At the end of last week, in one of the rooms of the Institute of Economics and Management of Lviv Polytechnic University, there was opened a new modern laboratory to carry out various activities in the online mode, that will allow promptly and efficiently to ensure the interaction of scientific and pedagogical workers of different higher education institutions working on the solution of common problems. The online videoconference on Structuring Cooperation in Doctoral Research, Transferrable Skills Training, and Academic Writing Instruction in Ukraine’s Regions – DocHub was the debut. In addition to Lvivites, representatives of Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design and Ternopil National Economic University participated in it as well.
At the opening ceremony, Rector of Lviv Polytechnic National University, Professor Yurii Bobalo, expressed the hope that the new laboratory will soon become an important component in the modernization of the educational and research processes.
Yurii Rashkevych, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, congratulated Lviv Polytechnic on the innovation. In particular, he emphasized that the DocHub project aims at accelerating the implementation of educational curricula of the third cycle of education in accordance with the Bologna reforms at the national level. He also answered the questions of the conference participants, urging them to take an active part in the International Information Week of the EU Programme Erasmus+ in Ukraine, which begins these days.
By the way, at the end of September, in Limerick there was a meeting of the Management Board of the Erasmus+ international project, in which Professor Ihor Oleksiv took part. The participants of the meeting, in particular, considered the issues of accelerating the implementation of educational curricula of the third cycle of education, as well as analyzed the problem issues of the project implementation in 2018, discussed the financial aspects of the project and planned the next stages of its implementation.
