Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University

Learn more in one discipline? It's possible! Especially when you can use online courses.

2nd year students of the specialty "Public Management and Administration" within the study of the discipline "Administrative and Territorial Management" successfully completed courses on the platform "Prometheus".

On the topic "Administrative-territorial system" as an independent study, students took the course "Decentralization in Ukraine: theory and practice." The course discussed what decentralization is in Ukraine and why it is necessary, how decentralization took place in European countries, history of reforms of administrative-territorial system and formation of local self-government in Ukraine, cooperation of territorial communities, problems that arise during the reform, etc. Students learned what decentralization is, how the reform is going and what the prospects are for the future.

The slogan of Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management is "Learn from the best!". And when you study with interest and innovations, your motivation grows. Our teachers are continually improving the learning process to make it challenging, convenient, and informative for students. The best ideas and their authors are awarded within the competition "Pedagogical Innovations of Sumy State University".

This year 83 participants took part in the competition "Pedagogical Innovations of Sumy State University ", two of them were won by our department.

Congratulations to our team members:

  • Misheninа G.A. with the second place in the nomination "Practice-oriented training of students" with the project "Using the portal "Diya. Digital Education” from the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine for the training of civil servants» and
  • Valenkevich L.P, Shvindinа Н.O. and Opanasіuk Yu.A. with the second place for joint Project “Schools of Future Leaders " in the nomination "Career guidance".

We wish our colleagues inspiration, new victories, and success!

“Any time we meet someone different from us, we need to start by looking at ourselves”

Truly intercultural project took place for Sumy State University students between 4th -16th of December: “Intercultural Communications & Leadership: a Dialogue for Successful Cooperation”. The 4 session workshops were designed & conducted by Tetyana Mayboroda – lecturer of Oleg Balatsky Management Department, Vice-director of ARI FEM for coordination of collaboration with foreign institutions and for work with international students, who implements social projects in collaboration with Lifelong Learning Centre. The projects was also supported by the Department of Youth & Sports of Sumy Regional Administration.

The intercultural team was presented by 20 participants: 4 Ukrainian students & 16 international students from Zambia, Nigeria, Turkey, Ghana, Angola, Namibia & India. Moreover, it was interdisciplinary team: students majoring in Medicine, Management, Law, & International Economic Relations.

The Department of Education and Science of the Sumy Regional State Administration awarded a diploma of an associate professor of Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management Onishchenko Margarita for high professionalism and effective work in preparing students to write research papers of the Sumy Territorial Branch of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

On 15th of December, the undergraduates in Management studies participated in the workshop «LEAN. How to develop business?». The administrative and management studies students are keen to know how to create a successful business and run it. At the seminar, the leading lectors from Lviv Business School and experts in Sustainable Development Goals implementation shared their experience about the business design towards modern trends. As a term, Lean manufacturing was coined in 1988 and was transformed from Toyota’s Operating Model. This principle of lean manufacturing, if implemented, may lead to leaps in resources economizing and innovation acceleration. The experts performed the primary approach “to think globally, act locally” through the set of cases of Ukrainian enterprises and SMEs.

The Department of Management congratulates our graduate and employer - Director of the Sumy Regional Center for Emergency Care and Disaster Medicine Alexandrenko Anatoly with receiving an honorary award - the Order of the Knight of the Fatherland III degree !!! 

More information - at the link.

The School of Change Leaders was launched on November 27 and completed successfully. This project received the Sumy City Council's support as the winner of the project competition among the civil society institutions in December last year.

"School of Change Leaders of " is a unique project aimed at building civil society, forming a stable civic position in modern conditions, gaining practical project design skills and costs processing of participatory community budgets.

The project manager is Larysa Valenkevych, PhD., the project manager of the NGO "Center for Lifelong Learning", associate professor of Oleg Balatsky department of management. She took care of that project for many years, and now it was scaled-up and went online. The trainers and consultants were well-known project management experts, winners of project competitions, specialists in the field of public administration, experienced facilitators, and international keynote speakers.

