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In November 2024, focus group interviews were conducted in Sumy, Konotop and Putivl territorial communities to identify the needs of local communities for resilience, recovery and development.
As part of the All-Ukrainian action “16 Days Against Violence” and on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, students presented research projects on the history of the feminist movement.
December 4, Svitlana Martyniuk, a psychologist at Sumy State University, together with Oksana Hrytsenko, a student of the educational program 053 “Psychology”, PLz-21c group, held an online seminar with teachers of the Sumy Engineering College on the topic “Self-regulation - helping yourself and others”.
The students of the KD-11 group majoring in Management of Socio-Cultural Activities prepared an online tour “Sumy in a Cup” as part of the discipline “Organizational and Excursion Activities”.
November 28, students of the Social Work and Psychology study programs met with Yulia Sirenko, case manager of the Rockada Charitable Foundation, on the occasion of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence.
On the occasion of the International Day of Tolerance, a thematic event in the format of a training session was held at the Congress Center of Sumy State University by students majoring in Social Work, Kateryna Zavadska and Alina Sirobaba, and a senior lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Political Science and Socio-Cultural Technologies, Alina Cherniakova: “Our University is a Space of Intercultural Tolerance” with the participation of foreign and Ukrainian students of Sumy State University.
November 26, within the framework of the All-Ukrainian campaign “16 Days Against Violence”, in order to draw attention to this problem in Sumy region, Associate Professor Svitlana Piven held an event “Information Session on Combating Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV): Types and Assistance to Victims” for students of Sumy State University, teachers and everyone interested.
November 15 and 28, 2024, within the framework of the educational component “Introduction to the specialty with the content module ‘Occupational Safety’ (lecturer - Associate Professor Semenov V.M.), an online tour of the library of Sumy State University and a lecture on the university library and its capabilities were held. The excursion and lecture were conducted by the deputy head of the library Iryna Kovalenko.
First-year students within the discipline System of Organization of Social Services with the content module: Organization of Social Work Documentation Systems, together with the assistant of the Department of Psychology, Political Science, Socio-Cultural Technologies visited the following institutions: “Center for Assistance to Rescued Persons”, Office of the Regional Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Sumy City Territorial Center for Social Services (provision of social services) ‘Berehynia’, and the Main Department of the National Social Service in Sumy Region.
November 22, Maryna Vasina, a forensic expert of the Sumy Branch of the National Scientific Center “Bokarius Institute of Forensic Expertise” shared her experience on working with women victims of domestic violence with the students.