The integration of Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic University into the European educational space continues
As part of the academic mobility program ERASMUS+KA1, teachers, graduate students and students of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University took part in the International Days, which took place in early March 2020 at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
The delegation consists of: Head of the Department of Software, Professor Serhiy Subbotin, Professor of the Department of Software Halyna Tabunshchik, Associate Professor of the Department of Software Anzhelika Parkhomenko, PhD student of the Faculty of Engineering and Physics Mykyta Aikin, PhD student of the Faculty of Construction, Architecture and Design Tetyana Lukyanova, PhD student of the Faculty of Transport, students of the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology Andriy Dydenko, Artem Dydenko, Neli Djragatspanyan visited the annual Job Fair, which is traditionally organized by Belgian companies and enterprises for students at the de Nayers campus (Sint Katelin Wavre, Belgium). This event contributes to the successful employment of students and the establishment of connections between the university and industry for the implementation of joint scientific and educational projects.
During the visit, teachers and graduate students of Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic University held lectures for international groups of students (lecture topics are available at https://iiw.kuleuven.be/denayer/international-days/sprekers/speakers-of-the-international-days-2020), attended lectures by their colleagues from Lviv Polytechnic National University (Ukraine), Thomas More University College Mechelen-Antwerp (Belgium), the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund (Germany), the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain), the Danube University in Krems (Austria), and also exchanged experience in developing modern distance courses.
For the successful organization of the implementation of the international educational project «Innovative Multidisciplinary Curriculum in Artificial Implants for Bio-Engineering BSc/MSc Degrees» [BIOART] 586114-EPP-1-2017-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP March 11, 2020 Petro Arras, a representative of the Catholic University of Leuven, organized a video conference in which project executors from partner universities of Ukraine, Belgium, Austria, Spain, and Israel took part. During the video conference, the project coordinator David Luengo (Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain)) highlighted the current tasks of the project; Albert Treitl, a representative of the Danube University in Krems (Austria), summarized the results according to the minutes of the meeting of project executors in November 2019 in Israel; the coordinator of the project in Ukraine, Halyna Tabunshchik, highlighted the status of the purchase of equipment for the implementation of the project’s tasks, as well as pilot training at Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic University and other Ukrainian universities.
The experience of organizing international cooperation, academic mobility of students and teachers will contribute to the development of cooperation with Ukrainian universities, in particular with the National University «Lviv Polytechnic», as well as the further integration of NU «Zaporizh Polytechnic» into the European educational space with the aim of increasing the level of training of highly qualified specialists for the economy of Ukraine.
