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On September 23rd-27th SumDU hosted a series of workshops for teachers and representatives of the university administration. They were aimed at improvement of the overall quality of training within the joint Czech project "Support of young university capacity in education and research and science activities in Ukraine”. A 3-day workshop for teachers on the use of digital technology in the educational process brought about 40 interested participants from SumDU and Sumy National Agrarian University, who enjoyed studying and practicing such tools as the Digital Badges, Quizlet, Kahoot, Padlet, Mentimeter, Office Day. The next workshop was aimed at teachers and those responsible for organizing students’ industrial practice and internships. They practiced on designing the questionnaire that can be used later for evaluation of the students’ feedback who had completed the practical training, internship or apprenticeship programme. All the participants were awarded the certificates of participation in a multi-day international seminar.
In 2019, representatives of Ukraine applied for participation in the program of advanced training in pathology for the first time with the support of the European Society of Pathology (ESP). Roman Moskalenko, SumDU Associate Professor of Pathological Anatomy Department, became one of the 23 winners (two of them are from Ukraine). The scientist got the internship opportunity for two months at the Center of advanced training of ESP in endocrine pathology focusing on thyroid and parathyroid tumors in Porto (Portugal) under the guidance of the famous Professor Manuel Sobrinio Simoes. The results were announced at the General Assembly of the European Society of Pathology in Nice (France).
Mykyta Holoborodko, the first-year student of the Medical Institute of SumDU, won a bronze medal at the World Judo Cadet Championship in Almaty (Kazakhstan). The athlete became one of the best in the weight category up to 50 kg. He won all the sparrings of the championship in order to reach the semi-final. In the fight for the bronze medal Mykyta won over the Taipei sportsman Hsu Chun-Kai.
Congratulations to Mykyta and all the best in studying and sport!
Sumy State University has started implementation of cooperation agreement with Bingham University (Nigeria), which provides the exchange of students, undergraduate students and lecturers. In the framework of the signed agreement and as a result of joint efforts of the Deputy Director of Oleg Balatskyi Academic and Research Institute of Finance, Economics and Management for coordination of cooperation with foreign institutes and for work with foreign students Tetyana Mayboroda and Advancement Office coordinator of Bingham University Dabur Missal, SumDU representatives for the first time came to Bingham University for teaching and internship program at the Department of Economics.
On September 25th Sumy State University welcomed the delegation of Koblenz-Landau University, Germany consisted of the following participants: Iryna Shalaginova – the Head of the International Department, office of the University President; Ines Tobis – the Head of the International Students Center of the Koblenz campus and Jutta Bohn – the Head of the International Department of the Landau campus. The visit took place within the implementation of the joint grant project of the EU Erasmus+ programme in the direction of academic mobility.
From 15th to 20th of September, the traditional 2019 IEEE 9th International Conference «Nanomaterials: Applications & Properties» took place in Odessa. The conference was attended by more than 220 participants (more than 100 of them are foreigners) from about 30 world countries including Poland, Belarus, the USA, Germany, Japan, China, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Canada, France and Turkey. The representatives of Australia and Greece took part in the conference for the first time.
On September 9th-12th Italian city of Trento hosted the final stage of the Rollerskis Junior World Cup. On the first day of competition the student of the Medical Institute of Sumy State University (major “Sport”) Daryna Kovaliova won the gold medal in the classic style uphill race for 2,5 km edging the Russian rival Olga Potapova by 14,5 seconds. Our sportswoman won one more award on the last day of this stage. Daryna was the second who reached the finish line in the classic style race for 13 km and got the silver medal.
Yuliia Bondarenko and Svitlana Voropai, SumDU teachers of the Department of Journalism and Philology, together with the students of Sumy Classical Gymnasium №1 visited Poland within the German project “Musik treffen”. Together with Ukrainian students Polish and German students joined the event. As the result of the week-long collaboration, pupils prepared and presented the concert, that took place at the theatre of Kwidzyn city, which was attended by the representatives of the Mayor’s Office and the local schools’ administration. After the concert, Polish students invited Ukrainian and German friends to their school for the excursion.
In the beginning of September Polish city of Krynica-Zdrój hosted the 29th Economic Forum - the largest in Central and Eastern Europe. As a part of the collaboration between Sumy State University and the Institute for Eastern European Studies (Warsaw), co-organizer of the Economic Forum, ten SumDU students participated in the Forum as volunteers. This year Economic Forum has traditionally gathered over 4,500 participants - scientists, representatives of public organizations, government and business from Europe, Asia, the United States and the Middle East.
On September 12th Sumy State University welcomed representatives of higher education institutions of Shaanxi province (China). The delegation visit was held within the International Ukrainian-Chinese conference on the development of external economic cooperation in the sphere of educational service providing and scientific and technical cooperation that took place in the Congress Center of SumDU. During the event Sumy State University and 6 Chinese universities presented scientific and educational potential of their institutions. Also, Chinese colleagues got acquainted with Library&Infromation Center of SumDU, recently opened second stage of the New Academic and Research building and Valleyball Center. At the end of the meeting parties signed bilateral agreement among higher education institutions in the sphere of education and scientific cooperation.