ”, Arkadii Yuriyovich told us. “It is the cooperation with PhD students that brings the insights, new ideas, new approaches to solving the existing problems”. Now the followers of Zhulavskyi work in Sumy, Kyiv, Shostka and many of them became Dr.Sci. and were elected to high offices. We congratulate and wish further success!
Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University
Teachers of the Department of Management continue to improve their pedagogical skills and build the educational process in line with the global trends. For example, from December 12 to December 14, 2019, Associate Professor of Management Department, Oleg Balatskyi Deputy Director of FEM, Denys Smolennikov participated in the training for trainers within the project "E-Learning4SD / Online Education for Sustainable Development". The project is being implemented by the UNDP with the financial support from German Government through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and provides for the dissemination and advocacy of an on-line course for sustainable development among Ukrainian public servants.
The training was conducted at the training center of the Ukrainian School of Government (http://usg.org.ua/) and brought together more than 40 teachers, civil servants and NGO representatives who were selected to become trainers for the project. Particular attention was paid to the methodology of the training and its tools. The next phase of the project is scheduled for January 2020. It will include the development of meaningful parts of future trainings and their piloting.
This Thursday, on the 12th of December, at the work group meeting on Strategy of Intercultural development of city Sumy the presentation of the report took place. Among the other 8 experts, our colleagues Yuryi Petrushenko and Hanna Shvindina, the representatives of NGO “Lifelong Learning Centre” and educators of the Sumy State University. More information about the document and the event can be found at Informational Portal of Sumy City Council - https://www.smr.gov.ua/uk/
On the 20th of December our colleague Tetyana Mayboroda successfully defended her PhD thesis at Higher Educational Institution of Ukoopspilka «Poltava University of Economics and Trade» in Poltava. The topic is “State regulation of education in the context of the development of national economy ”. The scientific Supervisor is professor Lyeonov Serhiy, Dr.Sci.. Congratulations on the success of the applicant and her supervisor!
The PhD student of the department of management Kotenko Stanislav and associate professor of the department of philosophy, political science, and sociology, Kupenko Olena represented Sumy State University at the II International Conference “The Resurrection of the Decency of People of Golden Age in Ukraine”. The conference took place in Olefyryvka of Poltava oblast in the period from 25th to 27th of November. The main sessions were devoted to the learning and teaching for adults, social activities with this age group and the experience of Polish colleagues became one of the insights. This conference involved the representatives from different organizations of Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy oblasts, the managers of regional departments of the charity organization “Karitas Ukraine”, representatives of “Lvivska Politekhnika”, Poltava National Pedagogical University, Lublin Catholic University named after Pope John Paul II, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs. The the conference was supported by Greek-Catholic Church of Ukraine.
The National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education is actively preparing experts on accreditation of educational programs. One of the stages of this training is the training of potential experts in the face-to-face training. During December 10-11, the SSU underwent appropriate training at the "Laboratory of Ideas" of the Department of Management. One of our team members took part in it. The assistant to the Department of Management, Ph.D. of PA Demikhov O. successfully accomplished the training. The future experts mastered the competencies in evaluating educational programs, communication skills with focus groups and the psychology. So, instead of formal administrative functions, an expert advises and helps a higher education institutions to improve their educational programs. It is such a European approach that will allow us to reform our higher education system!
On the 28th of November the ceremony of the awarding within the event for youth “Student of the Year 2019” took place, aimed to create an impulse for further development of the youth in Sumy. The nominees of the programme were students of 5 universities, who have awards and GPA at level A and B. Oscar system was the system of decision-making, special committee has chosen the winners among others on basis of CV, characteristics, and other documents. As a result, Mykyta Kovalevskyi won “The Best Political Activist of Sumshchyna”. Mykyta is a student of ARI FEM named after Oleg Balatskyi, specialty 073 “Management”. Mykyta commented on this: “in 2018 I won the “Best Leader of the Year”, being at school, and now I’ like to say that in my vision youth stays in Sumy and develops local community”.
Assistant of the Department of Management, PhD of PA Demikhov A.I. won the second prize in the contest "Pedagogical Innovation of SSU" in 2019 in the nomination "Practice-oriented training of students." The teacher proposed the project “Video as an innovative aspect of practice-oriented learning” for the competition. The essence of the project is to complete the student’s creative task: shooting on a smartphone and editing a compressed video (up to 4 minutes). The video should contain brief information about the urgency of the problem identified by a student that he or she is studying within the educational program. Also, a student offers possible solutions to this problem and formulates a call for a community in the sphere of integrity and offers possible managerial decisions. The university’s expert jury evaluated this project at high level.
This fall, students of the department of management Malyonkina I. and Kalyuzhna Y. (“Public Management & Administration” training) took part in Cases Championship under supervision of team member Mishenina G., and with the support of adviser on the regional development of Sumy Centre of Development of Local Government Starykov H.
This competition “The Championship of cases of united territorial communities (UTC) ”was organized within the framework of DESPRO Swiss-Ukrainian project “Decentralization Support in Ukraine” and with help of CASERS Platform. Cases were given by 16 UTCs from all around Ukraine, and the evaluation committee involved authorities from UTC and the representatives of DESPRO School of Local Government. As a result, the team from Sumy State University “Changemakers” won the first place among all the players in a process of practical case solving for Pokrovska UTC (Dnipropetrovska Oblast).