Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University

This February the Active Citizens Camp has started that is supported by British Council in Ukraine within the project House of Europe. The NGO “Active Citizens City” hosts the young leaders and changemakers form all the Ukraine. This event involves youth from all the regions of Ukraine. During two days the representatives of Sumy city has shared their stories in a sphere of project of social actions and facilitation of the projects. The head of the department, Hanna Shvindina was a one of the speakers in a format of “Alive Book”. She shared her experience and the contributions of the British Council in her professional growth as a project manager.

It’s worth of mentioning that the achievements of Hanna Shvindina are:

  • The project funded by British Council in Ukraine Speaker Fest" (15 000 UAH)
  • The project funded by Oblast Government Office “I am young, I dream, I work” (70 000 UAH) that won TOP-5 best youth practice in region.
  • The project funded within participatory budget Festival “Sumy of the Future” (198 030 UAH) that won the TOP-5 best projects in Ukraine
  • This year the project “Change Leaders” has already won the funding, and the manager of the project is Valenkevich L.

Mykyta Kovalevskyi, the second-year student of Management, is an author and coordinator of the project “Kids-Friendly City”. The main idea is to reduce the stress in the process of preparation and testing of the pupils who are passing the External independent evaluation (EIT). The statistical data proves that approximately 20% of mistakes are done due to stress. It’s not a secret that EIT causes a lot of stress that leads to health damage, including emotional disorders.

Within the “Kids-Friendly City” project the meeting took place in 21st of January at Congress-Center of Sumy State University. The discussion was provided by first-year student Vlasdyslav Piven, the member of Small Academy of Science, and civic activist and public figure Evgenyi Kozolup.

This project is supported by many city institutions and city activists. Galyna Plahotnykova, director of Informational Center of the Department of Education and Science of Sumy City Council, gave a speech to support this project. The pupils who are going to pass the EIT this or coming years had an opportunity to meet the professional phycologists of Sumy State University psychological service, Ludmila Kolisnyk and Anna Chernyakova. Mykyta mentioned as an author and coordinator of this project moderated the event.

The next stage of the project is the set of training “EIT without the stress”. The first pieces of training are planned to take place on the 5th and 7th of February. It’s notable that the registration has been going on till 20th of December 2019. More than 100 people have been registered and more than 10 gave a call to the organizers to join after the first meeting because of positive feedbacks.

zhulavskyyayOn the 18th of December, the successful defence took place presented by Pavlyk Anatolii who is the apprentice of Arkadii Zhulavskyi, PhD. This the 12ve PhD student who performed successfully under the supervision of Professor Zhulavskyi. We asked our colleague, what is his motivation in contributing to PhD training. “When I work with youth, I myself am becoming younger ”, Arkadii Yuriyovich told us. “It is the cooperation with PhD students that brings the insights, new ideas, new approaches to solving the existing problems”. Now the followers of Zhulavskyi work in Sumy, Kyiv, Shostka and many of them became Dr.Sci. and were elected to high offices. We congratulate and wish further success!

Sumy State University, upon invitation from the department, was visited by Gavrilyuk Maxim Petrovich, chairman of the Expert Council of Employers with a degree in Public Administration, deputy head of the Interregional Department of the State Agency of Ukraine for Public Administration in Kharkov and Sumy regions. On 30th of January, on this Thursday, Mr Gavrilyuk gave a lecture on Ukrainian specific processes of European integration and the role of public servants in these transformations. The lecture was provided for undergraduate students of the department, during which the practitioner demonstrated, using the German experience as an example, the features of the organization of the national public service and its interactions with the EU governing bodies.

This event has become one of the many practice-oriented events organized by the team member of the Department of Management, Demikhov O., Ph.D. (focused on Public Administration).

2019-12-14-160340Teachers of the Department of Management continue to improve their pedagogical skills and build the educational process in line with the global trends. For example, from December 12 to December 14, 2019, Associate Professor of Management Department, Oleg Balatskyi Deputy Director of FEM, Denys Smolennikov participated in the training for trainers within the project "E-Learning4SD / Online Education for Sustainable Development". The project is being implemented by the UNDP with the financial support from German Government through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and provides for the dissemination and advocacy of an on-line course for sustainable development among Ukrainian public servants.

