With the help of the European Investment Bank (EIB) SSU keeps working on the implementation of the greatest recent infrastructure project of energy efficiency maintenance of Ukrainian higher education institutions called ‘Higher Education. Energy efficiency and sustainable development’. Earlier the project proposals of other 6 universities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Poltava, Chernihiv and Vinnytsia had been qualified by EIB in the same way as SSU.

The students of the Department of Applied Hydro- and Aeromechanics visited the XIII International Water Forum AQUA UKRAINE '2015, which took place at the International Exhibition Centre of Kyiv on November 10, 2015. The future engineers got acquainted with a wide range of domestic and foreign products, fittings, water filters, pumps, and other equipment, used in water- and wastewater treatment.

On November 10, 2015 SSU held All-Ukrainian round table conference on the introduction of the dual education system in the educational process of the university as part of the agreement between Sumy State University and the Representative Office of Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Ukraine. Academics and representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations took part in this conference.

SSU foreign students visited Bilopilskyi region center of social rehabilitation for disabled children. And they didn’t show up empty-handed. SSU students brought a refrigerator, school supplies, personal hygiene products, items of everyday usage, sweets etc. In order to express the gratitude, the children performed a few songs for the students. Then everybody engaged in the paper craft activities.