Erasmus+ Project "Dynamic Creative Industries: Unveiling the Potential of the EU Economy and Challenges for Ukraine / VCIEU-CU" (Jean Monnet Module "Vibrant Creative Industries: Unveiling the Potential of the EU Economy and the Challenges for Ukraine / VCIEU-CU")
Competition:ERASMUS-JMO-2024-HEI-TCH-RSCH
Topic:ERASMUS-JMO-2024-MODULE
Short Project Title:VCIEU-CU
Project Duration: 36 months
Erasmus+ Program Grant Amount:35,000 euros
Grant Provider:European Education and Culture Executive Agency
Coordinator:Rivne State University of Humanities
Project Goal:
The VCIEU-CU project aims to study the creative economy in the EU and adapt successful models and practices in Ukraine. It will cover concepts, policies, and mechanisms of the creative economy in the EU, the ecosystem of the creative economy, technologies, management, and marketing, as well as the connections between the Ukrainian creative economy and post-war reconstruction. The project analyzes the policies, mechanisms, and guiding principles underlying the successful creative economy of the EU, exploring technologies, business models, and marketing to promote creative enterprises in Ukraine.
Expected results:
The project consists of two components – teaching and research. In the field of teaching, it contributes to improving education in the EU and establishing interaction between academic circles and society. In the field of research, it aims to generate new knowledge to support the formation of EU policy and enhance its global role. The project includes conducting lectures, preparing a scientific monograph, and creating a digital online repository of modules. The target groups of the project are: 1) higher education students, graduate students (20 per year); 2) representatives of creative industries, civil society, public officials, media workers, educators, and researchers (20 per year). The project will promote deeper integration of Ukraine and the EU by raising awareness of common mechanisms to support the creative economy and opportunities for cultural and academic partnerships. This will provide a deeper understanding for the target audience of the opportunities for multidimensional development of cultural and creative industries. The project will have a long-term impact on the development of Ukraine's creative economy and its contribution to post-war reconstruction. Professionals in creative industries, media workers, public officials, civil society representatives, and educators will use the knowledge and skills gained in their professional and everyday activities. Both experts and target groups will act as agents of EU public diplomacy.
Project team:
- ROMAN PAVELKIV, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor, Acting Rector – legal and financial signatory of the project;
- OKSANA PETRENKO, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Vice-Rector for Innovation and International Cooperation – representative of the legal entity;
- BOHDAN YUSKIV, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Economics and Business Management – project manager, main contact person for the project coordinator;
- KARPCHUK Natalia, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of International Communications and Political Analysis at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University – Senior Expert;
- PELEKH Oksana, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Management – Senior Expert;
- KALYNETS Kateryna, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Marketing and Logistics at Lviv Polytechnic National University – Senior Expert;
- PLYASHKO Olha, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and Business Management – Senior Researcher;
- KHOMYCH Serhiy, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and Business Management – Senior Researcher;
- PALAMARCHUK Oksana, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and Business Management – Senior Researcher;
- HLADUNOV Oleksandr, Senior Lecturer (part-time) of the Department of Economics and Business Management, Rivne State Humanities University, Director of the Rivne Regional Organization of the Ukrainian Marketing Association – Senior Researcher;
- LYBAK Iryna, Senior Laboratory Assistant of the Laboratory of Automated Information and Search Systems of the Department of Economics and Business Management – Technical and Administrative Staff.
Contact person:Bohdan YUSKIV
e-mail:bohdan.yuskiv@rshu.edu.ua
Comprehensive Introduction of Augmented and Alternative Communication Methodology into the Ukrainian System of Education (AMUSE)
Short project name:AMUSE
Project Duration: 36 months
The amount of the Erasmus+ (CBHE) grant:799,983 euros
Grant holder:Uman State Pedagogical University named after Pavlo Tychyna
Project goal:The AMUSE project aims to address a number of issues and eliminate some gaps to improve the professional training of teachers before and during their work using alternative and augmentative communication (AAC -in English.AAC, Augmentative and Alternative Communication) in Ukrainian higher education institutions.
The project involves the creation of an inclusive education hub at a Ukrainian higher education institution, an innovative classroom for organizing the educational process for the use of AAC in preschool, primary, and secondary education; establishing partnerships with preschool, primary, secondary, and higher education institutions to provide opportunities for the practical testing of AAC, developing a system for exchanging experiences and interaction between universities in Europe and Ukraine, which will contribute to the internationalization and integration into the European educational space.
Expected results:
- Updated educational programs.
- New courses developed.
- Building the capacity of educators who need AAC approaches and methods to work with the constantly growing number of children with speech disorders, for whom this methodology remains inaccessible due to a lack of information about it and potential learning opportunities.
Project team:
- ROMAN PAVELKIV, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor, Acting Rector – legal signatory of the project;
- PETRENKO Oksana, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Vice-Rector for Innovation and International Cooperation, Professor of the Department of Theory and Methodology of Education – representative of the legal entity;
- SOYCHUK Ruslana, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Primary, Inclusive, and Higher Education – main contact person for the project coordinator;
- SHLYKHTA Hanna, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies and Methods of Teaching Computer Science – account administrator;
- ANDROSHCHUK Iryna, Candidate of Political Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science and International Relations – responsible for project planning;
- DYCHKIVSKA Ilona, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Preschool Pedagogy and Psychology and Special Education named after Prof. Ponimanska T.I. – team member in the specialty 012 "Preschool Education";
- HOROPAKHA Natalia, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Preschool Pedagogy and Psychology and Special Education named after Prof. Ponimanska T.I. – team member in the specialty 012 "Preschool Education";
- PAVLYUK Tetiana, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Preschool Pedagogy and Psychology and Special Education named after Prof. Ponimanska T.I. – team member in the specialty 012 "Preschool Education";
- BOROVETS Olena, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Primary, Inclusive, and Higher Education – team member in the specialty 013 "Primary Education";
- YAKOVYSHYNA Tetiana, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Primary, Inclusive, and Higher Education – team member in the specialty 013 "Primary Education";
- Oksana Tretyak, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Primary, Inclusive, and Higher Education – team member in the specialty 013 "Primary Education";
- Natalia Hrytsai, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Natural Sciences – team member in the specialty 014.15 "Secondary Education (Natural Sciences)";
- Oksana Voitovych, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Natural Sciences – team member in the specialty 014.15 "Secondary Education (Natural Sciences)";
- Alla Fridrikh, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and Practice of Foreign Languages and Teaching Methodology – team member;
- Lyudmyla Solovey, Senior Laboratory Assistant of the Department of Primary, Inclusive, and Higher Education – task dispatcher;
- Zoreslava Yedynets, Deputy Chief Accountant – financial signatory of the project.
Partners:
institutions from EU countries:
University of Oslo (Norway),
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (Poland),
Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands),
Tartu Health Care College (Estonia),
Association Speak Without Words – ISAAC (Poland),
domestic institutions:
Uman State Pedagogical University named after Pavlo Tychyna (grant holder, coordinator),
Rivne State Humanities University,
Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko,
Kharkiv National Pedagogical University named after H.S. Skovoroda,
Mukachevo State University,
NGO "Odesa Regional Organization of Medical Psychological-Pedagogical Assistance 'Healthy Society'".
Contact person:Ruslana Soychuk,
e-mail:ruslana.soichuk@rshu.edu.ua