Events

On July 24, the Institute of Higher Education was visited by John Nesheim—an engineer, consultant, entrepreneur, former professor at Cornell University (USA), and author of bestsellers: High Tech Start Up, The Power of Unfair Advantage: How to Create It, Build It, and Use It to Maximum Effect, and Entrepreneur The Person.

The purpose of his visit was to familiarize himself with the Institute as a research institution and to discuss possibilities of bridging the Institute for cooperation with US universities, grant-making organizations, and charitable foundations.

According to Mr. Nesheim, higher education and science in the United States are currently undergoing a period of uncertainty and dramatic changes, and therefore offering recommendations about a particular foundation of institution would be imprudent at the moment. Nevertheless, he noted that the Institute is actively contributing to the transformation of higher education and has a strong chance of securing grant support once the situation improves.

John Nesheim was in Kyiv as an advisor within the framework of U.S. assistance to Ukraine’s military sector. He also expressed interest in the project “Promoting Social Inclusion through Engaging Combat Veterans in Lifelong Learning,” implemented by the Institute’s University-Community Engagement Unit within the  research theme “Social Inclusion in Higher Education During the Post-War Period”.  Mr. Nesheim plans to support construction of housing for veterans with disabilities.

The Guidelines on Third Mission of Universities have been developed by the EU Erasmus+ Programme project “Universities – Communities: Strengthening Cooperation (UNICOM)”. This guide summarizes best practices from European and Ukrainian universities and offers higher education institutions a framework for community engagement and partnerships with various external stakeholder groups. The guidelines cover such key topics as: strategies for the development and methodologies for the implementation of third university mission; models of university-community engagement; recommendations for implementing the third university mission in interaction with communities and society at large.

Together with the Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, the authors of the Guidelines represent Ukrainian HEIs who are members of the UNICOM project consortium: Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University, Sumy National Agrarian University, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Bohdan Khmelnytsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University, Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs, and Vinnytsia National Medical University named after M.I. Pirogov.

The Guidelines on Third Mission of Universities in e-format can be downloaded here.

More information and materials on university – community engagement, on third university mission can be downloaded on UNICOM project website (Материали та додаткoва інформація – UNICOM).

The following issues were considered during the session of the Academic Council:

• assigning the academic title of Senior Researcher to V.O. Vorona;
• making amendments to the Regulations on the training of candidates for the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Science at the Institute of Higher Education of the NAES of Ukraine;
• granting academic leave to postgraduate students L.Yu. Yampolskaya, M. I. Duday, S.I. Mykhailenko;
• recommending for publishing the next issue of «Philosophy of Education» academic journal;
• appointment of reviewers for the preliminary examination of the dissertation of doctoral student O.V. Dudina.

As a result of the consideration of these issues, the Academic Council of the Institute has made the corresponding decisions.

On June 02 to 30, 2025, International Society for Information Studies held its Summit – a scheduled, biannual academic event dedicated to presenting and discussing current achievement in the fields of the study of information. Within the framework of the Summit program, there was a hybrid symposium organized in Vienna by Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society under the title “AI Generating New Habits. Critical Reflections”. The goal of the symposium was to promote an interdisciplinary discussion on the issues related to the usage of AI-based technologies in today’s society, as while AI makes daily life of humans safer, easier, and healthier in many aspects, it also poses serious threats to human rights and human society overall.

There were researchers from many countries of the world taking part the symposium, including Austria, China, the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Czech Republic, Ukraine, France, and the USA, who presented their critical reflection on possibilities of applying AI-based technologies in order to enhance human lives and on the risks and challenges related to the usage of those technologies.

Amongst the invited participants of the symposium, there was a representative of the Institute of higher education of the NAES of Ukraine – Yurii Mielkov, Dr. Hab. in Philosophy, Sen. Researcher, Chief research fellow of the Department of social and institutional transformations in higher education. In his report titled “The place and role of humans in the age of Generative AI”, Dr. Yurii Mielkov presented his philosophical consideration on the impact the usage AI-based technologies could and does have on human life and human professional and educational activities, as well as on the possible reply humanity can have to the challenges related to the becoming of Generative AI.

Before the start of the session Director of the Institute Iryna Drach presented Certificates of the reporters to the research fellows of the Department of social and institutional transformations in higher education: Alla Havryliuk, Doctor of Sciences in Public Administration, Professor, chair of the department; Yurii Mielkov, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Senior Researcher, chief research fellow; Viktor Zinchenko, Senior Researcher, chief research fellow; Yurii Vitrenko, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Ass. Professor, leading research fellow; Viktoriya Vorona, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, senior research fellow – for the high level of presentation of educational and scientific achievements during the seminar
«Development of modern universities: synergy of transformations of higher education, science and economy».

