Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University

More students from Africa are paying interest of studying at SumDU and not only medical degree programs but also to study degree programs in economic field and computer science. Such a summary could be made as a result of the visit of Vice-director of ARI FEM, assistant of the Department of Management Tetyana Mayboroda to Zimbabwe and Zambia by invitation of foreign partners in the beginning of March 2020.

Only 2 days for each country – it was a very intensive schedule for presenting SumDU in these countries.

Zimbabwe will be remembered as one of the longest working days, which started with interview in the live morning show “Good morning, Zimbabwe” at 7:30 a.m. on national TV channel Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, after which – live on radio Power FM Zimbabwe, and after that – presentations of SumDU, consultations and meetings with parents and students who paid interest to study at SumDU at the partner’s office. At the end of the day – meeting with Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development, Prof. A. Murwira, Permanent Secretary, Legal Advisor and other Ministry’s representatives for discussion of cooperation perspectives and search for perspective partners for SumDU among Zimbabwean universities.

During March 23-24, 2020 Denys Smolennikov, an associate professor of Department of Management, took part in the online part of Sustainability Crash Course. The event included two fruitful days of lectures, discussions, panel discussions, and interactive sessions using Zoom platform. Representatives from the leading Ukrainian business schools and hubs were invited to join the event. The key speakers of the course were as following: Marina Saprykina, Chairman of the Board of CSR Ukraine; Katja Berkhout, founder of Empowering Innovators (Netherlands); Liesbeth Rijsdijk, Director of Foreign and International Affairs at Global Project and Change Management at Windesheim College; executives and experts on CSR and sustainability principles from Ukrainian and European companies operating.

The event was organized by the expert organization CSR Development Center.

The amazing event had a place on Tuesday, 3rd of March 2020. Mister Volodymyr Lobodin have visited the department of management, who at one time went all the way for the agrarian farm to the work at the field in the UK, from gasoline station employee to the director of Trade and Entertainment Centre “Manufactura”. During the lecture, Mister Lobodin emphasized on the necessity of lifelong learning, evaluation of all the consequences of making decisions and corporate social responsibility.

The students entered the discussion actively, being the representatives of two specialities “Management” (groups )M-81, M-82, M-61) and “Public Administration” (groups PU-71, PU-81 ). Moreover, Viktoria Vovchenko, the undergraduate of Management, presented her business idea of a real project and got the advice from Mister Lobodin. That was real pitching of ideas in a real-time! The investments are not only money but valuable information – consulting or the contacts that will help to start. We hope that it will be just the first step in scaling-up for the business of our students!

"The quarantine is not for sleeping" as Katia Zajchyk says, the student in Management.

During the last weeks, the students of the department didn’t stop learning, most of the spheres of life were adapted to online-technologies. The flexibility, intensity and usability – that’s the points of the new learning strategy. The online-testing, case-study, attestation and lecture attending become possible via online. According to the students, the learning is becoming intense and interesting, as well as according to the educators. And this period we should use for the good for our common development.

On March 04, 2020, Associate Professor of Department of Management Svitlana Kolosok spoke at public lecture about the 7 steps to make learning more accessible. Teachers from 15 educational institutions attended a lecture to learn about modern inclusive education. Office 365 accessibility tools, Windows and Lens, Microsoft Learning Tools were discussed at the lecture. All trainees received certificates confirming their participation.

On the 27th of March the head of the department, Dr.Sci., Shvindina Hanna provided the seminar on Bibliometric Analysis for the faculty and PhD students. The published data arise enormously last decades and the data processing data are in need for a researcher. The seminar was aimed at sharing the knowledge about the bibliometric analysis via VosViewer software and Publish or Perish. These tools are well-known and yet few scholar use them in their research. This knowledge sharing became possible because of Professor Vincent Duffy from Purdue University who was the supervisor and a guide in bibliometric analysis during academic exchange of Hanna Shvindina, once a Fulbrighter. More than 30 participants attended the seminar online and acquired the knowledge about this flow of academic search. All the participants will be certified.

