On 17-18 September 2025, the Ukrainian Education Quality Forum (UQAF-2025) was held. The event, organized by the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance together with Lutsk National Technical University, brought together about 1,000 participants from all over the country. The forum became a large-scale communication platform for discussing modern approaches to ensuring the quality of higher education.

The key topics of discussions were European trends in education, introduction of institutional accreditation, synergy of state, business and higher education institutions in revival of technological education, development of academic integrity, role of student self-government in quality management.

Among participants, there were SumDU representatives:

• Olha LIUTA – head of the Center for Education Quality Assurance, associate professor of the Department of Financial Technologies and Entrepreneurship;
• Olha DEINEKA – head of the Bureau for Monitoring Quality of Higher Education, associate professor of the Department of Financial Technologies and Entrepreneurship;
• Yevheniia MORDAN – head of the Licensing and Accreditation Support Group, associate professor of the Department of Financial Technologies and Entrepreneurship;
• Inna RYLOVA – leading specialist of the Licensing and Accreditation Support Group;
• Volodymyr SADIVNYCHYI – head of the Department of Journalism and Philology;
• Liudmila KHOMUTENKO – deputy director for methodological work of the BiEM Institute, associate professor of the Department of International Economic Relations.

The forum included panel discussions, workshops, presentations of university practices, as well as a poster session of educational programs marked as “exemplary”.

Liudmila KHOMUTENKO presented the educational and scientific program “Marketing”, which received exemplary accreditation.

Within UQAF-2025, the workshop “Acquisition of Competencies by Higher Education Students Aimed at Achieving the Global Sustainable Development Goals by 2030” was held. The event was moderated by Olha LIUTA.

She presented the university’s innovative approach to integrating SDGs into strategic documents and educational programs. The participants discussed how knowledge about SDGs is transformed into practical skills among students (via the example of the educational program “Finances”).

Volodymyr SADIVNYCHYI spoke within the panel “Best Practices”, where he presented practice-oriented training in the specialty “Journalism”. The speaker discussed the stuDIIA PROFI as an innovative form of training for future journalists. In particular, he explained peculiarities of organizing its work, topics and speakers, and involvement of stakeholders in practical training of future mass media professionals.

“The stuDIIA PROFI work is no longer so much practice-oriented training as a kind of intellectual and spiritual guide for young generation of journalists”, – emphasized the speaker.

Participation in UQAF-2025 provided an opportunity for SumDU delegates to exchange experience, discuss practical education quality solutions, and strengthen partnerships.