Professor Medani Bhandari has published a paper about Coronavirus (COVID-19) titled “THE PHOBIA CORONA (COVID 19) ̶ WHAT WE CAN DO”. For the time being, it is very important and time sensitive. The main problem addressed in the paper is what we can do to stop this pandemic and what price we will have to pay for it. The author says “Responsibility for the people we are in contact should be the key element. The overwhelming amount of information in the media, contributes to the deepening of fear. People need to be aware not only of the responsibility for the lives of others, they must also re-evaluate their own lives”.
The full paper can be found at the link: https://asej.eu/resources/html/article/details?id=202946.

Hanna Shvindina, the “Business Ethics and Leadership” Editorial Board member, provided the seminar on bibliometric analysis for the researchers on Friday, March 27, 2020. It was aimed at sharing the knowledge about the bibliometric analysis via VosViewer software and Publish or Perish. These tools are well-known and yet few scholars use them in their research. This knowledge sharing became possible due to Professor Vincent Duffy from Purdue University who supervised and guided Hanna Shvindina in bibliometric analysis during the academic exchange within the Fulbright programme. More than 30 participants attended the seminar online and acquired knowledge about this flow of academic search.

The cooperation with Professor Vincent Duffy (Purdue University), his assistance and support in organizing the online webinar on bibliometric analysis as well as his experience are of great value for us.

Profile of Professor Duffy is at https://engineering.purdue.edu/IE/people/Areas/Areas/ptProfile?resource_id=9261

More on bibliometric research of our colleagues are at:

1. Fu Guo, Guoquan Ye, Liselot Hudders, Wei Lv, Mingming Li & Vincent G. Duffy (2019) Product Placement in Mass Media: A Review and Bibliometric Analysis, Journal of Advertising, 48:2, 215-231, DOI: 10.1080/00913367.2019.1567409

2. Shvindina, H. (2019). Coopetition as an emerging trend in research: perspectives for safety & security. Safety, 5(3), 61. https://doi.org/10.3390/safety5030061

On the 24th of March the head of the department, Dr.Sci. Shvindina Hanna who is also a CEO of NGO “Lifelong Learning Centre” took part in Webinar “UNESCO learning cities respond to COVID-19”. The challenges that are crucial for the cities all around the world were discussed among the 250 participants from different countries.

The experience on overcoming the challenges was presented by the representatives of Wuhan, Shanghai and Beijing (China), Fermo (Italy) and Kashan (Iran). The agenda and presentations of the webinar and summary report are presented at the site of UNESCO and available for the public.

Here is the link – https://uil.unesco.org/event/webinar-unesco-learning-cities-respond-covid-19

The webinar is aimed at sharing the decisions, tools, best practices and contacts under the closing the schools and HEIs due to COVID-19 and at experience sharing between members and non-members of UNESCO learning cities network towards the pandemic problems solving.

Sumy is non-member city but the application to enter the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) is already accomplished and we are waiting for the results.