Zaporizhia Polytechnic University participates in EAIE for the second time - an exhibition-conference on international higher education

For the second time, Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University has participated in the EAIE Conference & Exhibition, the largest exhibition-conference on the internationalization of higher education in Europe. This year, on September 9–12, the exhibition will be hosted by Swedish Gothenburg.

Our university is represented at the forum by Alina Kazurova, head of the Center for Internationalization and International Cooperation.

EAIE-2025 united more than 7,000 participants from 100 countries of the world. Over 4 days, hundreds of sessions, workshops and meetings take place here, and the exhibition area has hundreds of stands from leading universities and organizations. This year’s theme of the conference is “GO-create”, which symbolizes new opportunities for joint projects and innovations.

During the ceremonial opening, EAIE executive director Mervin Bakker and association president Sara Lopez Selga spoke with welcoming words, who separately emphasized the presence of Ukraine with the joint stand of Ukrainian Higher Education and mentioned the difficult times our country is going through, as well as the mayor of Gothenburg Aslan Akbas, the president of the Regional Council Renee Bengtsson and the district governor Sten Tolgfors.

An interesting and fruitful meeting with representatives of Mid Sweden University (our new partner) — Cathrine Gladh and Maria Fredlund from the international relations department — was an important aspect for the Zaporizhia Polytechnic. They discussed the prospects of cooperation in the fields of academic mobility, summer schools, double degree programs and scientific research.

The meeting with our long-time partners — representatives of University College Thomas More was especially warm. Inge Vervoort, head of the international department, and Jurgen Basstanie, coordinator of international relations and teacher of English language and communications, conveyed words of support to Ukraine and Ukrainians in these difficult times. They highly appreciated the work of Halyna Tabunshchik, a professor of the Department of Software Tools, who initiated this cooperation at one time, and noted the success of our students who participated in academic mobility programs.

At the same time, many acquaintances and conversations with representatives of universities, educational alliances and international organizations took place, opening new horizons for cooperation.

We work together — we develop together.