Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University

When we agreed on the date of the online class with a certified mediator, practitioner, co-author and lecturer of the course on the platform Prometheus "Dialogue and Mediation: The Road to Reconciliation", managing partner of the law company ZAKON PEREMOHY Marina Saenko, we did not expect it to happen in  the epicenter of the Mediation Month in Ukraine!

Thus, on November 19th took place an inspiring, meaningful, interesting webinar on mediation and conflict management for 3rd and 4th year students of Management degree program (lecturer Tatyana Mayboroda in the discipline "Conflict and Organizational Change Management ") and 4th year students of International Economic Relations degree program (lecturer Nadiya Kostyuchenko).

On November 18, a practice-oriented lesson was held with the co-founder of the FEEL FINE and DN Service brands Olha Finkilshtein. She visited 4th year students (M-71 group) Management specialty to share useful tips on using the knowledge gained at the university in their career development.

Olha Finkilshtein is a alumnus of the Department of Management named after Oleg Balatskyi. She graduated from graduate school with a degree in "Mechanisms of Public Administration" at the department. She is actively developing and making the FEEL FINE and DN Service brands successful today.

DN Service car service was recognized as the best multi-brand car service of Sumy region in 2018 according to ab.ua. In 2020, together with 6 car services of Ukraine, it claims the title of the best car service in Ukraine - 2020. On June 8, 2019, it organized in Sumy the largest autoquest in Ukraine, which is included in the Book of Records of Ukraine.

This is a big event for all of us and we congratulate our colleagues on joining the ranking Times Higher Education World University Rankings in the field of "Business and Economy". Our university entered the rating group 401-500 in the world and became the second in Ukraine. This position is the result of teamwork! Improving the quality of education, international activities, scientific activity allow us to have improving in rankings and to get visibility in the international arena.

THE Times Higher Education provides reliable data on university performance for students and their families, university professors, university leaders, governments and industry since 2004.

The ranking covers three main missions of university activities: research, teaching and influence, and evaluates universities on the following indicators:

2nd and 4th year students of the specialty "Public Management and Administration" discussed with the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine Popatenko Marina Mykolayivna the new Youth Policy Strategy, youth centers, their functions and tasks, youth policy tools and more

Students learned more about competitions and projects for young people,   in particular about the competition   "State founder" and the program "Youth Capital Ukraine" about the Youth Pact 2020, about how young people can get involved in community life.

The webinar was organized by Yulia Opanasyuk, Senior Lecturer of Oleg Balatskyі Department of Management as part of the course "Administrative and Territorial Management" for 2nd year students specialty "Public Management and Administration" on the topic: " Youth policy in administrative municipalities".

On November 1, our department was renamed after Oleg Balatskyі and from now on its Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management. The name is not random, it is Doctor of Economics, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine Oleg Fedorovych Balatskyі has founded the Department of Management. Professor Balatskyi has started an economic school in Sumy. His methods and ideas have inspired many people to study environmental economics. He was the first scientist in the country who theoretically developed and proved experimentally the vitality of the Environmental Economics which was new field at that time. The Institute of Finance, Economics and Management has grown from the "Economics" section of the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology that was supervised by Oleg Balatskyі.

There are 6 doctors of sciences and more than 30 PhD in Environmental Economics got their academic degrees under supervision of Professor Balatskyі.

The fruitful scientific work of Professor Balatskyі was highly praised. He was awarded with a medals and awards during his life.

Our colleagues, Denys Smolennikov and Hanna Shvindina took part in Annual Conference of EENCE devoted to the networking between members, summing up and presentation of the results of the events in 2020, experience sharing and discussion of the outcomes of the activities of the EENCE, events planning for 2021. The conference took place online via ZOOM for several days, from 31.10 till 14.11.2020. We’d like to remind you that EENCE is a network of organizations and experts aiming at promoting exchange and development of knowledge, skills and values on citizenship education in the region of Eastern Europe.

In 2020, a series of online events took place within The SmartEnCity Academy for Zero Carbon Transition. Svitlana Kolosok, Associate Professor of Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management at Sumy State University, received a certificate certifying her participation in all four of the Academy. The SmartEnCity Academy was attended by more than 250 participants from around the world. Eleven speakers and four special guests shared their experience developing the Cities4ZERO strategy and integrated energy planning, mastering governance, and SmartEnCity planning.

11.11.20р. Roman Trepalin, Head of the Competitive Bidding Department of the Sumy City Council, was invited to our classes.

During the online lecture, bachelors of the 3rd year of full-time and part-time forms of education in the specialty "Public Administration" (PU-81, Puz-81, discipline "Public Procurement Management"), masters of the group "Administrative Management" (1st year, AM .m-01, discipline "State Control") talked to a specialist of Sumy City Council.

Roman Trepalin in an interesting way, on the examples of real cases, told students about the peculiarities of public procurement according to modern legislation, emphasized the procedures for monitoring the conduct of bidding.

Students had the opportunity to ask questions to our expert. There was a great discussion.

What is civil society, how to be active and defend your rights? Professor Yogest Kumar's lecture was devoted to these issues. Professor Yogest Kumar - former Vice Chancellor and International Assessor of Singhania University,  CEO of Air Hostess Academy Srinagar (India). Has more than 37 years of experience, he obtained the positions from the head of the department, Dean to Vice Chancellor.

He was a Team Lead at Rajasthan Cancer Foundation, has a huge experience of interactions with a lot of universities of the world, being a reviewer and project contributor, and his experience in Civic Society development is valuable and worth of sharing.

Students learned how civil society is formed, what are the types of civil society organizations, their functions, benefits and challenges of operation It was very interesting to compare the experience of civil society development in India and Ukraine.

Sumy State University was selected to participate in the EducationUSA program "Internationalization Leadership Academy" together with 20 other Ukrainian participants-universities. The aim of the project is to bring together Ukrainian and American university lecturers, as well as their students, through virtual learning technologies. Tetyana Mayboroda, the lecturer at the Oleh Balatskyi Department of Management (ARI FEM, SumDU) has submitted the application and was successfully selected among other participants of Ukrainian universities.

An interesting discussion within the practice-oriented lesson took place among students majoring in "Public Administration".
The online lecture was attended on October 26 by Ekaterina Barysheva - Deputy Head of the Regional Branch State Property Fund of Ukraine in Kyiv, ex-adviser to the Deputy General Director of the State Concern Ukroboronprom.
Ms. Kateryna presented to the participants of the webinar the basics of the state property privatization process in Ukraine. She explained the peculiarities of conducting auctions, participation of stakeholders in the privatization process and lease of state property. In particular, the privatization of the Dnipro Hotel (Kyiv) aroused keen interest among students.

We also had the pleasure to talk with our guest about the topic of transformational changes in the field of public administration. Questions of corporate culture and strategy in the field of public authorities were discussed as well. Participants were especially interested in current trends in civil service and prospects for the realization of their career opportunities.

The meeting ended with a mutual exchange of best wishes for future achievements. We would like to express our gratitude to Ms. Kateryna for the inspirational advice to our young people and the time she spent communicating with future civil servants.

  1. Team management training provided by the expert in leaders development
  2. A new practical lesson for students of Management Department. The tax collector and the auditor shared their knowledge!
  3. Meeting on international mobility with first-year students of the Department of Management
  4. A theory supported by practice
  5. Internship in Poland
  6. Guest speakers on CSR from Mauritius
  7. Roman Kotyuk received a scholarship from the President of Ukraine
  8. Scholar of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine studies at the Department of Management
  9. Practically-oriented educational activity of the Department of Management has no borders!
  10. Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert
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