Member of Editorial Board of the journal “Business Ethics and Leadership”, Doctoral student of the Department of Marketing Olena Chygryn conducted a series of webinars for students of economics in the framework of the Jean Monnet project “Carbon Neutral Economy: Best Practices for Ukraine” (620232-EPP-1-2020-1-UA-EPPJMO-MODULE).
The participants of the online project discussed the problems of promoting the main stages of the implementation of this strategy:

A monograph entitled “Public Goods, Sustainable Development and the Contribution of Business” by Roland Bardy, PhD,Member of Editorial Board of the journal “Business Ethics and Leadership”, consultant at BardyConsult in Mannheim, Germany has been published on February, 22, 2021.

A monograph entitled “The Issues of Tourism Development in Armenia” by Gayane Tovmasyan, PhD in Economics,Member of Editorial Board of the journal “Business Ethics and Leadership”, a senior researcher at the “Amber” Research Centre in ASUE, a teacher at PAARA, has been published with the approval of the Scientific Board of the Public Administration Academy of RA.

The first session of the Global Virtual Class took place on 4h of February, which is one of many planned within a new course «International Relations and Global Leadership». This course is designed and provided jointly with the Washington State University. From Sumy State University, the following faculty will participate this semester: Dr. Hanna Shvindina, 

On February 01, 2021 Tetyana Pimonenko organized a lecture-discussion on retrospective for students and graduate students within the framework of Jean Monnet Module “Carbon-neutral economy of the EU: best practices for Ukraine” (620232-EPP-1-2020-1-UA-EPPJMO-MODULE) review of scientific publications in the field of carbon-free economy. During the seminar, students and graduate students had the opportunity to learn about the high-quality work of scientists from around the world and to establish the relationship between the development of a carbon-free economy, climate change and EU initiatives.

Thanks to the active work of the Centers in the period from 2017 to 2020, an information infrastructure for small and medium-sized businesses in the regions has been created. High standards of work have been introduced, which have improved the overall quality of information services for business. The network is an effective platform for SMEs to acquire and share knowledge and contacts.

Hanna Shvindina, the member of editorial board of “SocioEconomic Challenges (SEC)” journal  took part in the International Conference 4IR 2020 “4.0 Industrial Revolution: Transforming Businesses”  on the 24th of September, 2020, organized by Higher College of Technology, the UAE’s largest applied higher educational institution (Dubai). This conference was held online. Hanna Shvindina published several papers devoted to the Coopetition & Strategies Development in Aviation. The sessions took place during the whole day and were extremely interesting, involved the best experts in the field and top-ranked researchers. The conference took place on the highest level, the discussions were insightful and inspiring.  

Shvindina Hanna became a guest Speaker at the Bielsko-Biala School of Finance and Law. The lecture-discussion took place on the 3rd of December and was devoted to the Coopetition Strategy, which is in the focus of the research interests of our colleague. The phenomenon of the coopetition is relatively new and gained its prominence since 1996 after the publication of “Co-opetition” by A. Brandenburger and B. Nalebuff (cooperation with competitors).

The webinar was on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Most of the participants of the webinar not only realized the need for real transformation of business models and technological processes, but also are ready to implement these changes.

On November 27, 2020, Tetyana Pimonenko and Oleksiy Lyulyov started a course of lectures “European policy for small and medium enterprises” for students of Sumy State University within the project “EU policy for SMEs: perspectives and challenges for Ukraine: perspectives and challenges for Ukraine”. The specifics of the EU policy in creating a favorable business environment and supporting small and medium enterprises were discussed during the classes. A lively discussion arose during the discussion of the role of small and medium enterprises in the economic growth of the country.