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It’s almost impossible to keep out of Zaporizhzhya Book Fest taking place in Cossack Palace on October 26 – 28, 2018! EUVOLIA team has taken advantage of this wonderful event to promote the project on European Values in Literary Arts among the local community.  

Throughout Saturday, October 27, our delegates Stan Cherkasov, Kateryna Kasian and Olena Tupakhina had been keeping a vigil close to the project’s banner to inform the Book Fest guests about EUVOLIA opportunities and encouraging people to take part in our survey. The honourable guests of EUVOLIA pannel included Prof. Valentyna Botner, the member of the Book Fest Jury; Prof. Natalia Torkut, Book Fest event moderator; Prof. Rusudan Makhachashvili, Head of the Chair of Translation of Kiev National Borys Grynchenko University.  We also had a meeting with the Head of Literary Union of the local department of the Ukrainian Writers League, Anna Lupynos, who eagerly supported the idea of Zaporizhzhya writers’ participation in EUVOLIA events. 

Many thanks to all those who made the Book Fest 2018 possible – and hope to see you next year! 

On Friday, October 26, 2018, EUVOLIA project was officially presented to the professional community of experts in Philological Studies during the plenary session of the International Conference “Foreign Philology in the XXI century”. EUVOLIA team represented by Stan Cherkasov, Kate Vasylyna, Oleksandra Nikolova and Kateryna Kasian introduced the audience to the core idea of the project and the modules of the course “European Values in Literary Arts”. The conference participants from the National Technical University “Dnipro Polytechnics”, Donetsk Vasyl Stus National University, Kyiv Borys Grynchenko University, Sumy State University, Kharkiv National Karazin University, Le Mans University (France), Bilbao University (Spain), Chukurova University (Turkey) expressed their interest in the project and its events scheduled for the next three years. In particular, the presentation kindled the cooperation with Sumy State University, another Jean Monnet Module winner of 2018  also working upon the project on European Values promotion for lawyers. 

Official report available here

Cheers to EUVOLIA team! On Tuesday 23, 2018 EUVOLIA syllabus was officially approved by ZNU Academic Council and signed by the Vice-Rector in Academic Affairs. The council members seemed genuinely interested in EUVOLIA’s innovative concept and even expressed their wish to enroll for the course 🙂 We’re looking forward for the students to sign up for European Values in Literary Arts in Spring semester!

Official report available here

On Monday 22, 2018 EUVOLIA was officially presented to the local academic community in the newly opened European Studies Hall of ZNU.
The event was attended by the Rector, the Vice-Rectors in Science, Academic and Pedagogical Affairs, teacher, student government members and the media. Our honourable guests from European University Viadrina (Germany) brought an international perspective to otherwise domestic celebration.

Alongside with other Erasmus+ projects groups currently implementing their initiatives at ZNU, EUVOLIA team presented the main goals and objectives of the project, highlighted its most significant outcomes and scheduled events. On of the most important messages delivered by our team was that EUVOLIA is, in fact, a project for everyone – teachers, students, experts, parents, NGOs and community. The audience was encouraged to take part in our surveys, to sign up for our course and to feel at home on board EUVOLIA 🙂
Official report

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Starting from today, once in a month the EUVOLIA team would ask its followers to take part in a values-focused survey. What values are the most important for you personally? Take part in a survey based on Schwartz Values Questionnaire (UA): 
https://goo.gl/forms/PM0IrYbYRlJCAk223

EUVOLIA project would hold its official presentation on Monday, October 22, at 13:30 in the European Studies Hall (room 61, building І). All the Deans and Faculty Project managers are cordially invited!

Later that day, training sessions by EUVOLIA team members Olena Tupakhina and Kateryna Kasian would be conducted at 15:00. Please register below to secure your participation: 

Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module: Successful Application Secrets – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ai2MKFfhDuiEj77Dx8MRN7EzbexKKT3y80jPX6NWI-4/edit?ts=5bbc18ab

Erasmus+ KA107: How to take part in an academic mobility  program  – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjX_f0ibz990jP2OMOaQET7CUuCep1rDE7t23gSZz3ucXN9w/viewform

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It goes without saying that the user-friendly surrounding means a lot for a student, specifically when we talk about such an innovative course as  EUVOLIA 🙂 Within the frames of the project, modern furniture has been installed at our new classroom to inspire us with its bright colours and to make group work as pleasant as possible. We’re looking forward to the rest of equipment and can’t wait for the official kick-off!  

