The Universities’ Reaction to Big Obstructions: Building resilient higher education to respond and manage societal crises

TURBO

Project: 101129315-TURBO-Erasmus-EDU-2023-CBHE

Project duration: January 01, 2024 – December 31, 2026

The main aim of TURBO is to increase the resilience, preparedness and responsiveness of Ukrainian higher education institutions (HEIs) by building their capacities, improving competencies and sharing experiences.

Specific objectives:           

1. Improve and build Ukrainian HEIs’ capacity to provide more flexible educational offers relevant to the labor market and practice-oriented in the business and management field for faster integration into the EU educational space.
2. Contribute to re-placing internally displaced persons (IDPs) into new local communities through retraining and social adaptation.
3. Share experience on the retraining and social adaptation of IDPs within Ukraine and internationally.
4. Improve the Ukrainian system’s regulatory framework for HE through the recognition of micro-credentials as part of lifelong learning practices at universities.
5. Facilitate cooperation between multiple actors to ensure social inclusiveness, increased employability of students, and quality of HE during times of social crisis.

Project parties

Coordinator in Norway: Nord University (Bodo, Norway)

https://www.nord.no

Project leader – Anatoli Bourmistrov, PhD, Professor [email protected]

Institutional Coordinator – Veronika Vakulenko, PhD, Assoc.Prof.

[email protected]

Beneficiaries

 

Akademia Leona Kozminskiego

(Warsaw, Poland)

 

 

International Charitable Foundation for Social Adaptation

(IFSA)

 

 

 

Chernihiv Polytechnic National University

(Chernihiv, Ukraine)

 

 

 

Chernivtsi National University Yuriy Fedkovych

(Chernivtsi, Ukraine)

 

 

 

 

Lviv Polytechnic National University

(Lviv, Ukraine)

 

 

 

 

West Ukrainian National University

(Ternopil, Ukraine)

 

 

 

 

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

(Kyiv, Ukraine)

 

 

 

 

South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky

(Odesa, Ukraine)

 

 

 

 

Vinnytsia National Technical University

(Vinnytsia, Ukraine)

 

 

The final beneficiaries of the TURBO project are IDPs with graduate education searching for work who will benefit from academic retraining in Ukrainian HEIs. This is expected to lead to better employment and integration into the local society, where IDPs had to resettle due to the war.

Immediate results:

• Training of at least 56 Ukrainian HEIs’ representatives in creating, running, and assessing educational programs;
•  Seven educational programs in business and management based on the micro-credentials approach developed and tested in 7 Ukrainian regions through the professional training and social integration of at least 350 IDPs.

Impact: Contribute to developing resilient universities with the flexibility to adapt to the emerging needs of Ukrainian society in the context of dramatic changes and to integrate Ukrainian HEIs into the EU.

Тrainings TURBO

PROJECT TEAM OF CHERNIHIV POLYTECHNIC NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Kateryna Maksom Institutional Coordinator ([email protected], 0936148693)	Ph.D., Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work Main areas of research: social entrepreneurship, reintegration, emotional intelligent, social psychology
Anna Verbytska Responsible executor	Ph.D., Head of the Department of Marketing, PR-technologies and Logistics Main areas of research: social entrepreneurship as an instrument for reintegration.
Volodymyr Bazylevych Executor	Ph.D., Head of the Department of Information and Computer Systems; Director of Chernihiv EU Information Centre (since 2019); certified instructor of the CISCO Network Academy (since 2020). Main areas of research: cybersecurity, internet of things, web-development.
Dmytro Mekhed Executor	Ph.D., associate professor of the department of cybersecurity and mathematical simulation; deputy director of the Institute of Electronic and Information Technologies Main areas of research: cybersecurity, internet of things, web-development.
Nadiia Nahorna Executor	Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of social technologies, health and rehabilitation Main areas of research: social entrepreneurship, economic socialization.
Olena Petryk Executor	Ph.D., Associate professor of the Department of Criminal Law and Justice, Head of the Career Development Center Main areas of research: social entrepreneurship, reintegration, youth policy, state criminal enforcement policy.
Valentyna Moskalenko Executor	Ph.D., Associate professor of the Department of Marketing, PR-technologies and Logistics Main areas of research: business planning, business and business project management, business analytics, marketing research
Yulia Shevchenko Executor	Senior lecturer of Foreign Philology Department Main areas of research:  modern trends in teaching ESP (English for specific purposes)

 

This project has received funding from the European Union (ERASMUS-EDU-2023-CBHE) under grant agreement No 101129315.