SEDWU Project
Scalable Electronic Document Workflow for Universities
Enhancing Efficiency, Autonomy and European Integration (SEDWU)
Project duration: 36 months (1 October 2025 – 30 September 2028)
Project Coordinator: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
SEDWU is an international project funded under the Erasmus+ Programme (Capacity Building in Higher Education), aimed at the development and implementation of a scalable, secure, and interoperable electronic document management system for universities.
The project seeks to enhance the efficiency of administrative processes, transparency, digital autonomy, and institutional resilience of Ukrainian higher education institutions, as well as to foster their integration into the European Education and Digital Area.
Link to the project website: https://sedwu.eu/
Project Consortium
European Partners:
- Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
- Ignacy Łukasiewicz Rzeszów University of Technology (Poland)
- University of Bayreuth (Germany)
Industrial Partner:
- Lviv IT Cluster
Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions:
- Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
- National University of Water and Environmental Engineering
- Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University
- Chernihiv Polytechnic National University
- Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
- Kryvyi Rih National University
- State Tax University
Special Focus Areas and Objectives
Special Focus Areas:
- harmonisation of university administrative processes with European practices;
- data protection and information security;
- reduction of paper-based document workflows;
- enhancement of digital competences of university staff;
- application of innovative approaches, including AI-supported tools for document processing.
Project Objectives: analysis and comparison of document management practices in Ukrainian and EU universities; development of functional and technical requirements for the system; implementation and testing of pilot solutions; strengthening managerial and digital capacities of university staff.
Project Team from Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University
Ruslan Anatoliiovych Kulykovskyi, Vice-Rector for Scientific and Pedagogical Work and University Development Prospects
Viktor Leonidovych Greshta, Rector
Serhii Ivanovych Shylo, First Vice-Rector
Mariia Volodymyrivna Pavlenko, Assistant to the Rector, Head of the Project Activity Department
Vitalii Volodymyrovych Shyrokobokov, Head of the Educational Department
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