Just like the life is impossible without water, the good teacher is impossible without literature. This idea underpins the logo of the project European Values in Literary Arts.  The project’s acronym EUVOLIA meaning normal water balance required for organism’s functionality symbolically reflects the necessity to restore the balance between humanitarian and non-humanitarian components of teachers’ training. Since literature is traditionally considered as one of the most powerful means of European identity construction, a course entitled “European Values in Fiction” and aimed at Education majors’ integration into pan-European axiological context would respond to the above-stated challenge.
The project’s tactical goal comprises the development of skills and competences required for overall understanding of and critical reflection upon cultural, political and ideological background of axiological frameworks either promoted by governments or communities or constructed by an individual.
The project’s strategic goal is set at forming a new generation of broad-minded and well-read secondary school teachers, capable of understanding the logics of cultural development and serving as devoted agents of influence upon the process of axiological transformation of Ukrainian society.

 International project EUVOLIA is one of the brightest samples of EU contribution to the development of Ukrainian universities as fuctional academic and research centers, the project’s co-coordinator Olena Tupakhina stated in her interview to regional weekly digest “MIG”. 

The project’s relevance is determined by the complex process of integrating Ukrainian society into European axiological framework, which is one of strategic aims of national educational reform. As is evident from topical surveys (Gorshenin Institute, “Ukrainian Society and European Values” project, 2017; Third Pan-Ukrainian Municipal Survey commissioned by International Republic Institute, 2017; European Social Survey, 2004 – 2012; World Values Survey, 2015 etc.), Ukrainian society’s devotion to the set of values formed under authoritarian regime remains one of the core challenges of the transition phase. Among the reasons behind the existing situation one can name lack of distinct vector of European identity construction in HEI curricula, especially with regard to Exact and Natural Sciences, where the cluster of Humanities is largely neglected even in case of students obtaining professional qualification of a school teacher of natural and exact disciplines. Therefore, the objectives set before HEIs as key agents of gradual adjustment of new generations of Ukrainians to the paradigm of European values, comprise: а) balanced curricula development and modernization in the field of teachers’ training; b) retraining academic staff and secondary school teachers with regard to new axiological paradigm, encouraging them to implement the concept of European values into “traditional” curricula through strengthening interdisciplinary ties; c) initiating a productive discussion between academic and civil community around the topic of axiological transformations in Ukrainian society.

Full version of the interview available here (UA): http://mig.com.ua/hot/item/42163-kak-rabotayut-v-znu-dengi-evrosoyuza

 International project EUVOLIA is one of the brightest samples of EU contribution to the development of Ukrainian universities as fuctional academic and research centers, the project’s co-coordinator Olena Tupakhina stated in her interview to regional weekly digest “MIG”. 

The project’s relevance is determined by the complex process of integrating Ukrainian society into European axiological framework, which is one of strategic aims of national educational reform. As is evident from topical surveys (Gorshenin Institute, “Ukrainian Society and European Values” project, 2017; Third Pan-Ukrainian Municipal Survey commissioned by International Republic Institute, 2017; European Social Survey, 2004 – 2012; World Values Survey, 2015 etc.), Ukrainian society’s devotion to the set of values formed under authoritarian regime remains one of the core challenges of the transition phase. Among the reasons behind the existing situation one can name lack of distinct vector of European identity construction in HEI curricula, especially with regard to Exact and Natural Sciences, where the cluster of Humanities is largely neglected even in case of students obtaining professional qualification of a school teacher of natural and exact disciplines. Therefore, the objectives set before HEIs as key agents of gradual adjustment of new generations of Ukrainians to the paradigm of European values, comprise: а) balanced curricula development and modernization in the field of teachers’ training; b) retraining academic staff and secondary school teachers with regard to new axiological paradigm, encouraging them to implement the concept of European values into “traditional” curricula through strengthening interdisciplinary ties; c) initiating a productive discussion between academic and civil community around the topic of axiological transformations in Ukrainian society.

Full version of the interview available here (UA): http://mig.com.ua/hot/item/42163-kak-rabotayut-v-znu-dengi-evrosoyuza