TNMU Representatives Participated in the 3rd Forum of DAAD MoI Ukraine Project and the General Meeting of the Professional Network of Research and Higher Education Managers of Ukraine

The 3rd training of the project seminar “Management of Internationalization and German-Ukrainian Cooperation 2022-2023” took place on June 2, 2023 at T. Shevchenko Kyiv National University. The event was aimed at forming academic international cooperation between Ukrainian and German educational and scientific institutions. The training took place in a hybrid format with the participation of representatives of 24 Ukrainian and foreign institutions of higher education. The Head of the Project Management Department of TNMU, Professor Oksana Shevchuk and Associate Professor Sofia Husak (participant of the second cohort of the THEA Ukraine X project, funded by DAAD) represented TNMU.

“MoI (Management of Internationalisation) Ukraine Project” was developed by the International Office at Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) as part of the program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The program “Supporting the internationalization of Ukrainian universities – proposals for advanced training for university administrators of Ukrainian universities in the management of education and science” is designed to ensure effective communication of managers of scientific research institutions and institutions of higher education to promote knowledge in the field of internationalization.

In the first stage of the program (2020-2021), 17 managers from various Ukrainian higher education institutions were trained, including Oksana Shevchuk, Professor of TNMU Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, and in the second stage (2022-2023) another 16 representatives of higher education institutions from all regions of Ukraine gained valuable knowledge and skills.

Birgit Barden-Laufer, Head of the International Department of the Leibniz University of Hanover, spoke at the event. Since 2008, she has been developing training courses related to the internationalization of universities within the framework of the DAAD DIES program, and since 2012 she has been a member of the DAAD Executive Board and the DAAD Working Group “Foreign Students”.

Guest speaker Dr. Oksana Zoimenicht, Program Director of the MSCA4Ukraine scholarship program, spoke about the academic community’s strategic approaches to funding applications.

Oksana Shevchuk, a participant of the first stage of the training, delivered a speech on “Building the potential for the internationalization of research at TNMU”.

As part of the event, projects presentations of the participants of the second stage of the training took place. The best practices and problems of project implementation in Ukrainian universities were discussed by thematic groups: internationalization; skill development; capacity building; internationalization strategy, academic mobility.

The prospects of supporting horizontal interactions through the development of the Professional Network of Research and Higher Education Managers of Ukraine, created to continue the DAAD-funded MoI Ukraine Project and THEA-THEAX Ukraine projects in 2019-2023, were also discussed.