This year the annual contest among the educators is ended, and we happily pronounce that our colleagues are nominated as the winners! Denys Smolennikov has won the first place at University level, and Alona Yevdokymova conquered the third place among the colleagues of Institute of FEM. This event is a tradition now, as every year our team members gain TOP ranking positions. Denys and Alona inspire by their spirits, their attitudes, sincerity and devotion to the learning and research. We are proud of you, and wish you further success!

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Inna Malonkina, a 4th year student of the PМ-71 group, started full-time study in Riga under a scholarship program of the Government of Latvia after 14 days of self-isolation. In Latvia, Inna will study for one semester at the BA School of Business and Finance in Riga.

Regularly participating in various mobility programs, Inna gains new knowledge, acquaintances, develops useful skills and finds friends. With her achievements she motivates classmates and other students of the department to participate in international mobility programs.

After spending two weeks in self-isolation, Inna does not lose optimism about being set up for fruitful learning. She advises enjoying every opportunity to travel and discover new horizons, and pandemics and quarantine should not be an obstacle.

SumDU and Sumy – it’s not only the best place to live and study for international students, but also a place, where they can try theirselves in the sport activities they’ve never tried before.

On Saturday, 15th Climbing Club of Sumy city under the initiative of National Union of Ghana Students - Sumy and organizational support of Vice-director of ARI FEM, lecturer of Management Department Dr. Tetyana Mayboroda  –arranged an outdoor climbing training for international students of SumDU. What an amazing emotions and experience for all parties!

Look at our FEMily students – Clarence (3d year student, speciality “Management”) & Nana (2nd year student, speciality “Management”) – they were active participants of the Saturday session.

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This Fall the new learning module “International Busines Strategy” will start jointly with Washington State University. Professor Dipra Jha, associate professor in the Carson College of Business and Assistant Director of the School of Hospitality Business Management, initiated the joint lecturing with several Business Schools and two interactions – on the 1st and 8th of October will be provided by the Dr Shvindina Hanna, the representative of Sumy State University. The learning module takes place within the course “Management: Advanced Course” and is promised to be very helpful for the students in Management major. The Virtual framework means that students from both universities have classes simultaneously and interact with each other during the lecturing and seminars.

The new academic year starts with training and networking. On the 4th of September the head of the department, Hanna Shvindina, took part in the training “ICC Competence Training for Trainers”. The speaker was ICC expert, Dr Kseniya Rubicondo, who is a professional in the fields of public affairs and urban policy development (PhD, Chicago, MPA, California, USA). ► More details about the speaker

We should remind that our colleagues from Sumy State University became the co-authors of Intercultural Strategy for Sumy, and this event is a logical follow-up of the work accomplished in a sphere of city strategy development. This is one of the many events within the positive transformation of our society towards tolerance and intercultural cooperation.

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On the 24th of September, Dr Hanna Shvindina took part in the International Conference 4IR 2020 “4.0 Industrial Revolution: Transforming Businesses”  organized by Higher College of Technology, the UAE’s largest applied higher educational institution (Dubai). This conference was held online, where the results of the joint research of our colleagues were presented. The collaboration between our department of Sumy State University (Ukraine) and School of Aerospace Engineering and Aviation of RMIT (Australia) is a long-run and fruitful. Dr Iryna Heiets and Dr Hanna Shvindina published several papers devoted to the Coopetition & Strategies Development in Aviation. Dr Shvindina presented the results of the joint research. The sessions took place during the whole day and were extremely interesting, involved the best experts in the field and top-ranked researchers. The conference took place on the highest level, the discussions were insightful and inspiring.  

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The beginning of the new academic year is the beginning of a new friendship, new projects, and new plans! The representatives of Sumy Employer Council welcomed students on the occasion of a new academic year start.

“Dear friends! The new academic year has started, and it is not an easy one and challenging for all of us! The pandemic situation, complicated economic trends and social isolation defy us. And I believe that our common efforts will help us to overcome all the difficulties. The hope and faith in you, your friends and educators will give you the strength to go through these challenges with dignity. I wish students and educators of the department health, strength and inspiration for new achievements! Congrats on the new academic year!”

The Head of the Employer Council in “Management”, Ustimenko Vladyslav, the leading expert on project & programs management in a sphere of material production LLC “Dominion Business Park”

“I appeal to the students and educators of the department of management! I congratulate you on the new academic year! I’d like to advise all interested persons in a sphere of public administration at Sumy State University. Only together, united we can survive such a tumultuous time and overcome all the troubles! The public sphere is not a field where you rely on the obstacles, it’s all about the cooperation of the efforts of community and teamwork towards concrete results! There will be a future, and I know that the future is ours!”

The Head of the Employer Council in “Public Administration”, Gavrilyuk Maxim, the deputy of the chief of Interregional department of National Agency of Ukraine in Civil Service in Kharkiv and Sumy Oblasts

An insightful online lecture on strategic management was provided to students of the groups GR-901 (speciality «Public Health»), PU-71 («Public Administration and Management»), and M-71 («Management»).

The practically oriented event was organized by a senior lecturer of the Management Department, Ph.D. of PA - Demikhov O.

Within the scope of the practically oriented event, Larysa Mykolayivna Panasenko, Deputy Medical Director for AIDS Prevention and Control of the Sumy Regional Council of the Regional Clinical Medical Center for Socially Dangerous Diseases, was invited to address the students.

The online lecture covered the issues of strategic priorities and the main functions of healthcare as well as organization of personnel management processes in this area. The lecturer commented on the content of strategic documents and outlined key issues, especially in the current context of the spread of coronavirus. The students were also demonstrated activities to stimulate business in the field of healthcare.

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For someone, August is the rest and vacation, and for our students and educators, it’s an opportunity to reach unreached and to embrace unembraced. And moreover, the Summer Schools and Conferences, online-marathons and many other interesting things may happen. Be open for the opportunities!

On the 3rd of August the one-day training took place “Blogging Channel for Advocacy” within the project “Together We Can”, the program for youth. The trainer of the school was Yuriy Kochkarov, well-known blogger, script-writer and film director. The active residents of the city took part in this school, among them there were our students. After the training, the participants were asked to share their impressions on the radio. The guests of the “Ukrainian Radio: Sumy” were Maryna Osiuhina, the coordinator of the project and the participants - Faith Umo Otong (student in “Management”) and Olena Bilotserkivska (student in “International Economic Relations”), both enrolled at Sumy State University. The guests shared their vision of discrimination per se and its forms in our society.

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