On October 6, 2022, an interactive event – a simulation game «World of Communities» took place at Lviv Polytechnic. The event was organized by the team of the project «European studies for students of technical specialties at Lviv Polytechnic National University» (EUSTS).
The goal of the game was to let students acquire skills to implement the experience and tools of the European Union for the development of the united territorial communities of Ukraine. The 1st-year-students majoring in Computer Engineering and Social Communication and Information Activities joined the event.
Professor Yaryna Turchyn, Doctor of Political Sciences, head of the EUSTS project, director of the Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences, addressed the participants with a welcome speech. She noted the relevance of the event, drawing special attention to the possibilities of studying European studies at Lviv Polytechnic, and spoke about the main features of the EUSTS project.
The event consisted of two parts. The first was moderated by Nataliia Vovk, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Communication and Information Activities, who presented numerous EU programs to support various reforms in Ukraine, in particular, decentralization and community development. Much attention was paid to the positive cases of decentralization reform in such EU countries as Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Other members of the EUSTS project team also participated in the simulation game, including Associate Professor Oleksandr Markovets (Department of Social Communication and Information Activities), Associate Professor Olha Ivasechko (PSIR Department), Associate Professor Oleh Tsebenko (PSIR Department), Senior Lecturer Iryna Sukhorolska (Department of Political Science and International Relations), Assistant Khrystyna Zabavska (PSIR Department) and Associate Professor Lidiia Kasha (Department of Electromechatronics and Computerized Electromechanical Systems).
The EUSTS project team sincerely expresses its gratitude to all the participants of this event – students and academics – and continues to work on the preparation of other, no less interesting events on the current topics of the European integration of Ukraine.
