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According to the Ministry of Education and Science decree, Daryna SHCHERBAK was awarded a scholarship from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

"For me, the scholarship is one of the significant achievements in my life, an acknowledgment that I have accomplished something in my scientific activity", – says Daryna.

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On 4 November 2023, the School of European Languages under Olena Nazarenko and Antonina Chepeliuk hospitably welcomed visitors to improve their spoken English and German skills. This year, there were many SumDU students who decided to raise their speaking abilities.

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On 1 November 2023, the Department of Germanic Philology met entrants at the Open Door Day. During the event, future students had an opportunity to communicate with department representatives. They completed assignments and received credits.

The department gave the participants a quiz on translating English phrasal verbs. After the assessment, the guests attended a meeting where they could talk to the faculty dean Olena Sushkova, department head Svitlana Baranova and student government members. 

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Lecturers and students of the Department of Germanic Philology took part in the National Unity Radiodictation. Traditionally, it was held on the Ukrainian Literacy Day. This year, the holiday was celebrated for the first time on 27 October.

The fest organizer is the Ukrainian Radio. The authorship of  the dictation text "Roads of Ukraine" belongs to Kateryna Kalytko (a Ukrainian writer and laureate of the Shevchenko Prize). Theater and film actor Oleksiy Hnatkovsky read it.

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On 19 October 2023, Sumy State University held a planned meeting of the Academic Board. Here, winners of the all-university contest "Innovations ICT for Modern Education ICT4EDU" were awarded. Oksana Brovkina (a lecturer at the Department of Germanic Philology) won. She received a diploma in the nomination "Mobile Devices in the Educational Process (BYOD), Usage of Existing Software Products" for her work "Visualization of Information with Own Mobile Devices for Successful Mastering of the German Language".

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On 24 October, the NTSA IFSK SumDU held an online lecture for first-year students.

Participants acquired new knowledge about academic plagiarism and its varieties in research papers. The StrikePlagiarism system was introduced for checking texts on uniqueness and references. Similarity coefficients and their limits were analyzed.

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On 10 October 2023, a workshop was held for the winning project teams of the Erasmus+ Jean Monet 2023 program. It was called "Project Management. Responsibility for the Result and Ensuring Sustainability and Influence". Here, Oleksandra Kubatko represented  the Jean Monet module "Promoting European practices of education for sustainable development through the language of the brand: interdisciplinary studies" (101085708 – ERASMUS-JMO-2022-HEI-TCH-RSCH). It is realized at SumDU under guidance of Iryna Ushchapovska, a senior lecturer of the Demartment of Germanic Philology.

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As part of the activities aimed at helping students and graduates to find their first job, the Department of Germanic Philology keeps organizing events with potential employers.

On 12 October 2023, second-year students and Olha Shumenko (the Secretary of the Expert Council of Employers, Associate Professor) held a round table discussion with employer Olha Hlushchenko. During the meeting, they discussed new approaches and forms of work. The students received information about open programmes for employment, internships and practice.

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In autumn 2022, the Department of Germanic Philology joined the international grant project "Ukraine Digital: Ensuring Academic Success in Times of Crisis", funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The project aim is to support Ukrainian lecturers and students during the crisis we all experience.

With the 2023 project extension, translation students will once again get the opportunity to obtain practical training provided by best lecturers from the partner University of Duisburg-Essen. In October 2023, the traditional online meeting of the 1st year students-translators was held with Dr. Iris Bäcker. She specializes in Slavic and Germanic studies, literary translation, communication and didactics.

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On 12 October 2023, the 75th anniversary of SumDU founding and #ErasmusDays 2023 held a round table "Systemic Impact of International Projects on the Development of Ukrainian Universities and Higher Education: From Tempus to Erasmus+ and the European University Alliances".

The event purpose was to spread the successful long-term university experience in realizing international projects, to identify promising topics and programs for future grants.