Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University

On October 12, Mishenina Halyna, a lecturer at the Oleg Balatsky Department of Management, attended a webinar entitled “Strategic Approach to Public Procurement and Their Social Aspects” with fourth-year students majoring in Public Management and Administration within the discipline “Monitoring and Evaluation of Management Activity”.

The online event was organized by the Ukrainian Social Academy as part of a series of webinars "Development of Sustainable Partnership". The main task of the webinar was to find out the answer to the question: How and why can the state make public procurement socially responsible?

Regita Zejla, Director of the Latvian Social Entrepreneurship Association, spoke about the need and features of socially responsible public procurement and demonstrated examples of European experience in implementing social responsibility in public procurement. She also shared her professional experience in the field of social influence and its formation at the regional, national and international levels. We continue to use the flexible capabilities of distance learning to attract our students to top online events.

Project Coordinator of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Ukraine and graduate of the specialty “Management” Elena Davlikanova and the director of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Business, Economics and Management of Sume State University Tetyana Vasylieva presented the results of the study of the structure of the labor market in the field of agriculture at the round table “Ukraine 4.0. Foresight study of socio-economic changes in the labor market and forecasting of professional qualifications with digital skills». The round table took place on October 7 in the Congress Center of Sumy State University.

Issues of agricultural development of the economy, including digitalization, aspects of Industry 4.0 and workplace automation, changes in the needs of employers in qualified personnel and labor market forecasting in Ukraine were discussed during the round table. Representatives of the authorities, agricultural enterprises of Sumy region, public organizations, postgraduate students, scientists took part in the round table.

Haven't entered the university yet for a bachelor's or master's degree? Then you have a great opportunity to do it! Because there is an additional admission to study part-time at Sumy State University. The Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management invites you to study in the educational programs “Management”, “Management of Organizations and Administration”, “Administrative Management”.

Please, find more information about the admission conditions here.

Teachers of our department Yuliia Opanasiuk and Tetyana Mayboroda took part in the First Evening Festival of Non-Formal Education "The Art of Learning Together" as trainers. The festival took place as part of the German Weeks in Ukraine on the occasion of 30 years of German-Ukrainian relations.

The festival consisted of 36 exciting trainings from the best coaches from all over Ukraine. And our teachers have something to share! Tetyana Mayboroda conducted the training "Intercultural Communications and Leadership", and Julia Opanasyuk - "How to shoot on a smartphone beautifully."

Participants were active, interested and gave valuable feedback.

On the 15th and 16th September, International Conference took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, devoted to “Pandemic Challenges and Opportunities for Corporate Social Responsibility”, organized by the Vilnius Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Arts in partnership with EUMMAS and Vilnius University (VU) Business School. The welcoming speech was delivered by D. A. Danilevicius, General Director of VCCIC, who told about the scale and scope of the conference, its main goals, and future directions of development. On the first day, Dr. Hanna Shvindina, the Chair of the Department and a member of EUMMAS presented the recent finding on her research in the sphere of regional competitiveness. The same day was devoted to sustainable labor relations, and how they affect or impact our understanding of corporate social responsibility. This day was full of fantastic talks worth of sharing, such as the presentation of Dr. Ignas Zimaitis, Academic Professor, and Lina Korizniene, CEO of Vilnius City Municipality Administration, both from VU Business School. Dr. B.B.L. Madhukar from India joined the conference online and shared his experience on changes in Corporate Social Responsibility During the Pandemic. The talks and panel discussions were quite insightful and energetic; they focused on the further development of CSR in a new era.

The second day brought the unforgettable experience of having a presentation by Dr. Dina Yacout, an EUMMAS member, who shared her expertise on gaining business sustainability during the coronavirus pandemic for businesswomen and start-ups in Egypt. Dr. Dina is a Chairwoman of the general committee of businesswomen in the federation of chambers of commerce in Egypt, and Vice president of the Advisory Board, and Vice president of Women forums at EUMMAS Board; she explained how the pandemic formed new social movements in Egypt. The way economic institutions and government were united to facilitate entrepreneurship among women became an inspiration for other social activists presented at the conference.

