Erasmus+ Project "Dynamic Creative Industries: Unveiling the Potential of the EU Economy and the 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-RSCHTheme: ERASMUS-JMO-2024-MODULE
Short project name: VCIEU-CU
Project duration: 36 months
The amount of the Erasmus+ programme grant: 35,000 euros
Grantor: European Executive Agency for Education and Culture
Coordinator: Rivne State Humanities University
The aim of the project: The VCIEU-CU project aims to study the creative economy in the EU and adapt successful models and practices in Ukraine. It will cover the 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 analyses 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 the improvement of education in the EU and the establishment of interaction between academic circles and society. In the field of research, it aims to generate new knowledge to support the formulation of EU policy and enhance its global role. The project includes conducting lectures, as well as preparing a scientific monograph and creating a digital online repository of modules.
The target groups of the project are:
1) higher education students, postgraduates (20 per year);
2) representatives of the creative industries, civil society, public officials, media workers, educators, and researchers (20 per year).
The project will promote the deepening of Ukraine's integration with 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 the 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 Innovative Activities and International Cooperation – representative of the legal entity;
- YUSKIV Bohdan, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Economics and Business Management – Project Leader, main contact person for the project coordinator;
- NATALIA KARPUCHUK, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of International Communications and Political Analysis at Volyn National University named after Lesya Ukrainka – 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 the National University "Lviv Polytechnic" – Senior Expert;
- OLHA PLYASHKO, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and Business Management – Senior Researcher;
- KHOMYCH Serhii, 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;
- GLADUNOV Oleksandr, senior lecturer (part-time) of the Department of Economics and Business Management, Rivne State Humanities University, director of the Rivne Regional Organisation of the Ukrainian Marketing Association – senior research fellow;
- LYBAK Iryna, senior laboratory assistant of the laboratory of automated information and search systems at the Department of Economics and Business Management – technical and administrative staff member.
Contact person: Bohdan YUSKIV
e-mail: bohdan.yuskiv@rshu.edu.ua
Comprehensive Implementation of Augmented and Alternative Communication Methodology in the Ukrainian Education System / 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+ programme grant (CBHE): 799,983 euros
Grant holder: Uman State Pedagogical University named after Pavlo Tychyna
The aim of the project: The AMUSE project is aimed at addressing a number of issues and bridging certain gaps to improve the professional training of teachers before and during their work using augmentative and alternative communication (hereinafter AAC – Augmentative and Alternative Communication) in Ukrainian higher education institutions..
The project involves the establishment of an inclusive education hub at a Ukrainian higher education institution, an innovative classroom for organising the educational process for the use of ADF in preschool, primary, and secondary education; the establishment of partnerships with preschool, primary, secondary, and higher education institutions to provide opportunities for the practical testing of ADF, the development of a system for exchanging experiences and interaction between universities in Europe and Ukraine, which will contribute to the internationalisation and integration into the European educational space..
Expected results:
- Updated educational programmes.
- New courses have been developed.
- Building the capacity of educators who require approaches and methods of AAC to work with the constantly increasing 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;
- OKSANA PETRENKO, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Vice-Rector for Innovative Activities 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 – the 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. – member of the team for the specialty 012 "Preschool Education";
- NATALIYA HOROPAKHA, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Preschool Pedagogy and Psychology and Special Education named after Prof. T.I. Ponimanska – member of the team 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. – member of the team in the specialty 012 "Preschool Education";
- OLENA BOROVETS, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Primary, Inclusive and Higher Education – member of the team for the specialty 013 "Primary Education";
- YAKOVYSHYNA Tetiana, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Primary, Inclusive and Higher Education – member of the team for the specialty 013 "Primary Education";
- TRETYAK Oksana, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Primary, Inclusive and Higher Education – member of the team for the specialty 013 "Primary Education";
- HYRYTSAY Natalia, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Natural Sciences – member of the team for the specialty 014.15 "Secondary Education (Natural Sciences)";
- VOITOVYCH Oksana, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Natural Sciences – member of the team for 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;
- SOLOVEY Lyudmyla, senior laboratory assistant of the Department of Primary, Inclusive and Higher Education – task dispatcher;
- Zoryslava Yedynets, Deputy Chief Accountant – Financial Signatory of the Project.
Partners:
Institutions of 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 Hryhorii Skovoroda,
Mukachevo State University,
ГAbout the "Odesa Regional Organisation of Medical Psychological-Pedagogical Assistance 'Healthy Society'".
Contact person: Ruslana Soychuk
e-mail: ruslana.soichuk@rshu.edu.ua