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On June 7th-9th ship modelling international competition - IV Tenshock CUP Lesznowola 2019 took place in Warsaw (Poland). 50 representatives from Italy, Denmark, Romania, Germany, Ukraine, Poland took part in the competition. Traditionally, the best Europe sportsmen are invited to this event, they are performing in classes of fast ship models with electric engine. The 2nd year student of the Faculty of Technical Systems and Energy Efficient Technologies Yevheniia Rudenko presented Sumy State University at this competition. She performed in the group “mini-mono” and got the 3rd place. Congratulations to Yevheniia and her coach Pavlo Rudenko and wish her new outstanding victories!
On June 5th-7th the scientists from Umea University (Sweden) visited Medical Institute of Sumy State University. The delegation was composed of: Professor Thomas Boren and Doctor Zhanna Buhaitsova from the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Professors Anders Berglund and Majid Ebrahimi. Guests conducted 6 lectures concerning peculiarities dental education and providing dental assistance in Sweden and issue of helicobacter pylori adaptation to different conditions.
SumDU has been a partner of the International REHAB grant project “Innovative Rehabilitation Education - Introduction of new master’s degree programs in Ukraine” of EU Erasmus+ program since 2018. The main goal of the project is development and implementation of the new master study programs in direction “Physical rehabilitation and Physiotherapy” based on the European HEIs experience. At the end of May 2019 representatives of the project workgroup – the Head of the International Affairs Department Kostyantyn Kyrychenko and Associate Professor of the Department of Physical Rehabilitation and Sport Medicine Olha Sytnyk - took part in the work meeting within the project that took place on the base of Josef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland and gathered the representatives of HEIs project partners from Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine.
Sumy State University joined the international project “Two steps: Internationalization in practice – Sweden, Ukraine, Belarus” under the sponsorship of The Baltic University Programme. The project is dedicated to enhancement of internationalization in higher education institutions, and international networking among universities of Ukraine, Sweden and Belarus. Also, the project is oriented to representatives of international affairs departments and internationalization departments.
On May 21st-24th representatives of Bingham University (Federal Republic of Nigeria) visited Sumy State University composed of the rector – Professor William Barnabas Qurix, University Development Office coordinator Misal Daburi Bello and Head of the Department of Chemical Sciences of the university – Professor Joseph Aniredju Lori.
From May 18th to 25th Tokio hosted the Bench Press and Classic Bench Press World Championship among all the age groups. Medical Institute student (major “Sport”) Artur Zaliotov became 2019 junior bench press world champion in weight category up to 93 kg with the result of 316 kg. Also, Artur became the world absolute junior champion and his result of 316 kg is a new world record. Congratulations to our sportsmen and his coach, we wish him further achievements!
On May 15th-16th Vice-rector for scientific and pedagogic work, international affairs and technical support of Sumy State University Volodymyr Lyubchak and senior lecturer of the Department of Germanic Philology, director of the Center of Ukrainian-Polish cooperation Iryna Ushapovska presented SumDU on the XX meeting of Consortium of Ukrainian universities and University of Warsaw. The event took place at Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatyuk National Pedagogical University.
On May 15th-16th representatives of “PolyTechnologies, Inc” company (Beijing, People’s Republic of China) and Nanjing Scientific and Research Institute of Electronic Technology (PRC) visited Sumy State University with working trip. They conducted the final stage of negotiations regarding implementation of the project that involves development of methods and algorithms of air targets radar determination.
On May 14th Sumy State University held the discussion regarding the national capability with the participation of Ambassadors of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia in Ukraine. Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Estonia in Ukraine Gert Antsu, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Lithuania in Ukraine Marius Janukonis, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Latvia in Ukraine Juris Poikāns communicated with students, teachers, city public figures. The discussion participants shared thoughts regarding the factors influencing the capability of nation’s restoration, adaptation, functioning and positive development during negative and crisis situations, and learned the experience of Baltic countries in forming of citizens’ trust to state institutions, country’s foreign policy course, development of media literacy as a part of information security etc. The event was participated by more than 100 attendees.
In April respected international publishing house “Springer Nature” (Switzerland) published two collective monographs of the Faculty of Technical Systems and Energy Efficient Technologies’ scientists. Scientific works are the result of the research and international cooperation of Sumy State University (Ukraine), Poznan University of Technology (Poland) and University of Minho (Portugal). Associate Professor of the Department of General Mechanics and Dynamics of the Machines Ivan Pavlenko and Associate Professor of the Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Machines and Tools Vitalii Ivanov were the monographs co-authors. These monographs are also included in the series "Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering" indexed by the international Scopus Database. They contain the results of the researches, that will be highlighted at the International scientific conference “MANUFACTURING 2019” dedicated to 100th anniversary of Poznan University of Technology