On January 29, 2019 a pilot group of EUVOLIA students gathered for the first time in ZNU European Studies Hall to meet the teachers and get to know each other. Since teamwork is one of the project priorities, the orientation session was devoted to strengthening ties between the Historical Faculty and the Faculty of Foreign Philology. Details available here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/EUVOLIA/permalink/2065017126916084/
On January 23, a two-hours webinar “EU Funds: Financing Opportunities for Educational Projects” moderated by Mykola Smolynsky gave start to a series of webinars “Project-oriented approach to modern HEI operation”. For those who couldn’t take part in the event, online version is available here:
https://youtu.be/ChM46taC758
Students, PhD students, academic staff are cordially invited to take part in free on-line course “Project-oriented approach to modern HEI operation”. The webinars are scheduled for January 23, February 13, February 20.
Details: https://www.ceasc-bw.com/products/bezkoshtovnij-onlajn-kurs/?fbclid=IwAR0MnCmzmnu47mdNUnrgTOiN9xx_KJq8NJllAiPhbBINcvaXotNkn0ZRF9s
Thanks to enthusiastic work of all the team members of EUROPEOC project implemented at ZNU, - Oleksandr Gura, Yuriy Kaganov, Olena Tupakhina, Volodymyr Sarabeev, Natalia Voronova and project coordinator Victoria Meniaylo, - the project activities have become an important part of ZNU life, attracting more and more academic staff members and students willing to develop not only project competencies relevant to researcher profile but also such nuclear competencies as creative thinking, communication skills, teamwork, problem solving etc.
The further steps to be taken comprise the Grand Finale of University Project Contest climaxing in awarding grants from ZNU Rector, Mykola Frolov, for the best project in Faculty Image Development; the start of Jean Monnet EUROPROC Module teaching to Masters of the Faculty of Mathematics (full-day) and to the representatives of other HEIs (distance education mode).
We thank all who has supported or followed us in 2018 and are looking forward to meeting you in 2019!
The second day of the project activities simulation within Erasmus+ Jean Monnet EUROPROC module at ZNU had begun with the traditional SMART PT to boost our students’ creative thinking and get them ready for solving yet another set of challenging tasks, the first one of which was to construct a PhD student model from at-hand stuff: shells, plastic, nuts, conelets etc. After that, the participants together with their trainers Oleksandr and Tetyana Gura had revised the basics of project concept and its details: aims, goals, methods, activities, resources and results. The second half of the day was devoted to the development of three group projects: “PhD professional training”, “PhD competencies model”, “PhD career building”. Altogether, the projects served as elements of a complex project “Effective system of PhD professional training at the stage of integration to EU education and research area” presented by participants to ZNU top management. The experts represented by the Vice-Rector in Science and Research Gennadiy Vasylchuk and the Vice-Rector in Scientific and Pedagogical Affairs Yuriy Kaganov had praised the quality of the project and thanked the participants for their activities during two-day marathon organized by ZNU Vice-Rector in Academic Affairs Oleksandr Gura, Zaporizhzhya Regional Institute of Teachers’ Professional Development (ZRITPD) Vice-Rector in Scientific and International Issues Tetyana Hura, ZRIPTD Head of the Chair of Education Management and Pshychology Tetyana Afanasieva, ZRIPTD Inclusive Education Resource Centre methodologist and ZNU PhD student Ivan Kopytin, EUROPROC academic coordinator Victoria Meniaylo and EUROPROC team member Natalia Voronova. ZNU Vice-Rectors Gennadiy Vasilchuk, Oleksandr Gura and Yurii Kaganov highlighted that ZNU has always been a driving force of Ukrainian HE system improvements ready to support any creative initiative coming from the youth and to invest into implementation of these ideas to get closer to European standards of quality of education.
The first stage of the project activities simulation within Erasmus+ Jean Monnet EUROPROC module for ZNU PhD students was delivered by trainers Oleksandr Gura and Ivan Kopytin from ZNU and Tetyana Gura and Tetyana Afanasieva from Zaporizhzhya Regional Innstitute for Teachers’ Professional Development. The trainers had prepared very interesting tasks for the participants, including SMART PT, constructing LEGO model of a PhD, a PhD training project design in terms of developing PhD professional competencies and career in science and research. The results of the projects had to be presented not only in a way of traditional ppt presentations, but also on video, collages, by means of dynamic structures; the applicants had to answer the questions from the experts represented by EUROPROC academic coordinator Victoria Meniaylo and team members Natalia Voronova and Volodymyr Sarabeev. Tomorrow, the second part of the training aimed at a group project in enhancing PhD training at ZNU, would be delivered to our participants. The results of the project would be later presented to ZNU top management.
Details available here:
The second part of EUROPROC module 3 is over! Following the course program, students mastered the Erasmus+ KA2 CBHE competitive ideas generation algorithms, leaned how to present their ideas on partner search platforms, studied the basics of project lifecycle planning based on QA mechanisms etc.
Is academic mobility a must for any researcher? Isn’t it just a suitable disguise for what we call “academic tourism” or even “brain drain”? Such provocative questions introduced EUROPROC students to the first part of the third module of the course “Basics of European Project Activities”, aimed to train them to take part into European academic mobility programs under Erasmus+ KA107, Hirizon2020 Marie Curie, DAAD etc.
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