Category: Новини і події

Warmest season greetings from EUVOLIA team! Let  the respect for human dignity and human rights, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law be your faithful companions in the upcoming year!

BTW, who’s gonna bring you presents this year – Father Frost of Santa Clause? Check Tamara Zlobyna’s column on “Ukrainska Pravda” to find out more about the shift of values underpinning both of the characters! 

Isn’t Ukrainian hospitality a flattering myth, after all? That’s the question the Journalist Human Rights Network coordinator  Iryna Virtosu raises in her column in “Ukrainska Pravda”. Based on the results of the second social survey on Ukrainians’ awareness of human rights and freedoms (specifically, of tolerance and discrimination issues), the author draws a disappointing conclusion: almost 28% of our compatriots don’t consider discrimination a big deal, while tolerance holds the last, thirteenth, place in our human rights chart.

The results of the survey are available here 

Christmas Readings, an annual young researcher conference traditionally held by the Faculty of Foreign Philology, has created a wonderful opportunity to present EUVOLIA course to the regional student community. While describing the structure and the content of the course to the audience, the project’s co-coordinator Olena Tupakhina specifically highlighted the practical value of the course in the field of critical thinking development, teamwork, self-presentation and mastering modern software tools to visualize ideas and to manage small projects. 

Please follow the link to read the detailed report.

On Thursday, December 13, EUVOLIA course presentation took place  at the Faculty of History. Project coordinator Stanislav Cherkasov introduced the students majoring in International Relations, Social Communications and Regional Studies to the key concepts of our relevant, practical and thrilling course, including EUVOLIA five basic modules devoted to axiological aspects of various historical periods (Middle Ages, Reneissance, Enlightenment, Victorian Age and XX century). The course would provide an opportunity to trace the history of European values back to the times they had been shaped, to understand the core of modern Euro-Atlantic civilization and to study its axiology through fiction.  It’s a chance to liik back at your own system of values, to get ready for a modern multicultural and pluralistic world to live in and to get a fresh perspective of a well-known classical pieces of fiction.  As a result of the presentation, over 20 students expressed their desire to enroll for the EUVOLIA course. 

On November 28-29, 2018 EUVOLIA coordinator Stan Cherkasov joined other Erasmus+ project coordinators in Brussels for traditional annual event held by EC and EACEA.

The conference was devoted to various aspects of project implementation and management. The participants studied best practices delivered by Jean Monnet Activities within the three basic directions (JM Modules, Chairs and Centres of Excellence) and discussed the future of the program in the light of recent challenges EU has been facing: Brexit, defence crisis, problems of economics and ecology etc.

As a project coordinator, Stan Cherkasov also had a chance to present EUVOLIA project to Erasmus+ community of experts. While the majority of the recent call’s winners focused mainly on economical or legislative issues, EUVOLIA effectively stood out as a project in Humanities dealing with European civilization choice.  

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On Monday, November 08, EUVOLIA coordinator Stanislav Cherkasov took part in Erasmus+ International Info Week in Kyiv. The event was organized by the National Erasmus+ Office in Ukraine in cooperation with the National Team of Experts on Higher Education Reform. The workshop “Jean Monnet Info Day: Tips on Successful Project Implementation” hosted by Kyiv Borys Grynchenko University proved to be very productive and useful in terms of consultations and recommendations on successful project management. The attention was paid to such important issues as visual policies, dissemination of results, accounting and audit, inter-project cooperation and experience transfer.

Apart from that, our delegate took a chance discuss prospective cooperation with Maria Kuntsevych, project coordinator from Sumy State University, who is currently implementing a Jean Monnet Module on European Values for the lawyers. 
Detailed description available here

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