Cooperation News
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
Noplag is a Labiteam-designed service of identifying plagiarism in texts written by schoolchildren, university students or scholars. Na Chasi publishes an interview with Noplag CEO Oleksii Bochkov, who speaks about how the company’s internal project has grown fivefold in just a few months and why their team has focused on foreign clients. Read more
Ukrainian Yulia Hudoshnyk won a grant from the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme and received her master’s degree in global studies in Denmark and Germany. Any Ukrainian of any age and status with a bachelor’s degree or a fourth year student can apply for a master’s programme. Yulia explains how to choose a programme, what to say in a motivation letter, what should be your English level, how studies in Germany and Denmark differ and how to use the knowledge acquired in Europe upon return to Ukraine. Read more
In 2004, Ukrainians received access to the EU’s most successful education program – Erasmus+, which provides opportunities to study, train or work in many European universities. A Ukrainian student from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv tells how to win a grant and how Spanish higher education differs from that in Ukraine. Read more
This year, Europe’s most popular education programme, Erasmus, celebrated its 30th anniversary. One of the programme’s biggest advocates, Umberto Eco, believes Erasmus created the first generation of young Europeans. Now the programme’s successor, Erasmus+, continues to unite young people from around the world under its umbrella of opportunities, ranging from university exchanges to volunteering. Read more
Every year, around 25 000 people apply for a traineeship at the European Parliament and 600 of them are selected. Only 10% of the trainees may be nationals from countries beyond the EU and applicant countries, which makes the competition especially tough for Ukrainians. Yet impossible is nothing. A fresh Ukrainian alumnus of this traineeship tells about her long way to the heart of EU law making. Read more
Anastasiia Ianovytska, of Kyiv, completed the Erasmus Mundus programme (which has been included to the general Erasmus+ programme since 2014) on migration and intercultural relations. Now she is writing a thesis on empowering Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Ukraine. Read more
