This year the annual contest among the educators is ended, and we happily pronounce that our colleagues are nominated as the winners! Denys Smolennikov has won the first place at University level, and Alona Yevdokymova conquered the third place among the colleagues of Institute of FEM. This event is a tradition now, as every year our team members gain TOP ranking positions. Denys and Alona inspire by their spirits, their attitudes, sincerity and devotion to the learning and research. We are proud of you, and wish you further success!
SumDU and Sumy – it’s not only the best place to live and study for international students, but also a place, where they can try theirselves in the sport activities they’ve never tried before.
On Saturday, 15th Climbing Club of Sumy city under the initiative of National Union of Ghana Students - Sumy and organizational support of Vice-director of ARI FEM, lecturer of Management Department Dr. Tetyana Mayboroda –arranged an outdoor climbing training for international students of SumDU. What an amazing emotions and experience for all parties!
Look at our FEMily students – Clarence (3d year student, speciality “Management”) & Nana (2nd year student, speciality “Management”) – they were active participants of the Saturday session.
Meet our graduate, Iryna Tatarenko, editor-in-chief of PANORAMA magazine (UIA logbook). She has interviewed Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Quentin Tarantino, Fred Derts ("Limp Bizkit"), Catherine Deneuve, Mila Kunis and more.
And today she told us about her life during her student years, studies and shared her warmest memories.
Tell us about your journey after SSU
I moved to Kyiv and got a job first as a bank loan expert, after that as a publicist for a magazine, and later on as a publicist for an airline, but eventually went into journalism anyway. Because I always dreamed of this profession. I interviewed Ukrainian “Territory A” stars for school radio and wrote articles for a student newspaper.
So, when I found myself in Kyiv, I almost immediately wrote letters to the editors of my favorite magazines at the time, Cosmopolitan and Maxim. Of course, I was not answered. Because healthy ambitions are good, but they need to be backed up by experiences I haven't had. I was not upset though.
The new academic year starts with training and networking. On the 4th of September the head of the department, Hanna Shvindina, took part in the training “ICC Competence Training for Trainers”. The speaker was ICC expert, Dr Kseniya Rubicondo, who is a professional in the fields of public affairs and urban policy development (PhD, Chicago, MPA, California, USA). ► More details about the speaker
We should remind that our colleagues from Sumy State University became the co-authors of Intercultural Strategy for Sumy, and this event is a logical follow-up of the work accomplished in a sphere of city strategy development. This is one of the many events within the positive transformation of our society towards tolerance and intercultural cooperation.
Did you know that Maryna Mykolayivna Popatenko, a proud graduate of our department, holds the position of Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine?
Read the interesting answers to interesting questions below.
1. Tell us about your journey after SSU.
My way of becoming an active person with a clear civil position began at SSU. During my studies, I met people who are important to me, with whom I spend my whole life. We are a real team of change makers in the country! (Smiles)
And back in 2004, we have been changing our university, when we defended it with student protests and it was at that time that we learned to communicate with the state. At that time, we opposed the unification of universities and our university remained a separate legal entity, an important unit of science. This was my first experience in negotiations, diplomacy, communication with the state and finding consensus.
The beginning of the new academic year is the beginning of a new friendship, new projects, and new plans! The representatives of Sumy Employer Council welcomed students on the occasion of a new academic year start.
“Dear friends! The new academic year has started, and it is not an easy one and challenging for all of us! The pandemic situation, complicated economic trends and social isolation defy us. And I believe that our common efforts will help us to overcome all the difficulties. The hope and faith in you, your friends and educators will give you the strength to go through these challenges with dignity. I wish students and educators of the department health, strength and inspiration for new achievements! Congrats on the new academic year!”
The Head of the Employer Council in “Management”, Ustimenko Vladyslav, the leading expert on project & programs management in a sphere of material production LLC “Dominion Business Park”
“I appeal to the students and educators of the department of management! I congratulate you on the new academic year! I’d like to advise all interested persons in a sphere of public administration at Sumy State University. Only together, united we can survive such a tumultuous time and overcome all the troubles! The public sphere is not a field where you rely on the obstacles, it’s all about the cooperation of the efforts of community and teamwork towards concrete results! There will be a future, and I know that the future is ours!”
