Sumy State University presentation

SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY

Geographic location
Regional peculiarities
• Domination of industrial
model and agricultural
sector
• Boom of foreign
investment
>>> www.sumdu.edu.ua
Population: 1,2 mln
Area: 23,8 thousand km 2
Universities: 5
Sumy

CLASSICAL UNIVERSITY
60 SPECIALTIES
WITHIN 40 TRAINING DIRECTIONS

SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY
• 62 Chairs
• 3 Institutes, 6 Faculties
• 4 technical schools, colleges
• 15 regional centers of
distance education
• 80 full professors
• 550 PhDs
• about 19.000 students

SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY
NSTITUTES
• MEDICAL INSTITUTE
• Medical faculty
• Faculty of postgraduate medical education
• SHOSTKA INSTITUTE
• KONOTOP INSTITUTE
ACULTIES:
• TECHNICAL SYSTEMS AND ENERGY EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES
• ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIS
• ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
• FOREIGN PHILOLOGY AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
• LAW
• PROFESSIONAL RETRAINING AND PEDAGOGIC INNOVATIONS
ENTRES:
• PART-TIME AND DISTANT FORMS OF TRAINING
• POST-GRADUATE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

Engineering and material
processing
Energy and Power
Machines
Automation and
Control
Chemical Technologies
and Engineering
MAJOR DIRECTIONS,
SPECIALTIES
- Mechanic Engineering
- Machine-building technologies
- Equipment for Chemical Production and Enterprises
of Construction Materials
- Power Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- Computerized Control Systems and Automation
- Chemical Technologies of Macromolecular
Compounds
Electronics - Micro and Nano Electronics
System sciences and
cybernetics
- Physical and Biomedical Electronics
- Electronic Devices and Systems
- Applied Mathematics
- Informatics
- Information Technologies of Design

MAJOR DIRECTIONS,
SPECIALTIES
Natural Sciences - Ecology, Environmental Protection and
Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
Medicine - General Medicine
Economics and
Entrepreneurship,
Management
Journalism and
Information
- Health care
- Enterprise Economics , Marketing , Finances
- Management , Administrative Management
- Business Administration
- Economics of Environment and Natural Resources
- Journalism
Philology -Translation
Law
- Advertising and Public Relations
- Jurisprudence

Faculty of Foreign Philology and
Social Communications
• Faculty includes 7 Departments
• Faculty staff includes 6 Doctors of
sciences, 47 PhDs
• Number of students - more than
700
• Departments of the Faculty
prepare specialists in:
– Translation – B,S,M
– Journalism – B,S,M

Department of journalism and philology
Student body includes 319 students
Staff:
• Teaching staff - 12 teachers
• 2 Doctors of sciences
• 9 PhDs
Major scientific directions:
• Representation of regional mass communication: historical
and theoretical, thematic, typological, genre and
philological aspects
• Socio-linguistic conceptuality of Ukrainian national idea in
modern mass media

EXPERIENCE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM
AND PHILOLOGY IN INTERNATIONAL GRANT ACTIVITY
• The Media Development Fund grant program
administered by the Public Affairs Section of the U.S.
Embassy of USA in Ukraine – SUP 3001 GR091
“Development and modern technical equipment of the
laboratory of TV journalism of Sumy State University for
the improvement of study process for studentsjournalists”
(period of realization –2010-2011);
• EU international grant project 001-1195 “Media in
transition” coordinated by the Uppsala University,
Sweden (period of realization –2012-2013).

ACADEMIC PROCESS
• High results of student education
• Wide range of educational services to society
• English language instruction for specialties: informatics,
management, medicine, marketing and nanoelectronics
• International recognition of programmes
• Double-diploma and joint degree programmes
• Development and wide introduction of e-learning tools

HIGH QUALITY OF EDUCATION
By the number of prize-winning places in All-Ukrainian
contests of student scientific works and Olympiads on
specialties and disciplines SSU holds leading positions
among Ukrainian HEIs
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INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
OF CURRICULA
• Marketing
• Management of enterprise
• Economics
• Economics of
• Environment and
• Natural Resources
• Finances

SERVICES TO SOCIETY
• LL programmes
• Local industry-specialized education
• Educational centers of private companies
• Academic services for society sectors, also
launched by Tempus

EDUCATIONAL CENTERS OF
WORLD-KNOWN ENTERPRISES

IT SPACE OF SUMY STATE
UNIVERSITY
• Information-analytical management system
• Library-information system
• Web-system
• E-Learning system
• Scientific research in the field of IT