The training was conducted at the training center of the Ukrainian School of Government (http://usg.org.ua/) and brought together more than 40 teachers, civil servants and NGO representatives who were selected to become trainers for the project. Particular attention was paid to the methodology of the training and its tools. The next phase of the project is scheduled for January 2020. It will include the development of meaningful parts of future trainings and their piloting.

24th of January there were the Graduation Ball for the students of our Faculty and both training programs “Administrative Management” and “Project Management”. There were cheers and tears, flowers and songs, hugs and good-byes. The staff of the department congratulated our students who became Masters and now are free to choose their own future! We are proud of our graduates and wish them happy life!

797094278554370849148071097555691079467008nOn the 20th of December our colleague Tetyana Mayboroda successfully defended her PhD thesis at Higher Educational Institution of Ukoopspilka «Poltava University of Economics and Trade» in Poltava. The topic is “State regulation of education in the context of the development of national economy ”. The scientific Supervisor is professor Lyeonov Serhiy, Dr.Sci.. Congratulations on the success of the applicant and her supervisor!

IMG20200121095637On 21th of January 2020 practitioner Shahov Viktor, the main architect of the oblast during 1986-1992, provided the lecture for students of the training program “ Public Service”. During the meeting, there were a a lot of questions discussed vividly. For instance, there are issues of territorial forming, United Territorial Communities (UTC) development in consideration with the resource potential of the Sumy Oblast, sustainable development and so on.

IMG20191210155851The National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education is actively preparing experts on accreditation of educational programs. One of the stages of this training is the training of potential experts in the face-to-face training. During December 10-11, the SSU underwent appropriate training at the "Laboratory of Ideas" of the Department of Management. One of our team members took part in it. The assistant to the Department of Management, Ph.D. of PA Demikhov O. successfully accomplished the training. The future experts mastered the competencies in evaluating educational programs, communication skills with focus groups and the psychology. So, instead of formal administrative functions, an expert advises and helps a higher education institutions to improve their educational programs. It is such a European approach that will allow us to reform our higher education system!

IMG213The team members of the department have started the series of mini-trainings for the school pupils of Sumy city. The event aims to help pupils to choose their profession and further path. During the event, trainers offer to define the possibilities and the development vector, in terms of future profession.

The first participants were pupils of the school No 21 (11th grade). On that moment they’ve already received the results of testing and recommendations on their preferences. There is hope, that the recommendations will be in use. Acknowledgements and gratefulness to their supervisor, Larisa Pavlivna, who supported this event. Symbolically, this school is situated on Oleg Balatskyi Street.

demikhov150x200Assistant of the Department of Management, PhD of PA  Demikhov A.I. won the second prize in the contest "Pedagogical Innovation of SSU" in 2019 in the nomination "Practice-oriented training of students." The teacher proposed the project “Video as an innovative aspect of practice-oriented learning” for the competition. The essence of the project is to complete the student’s creative task: shooting on a smartphone and editing a compressed video (up to 4 minutes). The video should contain brief information about the urgency of the problem identified by a student that he or she is studying within the educational program. Also, a student offers possible solutions to this problem and formulates a call for a community in the sphere of integrity and offers possible managerial decisions. The university’s expert jury evaluated this project at high level.

  1. Our colleagues became developers of the strategy of intercultural development of the city!
  2. Participation in the conference in Longlife Learning
  3. We have the best students of Sumshchyna!
  4. The team of educators and students won the case battle CASERS!
  5. The Business game took place within the training for managers!
  6. Study trips financed within the Development Cooperation Project of the Czech Republic
  7. Practically-oriented event for the students of the specialty “Management
  8. Students and team of the department visited Ukraine WOW Exhibition
  9. Cooperation between OLX & Department of Management!
  10. The Expert Employers Council on 071 “Management” took place at the Department of Management
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