Title: 553185-EPP-1-2014-1-UA-EPPJMO-MODULE "USING BEST EU PRACTICES FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY FORMING IN UKRAINE"

Type of project: Jean Monnet Academic Modules

Discipline: EU Interdisciplinary Studies

Responsible department for implementing the project at SumDU:

Department of Economics and Business Administration

Leading executors:

• Head of the project - Prof. Leonid G.Melnyk, Head of the Department of Economics and Business Administration;
• Deputy Head of the project - Associate professor Oleksandr V. Kubatko, Department of Economics and Business Administration.

Short description of the project: sustainable economy as a key element of the European area cannot be achieved in one separate region. Consequently, it requires common efforts of the whole community on the basis of openness to civil society. In the light of the mentioned facts, the project is aimed at direct influence on North (Sumy region), East (Kharkiv region), and South (Odesa region) of Ukraine. The project’s main idea consists of developing training courses and an e-learning system in order to improve the sustainability of local economies by the means of working with 4 target groups:

• University students majored in Engineering and Computer Science (Sumy region);
• BA, MA, and Ph.D. students majored in Economics and Environmental Studies in three regions (Sumy, Odesa, and Kharkiv);
• NGO representatives, local authorities, journalists, local entrepreneurs (Sumy region);
• Teachers of Economics and Earth Sciences at universities and colleges (Sumy region).

Methodology of the programme includes instruments activating participant’s potential through lecturing, workshops, roundtable debates, distance e-learning, Webinars, etc.

Programme implementation is based around 4 pillars of education: Learning to Be, Learning to Know, Learning to Do, and Learning to Live Together.

The principal outputs are:

• developed EU related courses for students (published manuals): “EU practices for sustainable economy implementation in Ukraine”; “EU practices of entrepreneurship and start-up organization: main lessons for Ukraine”; “Lessons of EU strategies for a sustainable economy (SE) ensuring in Ukraine”; “EU institutes and values for sustainable economy implementation in Ukraine”;
• developed guides for teachers;
• developed and started e-learning courses for better dissemination of results;
• created interuniversity network in EU studies (three regions involved during the project’s duration);
• strengthened links with local authorities and mass media related to EU studies, published monographs, and textbooks.

Projects materials:

• Using best EU practices for sustainable economy forming in Ukraine for students and scientists of Odessa universities 
• Using best EU practices for sustainable economy forming in Ukraine” for students and scientists of Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics 
   
• EU Practices of Entrepreneurship and Start-UP Organization: main Lessons for Ukraine
• EU Jean Monnet grant “Using best EU practices for sustainable economy forming in Ukraine” at the Department of Economics and Business Administration (Sumy, Sumy State University, Project supervisor – Prof., Dr. Leonid Melnyk) 
• EU Practices for Sustainable Economy Implementation in Ukraine
• Vernadsky readings “The EU experience and the Formation of Noosphere”
• Cherkasky Digest 
• The Unique “Sofiyivka” 
• Transcarpathian Digest 
• Participation in interuniversity scientific and methodical seminar
• EU practices and sustainable development in Ukraine
• “Green” economy, ecological footprint and the supporting capacity
• The implementation of Jean Monnet project in Odess 
• Vernadsky readings “EU Lessons and Strategies of Forming Sustainable (“Green”) Economy in Ukraine” 
• “Using best EU practices for “green” economy forming” for students and scientists of Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics 
• Lecture to the memory of Chernobyl accident
• “Green economy” at Economic Forum in Kharkiv 
• Participation at the international scientific conference “Energy efficiency of economy: current and future problems”
• Scientific publications within the framework of Jean Monnet programme
• Analyzing Simon Kuznets’ legacy: Professor Leonid Melnyk’s speech in Kharkov (KhNUE)
• Jean Monnet Lectures for teachers and SME representatives
• Jean Monnet Lectures for teachers and the public at SNAU
• Vernadsky readings “The Third and Fourth Industrial Revolutions and the Formation of Noosphere”

Contact us

Sumy State University
2, Rymskogo-Korsakova st.,
40007 Sumy, Ukraine
Oleg Balatskyi Academic and Research Institute of Finance, Economics and Management
Department of Economics and Business Administration
Tel/fax: +38 (0542) 33-32-97
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