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Late spring and summer this year proved to be particularly eventful for lecturers from Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU), who, as part of the Erasmus+ BEAUCOUP project, “Boosting Digital Excellence and Aptitude of Universities in the Countries of East Partnership,” visited Slovenia and Estonia. The study visits provided an opportunity to explore European approaches to preschool, school and higher education, establish international partnerships, exchange experiences, and meet colleagues from other Ukrainian universities.

On 8 May 4-8, 2026, representatives of Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU) – Head of the Department of English Philology and Linguodidactics Natalia Nadtochii, Associate Professor of the Department of Pre-school and Primary Education Yulia Zubtsova, and Associate Professor of the Department of General Mathematics Marina Hrechnieva – took part in a study visit to the University of Primorska (Koper, Slovenia).

Last week, the University of Tartu (Estonia) hosted the first study visit for participants in the Erasmus+ BEAUCOUP project from Ukrainian universities and partners from Slovenia and Spain. ZNU was represented by Rector Galina Shilo, Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science Denys Morozov, and Associate Professor of the Department of Journalism Tetiana Rohova.

The Rector of Zaporizhzhia National University Galina Shilo, Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science, Denis Morozov, and Associate Professor of the Department of Journalism, Tetiana Rohova, are currently in Estonia as part of the project ‘Boosting Digital Excellence and Aptitude of Universities in the Countries of the Eastern Partnership’.

The starting online meeting as part of the Erasmus+ KA2 BEAUCOUP project brought together representatives from three countries – Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Estonia. Around 160 participants from various educational institutions – including Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU), V. Hnatiuk Ternopil National Pedagogical University, V. Korolenko Poltava National Pedagogical University, M. Kotsyubynsky Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University, Khazar University (Baku), Mingachevir State University, and the Nakhchivan Pedagogical Institute – joined the programme in order to acquire the knowledge needed to meet today’s challenges, particularly in teaching, and to continuously improve themselves in line with the demands of the digital age.

Our reading habits have drastically changed in the XXI century: we are now reading e-texts as often as print ones, which makes e-reading an inalienable part of our lives. But such popularity of digital reading poses a problem for teaching, as approaches to developing e-reading skills may differ from traditional ones. The Erasmus+ eRead project was initiated to bridge this gap. Zaporizhzhia National University joined the partnership. ZNU team includes the teachers from the Faculty of Foreign Philology and the Philological Faculty, who specialize in methods of teaching languages.

On December 13, 2023 the Erasmus+ eRead project teams met online to have a detailed discussion of the BA Module “Teaching reading digitally” that is one of the project targets. ZNU team was represented by M. Zaluzhna, N. Venherska, N. Nadtochii, I. Bakalenko and O. Stadnichenko.

 On November 3, 2023, a meeting of managers and coordinators of the international project "Erasmus+ KA2 MultiEd" "Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration” took place. Its purpose was to discuss the results of the project, which is finishing on November 14, 2023.

From September 26 to October 30, 2023, a number of seminars were held in the framework of the project "Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration" with the aim of spreading experience based on the results of the project implementation. This time, the partners focused on the positive impact of the project on the educational activities of universities at the current stage and in the future, the development of programs at different levels, the specifics of their implementation, the main difficulties and ways to overcome them. An important topic remains the teaching method, the use of online learning technologies, the CLIL methodology, as well as the specifics of teaching new courses developed during the period of cooperation of the consortium: "Language, culture, society", "Academic writing", "Information literacy and critical thinking".

From October 2 to 6, 2023, the representative of the consortium from Aston University, Sue Garton, organized a study visit to Birmingham, Great Britain for all partners of the "MultiEd" team.