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Project "Success Stories of ZNU graduates" is continuing. And another of its material is devoted to the story of professional work experience and memories of the student years of the graduate of the Faculty of Foreign Philology Anna Phan.

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.

The project “Success stories of ZNU graduates” is being implemented at the Zaporizhia National University, initiated by the department of pre-university training, vocational guidance, and employment. And another piece of material is devoted to the story of the successful career development. Yuliya Petryk, who once graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Philology of the Zaporizhia State University, and today is the head of the PR department of the IT company MacPaw. Here is what Yuliya says about her years of study and the path to success:

This year the entrants can choose in our university new topical educational and professional program. "History and Politics" which was opened in terms of the specialty "History and Archeology" at the Faculty of History of ZNU.

Zaporizhia National University celebrate its 90^th anniversary in 2020. At the University, several projects are being successfully realized, which are related to highlighting the key stages in formation and development of a leading institution of higher education in the south of Ukraine.

On the base of Zaporizhia National University the Confucius School has been successfully operating for the third year. In which the native interlocutors teach – the professors of Anhui Pedagogical University (China). Today, during the quarantine, there are not only classes online, but also the School’s material and technical resources are updating.

On March 10, within the framework of implementing the international project DESTIN of the European Union Erasmus + program, its experts held a two-day working visit to ZNU (ZNU, Zaporizhzhia National University). The President of European Journalism Training Association, Professor of Windesheim University (Netherlands) Nico Drok, a journalist, media expert, lecturer at the Fojo Media Institute of Linnaeus University (Sweden) Veronika Menjoun, expert on quality of education (World University Service, Austria) Marc Schwärzli, Iryna Kondratenko (Hromadske Radio, Kyiv) and Konstantin Kovalyshin (Ukrainian Students' Association, Kyiv) met with representatives of the university administration. They also met the curriculum development team at the Faculty of Journalism, its alumni, undergraduate and graduate students, got acquainted with the material and technical resources of the faculty and the university as a whole.

On February 12, the opening of the kick-off meeting of MultiED project “Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration” took place at Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU, Zaporizhzhia National University) in the framework of the Erasmus + KA2 programme “Development of Higher Education Potential”. Christian Klauks and Alexandra Golovko, project managers of the University of Tartu; Susan Garton and Elisabeth Wilander, professors of Aston University (Birmingham, Great Britain); Stefani Witzig and Leone Ekzarkos, professors of Heidelberg University; Hans-Werner Huneke, rector of Heidelberg University, participated in the kick-off project meeting.

On February 12, rector Mykola Frolov and academic representatives welcomed foreign guests at the Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU, Zaporizhzhia National University). On this day, Christian Klauks, project manager of the University of Tartu; Susan Garton and Elisabeth Wilander, professors of Aston University; Stefani Witzig and Leone Ekzarkos, professors of Heidelberg University; Hans-Werner Huneke, rector of Heidelberg University, Alexandra Golovko, project coordinator of “Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration” from the Estonian side, who also provided interpretation, met the representatives of Zaporizhzhia National University administration.