04/12/2024 first-year students of the department of management, together with marketing colleagues, attended a practice-oriented class dedicated to brand management and digital marketing. The invited lecturer was Nataliya Seleznyova, blogger, photographer, travel agent of Travel Check-IN company. She talked about her experience of running a business through the Internet and social networks, the specifics of developing a personal brand, shared SMM skills and gave good advice to students about this type of activity.
Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University
"My choice fell on this direction, because I always had a desire for foreign languages and learning about new cultures. That is why I also study in the English group at my alma mater. First, it is important to note the openness of the teachers and the dean's office of Sumy State University, as well as their willingness to provide support and help, which greatly simplified the process of solving issues with documents and transferring to an individual schedule. Secondly, it is quite interesting to compare the educational process, evaluation methods and the structure of the academic year.
On November 2-3, Module 2 of the project "Arteries of Ukraine's democracy: challenges and opportunities for Ukrainian youth in the context of joining the EU" took place on the topic: "Axioms of the freedom of capital movement". The two-day discussion was attended by 37 participants from different parts of Ukraine, among whom were the head of the Department of Management named after Oleg Balatsky Ihor Rekunenko and 2nd-year students of the "Management" specialty Diana Pavlenko and Hanna Tkachenko.
Викладач кафедри управління Нєшева Анастасія взяла участь у серії воркшопів Uni-Biz Bridge за темою «Адаптивність та гнучкість викладача»!
On October 26, as part of the "Step2Hire" project (an initiative of the UPSHIFT program, implemented by the NGO "Center for Euroinitiatives" in cooperation with "NOVA UNITED" with support from UNICEF and the Government of Norway), faculty members from NNI BIEM shared expert insights with event participants on how to create a compelling resume — a critical step for career advancement.
At the training, NNI BIEM faculty members led as experts in recruitment and career development:
- Iryna Pozovna — recruiter and career consultant at Brocoders, senior lecturer in the Department of Cybernetics;
- Aliona Yevdokymova — Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Head of the Department of Practice and Integration Relations with Employers at SumDU;
- Yuliya Matvieieva — senior lecturer in the Department of Management, time management coach, and business career trainer.
The 2nd place was awarded for the project: "Experience-Based Learning (Kolb's Learning Cycle) in the Study of Management Disciplines" to the lecturers of the Department of Management: Ihor Ivanovych Rekunenko, Tetiana Viktorivna Bondar, and Svitlana Mykolaivna Rybalchenko.
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On October 24, the team from the Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management at SumDU took part in a significant event. As part of the COIL class "International Business and Global Leadership," led by Professor Dipra Jha from Washington State University’s Carson College of Business, the team, comprising Associate Professor Tetyana Mayboroda, Assistant Anastasiia Niesheva, and Eduard Bohdan, a second-year bachelor’s student in the Management program, delivered a presentation on the topic "russian-Ukrainian Case: Storytelling, Impact on Global Relations, and Conflict Management."
On January 23, 2025, a department lecturer, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor Yulia Opanasiuk, participated in the online event "Community-Oriented Learning Pedagogy (COL) for Community Development During the War and Reconstruction." The event was organized by a consortium of universities with the active involvement of Sumy State University, which implements innovative methodologies in the educational process during the war. During the event, speakers shared the outcomes of implementing community-oriented learning in their programs, as well as reflections on overcoming challenges and achieving success in this area. Particular attention was paid to opportunities for strengthening communities in the crisis conditions of war and throughout the reconstruction process. The event became a platform for exchanging ideas, practical cases, and inspiration. The organizers expressed hope that the knowledge gained would serve as a catalyst for developing pedagogical skills and implementing new approaches in the educational process. The event was co-financed by the European Union under the ServU project.
In the dynamic world of project management, membership in the Project Management Institute (Project Management Institute) is a significant step towards professional excellence. Recently, two faculty members from O. Balatsky Department of Management, Associate Professor Alona Yevdokymova, the guarantor of the Master's Program in Project Management, and Associate Professor Tetyana Mayboroda, a member of the project working group, joined this global community of over 700,000 professionals.
Membership in PMI is an important step and added value in the development and implementation of the project Internationalisation of Curriculum for the Project Management study programme to launch in 2025-2026 academic year: “Internationalisation of Curriculum: Project Management as a Pilot Program (IoC:PMasPP), which is being implemented as part of the DAAD and Leibniz University of Hannover's training program Management of Internationalisation and German-Ukrainian Academic Cooperation, in which Tetyana Mayboroda is taking part in 2024 (3rd cohort).
On November 1, lecturers of the Oleg Balatsky Department of Management, Anastasia Nesheva and Victoria Sulym, conducted an educational quest for 11th graders of the Sumy Classical Gymnasium, the purpose of which was to to explain the basic principles of management.
The quest consisted of several stages that required coordination of efforts and effective communication between participants. They had the opportunity to complete a series of tasks that combined elements of a scientific approach, teamwork, and also contributed to the development of leadership qualities and the ability to make effective decisions in a limited time.
On October 4th, students of the "Management" and "Public Administration" programs participated in a motivational session with Vita Lisova, a professional financial literacy coach and practicing psychologist.
The event took place as part of the courses "Office Management" and "Self-Management." The main theme of the meeting was "Managing Finances and Life." During the session, participants actively discussed key aspects of financial planning, the impact of criticism on personal life, building self-confidence, and effective practices for boosting self-esteem.
- Series of lectures on the course «Digitalization of green tourism: European experience» within the framework of the Jean Monnet project (№101126971 – Green tourism – ERASMUS-JMO-2023-HEI-TCH-RSCH – «European practices of green tourism and its transformati
- Series of lectures on the course «Digitalization of green tourism: European experience» within the framework of the Jean Monnet project (№101126971 – Green tourism – ERASMUS-JMO-2023-HEI-TCH-RSCH – «European practices of green tourism and its transformati
- Kicking Off the Virtual Exchange COIL: A New Era of International Mobility Begins!
- Online meeting with a specialist practitioner in the field of public management and administration
- Announcement: Virtual Global Class with Washington State University – Fall 2024 at the IDEA Lab!
- A student of the department was awarded a M. Hrushevsky scholarship
- Erasmus+ at the University of Ecology and Management in Warsaw by Daria Muravenko
- The educational project team and lecturers of the Department are working on the internationalisation of the curriculum for MSc programme Project Management
- Energy Transition Symposium
- Defense of the qualification works of correspondence students