Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University

On November 18 and 19, 2020, interesting practice-oriented online events with the invitation of a psychologist were held for first-year students majoring in Management and Public Administration. Invited practitioner - Candidate of Psychological Sciences, practicing psychologist and specialist in symbol drama, Kolisnyk Lyudmyla Oleksiivna. The primary purpose of the event is to acquaint students with methods of prevention and control of socio-psychological stress that may occur during intensive training or may be present in their future profession. Lyudmyla Oleksiivna told about the organization of psychological assistance at SSU and methods of self-regulation in stressful situations. Also, the psychologist acquainted students with the practical techniques of maintaining psychological health in a pandemic.

Every year our students receive the award "The best student of SSU". This year is no exception! Polina Kucherenko, a first-year master's student of specialty "Management", won the nomination "Best Student - Scientist".

And it's no accident! Because Polina has won many competitions in scientific works, has articles in professional journals and participates in scientific conferences.

She is a winner of the second stage of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad in the discipline "Business Economics" in 2019, All-Ukrainian competition of student research papers in the specialty "Economics of Nature Management and Environmental Protection" (2nd place, 2020), All-Ukrainian competition of student research papers in the field of "Management in the field of economic competition" (3rd place, 2020).  In 2018-2019 she received a scholarship from the head of the regional state administration, which is awarded to the best students of the region.

We should mention that Polina Kucherenko is Alumna of the department of Economics and Entrepreneurship and Business Administration. Her talents were unleashed and developed thanks to our colleagues.

And let’s remember that to become the best student one should study for self-development, with no stops in the middle.  

Congratulations to Polina on her victory and we believe that this is just the beginning!

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.

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).

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.

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.

  1. We involve foreign speakers in studing
  2. Once again, we are glad to welcome practitioners to the classes of future civil servants!
  3. Team management training provided by the expert in leaders development
  4. A new practical lesson for students of Management Department. The tax collector and the auditor shared their knowledge!
  5. Meeting on international mobility with first-year students of the Department of Management
  6. A theory supported by practice
  7. Internship in Poland
  8. Guest speakers on CSR from Mauritius
  9. Roman Kotyuk received a scholarship from the President of Ukraine
  10. Scholar of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine studies at the Department of Management
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