During September 16 - October 2, 2021, teachers of Sumy State University (Ph.D. in State Administration, Senior Lecturer Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management Oleksii Demikhov and MD, Prof. of the Department of Family Medicine Nadiia Demikhova) visited Tallinn University of Technology in the framework of the ERASMUS + KA107 program to teach the course "European experience in the formation and implementation of public policy in public health." In particular, during the implementation of the university-wide grant, the teachers conducted an internship at the College of Tartu, which is a branch of Tallinn University of Technology. SumDU teachers took part in trainings and gave lectures on relevant topics.

On September 14, 2021, an excursion was held at the Sumy local center for free secondary legal aid for bachelor's and master's students majoring in "Public Administration" (groups EN-93 / 2pu, PU-81, AM.m-11).

The practice-oriented event was organized by associate professor, Ph.D. Lukyanikhin VO and a senior lecturer at the Department of Management, Ph.D. state management Demikhov OI

During the tour, the director of the center Troshechko VV, head of the department Ivanenko YV and chief specialist Bondar OA told young people about the goals and social significance of the functioning of the state institution, the results of the team.

Representatives of the center provided students with interesting and relevant information on the specifics of the free legal aid system, which aims to protect human rights by ensuring equal access to legal information and justice, strengthening legal capacity and legal capacity of socially vulnerable groups, local communities and communities. Business games were also held with students.

A new COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) module for third-year students majoring in Management begins on October 7th. The module "Conflicts, International Leadership and International Business" was developed in collaboration with Dipra Jha, Professor of Carson College of Business, Washington State University and Dr. Tetyana mayboroda, lecturer at the Oleg Balatskiy Department of Management. For students of our university, this module is part of the course "Conflict and Organizational Change Management ", during which they will develop and present their own project on the analysis of international conflicts, will be able to better understand the impact of globalization, social sciences and other disciplines and connect them to relevant characteristics, issues and problems faced by the world economy and society. At the end of the course students will also have peer to peer activities with students of Washington University on the materials of this COIL module.

On September 10, 2021, a practice-oriented class for group УП.м-11 on the course “Project actions planning” (lecturer – Alona Yevdokymova) was held at the Department of City Strategic Development of Sumy City Council. Considering the case study of development of Sumy City Development Strategy until 2030, the brand of Sumy city and the information and analytical system of programs of Sumy city development, students had the opportunity to learn about the tools, methods and procedures, that the Department uses for planning projects, programs and project portfolios, as well as to gain practical skills on the principles of prioritization while project planning.

We thank the Department of City Strategic Development of Sumy City Council for professionalism!

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).

From the beginning of the term, the new COIL project has started. Last week, students had an amazing opportunity to join the discussion about the IKEA case during the session held at Washington State University. The course “International Management” is embedded in the course “Strategic Management” course for the undergraduates in Management studies. The start was great, let's hope for the continuation of the excellent cooperation between our universities. We are grateful to Professor Dipra Jha, who was initially an idea bringer to this project, and Dr. Mesut Çiçek, who kindly agreed to be co-instructor and managed the online sessions for our students synchronically with the students of WSU.

The “Strategic Management” course instructor is Dr. Hanna Shvindina, the head of Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management.

  1. The educators of the Department joined the sessions set devoted to the 15th Anniversary Celebrations of Whitefield Business School (Mauritius)!
  2. Participation of a representative of the Department of Management in an international scientific conference
  3. The new COIL class is about to start this Fall!
  4. The International Series on Strategy and Leadership had started!
  5. Freshmen Enrolling Jubilation!
  6. Communication with the young elite of Sumy
  7. International approbation of research results
  8. Congratulations to the bachelors of specialty 281 "Public Management and Administration" with a successful state certification!
  9. Day of defense of bachelor's theses
  10. We are proud of the R&D of young scientists!
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