The Head of the Employer Council in “Public Administration”, Gavrilyuk Maxim, the deputy of the chief of Interregional department of National Agency of Ukraine in Civil Service in Kharkiv and Sumy Oblasts
At the currnet times, when world borders are closed, SumDU expands its borders of international cooperation virtually. The successful implementation of the project of virtual academic mobility "Strategic Management and Leadership" by SumDU with Whitefield Business School (Mauritius) is one of such examples. To this project is devoted an article published in one of the most popular and widely read Mauritian newspapers Le Mauricien (by the way, this newspaper was founded and has been published since 1908.) The article is in French language (since Mauritius has two official languages - English and French) highlights the interview with Mr. Sabhir Ramnorut, Director of Academic and International Affairs of the Mauritian school, which descripes cooperation project with SumDU, information for which was prepared jointly with Mayboroda Tetyana, lecturer of the Department of Management.
By joint efforts we make the SumDU name known in more and more countries of the world and expand the horizons of cooperation, as for our university and team this is the first project with a higher education institution in Mauritius.
For someone, August is the rest and vacation, and for our students and educators, it’s an opportunity to reach unreached and to embrace unembraced. And moreover, the Summer Schools and Conferences, online-marathons and many other interesting things may happen. Be open for the opportunities!
On the 3rd of August the one-day training took place “Blogging Channel for Advocacy” within the project “Together We Can”, the program for youth. The trainer of the school was Yuriy Kochkarov, well-known blogger, script-writer and film director. The active residents of the city took part in this school, among them there were our students. After the training, the participants were asked to share their impressions on the radio. The guests of the “Ukrainian Radio: Sumy” were Maryna Osiuhina, the coordinator of the project and the participants - Faith Umo Otong (student in “Management”) and Olena Bilotserkivska (student in “International Economic Relations”), both enrolled at Sumy State University. The guests shared their vision of discrimination per se and its forms in our society.
Participants of the team "Zminotvortsi" (our students Malonkina Inna, Kaliuzhna Yaryna and teacher Mishenina Halyna) took part in the Cases’ Championship by DESPRO vs CASERS. Then, they shared their experience and impressions both from participation and victory in the interview for CASERS in the sections #talk_with_casers та #talk_with_teachers
We are proud that Sumy State University is well represented in the main Case Community of Ukraine.
Interview with Mishenina Halyna
Interview with Kaliuzhna Yaryna
Interview with Malonkina Inna
On 17th of June students of Sumy State University joined one of the meetings of the Civic Engagement Club (a social project of NGO “Lifelong Learning Center). At this meeting, our students shared their experience of being enrolled in “The Fair Skills Training” that took place in Chernihiv. This training was devoted to Human Rights Advocacy and during 4 days the participants had intensive sessions on different types of discrimination and processes of radicalization. The training program is a part of Project Together we Can!” managed by NGO “Young Media Association” (MMC) in cooperation with «Сultures Interactive», the Ukrainian Human Rights Foundation and funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Federative Republic of Germany.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, PhD in Public Administration Demikhov O.I. won 1st place in the contest SSU "ICT Innovations for Modern Education ICT4EDU" in the nomination "Mobile devices in the educational process". The competition committee praised the author's development - "Mobile Video Director".
The student of the specialty "Public Management and Administration" Inna Malionkina helped to prepare the application for the competition by creating an original video.
Innovative student training at the Department of Management provides for:
- theoretical study of the material of the relevant discipline
- search for an unresolved problem in a specific area
- a suggestion of a solution to this problem
- registration of your thoughts in the form of shooting compressed video on a smartphone.
- Online-defence of BSc in Management is accomplished
- Final bachelor’s assessment of speciality "Public Management and Administration”
- Double victory
- Academic Exchange for Teachers is launched online!
- Students in science. Inna Malionkina
- Successful graduates. Olga Hrekulova
- We continue to learn to expand opportunities
- Confirmation of scientific achievements
- Our successful students. David Hviniashvili
- Course “Management” with the practitioner in sales