ZNU Press Centre News

Recently, students of the Faculty of Social Pedagogy and Psychology of the course “theater art” have returned from Belgium.  On February 20-23, the International Festival of University Theater RITU took place in the city of Liege. It is known as the largest oldest forum in the world that gathers participants from different countries. The main task of the project is the development of theatrical education and the creative process at the university level.  The project finals included the work of students of the Faculty of Social Pedagogy and Psychology - a choreographic presentation based on the motif of the play by Friedrich Schiller “Intrigue and Love”.

On February 19-24, Egyptian city of Hurghada hosted the international rating tournament on Taekwondo (VT) Egypt Open G-2. The competition was attended by a second-year student of the Law Faculty of the Zaporizhzhia National University Taras Malchenko (coach - Andrii Yakovliev).

On February 28, a training seminar “Academic Writing with Integrity: Best Practices for Success” has begun in ZNU. The goal of this seminar is to improve the skills of English-speaking academic writing and academic integrity, which was conducted by an instructor Ph.D. from another language training (SLAT) at the University of Arizona, director of the writing skills improvement program (WSIP) Dr. Robert A.Cote.

ENACTUS UKRAINE is a community of students, university representatives and business leaders that implements social business projects. The teams of Enactus create projects aimed at improving the quality of life and living standards of people with different needs. They are focused on solving economic, environmental and social problems and have the goal of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

From February 17 to 24, 25 school teachers, university professors, representatives of the educational community of Ukraine visited YAD VASHEM, a memorial complex in Israel. The International School for Holocaust Studies took place with the support of this complex. It is a research and educational project, designed for scientific and pedagogical representatives from different countries. Zaporizhzhia National University was represented by vice-rector for scientific work Hennadii Vasylchuk.

At the Faculty of Social Pedagogy and Psychology, the III (regional) stage of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad in Pedagogy and Psychology took place. The event was attended by 44 pupils of schools in Zaporizhzhia and Zaporizhzhia region (Berdiansk, Melitopol, Enerhodar, Huliaipole, Prymorsk, Pryazovie, Yakymivka and others). For many pupils, participation in the Olympiad in pedagogy and psychology has already become a good tradition. Moreover, this Olympiad had been held 4 times before at the Faculty of Social Pedagogy and Psychology of Zaporizhzhia National University.

Presentation of the formation of academic integrity took place in Seeding Academic Integrity in Secondary School - SAISS.  he event was held with the assistance of the vice-rector for scientific work Hennadii Vasylchuk. The coordinator of the event became a master student of the Faculty of Management, an active public activist Anastasiia Dolhopolova.

Zaporizhzhia Military Hospital was visited by representatives of St. John Paul II Zaporizhzhia Society of Polish Culture, John III Sobieski Polish Culture Center of the Engineering Institute of Zaporizhzhia National University and the parish of God Father Merciful of Church of Rome.

 This week, the German Language Center at ZNU, which is the official accredited partner of the German Cultural Center “Goethe-Institut in Ukraine”, was visited by Anhela Noke and Olaf Bollbrinker, the heads of the language departments of the Goethe-Institut in other countries. The purpose of their visit was to conduct an audit for compliance with the standards of teaching German in the Zaporizhzhia center. This is a standard procedure that every unit of the Goethe-Institut have to undergo every three years.

A few days ago, the defense of competitive projects by graduate students of ZNU who have just completed the “European Project Culture” training course (Jean Monnet's project on European Union's ERASMUS + program) was held in Zaporizhzhia National University for the second time. 14 project groups presented interesting and useful ideas to the competent jury. Team of the jury consisted of EUROPROC project coordinator in ZNU, Viktoriia Meniailo, as well as vice-rector for scientific, pedagogical and educational work Oleksandr Hura, vice-rector for scientific and pedagogical work, Yurii Kahanov, and associate professor of the Department of Forest biology, Hunting and Ichthyology Volodymyr Sarabieiev.