The intensive training program lasted on November 27 and 28 online, in which high school students of Sumy UTC took part. During the training, participants gained knowledge of project management, drafting project applications to achieve the grants, and designing their projects.

On December 23 in the specialized scientific council D 55.051.06, there was a successful defense of the dissertation for the degree of candidate of economic sciences in the specialty 08.00.03 - economics and management of the national economy on " Organizational and economic principles of smart grid implementation in the energy sector of Ukraine" by Ihor Vakulenko (scientific supervisor - head of the department of marketing Oleksii Lyulyov).

The dissertation aroused the interest of members of the specialized scientific council, who noted its high scientific level and thorough preparation of the dissertation on the researched issues. They confirmed this conclusion by unanimous vote for the award of the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.

The Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management congratulates Ihor Vakulenko and wishes inspiration in professional growth and future research!

On 8th of December, the students of several training programs of different levels (Master studies and Undergraduates) were united by the lecture provided by designers, who created the brand of Sumy city. The representatives of the creative agency LLC “Chocolate”, Yulia Yevenko, the chief director and Iryna Bozadjieva, the manager of the clients support department, kindly agreed to be the guest lecturers. The lecture-seminar took place in two languages – in Ukrainian and English. That allowed to involve the students who study at Sumy State University in English and came from other countries. During the meeting, our guest lecturers shared their experience collaborating with Sumy Council on the city brand creation. They encouraged the auditorium to pursue city promotion using positive impressions about the city. The seminar dragged on because of the discussion that transformed into ideas exchange about how to attract “your type of a client”, how to make positioning effective, and how much does it cost – the efforts and own investments – to create the product that you are going to be proud  in years.

On December 21, Svitlana Anatoliyivna Spazheva (village head of Pokrovska OTG, Dnipropetrovsk region) and Hryhoriy Mykolayovych Starikov (expert on regional development, candidate of historical sciences) attended an online lecture for students majoring in Public Administration.
At the webinar Spazheva S. A. told students about the current state and directions of development of the Pokrovsky territorial community. They talked about the peculiarities of the new local self-government, community achievements, problems and prospects. Students and teachers present at the online event noted a bright and informative presentation, which supported the report of Svitlana Anatoliyivna.
Expert Hryhoriy Starikov also joined the online conversation. It was especially interesting and useful for the participants of the online lecture to hear the opinions of the invited guests during the discussion of the budget for 2021 on the opportunities and shortcomings, community orientation, etc.
Students actively asked the guests about the optimization of education in the community, about the tools for community development in the new year and about decentralization in Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

More & more new discovery & knowledge for our students from amazing guests! This time we had Sofia Anzheliuk, Volunteer Coordinator in media-project Ukraïner visiting us on google-meet on Monday, December, 7th on the invitation of Tetyana Mayboroda, lecturer of Oleg Balatskiy Department of Management. The idea of such a webinar devoted to social projects and volunteer movement came during studying the course “Corporate Social Responsibility” with 3d year students of the degree program “Management”, which was supported & also joined by Head of the Department Dr. Hanna Shvindina, by 2nd year Management students & by 4th year students of the degree program “International Economic Relations and their lecturer Nadiya Kostyuchenko.

We have spoken on the following topics:

  • UkraÏner as a successful example of non-profit enterprise;
  • Volunteer community as new value of our skills;
  • Challenges in the volunteer management;
  • Outcomes which we never expected;
  • Case of special project of Holodomor;
  • and many other aspects during the Q&A session.

  1. A graduate of the Department of Management shares his own experience of project implementation
  2. An online lecture by a healthcare professional
  3. New Round of International Collaboration with University of Poland!
  4. About features of management and administration in the IT company
  5. Participation of students of the department in a social business forum in Bangladesh
  6. We continue to invite practitioners to conduct online classes
  7. Follow the values
  8. Successful together!
  9. Seminar with practitioner “Strategy Realization: What can go wrong?”
  10. Practice-oriented event with a psychologist for the first-year student
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