For two years in a row, our department has been participating in the Global Faculty Week held in Kaunas.

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1. ERASMUS+KA1

The Department establishes academic mobility within the framework of the European Union’s ERASMUS+CA1 projects by participating in international fairs. One of the tasks is to integrate international aspects into the department’s curricula and develop international relations, which are aimed at facilitating the coordination of curricula and expanding the mobility of students and teachers.

On 25 January 2022, the Department was presented at the virtual fair GO Abroad 2022, organised by Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania) on an online platform, which was attended by 20 European universities and 18 universities from other countries. The overall goal of the event is to engage students in academic mobility under ERASMUS+KA1 projects and to digitally promote university specialities for further international cooperation (https://web.kpi.kharkov.ua/htpe/yarmarka-virtual-go-abroad-fair-2022/).

2. TEMPUS Programme

The TEMPUS programme is known as the European funding programme for inter-university cooperation. Since 2014, it has been transformed into the Erasmus+ programme: CA2. In the period from 15 October 2012 to 15 October 2015, the department participated in the CENEAST project – Reforming Urban Planning Programmes in the Eastern Neighbourhood (530603 – TEMPUS-1 – 2012 – 1 – LT – TEMPUS – JPCR (2012-3071/001-001). The aim of the project is to reform urban planning curricula in the Eastern Neighbourhood.   Amount of funding: 892,177 euros. The consortium members include Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Lithuania), Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna (Italy), Salford University (UK), Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), National Technical University of Ukraine (KPI), and others.

All project partners cooperated on the following main tasks:

– Reforming university curricula for bachelor’s, master’s and PhD students by introducing new disciplines (modules) on energy and environmentally sustainable, affordable and healthy urban planning. The goal is to increase the importance of education at the universities of partner countries, taking into account the needs of the labour market;

– promotion of the Bologna Process in the universities of the project partner countries on the example of universities in the EU (improvement of curricula, ECTS, innovative learning);

– promoting professional development of employees of universities in partner countries, etc.

The result of the CENEAST project implementation:

– improvement of the curriculum of the Department for the training of applicants for the second (master’s) and third (doctoral) levels of higher education;

– inclusion of the discipline in the curriculum of the third (Doctor of Philosophy) level of higher education in the speciality 101 “Ecology”;

– development of an educational and methodological complex of the discipline “Environmentally Sustainable Urban Development”, including the publication of a textbook and the development of a textbook as a guide to the study of the discipline.