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Our reading habits have drastically changed in the XXI century: we are now reading e-texts as often as print ones, which makes e-reading an inalienable part of our lives. But such popularity of digital reading poses a problem for teaching, as approaches to developing e-reading skills may differ from traditional ones. The Erasmus+ eRead project was initiated to bridge this gap. Zaporizhzhia National University joined the partnership. ZNU team includes the teachers from the Faculty of Foreign Philology and the Philological Faculty, who specialize in methods of teaching languages.

On December 13, 2023 the Erasmus+ eRead project teams met online to have a detailed discussion of the BA Module “Teaching reading digitally” that is one of the project targets. ZNU team was represented by M. Zaluzhna, N. Venherska, N. Nadtochii, I. Bakalenko and O. Stadnichenko.

The representatives of Zaporizhzhia National University Olga Stadnichenko, professor, head of the Department of Ukrainian Studies, and Iryna Bakalenko, associate professor of the Department of the Ukrainian Literature presented ZNU team during LTT visit within the framework of the Erasmus+ project 2022-1-EE01-KA220-HED-000089331 eRead “Developing Reading Skills With and Through Digital Technologies”. The event took place on October 9-13, 2023 in the city of Koper (Slovenia). As eRead aims at popularizing national languages (Ukrainian, Estonian, Latvian, Slovenian) through the development of reading skills on digital platforms, the purpose of the visit was to share experiences in teaching reading with the use of digital technologies.

At Zaporizhia National University, at the Philology Department, every year on Easter week, the Department of Ukrainian Studies led by its head Olga Stadnichenko organize the master class of painting Easter eggs. “Easter eggs’ shine” for students, professors, employees of the University. This year, in the context of quarantine, this studio was virtual. Anyone interested have an opportunity to see the photos of the most interesting moments in the history of the studio “Easter eggs’ shine” in the “Chamber” which is located in the education building № 2 by the link:  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1592242327589557&set=pcb.1592249174255539&type=3&theater

At the beginning of April 2020, the final stage of the All-Ukrainian competition for student scientific works on Ukrainian language and literature (with the method of their teaching) took place at the Faculty of Ukrainian Philology of the Uman State Pedagogical University named after Pavlo Tychyna. The sectoral competition commission for Ukrainian literature provided review of 37 student papers. The commission admitted 11 authors' works as applicants for the award. It is nice to note that among the winners is a student of the Philological Faculty Oleksandr Smyrnov.

Language and translation practice of students of the Faculty of Philology, students of the educational program "Translation (Bulgarian)", once again takes place in the capital of Bulgaria. Under the guidance of associate professors Ilchenko Iryna Ivanivna and Duka Liudmyla Ivanivna, students deepen their knowledge of Bulgarian language, skills of its use in various situations; actualize the ability to translate texts of different genres from the Bulgarian language to Ukrainian.

June 2019 is the month of the 50th anniversary of the death of Viktor Petrov (1894-1969), a Ukrainian writer, critic, historian and philologist. From the point of view of a problematic, research search, artistic uniqueness and substantial filling, its scientific and literary heritage is one of the outstanding achievements of modern Ukrainian humanities. The ideas of Viktor Petrov are compared with the thoughts of prominent intellectuals, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Shaw and Michel Foucault.

According to the agreement between the French Embassy in Ukraine and ZNU, from March 4 to May 17, Alisa Kanuni, she is a second-level postgraduate student of the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, an intern in the specialty “Language teaching methods - engineering training”.

Today, on the 16th of May, Minister of Education and Science Liliia Hrynevych congratulated Nataliia Oleksandrivna, Assistant Professor of the Department of Ukrainian language on receiving honorable mention of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine for long-term conscientious work and training of highly skilled specialists.

There was a training seminar on the topic "Education is endless adventure” in the framework of the Days of Ukrainian-Polish culture, science and education "Pod jednym niebem" and the Days of Europe-2019 "Ukraine - Poland - Slovakia" which take place from May 1 to June 23. The event for the Zaporizhzhia public, which is interested in learning the Polish language and culture, was held by the representative of the Unit for the Development of Polish Education Abroad (Warsaw) Eva Ploska.