ZNU Press Centre News

Representatives of the Zaporizhzhia National University took part in a cluster event on the modernization of educational programs, organized by the National Erasmus+ office in Ukraine, entitled "Ensuring the quality of educational programs in the context of European integration: environmentalization, recognition, digitalization, inclusion."

The representatives of the Department of Journalism of ZNU returned from Poznań (Poland), where the final meeting of the governing board of the international project of the European Union ERASMUS+KA2 "Journalism Education for Democracy in Ukraine: Developing Standards, Integrity and Professionalism" (DESTIN) was held at the Adam Mickiewicz University. The dean of the Faculty of Journalism, Viktor Kostyuk, and associate professors of the Department of Journalism, Yulia Liubchenko and Olena Usmanova represented ZNU team.

Zaporizhzhia National University continues to develop fruitful cooperation with foreign universities for implementation of international educational standards in Ukraine. The University of Tartu (Estonia) is one of the important partners of Zaporizhzhia National University.

On June 6, the Faculty of Journalism of Zaporizhzhia National University organized a round table discussion "European Values in Journalism during the War". The online meeting was held within the framework of the Erasmus+ JMM EU-Indy project "European media standards and values of independent journalism in the post-truth era" and Erasmus+ KA2 project DESTIN.

Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU, Zaporizhzhia National University) became a member of the European Journalism Training Association for a year. This decision was made by the EJTA Supervisory Board at its May meeting.

Along with the resuming studies at ZNU (Zaporizhzhia National University), its international cooperation also intensifies in May. Teaching staff of the Faculty of Journalism took part in a number of events and outlined promising areas of work for the coming months.

The Faculty of Journalism of ZNU (Zaporizhzhia National University) within the framework of international activities invited Professor Nico Drok (Windesheim University (Netherlands) to give a guest lecture to the faculty teachers and students majoring in specialties "Journalism" and "Information, Library and Archival Affairs". Professor Drok’s lecture was "How teachers of journalism faculties see future professions in the context of social change: a view from different countries".

The Chair of Journalism of the Faculty of Journalism of ZNU (Zaporizhzhia National University) continues to implement the international project "DESTIN" under the Erasmus + program (KA2: Capacity Building in Higher Education) "Journalism Education for Democracy in Ukraine: Developing Standards, Integrity and Professionalism".

Recently, Zaporizhzhia National University participated the large-scale meeting of managers of the Erasmus + KA2 MultiEd project, where partners from Ukraine, Estonia, United Kingdom and Germany set plans and tasks for the 2021-2022 academic year. The Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs Gennady Vasylchuk, Project Administrative Manager, Deputy Dean for International Affairs of the Faculty of Journalism Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova, project participants from the Faculty of Foreign Philology Associate Professors of the Chair of the Second Foreign Language Teaching Olena Pieshkova and Olha kanibolotska attended the event. The representatives of the project coordinator Tartu University (Estonia) Oleksandra Golovko and Kristijan Klauks led the meeting.

Recently a round table discussion was held at Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU): «DESTIN Project: Results and Implications for Journalism Education in Ukraine».