Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University

On March 3, 2020, a training on international academic mobility was held for first-year students majoring in Management and Public Administration. Invited speaker - Deputy Head of the Department for International Affairs, a PhD student of the Department of Management named after Oleg Balatsky, project manager of the NGO "Center for Adult Education" in Sumy city - Kotenko Stanislav Igorovich.

He spoke about current international academic mobility programs, international summer schools and workshops for students. The meeting was held in a dialogue mode. Participants received a lot of helpful information about the specifics of applying for a grant, writing a cover letter and CV, as well as the use of international mobility in the learning process.

The Thursday 11th of March was an intense and interesting day for several cohorts of students from Washington State University and Sumy State University. Within Global Virtual Class “International Business & Leadership” Professor Erdogan Koç from Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi shared his knowledge on "Influence of Culture on Customers".  

Head of the the department, Dr. Shvindina hosted the session in cooperation with Professor Mesut Çiçek from Washington State University.

Amazing session within Global Virtual Class brought new light to many phenomena in a sphere of marketing and management related to organizational behaviour, international relations, hospitality in global aspects.

More than 200 participants from all around the world attended the first session in a set of webinars  Global Virtual Program “Excellence in Teaching & Research”.

Professor Erdogan Koç is a Professor of Behavioural Sciences / Consumer Behaviour & Marketing Management at Bahcesehir University, Head of Human Behavior LAB, performed main principles and techniques of research, shared his knowledge about how to find the originality of idea and what is well-written paper, how to construct arguments and to present the outcomes.

This Wednesday 10th of March, the regular meetings within Virtual Program "Excellence in Teaching & Research" went on with the amazing seminar delivered by Dr. Kristen Malek.

Dr. Kristin Malek, or Doctor Key as she is known among her students, is Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is an expert in online learning and engaging strategies in learning. This seminar “Learning Engagement Strategies” brought many insights and ideas to the lives of Ph.D. students and educators. The enthusiasm of the lecturer became a source of motivation for the attendees, encouraged them to proceed with the search for the best practices in teaching, especially in the era of online learning!

During 12th -24th  February at the Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management ARI BiEM was held the attestation of students who studied at the Master's educational program "Management and Administration in Health Care" of the speciality "Public Administration".

Students, experienced professionals in the field of health care, has conducted thorough research and presented their results to the examination board. The Master's theses were devoted to topical issues of health care management and administration. Interesting and informative reports, thoughtful presentations, comprehensive answers, all the process was conducted with the help of online technologies!

On February 9-13, Mishenina Halyna, Associate Professor of the Department of Management named after Oleg Balatsky took part in the VI All-Ukrainian Conference "Uni-Biz Bridge - 6" on cooperation between business and universities. The conference was devoted to the problems and prospects of online learning in international companies, the competencies for the future, methods of finding motivation for themselves and the team / students, etc. There was also a panel discussion on the impact of online learning on education, the future of universities after quarantine.

The conference included training webinars from companies-employers aimed at improving the quality of online education. In particular, representatives of METRO, Philip Morris, JTI, Jooble, Rife shared their real experience at this year's event. After the conference, participants passed a test, providing them a chance to receive certificate. But the most valuable thing is that the tools and techniques offered by the speakers can now be used in the educational process for our students.

The educational process of applicants of the group DSmz-01, specialty "Public Administration" (educational program "Civil Service") continues. On Tuesday, February 23, 2021. within the discipline "Research in the public sphere" applicants got acquainted not only with the theoretical foundations of scientific research, but also studied the features of information collection, analysis and grouping in the public sphere. Such features and practical experience were shared by Yulia  Kovalenko, a practitioner, chief specialist of the Sumy City Council's organization department. In particular, within the theme "Processing and design of research results. Working with Information ”a number of issues related to registration and further work with various materials and information were considered. Many interesting and well-founded questions were considered within the topic.

This Friday, our colleague, Dr Vincent Duffy joined the Global Virtual Professional Development Program “Excellence in Teaching & Research” and shared his experience in bibliometric studies. Professor Duffy is a Fulbright Scholar, a distinguished scholar. Please find the papers he published in these areas useful for further studies.

If you miss his lecture, you may watch it on our YouTube Channel at link

More papers on the topic:

Kanade, S. G., & Duffy, V. G. (2020, July). A Systematic Literature Review of Game-Based Learning and Safety Management. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 365-377). Springer, Cham.

Duffy, G. A., & Duffy, V. G. (2020, July). Systematic Literature Review on the Effect of Human Error in Environmental Pollution. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 228-241). Springer, Cham.

On Friday, February 19, Tetyana Mayboroda, Deputy Director of the Institute BiEM, lecturer at the Oleg Balatsky Department of Management, and Mykola Bozhko, Director of the Department of International Education of SumDU, took part in the seminar "Internationalization of higher education: legal regulation of the process of inviting international students to study in Ukraine" which took place at Sumy National Agrarian University.

The main speaker of the seminar was Ms. Olena Shapovalova, Director of the Ukrainian State Center for International Education, who presented innovations in the admission process of international students, peculiarities of international activities of higher educational institutions and information on creation of Unified Interdepartmental Electronic Database on International Students Recruitment, as well as several legislative changes related to this process.

The second session of Unique Global Virtual Program “Excellence in Teaching & Research” will take place this Thursday. This time Professor Vincent Duffy, who is representative of a team of School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University will provide seminar on best practices in research. Vincent Duffy is a Fulbright Scholar, experienced researcher and expert in online learning. This Thursday he will share his knowledge in a sphere of Bibliometric Analysis.

More about the speaker you may read at his page.

More about the program, schedule, and links you may find at this page.

Fourth-year students majoring in Public Management and Administration within the framework of the course "Management of European Integration Processes" (Lecturer - Iuliia Myroshnychenko) attended several online events Ukraine-NATO relations and membership prospects. Co-organizers of the meetings - SumDU Research Center for Regional Security. On February 10, a series of lectures and discussions were held for students with NATO Headquarters' representatives to discuss the history of NATO's creation and the Alliance's activities through the prism of public diplomacy.

Students asked interesting questions about the organization of NATO activities and the peculiarities of the work of diplomats. Also, on February 17, students from the Oleg Balatsky Department of Management joined the briefing "Sustainability and Security: Why Ukraine Can Learn in NATO?". The discussion was devoted to NATO's activities in public diplomacy and relations with Ukraine, the regional aspects of national security and the importance of using information and communication tools and social networks for security issues.

  1. The 1st Session of the Global Virtual Program will start soon!
  2. Mini-training on leadership
  3. Global Virtual Professional Development Program for Ph.D. students and faculty members!
  4. Meetings of the Expert Councils of Employers continue!
  5. The Department of Management held an online meeting of the Expert Council of Employers in the specialty "Management"
  6. PhD students are trained within the programs of British Council in Ukraine!
  7. The Virtual Global Class 2021 has started!
  8. Participation in an international conference
  9. A new Global Virtual Class “International Relations and Global Leadership” starts in Spring 2021!
  10. Happy Birthday, Arkadiy Yurievich Zhulavskiy!
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