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SumDU hospitably welcomed participants of the educational forum, which included awarding winners of the final stage of the first round of the local all-Ukrainian competition “Teacher of the Year 2025”.
On 31 January 2025, SumDU hosted a staff conference, during which rector Vasyl KARPUSHA presented results of university work in 2024 and the main tasks for 2025.
According to the updated data of the Web of Universities Ranking (Webometrics), SumDU is second among higher education institutions in Ukraine after Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
On 23-24 January 2025, with the support of UNDP in Ukraine (Community Security and Social Cohesion), a regional forum “Veteran Community as a Driving Force for Recovery and a Change Resource” was held.
On 16 January 2025, a regional forum “Training of Specialists in the Vocational Education Centers of the State Employment Service: Teaching Ukrainians for Business Needs” was held in the village of Khoruzhivka (Romny Raion). Yana KRYVYCH (associate professor of the Department of Marketing, PhD in Economics) took part in the event.
SumDU achieved a large-scale success during the XXII World Winter Universiade. It took place in Turin (Italy) on 13-23 January 2025.
On 14 January 2025, Yurii VOLK (dean of the ELIT Faculty) and Andrii PIVEN (chief of the Center for Computer Technologies) joined the strategic session of the Hardware Community Meetup in Kyiv.
On 23-24 January 2025, the Sheptytskyi Center of the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) hosted a meeting of the DigiUni consortium dedicated to development of DigiPlatform. It is a digital educational environment that should unite and expand educational opportunities of participating universities.
On 23 January 2025, the ServU project hosted an online event “Pedagogy of Service-Learning (SL) for Community Development during War and Recovery”.
On 22 January 2025, students and staff of Sumy State University, together with representatives of the Mechanical Engineering College, joined the all-Ukrainian action “In Unity, We Stand Strong”. The event took place in Sumy near the monument to Taras Shevchenko.