SEDWU project
Scalable Electronic Document Workflow for Universities: Enhancing Efficiency, Autonomy and European Integration (SEDWU)
Project duration: 36 months (1 October 2025 – 30 September 2028)
Project Coordinator: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Project Consortium
European Partners:
- Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
- Ignacy Łukasiewicz Rzeszów University of Technology (Poland)
- University of Bayreuth (Germany)
Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions:
- Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
- National University of Water and Environmental Engineering
- Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University
- Chernihiv Polytechnic National University
- Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
- Kryvyi Rih National University
- State Tax University
Industrial Partner:
- Lviv IT Cluster
SEDWU is an international project funded under the Erasmus+ Programme (Capacity Building in Higher Education), aimed at the development and implementation of a scalable, secure, and interoperable electronic document management system for universities.
The project seeks to enhance the efficiency of administrative processes, transparency, digital autonomy, and institutional resilience of Ukrainian higher education institutions, as well as to foster their integration into the European Education and Digital Area.
Special Focus Areas:
- harmonisation of university administrative processes with European practices;
- data protection and information security;
- reduction of paper-based document workflows;
- enhancement of digital competences of university staff;
- application of innovative approaches, including AI-supported tools for document processing.
Project Objectives
Overall Objective:
To contribute to the digital transformation of Ukrainian universities by designing and piloting a modern electronic document workflow system that complies with European standards of efficiency, security, and interoperability.
Specific Objectives:
- analysis and comparison of document management practices in Ukrainian and EU universities;
- development of functional and technical requirements for a university electronic document workflow system;
- implementation and testing of pilot solutions in partner institutions;
- strengthening managerial and digital capacities of university staff.
Project Team from Chernihiv Polytechnic National University
| Role | Name and Position |
| Project Coordinator (Chernihiv Polytechnic National University) | Volodymyr Bazylevych, Director of the Educational and Research Institute of Electronic and Information Technologies |
| Responsible Project Executor | Nataliia Kholiavko, Professor, Department of Finance, Banking and Insurance |
| Financial Manager | Iryna Skumina, Deputy Chief Accountant |
| Project Team Members | Anatolii Prystupa, Vice-Rector for Research;
Artem Mylytsia, Lecturer, Department of Information and Computer Systems; Anna Usik, Lecturer, Department of Information and Computer Systems; Dmytro Mekhed, Associate Professor, Department of Cybersecurity and Mathematical Modelling; Taras Byvoino, Deputy Director of the Educational and Research Institute of Electronic and Information Technologies |
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