On February 20, 2020, students of the specialty management of socio-cultural activity, group KD-81  was conducted round table in the framework of the practice-oriented training. The Gallery of arts «Academic» was chosen as the basis of practice. Meeting was conducted by the leader of gallery S.I. Pobozhiy.

Assistant Professors Kostenko Andriana, Lebed Andrii, Korol Sergiy, Volodymyr Semenov, and Oleg Tulyakov participated in a network meeting of project participants organized by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

According to the project, a course "Democracy: Values, Principles, Mechanisms" is conducted at Sumy State University.

Today our student from group KD-81 had training with exercise “When I'm in a Conflict My Indian name is ….. and I prefer …. colors": Each student got to complete the sentence, "When I get into a conflict, I usually doing accoding this Indian name... and my Indian headdresses have …..colors"

This exercise helps students to understand their own place and own emotion during conflict.

And it helps to create a vivid example which can then be discussed and explored further.

On February 15, 2020, Sumy hosted the international multi-genre competition "Constellation - Gold Europe", with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Ukrainian National House, I&J Company s.r.o. "GOLD EUROPE (EU TALENT)" (Prague, Czech Republic) and the non-profit NGO "Star Trek". Senior lecturer at Psychology, Political Sciences and Sociocultural Technologies Department of Sumy State University Tatiana Povaliy was invited as a jury member to select the most talented and bright creative teams and individual performers of the country.

Gender Resource Center, Department of Psychology, Political Science and Socio-Cultural Technologies, Departments of Public Health and Department of Applied Ecology jointly are currently developing a multidisciplinary course that intersects such issues as gender, public health, ecology. The course is based on the European experience of training professionals capable of integrating cross-disciplinary, cross-cutting issues into social, economic, environmental development, adhering to the principle of "No one left behind". The course developed will be submitted to the Erasmus + program, that supports academic innovation and exchange of experience.

On March 8, the International Women's Day, traditionally honors women's achievements. Gender Resource Center of Sumy State University, without betraying traditions, with the aim of preserving the historical meaning of this March event, announces a competition for politically correct greetings of the women of our university.

Therefore, we look forward for your suggestions on greeting women to mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with a note in the subject line of the letter “March 8, 2020”. The most successful greetings, with the your authorship, will be posted on the Sumy State University website.

Students of the specialty "Social Work" visited the Sumy City Employment Center, where they practiced in search of work. It was especially important to look at the prospect and try to calculate your career growth, to outline concrete steps to achieve the desired position in the labor market. Today, our students are only getting acquainted with job search technologies (though some already have job experience), but in the near future, some of them will help other people build their careers. It should be added that this semester two third-year students, future social workers undergo industrial practice at the Sumy City Employment Center.

On February 10, 2020, a meeting of the 1st year students of the Medical Institute with the representatives of the Psychological Counseling Service of our University was held. Students were able to learn more about the peculiarities and basic forms of work of the SSU Psychological Service, to communicate with psychologists, to ask and receive answers to questions.

The bachelor’s degree students in Management of social and cultural activity took part in organize of Ukrainian Fashion Week (UFW). This Fashion Week was held in Kiev from February 1 to February 5, 2020. In addition to participating in volunteer activities, the students attended the events of the summit “BE SUSTAINABLE”. Within the framework of the summit there were the lectures, master classes, fashion shows of the Ukrainian brands which support trends of the stable fashion.

“To rise to the challenges of the 21st century, we need to harness our full potential. That requires dismantling gender stereotypes. On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, let’s pledge to end the gender imbalance in science” UN Secretary-General António Guterres

In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/70/212 declaring 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

Gender Resource Center of Sumy State University joins this initiative as support idea of increasing women involvement in science and technologies.