ZNU Press Centre News

October 28, the Faculty of Law of Zaporizhzhya National University was visited by the practicing lawyers Douglas Robinson (Washington, USA) and Julia Sullivan (Annapolis, USA), who shared with the students their experience of advocacy in the field of energy law and judicial practice of the death penalty.

The Ukrainian Catholic University in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) continues a series of lectures UCU Rule of Law Lecture Series from leading American lawyers, devoted to the actual challenges and problems in the field of consolidation of the rule of law, justice and fairness. The project is organized by the UCU Rule of Law Center, together with the USAID Justice Sector Reform Program "New justice", in cooperation with the Ukrainian Bar Association and European Business Association. Information partner UCU Rule of Law Lecture Series – the portal "Your city". The Faculty of Law of Zaporizhzhya National University has also joined this project.

October 24-25, the Faculty of Social Pedagogy and Psychology of ZNU took in the main researcher of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Dr. Paul Bolton (Baltimore, USA) and the academic partner of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Dr. Serhiy Bohdanov (Kyiv, Ukraine).

In the period from 19 to 21 October 2016 the Expert Committee on the accreditation examination approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine was working at ZNU. They conducted an accreditation examination of the masters training in three specialties: "Jurisprudence", "Accounting and audit", "Foreign Economic Activity Management" in accordance with the Regulation on accreditation of higher education institutions, specialties in higher education institutions and higher vocational schools.

On October 23, traditionally on the weekend, a large-scale event was held at ZNU, an Applicant Day, which was joined by the representatives of the university administration, all faculties, staff of the Admissions Committee and the Department of pre-University training, career guidance and employment. This time the University was visited by nearly five hundred high school students and school leavers together with their parents and teachers.

A new season of the Championship was opened by the team "Orbit" from Zaporizhzhya and "Regina" from Rivne. The matches took place in the sports complex of Zaporizhzhya National University on 21 and 22 October. Both teams scored a victory: "Orbita" on Friday, and "Regina" on Saturday.

The two-day work of the XI International scientific and practical conference "Challenges and development prospects of new economy on world, state and regional levels" was completed in ZNU. The session was attended by 184 scientists and business representatives from eight countries: apart from Ukraine there were represented Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Lithuania. They were pondering on the ways of development of the world and Ukrainian economy, were offering the innovative economic models based on the experience of foreign enterprises.

October 20, at the invitation of the Pro-rector for Research, Professor Hennadiy Vasyl'chuk, Zaporizhzhya National University was visited by honorary guests: the Head of the Postgraduate Centre of Vilnius University (Lithuania) Taurimas Valys, the head of the Department of Strategic Development of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Vilnius Androne Masandukayte, and the Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Zaporizhzhya Dmytro Antonyuk.

At the Faculty of Biology of ZNU was held a meeting for the students of 3-5 courses with the professor of the Department of park and garden establishment and genetics of plants, Candidate of Biological Sciences Hanna Levchuk, who from Dec 2014 (with breaks) was undertaking an internship in Portugal for the project “Erasmus Mundus Partnerships – Electra Project”.

October 11-14, in Kyiv on the basis of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was held All-Ukrainian contest of scientific and technical creativity Intel-Techno Ukraine 2016-2017 of the national stage of the international competition of scientific and technical creativity Intel ISEF in the V Festival of innovative projects “Sikorsky Challenge 2016”.