Sumy State University took the second place in top-10 Ukrainian higher education institutions, which entered the World ecological ranking UI GreenMetric. In a general ranking, SumDU took the 208^th place (last year result - 216) among 780 education institutions (in 2018 - 719), from 85 world countries (2018 - 81).

Foreign Languages Department of Academic and Research Institute for Business Technologies “UAB” of Sumy State University in collaboration with English Language Fellow Wendy Finlayson was the leading co-organizer of 2019 Sumy Media Literacy Institute «Incorporating Media Literacy in English Language Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century».

The final session in the Virtual Global classroom – educational project that comprised 7 countries and 10 world universities is finished. Teachers of all partner universities of the project adapted the work programme and teaching their disciplines to the topic “Hospitality, Restaurant and Tourism Management”.

SumDU took part in International Higher Education Summit AFRICA 2019, held on November 19-20, 2019 in Cape Town, Republic of South Africa.