The conference, organized by the company “Cormack Consultancy Group”, took place with the participation of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom to Ukraine Melinda Simmons, the rector of the University of Liverpool and the head of international policy at the Council of Universities of the United Kingdom (UUK) Professor Janet Beer, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom Vadym Prystaiko and the authorized representative of the President of Ukraine for the support of education, science and sports Olha Budnyk, as well as rectors of 24 Ukrainian universities. In total, more than 200 representatives of higher education institutions of Great Britain and Ukraine took part in the conference.
The participants discussed strategic and mutually beneficial areas of cooperation between Ukrainian and British universities. Representatives of British universities expressed solidarity with the Ukrainian people in the liberation struggle against the invaders and assured the support of Ukrainian scientists.
“Poltava Polytechnic twinned with a British university and started fruitful cooperation – National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” signed a Memorandum of Understanding with London Metropolitan University (Great Britain) within the framework of the large-scale international project “Unity Initiative”!
Poltava Polytechnic has been cooperating with British universities for quite a long time, but no one could have imagined in what terrible trouble we would find ourselves, we would be supported and where we would find new friends. It is very valuable to acquire new partners who help to hold the educational front.
“Twinning Initiative” aims to build sustainable partnerships between the UK and Ukrainian institutions, and is an effective way to both respond to immediate needs and support the Ukrainian higher education sector in the long-term perspective.
We have a lot in common with our new partners. Our working groups have prepared a number of opportunities, in particular, provision of access to the TalkCampus platform, an electronic database of books and Internet sources is provided for university students, we define priority areas of scientific cooperation between faculties as well as structural subdivisions.
In order to promote integration and further active involvement of the academic communities of both universities in the common European educational space development on the basis of a partner university, we are planning an event for the exchange of practical knowledge and best experiences.
We aim to build strong ties of cooperation and cultural exchange that will survive the war and contribute to the restoration of the Ukrainian education system after its end.
According to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, he remains committed to ensuring a future in which Ukraine and Great Britain prosper together. Thank you to the British Government and colleagues from British universities for their unprecedented support of Ukraine and Ukrainian science!” – commented the Rector Volodymyr Onyshchenko.
London Metropolitan University is a metropolitan public research university created 20 years ago by merging the University of North London (formerly the Polytechnic of North London) and London Guildhall University (formerly the City of London Polytechnic), however the origins of the university date back to 1848. Now it is a state-of-the-art university, one of the pioneers of distance education, where the multimedia “Superlaboratory” was opened.
The UK government has decided to quadruple the funding of the “Researchers at Risk Fellowship” program and will provide funding to support the “Universities UK International” as well as “Cormack Consultancy Group” project, which aims to establish more than 100 long-term partnership programs to support Ukrainian institutions, students and researchers in the war conditions.
Earlier, Poltava Polytechnic received a Starlink terminal, leading universities presented their potential for the reconstruction of Ukraine, economists discussed real challenges and threats to the sustainable development of Ukraine in the conditions of martial law, and scientists-engineers determined the priorities and problems of rebuilding the destroyed infrastructure.
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