The following issues were considered during the sessions of the council:

• approving the Perspective thematic plan of scientific research of the Institute for 2026–2028, the Indicative perspective thematic plan of scientific research of the Institute, starting in 2027 and 2028, the Regulations on the main requirements for the abstract of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the specialized academic council D 26.456.02 of the Institute of Higher Education of the NAES of Ukraine;
• making amendments to the Rules for admission to postgraduate and doctoral studies of the Institute of Higher Education of the NAES of Ukraine in 2025;
• approving the program of the entrance exam to the educational and scientific program «Politics and Leadership in Higher Education» for the training of Doctors of Philosophy in the specialty «A1 Educational Sciences»;
• recommending the next issue of «Universities and Leadership» academic journal for the publication.

As a result of the consideration of these issues, the Academic Council of the Institute has made the corresponding decisions.

During the session of the Academic Council, the issue of nominating Yurii Mielkov as a candidate in the competition for the election of members of the Scientific Committee of the National Council of Ukraine for the Development of Science and Technology was considered.
As a result of the consideration the Academic Council of the Institute has made the corresponding decision.

The following issues were considered during the session of the Academic Council:

• making changes to the Prospective thematic plan of academic research of the Institute for 2025–2027, the Thematic plan of academic research of the Institute on the topics of the NAES of Ukraine for 2025, technical tasks for academic research;
• approving the Prospective plan for the release of electronic publications of the Institute of Higher Education of the NAES of Ukraine for 2026–2028, prepared based on the results of fundamental academic research;
• preparation for the round table discussion «Public Health and Public Science in Emergency Situations».

As a result of the consideration of these issues, the Academic Council of the Institute has made the corresponding decisions.

On April 11 to 12, 2025, the Forty-Second International Exhibition “Education and Career” was held online, organized by the All-Ukrainian community organization “Znannya” with support by the NAES of Ukraine and the State Scientific Institution “Institute for Modernization of Educational Content”.

Among other events in the program of the Exhibition, on April 11, a seminar “Contemporary University in the Synergy of Transformations of Society, Science and Economics” was conducted by research fellows of the Institute of Higher Education of the NAES of Ukraine. Fellows of the Department of Social and Institutional Transformations in Higher Education Yurii Mielkov, Alla Havryliuk, Yurii Vitrenko and Viktoriya Vorona presented their vision of current trends in the development of HEIs aimed at ensuring the career prospects of graduates and their competitiveness in the labor market in the era of “Industry 4.0”. The participants of the seminar included academic, pedagogical and research fellows, as well as students from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University, the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, etc.

The presentation was based on the results of the research on the topic “Development of universities in the context of post-war renovation: synergy of social and institutional transformations of higher education, science, and economy”, which is being carried out by the Department of Social and Institutional Transformations in Higher Education of the Institute of Higher Education of the NAES of Ukraine in 2024–2025.

From March 26 to 28, 2025, the 16th International Exhibition “Modern Educational Institutions” was held online. The event was organized by “Exhibition World” with informational, methodological, and organizational support from the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine and the State Scientific Institution “Institute of Educational Content Modernization.”

As part of the exhibition, on March 26, the 6th All-Ukrainian Intersectoral Scientific-Practical Online Conference titled “Ukrainian Society in Development Perspectives: Historical, Socio-Political, and Educational-Pedagogical Aspects” took place. During the plenary session, Iryna Drach, Director of the Institute of Higher Education at the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, presented a report titled “Open Science in Ukraine: Relevance and Benefits.”

On March 27, a seminar titled “Development of Modern Universities: The Synergy of Transformations in Higher Education, Science, and Economy” was conducted by researchers from the Institute of Higher Education at the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine. Employees of the Department of Social and Institutional Transformations in Higher Education –­ Yuriy Melkov, Alla Havryliuk, Yuriy Vitrenko, and Viktoriia Vorona – shared their vision of a modern higher education institution. They addressed topics such as philosophical and axiological foundations of its development, priority areas of state policy in higher education, new demands on graduates, transformations of the organizational-legal statuses of institutions, and the essence and forms of transformative activities for community and regional development.

The presentations were based on findings from a scientific study titled “Development of Universities in the Context of Post-War Recovery: The Synergy of Social and Institutional Transformations in Higher Education, Science, and Economy,” conducted by the Department of Social and Institutional Transformations in Higher Education at the Institute of Higher Education (2024–2025)

The following issues were considered during the session of the Academic Council:

• the result of reporting by postgraduate and doctoral students on the implementation of individual work plans for the first half of the 2024–2025 academic year;
• approving the Work Plan of the Council of Young Scientists for 2025;
• approving the Rules for Admission to Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies at the Institute of Higher Education of the NAES of Ukraine in 2025.

As a result of the consideration of these issues, the Academic Council of the Institute has made the corresponding decisions.