LIBRARY-INFORMATION SYSTEM
• Full electronic catalogue
• Electronic library
• Repository of scientific works
• Access to more than 100 world databases
of scientific electronic resources
• Centre of scientific-technical information
• Free access to reading halls
• Virtual reading halls
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STUDENT-ORIENTED POLICY
• Developed system of student self-government, participation in
decision making
• Wide range of possibilities for academic mobility
• Practical placement and career services
• Free access to e-library funds, 36 free wi-fi zones, dozens of
web-services
• 27 kinds of sports, clubs and extracurricular activities

STUDENT FAMILY EMBRACES MORE
THAN 1200 FOREIGN STUDENTS
FROM 52 COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

COOPERATION WITH FOREIGN
Germany
Great Britain
France
Romania
Austria
Sweden
Norway
Belgium
UNIVERSITIES
About 100 foreign partners
Italy
Bulgaria
USA
Canada
Czech Republic
Poland
Ireland
Portugal
China
Russian Federation
Belorus
Moldova
Kazakhstan
Georgia
Tajikistan
Turkey
Latvia
Lithuania
Japan
Israel
Egypt
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MEMBERSHIP IN IMPORTANT
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
• International Association of Universities
• European University Association
• Eurasian Association of Universities
• Association of Economic Universities of
South and Eastern Europe and the Black
Sea Region

INTRODUCTION OF EUROPEAN
HIGHER EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS
Sumy State University is a signatory
of Magna Charta Universitatum
University targets itself at ESG implementation

SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY IS HIGHLY
RATED AMONG UKRAINIAN HEIGHER
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
ACCORDING TO NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL RATINGS:
WEBOMETRICS (8), SCOPUS (17), 4ICU (17) IN
2012,
TopCoder and others
3rd place among Ukrainian classical universities

SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY – A
RELIABLE PARTNER FOR
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC
PROJECTS AND MOBILITY SCHEMES
• TEMPUS
• Erasmus Mundus
• EuropeAid
• LLP
• Framework Programme
• Joint research projects in frames of
intergovernmental agreements
• UN Development Programme
• Grants of World Bank, DAAD, Fullbright etc.

Participation of SSU in EU programs -
Tempus and Erasmus Mundus
Realized projects:
• TEMPUS SM_SCM-T017B06-2006 “Practicum to Improve Ukrainian e-Learning System”
• 144742-TEMPUS-2008-DE-JPHES ECESIS "Educational Centers' Network on Modern
Technologies of Local Governing
Current TEMPUS projects:
• 530181-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-DE-TEMPUS-SMGR INTEGRATED UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM: EU EXPERIENCE ON NIS COUNTRIES’ GROUND
• 530601-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-PL-TEMPUS-SMHES INFORMATICS AND MANAGEMENT:
BOLOGNA-STYLE QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORKS
• 530349-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-FR-TEMPUS-JPHES Inter-university Start-up centers for students’
innovations development & promotion;
• 530519-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-UK-TEMPUS-JPCR 530519-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-UK-TEMPUS-JPCR
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SUPRA-REGIONAL NETWORK OF THE NATIONAL CENTRES IN
MEDICAL EDUCATION, FOCUSED ON PBL (PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING) AND VIRTUAL
PATIENTS
• 530599-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-DE-TEMPUS-JPCR Crossmedia und Qualitätsjournalismus
• 530244-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-SE-TEMPUS-JPCR MODERNIZING HIGHER ENGINEERING
EDUCATION IN GEORGIA, UKRAINE AND UZBEKISTAN TO MEET THE TECHNOLOGY
CHALLENGE
Current projects of ERASMUS MUNDUS
• 372298-ЕМ-1-2012-1-PL-ERA MUNDUS-EMA21 INTEGRATION OF NEIGHBOURING EASTERN
REGIONS THROUGH COOPERATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION

CUQ: CROSSMEDIA UND
QUALITÄTSJOURNALISMUS
Sumy State University team:
• Volodymyr Lyubchak – Vice-rector for international
affairs and technical innovations
• Kostyantyn Kyrychenko – Head of International
Affairs Department
• Olena Tkachenko – Head of the Department of journalistic
• Volodymyr Sadivnychyi – associate professor of the Department
of journalistic
• Olena Sushkova - associate professor of the Department
of journalistic
• Tetyana Kyznetsova - Deputy Head of the Department of journalistic
• Iryna Serebryanska – Deputy Head of the Department of journalistic
• Inna Gavryliuk - associate professor of the Department
of journalistic
• Maryna Ponomarenko – Deputy Head of International
Affairs Department
• Olena Gorobchenko – international project manager

SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY
WELCOMES COOPERATION
• Address: 2, Rymskogo-Korsakova Str.,
• 40007 Sumy, Ukraine
• http://sumdu.edu.ua
• International Affairs Department
• Tel/fax: +38 (0542) 33-10-81
• e-mail: info@dir.sumdu.edu.ua
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