On May 14th, the Science Day was held on the main square of our university. The event was large, rich and varied. All faculties prepared interesting presentations of their own specialties for future entrants, and the cultural and artistic center took care of the concert program and the fun atmosphere of the holiday.

On May 5, on the initiative of the Center for Ukrainian-Polish Cooperation “Sloboda” a lecturer of the Department of Germanic Philology, candidate of technical sciences, associate professor Oleksandr Kobyakov and a fourth-year student Yuliia Lazutkina attended a special event. The Society of Polish Culture in Sumy celebrated the Constitution Day (May 3) and the Day of Polonia and Poles Abroad (May 2) with the participation of the Polish Consul Jan Zdanovsky and his family.

Oleksandr Mykolaiovych recited an extract from the Polish poem "Pan Tadeusz" by Adam Mickiewicz. The guests could enjoy various quizzes on the history, culture and geography of Poland, a festive concert, memorable gifts, as well as warm atmosphere and communication, that made excellent impression.

On April, 22 students of group PR-63 of Department of Germanic Philology visited the court of Zarichnyi district in frames of studying the discipline "Juridicial Terminology" (the lecturer is asossiate professor of the Department, candidate of Philological Sciences Olha Shumenko). 

Future interpreters went through lobby and halls, in which defendants usually stay before court sittings, saw conditions under which they wait for their sentences and how exactly they get into chamber of "waiting" for hearing of own case.

The lecturer of Department of Germanic Philology Iryna Ushchapovska took part in one-day seminar on academic integrity issues.

 The seminar took place at The Education and Research Institute for Business Technologies "UAB" on April, 22 and was devoted to ethical points of investigation especially in the area of education, science and academic research, development and innovation, artistic and other creative activity. The seminar was held by Czech expert, doctor Hynek Roubik, Ph.D. Project expert, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague.

In the period 15–20, April SSU Congress-Center welcomed the germanists from Sumy and other regions of Ukraine coming to exchange their experience and best practices. The event was held in the form of an expert seminar funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Carsten Grunwaldt, DAAD-Lecturer in Sumy, was both the organizer and moderator of the course. Olesia Yehorova, assistant professor at the Department of Germanic Philology, and Viktoria Zakusylo, teacher trainee at the Foreign Languages Department of ERI BT "UABS", attended the event as the representatives of Sumy State University.

In April, first-year students of  specialization Translation who are going to try and participate  in academic mobility programs under the leadership of the lecturer of the department of Germanic philology Olena Nazarenko visited  Students’ club of  linguistic and cultural studies “Travel Office”. They were trained by the forth-year student, Anastasiia Korotun, who participated in more than 14 international exchange programs.

The Senior Lecturer of the Department of Germanic philologySvetlana Ermolenko worked as a translator of the Ukrainian-German social project.

During the two weeks of April in Sumy, SES experts from Germany, Ursula Voyazhek-Klees and Peter Klees were on a working visit and shared experience in the framework of the project "Improvement of qualification of personnel for rehabilitation and social integration of children with psychosomatic disorders".

Students’ club of linguistic and cultural studies «Travel office» at Translation Training and Resource Center «LinguoStar» of the Department of Germanic Philology makes you a new appointment on April, 18th at the lecture room ET-411 at 11.10!

Let’s travel to Italy and Luxembourg! Honourable guest is Anastasiia Korotun, 4th year student of specialization Translation, European Student Think Tank Ambassador to Ukraine.

Every interested person can get a lot of free information concerning studying and travelling peculiarities, prominent places of the most popular and beautiful cities of Italy and Luxembourg.

On Saturday, April 13th the last class of this academic year  School of European Languages guided by the lecturer of the department of Germanic philology Olena Nazarenko and seniour lecturer Antonina Chepeliuk   took place.

Everyone could have free classes of the English, Spanish and German languages. Junior students, high school students and even adults attended the school this year. 4th year students of the specialty Translation Tetiana Popova, Anastasiia Maiaka, Maksym Shyshkin, Karyna Melnykova and Michel Alarcón have conducted these courses. Each lesson was arranged with the help of modern technologies, interesting tasks in the form of a game and in informal atmosphere.

The Department of Germanic Philology was glad to welcome on April 11th the best students of Ukraine, who, in framework of participation in All-Ukrainian tour of young journalists, visited Sumy and SSU.

The applicants from Kamyanets-Podilsky, Mariupol, Sumy, Kyiv, Kharkiv and many other cities of Ukraine came to compete for the title of the best young journalist and choose a proper place to get higher education. Thus, a visit to Sumy State University and in particular to the Department of Germanic Philology caused many positive emotions. Students of high school were positively impressed with the offered opportunities and prospects for SSU students.

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