We are grateful to Professor Vincent Duffy (Purdue University), cooperation with whom helped make it happened.

29th of February is the International Rare Disease Day. European Organisation for Rare Diseases established this day in 2008 to raise awareness for unknown or overlooked illnesses. The students of Sumy State University organized the photo session and made a social video to support the carriers of the orphan disease. The event involved 10 students among them are the students of our department.

More details are here.

The link to the video is here 

On the 24th of March the head of the department, Dr.Sci. Shvindina Hanna who is also a CEO of NGO “Lifelong Learning Centre” took part in Webinar “UNESCO learning cities respond to COVID-19”. The challenges that are crucial for the cities all around the world were discussed among the 250 participants from different countries.

The experience on overcoming the challenges was presented by the representatives of Wuhan, Shanghai and Beijing (China), Fermo (Italy) and Kashan (Iran). The agenda and presentations of the webinar and summary report are presented at the site of UNESCO and available for the public.

Here is the link - https://uil.unesco.org/event/webinar-unesco-learning-cities-respond-covid-19

The webinar is aimed at sharing the decisions, tools, best practices and contacts under the closing the schools and HEIs due to COVID-19 and at experience sharing between members and non-members of UNESCO learning cities network towards the pandemic problems solving.

Teaching and Learning Symposium took place on 28th 2020 in Nebraska, at Innovation Campus Conference Center of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where Professor Dipra Jha presented his results on using Virtual Exchange as a Teaching Tool. The Head of the Department Dr Hanna Shvindina performed as well as a co-presenter on the event via Zoom Video Communication. The session was devoted to the discussion of the opportunities appeared due to the collaborative online international learning (COIL).

In the frame of cooperation project with Ghana Baptist University College Vice-director of ARI FEM for coordination of collaboration with foreign institutions and for work with international students, assistant of the Department of Management Tetyana Mayboroda and Head of the Department of Marketing Oleksii Lyulyov held set of trainings, presentations and lectures for the new post-graduate students from Ghana.

“It was the hottest week of February we have ever felt in our lives” – this is how our lecturers will remember their stay in Ghanaian city Kumasi, at partner university college campus on 22nd – 29th of February.

That was the first such experience of communication and teaching of foreign post-graduate students with visit to Ghana. Education process and discussions were very intensive and active: management of scientific projects, methodology of scientific research, trainings in modern tools of statistic data collection and processing, bibliographic information processing, algorithm of work with international reference databases Web of Science and Scopus, and more else.

Associate Professor of Management Department Onishchenko M.L. and students of 10th grade 11 - LH class Hudkova Daryna (report on the topic: "The authenticity of the image of Miranda Prista as a modern manager" (by Loren Weissberger's novel "The Devil Wears Prada"); supervisors Senchurina L.Ie., teacher of foreign literature of the highest category and Onishchenko M.L., Ph.D., Associate Professor of SSU) and Deineha Anastasiia (report on the topic: "TO" AND "AFTER": ALASKA LAB LABIRINT, supervisor Senchurina L.Ie., teacher of foreign literature of the highest category) participated in the Conference "The First Step in Science 2020", held on 23.02.2020 at the Congress Center of the Sumy State University.

  1. Defense of the graduate works under the Public Service educational program
  2. Students of the department visited the Sumy City Council
  3. Three countries in one classroom!
  4. Department of Management takes part in «Spartakiad of Health»of SSU
  5. The Graduation Day for the Masters on Public Administration 2020!
  6. Our team members start the projects with briefing!
  7. The experienced manager joined the class!
  8. The students of ARIFEM named by Balatskyi took place in XII Forum Europe-Ukraine
  9. The presentation of the book «Reducing Inequalities Towards Sustainable Development Goals: Multilevel Approach»
  10. The Active Citizens Camp has started
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