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Sumy State University for a second year in a row took the 1st position among Ukrainian HEIs in the University Impact Rankings by Times Higher Education. Overall, the university ranked 201-300 among more than 750 HEIs worldwide.
Another 14 representatives of Sumy State University won the prize places in the All-Ukrainian competition of students’ scientific works, that this year is taking place remotely on the basis of various national higher education institutions. Beforehand 26 works of participants from SumDU were marked.
As a result of the competitive selection of projects, this year Sumy State University will receive state funding for 58 research works, 20 of them for the development of young scientists. This number and amount of funding for state-funded research works are the largest in the history of the university. This was reported by Denys Kurbatov, the Head of Research and Development Sector of SumDU.
On April 14th the first course of training webinars from practitioners in the field of marketing finished. With the transition to distance learning technologies, students were able to discuss topical professional issues with representatives of companies - potential employers.
Recently the university received a positive response from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) regarding grant support to the Research Center for Regional Security for 2020. The financial support of 6,000 Euro will go to the Center's institutional support in conducting regional security studies as well as the level of NATO support; information and advisory support for researchers, students, and everyone interested in security and NATO. Project manager – Ph.D. in Political Science Mykola Nazarov.
Translation training and resource center “LinguoStar” of the Department of German Philology conducts the quarantine training courses and provides translation services to all interested in distance mode.
“The specialists of the center work in the online format. All additional educational services, planned for March-April, are completely carried out using specialized software for organizing web-conferences, online meetings, webinars, namely: Google Meet, Zoom, Skype", - Olha Zhulavska said, the Director of Translation Training and Resource Center "LinguoStar".
Representatives of Sumy State University distinguished themselves at the All-Ukrainian students’ scientific works competition. 26 prize places are the first achievements of SumDU students.
Six studies of young scientists have won the first prize. The best in Ukraine are the works of competitors from SumDU in the following areas: "Power Engineering", "Administrative Law and Procedure; Financial Law; Information Law", "Economics and Economic Policy", "Actual Problems of Cooperation with the European Union", "Banking", "Management of Financial and Economic Security".
Due to national quarantine, the Legal Clinic of SumDU works in distance mode. The current information on the law topics can be found on the website of the Legal Clinic https://clinic.law.sumdu.edu.ua and on the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/klinikasumdu/.
Sumy State University continues the project of virtual education within the course “Strategic Management” (teacher Hanna Shvindina). There are webinars on topical issues in the sphere of strategic management and decision making planned for the next 5 weeks. The partners of the project are the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and Whitefield Business School (Mauritius). The next session is on April 9th, starts at 13.25 PM. To join the meeting go to the link at Google Hangouts Meet https://meet.google.com/gfo-pmij-szm. Webinar language – English.
From March 31st to April 3rd the Marketing Department of Oleg Balatskyi Academic and Research Institute of Finance, Economics and Management organized webinar-workshops for teachers and postgraduates of different majors and faculties within the program of professional development from the Center of Human Resources Development of SumDU.