On March 23-24, 2021 associate professor Denys Smolennikov joined the event "BUP Reunion" of the Baltic University Program. It took place online via Zoom and unite participants form previous educational projects of the program in 2017-2020.
Participants had the opportunity to meet online, chat in small groups, take part in a design thinking workshop, share ideas and successes of their change projects, which they implemented in their universities.
Denys Smolennikov was a participant in the internship program for teachers "Education for Sustainable Development", which took place in 2017-2018 at the University of Abo University (Turku, Finland) with two face-to-face seminars at Kaunas University of Technology (Kaunas, Lithuania) and Riga Technical University (Riga, Latvia).
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March, 25 students specialties "Management" and "Public Management and Administration" attended a webinar from KSE "The role of corporate culture in transformation". The speaker was Iryna Papusha, PhD, non-executive director, board member of Ukrainian and Dutch companies, corporate governance advisor.
"The manager has two tools - strategy and corporate culture", that's how Irina's webinar started. When you look at the corporate culture of an organization, you are actually looking at the total amount of behavior of all employees. Corporate culture has a great impact on employee engagement, productivity and business growth. Depending on the goals of the company, industry and other factors, a transformation is often required that will allow you to create the desired culture.
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The Virtual Program “Excellence in Teaching & Research” went on with the presentation of Professor Dpra Jha from Washington State University, Associate Professor Hanna Shvindina and Associate Professor All Krasulia, our colleagues from Sumy State University. The event was diverse, full of useful information in a sphere of online learning and digitalization of education, the insights and ideas about sharing knowledge were enriched by the insigts from the student’s side. The students from management studies, Mohamed Ali Abida and Ahmed Bezina were participants at the previous sessions with Professor Jha and Professor Shvindina and they share their experience on being enrolled in such a training.
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March 18 for fourth-year students gr. SR-71 specialty 231. "Social work" was an interesting practice-oriented event in the discipline "Strategic Management with a content module: Management of social work. Organization of systems of documentation of social work "(teacher - Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. Onishchenko M.). A meeting was held with Yanchenko Serhiy Volodymyrovych, Chief Specialist of the Department for Youth and Sports, as part of the topic's study: "Peculiarities of social service management for youth."
The meeting took place in a question-answer format. Students received meaningful answers to questions, namely: on the management structure of the Department of Youth and Sports; additionally focused on the issues of quarantine restrictions, as this affected the activities of the structure as a whole; within the strategic direction, the questions concerning the Program "Youth of the city of Sumy for 2019-2021" became very interesting.
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