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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 project Boosting Digital Excellence and Aptitude of Universities in the Countries of East Partnership  (‘BEAUCOUP’) comprises a consortium of 17 partners from six countries. These are Estonia (University of Tartu – project coordinator), Poland (University of Gdańsk), Slovenia (University of Primorska, Koper), Spain (Polytechnic University of Valencia), Azerbaijan (Khazar University, Baku), Mingachevir State University, Nakhchivan Pedagogical Institute) and Ukrainian higher education institutions: Zaporizhzhia National University, V. Hnatiuk Ternopil National Pedagogical University, V. Korolenko Poltava National Pedagogical University, M. Kotsyubynsky Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University, as well as the Ministries of Education and Science of Ukraine and Azerbaijan, a secondary school (Estonia), two kindergartens (Estonia, Slovenia) and the company ‘EdTech Estonia’. 

Online training seminars were held for three weeks from June 12 to June 29, 2023 under the auspices of the “MultiEd” project “Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration” of the Erasmus+ KA2 program. The webinars were held in Ukrainian, examples were given from other languages.

On June 16, 2023, a meeting of managers and coordinators of the international Erasmus+ KA2 project MultiEd “Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration” took place. The project ends on November 14, 2023, and it is necessary to sum up the preliminary results. The partners presented package reports on the performed activities, commented on the changes that were inevitable under the conditions of martial law, and discussed the prospects for solving the problems.

The meeting on May 31, 2023 in a videoconference format was devoted to the elaboration of BA module “Teaching Reading Digitally”. The entire ZNU team led by the manager M.Zaluzhna actively participated in the discussion of the ways to develop the future module. The partners decided to read the publications devoted to methods of teaching languages, to review the latest developments in the field of digital reading and the applications that improve reading skills. They agreed to create a common bank of materials to use within the project, and to share their knowledge as well as their own experiences of teaching reading in national languages.

Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU, Zaporizhzhia National University) has been participating in the MultiEd project of the Erasmus+ program of the KA2 (Capacity Building in Higher Education) for three years. A 5-day visit from May 22 to 26 to Estonia was called "Estonia as Education Nation". The ZNU was represented by participants from the Chair of English Philology and Linguodidactics Doctor of Sci. in Philology, Assoc. Prof. Iryna Galutskykh, Candidate of Sci. in Philology, Assoc. Prof. Oksana Shevchuk and from the Chair of Second Foreign Language Teaching Candidate of Sci. in Philology, Assoc. Prof. Hanna Vanina. The study visit program for the group of teachers from eight Ukrainian HEIs-partners was devoted to the study of Estonia's experience in the field of multilingual education.

From March 20 to April 30, on the Moodle platform of the Zaporizhzhia National University, 95 teachers of general secondary educational institutions and university teachers of Zaporizhzhia and the region successfully completed the online course "CLIL Methodology" and received certificates of professional development.

Zaporizhia National University took part in the kick-off meeting of the Erasmus+ project" Developing Reading Skills With and Through Digital Technologies" (eRead), which took place at Narva College of the University of Tartu on March 13-14, 2023. ZNU was represented by the associate professor of the English Philology and Linguistic Didactics Department, project manager Maryna Zaluzhna, and associate professor of the Department of International Economy, Natural Resources and Economics of International Tourism Natalia Venherska. Other ZNU team members joined the meeting in online format.

A new EU-funded project has kicked off. It aims to significantly improve the approaches to teaching languages with and through digital tools. The project aims in 3 years to update courses of methods of teaching languages and produce engaging digital courses to boost the language skills of the international students, staff, immigrants and everyone interested in these languages.