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On 31 May 2024, winners of the contest "Best Young Researcher of Sumy State University" were awarded.

Vitalii Stepanov (assistant lecturer at the Department of Germanic Philology, PhD 035 Philology) received a diploma in the nomination "Humanities".

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Sumy State University held the conference "The First Step into Research". In 2024, a record number of proceedings was submitted by the Faculty of Foreign Philology and Social Communication: 98 out of 302 (one third).

On 18 May 2024, an online meeting of the section "Philology. Communication. Society" was held. Not only faculty students but also representatives of school science joined the meeting. Thus, Maryna Sadivnycha (a member of the Department of Journalism and Philology) supervised the pupils' research.

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In order to encourage young scientists to be active in research and achieve high results, rector Vasyl Karpusha announced gratitude and presented awards to the university's academic staff on the Science Day occasion.

According to the competition results, young scientists were awarded in the following nominations:

"Humanities" - Vitalii Stepanov, assistant of the Department of Germanic Philology.

"Social Sciences" - Anna Vorontsova, senior lecturer at the Department of International Economic Relations.

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On 15 May 2024, the Travel Office under Olena Nazarenko invited Alina Kurylova (a Translation graduate, SPS Training Ltd, The Language Shop, Clear Voice, RushTranslate) and her colleague, translator and teacher Nicola West (ESOL Tutor, English/Spanish Translator and Interpreter). They shared experience of working as translators with Philology students and department teachers.

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The Department of Germanic Philology hosted a meeting of bachelors and masters with representatives of the Technologia Company Group. They are leaders in the Ukrainian packaging market. Their products are capsules for sparkling wines, mousse, polylaminate and shrink caps, bag-in-box and super-punch containers, self-adhesive labels, film, and packaging for food and pharmaceutical industries. Products are exported to many countries.

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On 14-17 May 2024, the International scientific and practical online conference "ECONOMICS FOR ECOLOGY" (EU practices in the field of education for sustainable development) was held in Sumy.

The conference is organized within the Jean Monet module "Fostering EU Practices of Education for Sustainable Development through the Brand Language: Interdisciplinary Studies" of the EU Erasmus+ program (101085708-ERASMUS-JMO-2022-HEI-TCH-RSCH) headed by Iryna Ushchapovska.

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The Department of Germanic Philology congratulates Oksana Brovkina (PhD in Philology, senior lecturer) on being awarded the academic title of Associate Professor! The official presentation of diplomas took place on 9 May 2024 at Sumy State University during the Academic Board meeting.

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In September-December 2023, Iryna Ushchapovska (PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Germanic Philology at Sumy State University) conducted a series of lectures and practical classes within the course "Sustainable Linguistics" for first-year Master's students majoring in Philology.

The course was taught in English. Sustainable Linguistics is concerned with the preservation of language as the basis around which we build our lives. It is a symbolic space that shelters us. Sustainable linguistics explores preservation and maintenance of language and its ethnolinguistic vitality.

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On 30 April 2024, Olena Nazarenko (a lecturer at the Department of Germanic Philology) invited Oleksandra Hnibida (a founder and director of Smart School, stakeholder, Philology graduate) for the Travel Office meeting. The visitors were students and department members (Oksana Brovkina, Anna Zinchenko, Antonina Prokopenko, Olena Ovsianko, Olena Emelianova, and Maryna Chernyk).

Oleksandra graduated from Sumy State University in 2012. She studied foreign languages and translation. Emphasized that language proficiency significantly impacted her path to success. Began her career as an English language tutor. Later, opened her clothing store, but eventually returned to education.

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Mariia Rudenko (a PhD in Philology student) took an English academic writing course "AgriSciences Platform for Development of Science in Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions". It was supported by the Czech University of Science and Technology.

The course lasted 6 weeks on the Canvas platform. It was aimed at developing academic writing skills and preparing a scientific article in English for publication in indexed journals.