Cooperation News
Last year, Oleksandr Moskalenko, the student of Poltava National Pedagogical University and Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University, who studies three specialties (mathematics, finance and translation from English), traveled to Denmark for four months. He took part in Erasmus+ programme, which provides grants for studying and living abroad. Read more
Imagine yourself as a sixth-grader, who is offered during the lesson of Ukrainian literature to write an essay about happiness. Not really interesting, right? And now imagine yourself as a sixth-grader who is offered by the teacher to watch a movie. In that movie, the new clothes of the main characters, your peers, have an amazing property: each time, they slip their hand to their right pockets they can pull out money. In general, the movie says that happiness is not in the money, and tells about charity, friendship and mutual help. And only now you are offered to write an essay about happiness. Read more
20 Ukrainian students, together with peers from other countries, took part in the Space Leaders School under the Erasmus+ program. During three weeks in Poland and Slovakia, they attended astronomy and aviation lectures at three universities, observed planets in a telescope, traveled on airplanes and trained on flight simulators. Read more
Ukraine joined eTwinning Plus program in 2013. This allows Ukrainian teachers to share their experiences with European colleagues, implement creative projects on various subjects. For students, it is a great opportunity to improve their knowledge of foreign languages, learn about the culture of other countries and make new friends. Read more
Kateryna Lytvynenko from Mykolaivka, Donetsk region, with the support of the EU and UNDP, helps people in wheelchairs to freely move around the city. She also created a coworking space, where women, seniors and migrants learn to use computer and other gadgets. Read more
Oleksandr Ivanov joined Erasmus program in 2013, and a two-year master’s program at four European and American universities paved the way toward not only the quality knowledge in a new field – system analysis – but also helped him visit unforgettable places and see how diverse the world can be even within the single border; and also, realize that interesting acquaintances often go beyond a mere list of contacts and find their continuation in joint international projects and initiatives. And as it turns out, understanding each other despite the language barrier is much easier when you reserve the right to a mistake.
Oleksandr told us which students most often decide to stay in Europe and who goes back home, how he saw Ukraine after two years of absence, and how he now helps prospective students improve their chances to enroll. Read more
These students can even be kindly envied, because their life is rich and vivid: they bring medals from sports competitions from abroad, they extremely interestingly spend all holidays, work for charitable causes and, of course, attend lectures. Most of them have modern gadgets. They easily use Privat-24, pay for utilities on the Internet, chat with Skype and have profiles on Facebook. And the oldest student is almost 90 years old. Read more
