Despite the difficult challenges related to the introduction of martial law and active military actions on the territory of Ukraine, National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” continues to actively develop and strengthen the fruitful scientific and educational cooperation with leading foreign universities, international educational institutions and organisations.
In particular, in 2023-2024, 35 new cooperation agreements were signed with leading universities from 15 European countries within the Erasmus+ programme alone.
Academic mobility programmes for students of three levels of higher education, Bachelor’s, Master’s and Postgraduate studies, are actively developing at Poltava Polytechnic. In the last 3 semesters alone, spring and autumn semesters of calendar year 2023 and January-April 2024, 29 scientific and pedagogical workers as well as 140 students of Poltava Polytechnic took part in various mobility programmes.
In particular, 29 students and 2 teachers took part in youth exchanges and trainings under the Erasmus+ programme, which are study programmes that last from 5 to 21 days and are fully funded by the EU, that is, the participants of such programmes do not invest their own money. The European Commission has called Erasmus+ the most successful EU educational programme as well as an important tool for cooperation between universities and students across Europe.
However, the most interesting are the Erasmus+ credit academic mobility programmes, which are an opportunity to acquire relevant knowledge and skills at a partner university in one of the EU countries for 1-3 semesters without interrupting the study in Ukraine.
It is also important to inform students of Poltava Polytechnic about the exchange programmes and scholarships available to the students of a multidisciplinary classical university, and the most interesting thing is to get the information first hand. That is why, on 14 May, 2024, an information session “Exchange Programmes in EU Countries: Scholarships, Grants, Opportunities” was held by the International Relations Department and the Department of Educational Process, Accreditation and Licensing of our university. The interesting information event was dedicated to the promotion of credit academic mobility programmes and youth exchanges under the Erasmus+ programme. A large number of participants joined the discussion of the most relevant international opportunities and mobility programmes based on partner universities and received answers to their questions.
As part of the information session, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Germanic Philology and Translation Anna Pavelieva told the students about the current Erasmus+ credit academic mobility programmes, requirements for participants, peculiarities of studying abroad, types and forms of mobility, their duration, expected results, documents that participants receive after completing the academic mobility programme, assessment of results and re-crediting of learning outcomes.
Polytechnic students spoke about their own experience of studying at universities in Greenland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Finland, Denmark and Germany.
The speakers of the information session were:
- Anastasiia Duchkova, student of speciality Management – Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland (autumn semester 2023/2024);
- Anastasiia Tverdostup, student of speciality Psychology – University “1 DECEMBRIE 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania (autumn semester 2023/2024);
- Oleksandra Solod and Daria Suptelia, students of speciality Civil and Environmental Engineering – Białystok University of Technology, Poland (spring semester 2022/2023);
- Alexandra Laptieva and Victoriia Storchova, students of speciality International Economic Relations – Transport and Telecommunication Institute, Latvia (spring semester 2022/2023);
- Kateryna Novak, student of speciality Philology – Erasmus+ internship at the university “1 DECEMBRIE 1918” University of Alba Iulia (August-October 2024);
- Valentyna Luhova and Valeriia Shuliak – University of Greenland, Greenland (spring semester 2022/2023);
- Viktoriia Viazovska and Mariia Dykan, students of speciality Civil and Environmental Engineering – ZEALAND Academy of Technologies and Business, Denmark (autumn semester 2023/2024);
- Viktoriia Khrypko, a student of speciality Accounting and Taxation, and Sofiia Yermolenko, a student of speciality Finance, Banking and Insurance – Vilnius University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania (autumn semester 2023/2024);
- Yelyzaveta Trebka, Shakhlo Kosimova, students of speciality Secondary Education – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover, Germany (autumn semester 2023/2024);
- Yuliia Hordiievska, student of speciality Philology: Erasmus+ youth exchanges and the grant programme Study Tours to Poland (autumn semester 2023/2024)
The students participating in the mobility programmes told the audience how to become participants in youth exchanges at leading European universities, take part in interesting research projects and attend lectures by renowned professors, how to choose subjects to study and how the educational process in general and the session in particular goes, what scholarships they received and how they spent them, what such programmes give to their participants and why it is worth trying. The participants also learned how the Erasmus+ programme promotes academic development, intercultural communication skills, language practice, and personal development, and the speakers shared how they became more independent, confident, and able to adapt to new conditions.
It should be recalled that students participating in credit academic mobility programmes receive a monthly scholarship of EUR 1050 and a unique opportunity to master specialised disciplines as well as to acquire relevant knowledge and skills at European higher education institutions.
In particular, in 2023, 109 students of Poltava Polytechnic became participants of Erasmus+ credit academic mobility programmes, studying at universities in Austria, Greenland, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Finland, and the Czech Republic.
The total amount of grants for scholarships for students of Poltava Polytechnic within the Erasmus+ programmes for the last 3 semesters was about EUR 450,000 or UAH 18 million.
It should be noted that students of Poltava Polytechnic have the opportunity to study abroad under the grant programmes of credit academic mobility for a semester or a whole academic year at the leading universities of Austria, Greenland, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Finland, and the Czech Republic.
For more information about the current academic mobility programmes, please contact the International Relations Department (room 320-F, interoffice@nupp.edu.ua) or the Coordinator of International Cooperation of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” – Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Germanic Philology and Translation Anna Kostiantynivna Pavelieva (room 310-C, email: kunsite.zi@gmail.com, phone: +3-8-(095)-91-08-192).
Recently, Polytechnic scientists participated in a mobility programme at the University of Applied Sciences in Burgenland, and representatives of the Polytechnic took part in a scientific conference at the Białystok University of Technology.
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