ZNU Press Centre News

On June 11, Stiven Fenh, Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Academy of Construction of Ukraine, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Alla Yesypenko visited ZNU. They were accompanied by Vice-Rector for scientific and pedagogical work and technical education at ZNU Viktor Banakh.

The International Student Olympiad in the field of information technology "IT-Universe", which was attended by students of the specialty "Software Engineering" of the Engineering Institute of ZNU, is a socially significant project aimed at improving professional skills, popularizing information technologies (IT) and the ways of their effective application.

On June 11, the regular meeting of the commission to determine the winners of the scholarship program of “Zaporizhstal” OJSC was held in ZNU. The members of the scholarship commission this time chose nine students - representatives of the faculties of management, economics and the Faculty of Metallurgy of the Engineering Institute of ZNU, who in the first semester of the new 2019-2020 academic year will receive nominal scholarships.

For the second year in a row, Zaporizhzhia National University continues the implementation of an international project under the Erasmus + program, the direction of Jean Monnet, “European Project Culture” (academic coordinator of the project is Associate Professor Viktoriia Meniailo). An initiative group of professors and graduate students of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University joined this project in the second semester of 2018/2019. They mastered the course “Fundamentals of the European Project Culture” remotely through the Moodle e-learning system.

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.

The introduction of new library services simplifies the process of searching for information, makes it possible to quickly and efficiently satisfy the needs of students and scholars of the university. Today it is not necessary to come to the library premises to use its services. The library focuses on a remote user who can visit it at any time via the Internet.

Two-day Ukrainian-German conference "Climate Adaptation: Challenges and Prospects at the National, Regional and Local Levels" began its work on June 6 in Dnipro city. The event was held with the support of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Donetsk (office in Dnipro) and the environmental organization “The Voice of Nature”.

The European Championship in rowing was held in the Swiss city of Lucerne. Zaporizhzhia region in the national team of Ukraine was presented by the current world record holder graduate of ZNU student Oleksandr Nadtoka. The Ukrainian quadruple sculls Dmytro Mikhai, Serhii Hryn, Oleksandr Nadtoka, Ivan Dovhodko in qualifying showed the third time in their race - 06: 00.780, then was the third in the semi-final A / B 05: 49.310.  And in the final was the sixth with a score of 05: 43.970.

On June 4, Zaporizhzhia National University was visited by 320 applicants, who on this day passed an external independent evaluation in History of Ukraine.  Zaporizhzhia National University has traditionally become the point of conducting external independent evaluation, where were created all comfortable conditions for testing knowledge for graduates of Zaporizhzhia schools.

Recently, scientific, educational, historical and cultural platform "From historical glory to a successful future" has been held in the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration. Among the organizers were the Center of Polish language and culture by John III Sobieski of ZNU represented by Ph.D. Hanna Makushynska and the Department of Finance, Banking and Insurance of the Engineering Institute of ZNU represented by the Head of the Department, Doctor of Economics Nataliia Metelenko.