Events

On November 10, 2025, the Institute of Higher Education of the NAES of Ukraine in accordance with the program of cooperation between the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine and National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, together with the Research Institute for Legal Support of Innovative Development of the NALS of Ukraine held a “round table discussion” on the topic “Industry and Education 4.0: Social, Legal, and Institutional Aspects of the New Research and Development Infrastructure.”

The purpose of the event was to discuss strategies, approaches and recommendations for restoring the infrastructure of higher education institutions in the post-war period in accordance with the latest global and European trends in the transformation of the higher education sector in accordance with the current development of science, economy, and society as a whole.

More than thirty academic fellows and high school teachers, post-graduate students, and representatives of academic community took part in the discussion in hybrid mode, online and offline. Particularly, there were representatives of Kyiv Taras Shevcnenko National University, Academician F. G. Burchak Research Institute of Private Law and Entrepreneurship of the NALS of Ukraine, Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies of Lviv, Ukrainian State University named after Mykhaylo Dragomanov, Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, State University of Intellectual Technologies and Communications, Lviv Agrarian Chamber et al.

In the course of the event, pedagogical, philosophical, axiological and legal aspects of the transformation of universities under the conditions of “Industry 4.0” and “Education 4.0” in Ukraine and other countries have been discussed. Separate reports were made by Yurii Mielkov (Dr. Hab. in Philosophy, senior researcher, chief researcher of the Institute of Higher Education), Nataliya Vnukova (Dr. Hab. in Economics, professor, honored economist of Ukraine, leading researcher of the Research Institute of Legal Support for Innovative Development, professor of Semyon Kuznets Kharkiv National Economic University), Olena Otych (Dr. Hab. in Pedagogy, professor, chief researcher of the Institute of Higher Education), Mariia Lukan (Ph.D. in Law, junior researcher of the Research Institute of Legal Support for Innovative Development), Viktoria Vorona (Ph.D. in Pedagogy, senior researcher, senior research fellow of the Institute of Higher Education), Ganna Gubina (Ph.D. in Law, leading researcher of the Research Institute of Legal Support for Innovative Development).

Based on the materials of the round table discussion, an article for the academic journal “Herald of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine” is being prepared.

Before the start of the session Director of the Institute Iryna Drach awarded:
Mykhailo Boichenko, Doctor of philosophical sciences, Professor, leading research fellow of the Department of Interaction between Universities and Society, with the «Grygoriy Skovoroda» medal of the NAES of Ukraine for his significant personal contribution to the development of higher education and philosophical science, many years of fruitful academic activity and on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of scientific and pedagogical activity in higher education;
Viktoriya Vorona, Candidate of pedagogical sciences, senior research fellow of the Department of Social and Institutional Transformations in Higher Education, with the Certificate of Senior Researcher.

The following issues were considered during the sessions of the council:
– approving: the decisions of the Institute’s certification commission; individual plans of postgraduate and doctoral students;
– appointing a scientific supervisor for a postgraduate student of the Institute in the first year of study;
– clarifying the topic of the dissertation thesis by postgraduate student Maria Sayuk;
– making amendments to the Thematic Plan of Scientific Research of the Institute on the topics of the NAES of Ukraine for 2025;
– preparing the 14th International Scientific and Practical Conference «European Integration of Higher Education of Ukraine in the Context of the Bologna Process. Bologna Principles and Tools, Values in Higher Education».
As a result of the consideration of these issues, the Academic Council of the Institute has made the corresponding decisions.

On October 29 to 31, 2025, the Seventeenth International Exhibition “Innovatics in Contemporary Education” was held online, organized by “Vystavkovyi Svit” company with informational and methodical-organizational support by the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine and the State Scientific Institution “Institute for Modernization of Educational Content”.

Among the events in the program of the Exhibition, on October 30, a seminar “Innovative Development of Contemporary University: the Synergy of Transformations of Society, Science, Economics, and Society” 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 the innovative trends in the development of HEIs aimed at ensuring the career correspondence of the contemporary system of higher education to the today’s level of science, economy, and society as a whole. The participants of the seminar included academic and teaching staff, as well as students from Kryvyi Rih National University, Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University, Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University, Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, etc.

The presentation was based on the current 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.

On November 10, 2025, at 10:00 AM, the Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine together with the Research Institute for Legal Support of Innovative Development of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine will hold a “round table” discussion on the topic “Industry and Education 4.0: Social, Legal, and Institutional Aspects of the New Research and Development Infrastructure”.

The purpose of the event is to discuss strategies, approaches and recommendations for restoring the infrastructure of higher education institutions in the post-war period in accordance with the latest global and European trends in the transformation of the higher education sector in accordance with the current development of science, economy, and society as a whole.

Among the planned areas of discussion:
• Goals and objectives of universities under the conditions of Industry 4.0
• ‘Open University’ and ‘university without walls’: new images and requirements for infrastructure
• Economic and legal aspects of transformations of research and development infrastructure
• AI-based technologies and their use in higher education and academic research

Academic fellows and high school teachers, graduate and post-graduate students, representatives of government bodies, managers and all those interested in higher education development strategies are invited to participate in the discussion.

The event will be held in hybrid mode, offline and online.
Date and time: November 10, 2025, 10 AM – 12 AM (GMT+2)
Languages: Ukrainian, English
Contact person: Yurii Mielkov, Chief Research Fellow, Department of Social and Institutional Transformations in Higher Education
Please register here for participation: https://forms.gle/6ytZhsbUCfWKURh3A

The following issue was considered during the session of the Academic Council: nominating Maria Saiuk as a candidate for the scholarship of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for young scientists.
As a result of the consideration of this issue, the Academic Council of the Institute has made the corresponding decision.

The European Association of Educational Law and Policy (ELA) together with Ukrainian partners – the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv is holding an international conference “European Dimension of Education in Ukraine of the Future”. The main objective of the conference is to prepare Ukraine for joining European education and research area.

The following issues are planned to be discussed.

• 1. The right to education.
• 2. European dimension of the development of Ukrainian education. Education as cornerstone for the accessing procedure to EU
• 3. Education and the formation of high-quality human capital.
• 4. Post-war development of education on a modern legal and technological basis.
• 5. Education for refugees.
• 6. Freedom of education and freedom in education.
• 7. Confessional schools and state schools.

Parallel sessions are also planned.

• А. Primary and secondary education
• B. Vocational non-tertiary education
• C. Higher education.

The conference will be held at the Taras Shevchenko National University of  Kyiv on December 18-19 and at  the Ukrainian Catholic University on December 20.
Abstracts of presentation submitted before December 10 will be published.
Working languages of the conference: Ukrainian, English.
One can participate the conference in person or online.
Speakers will be given the opportunity to publish materials of their presentations in scientific journals of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine and in the International Journal for Education Law and Policy Association.
To participate, you may register by December 10, 2025 at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/
Conference e-mail ela.conf@ukr.net

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The following issues were considered during the session of the Academic Council:
– approving the composition of the Institute’s certification commission for the certification of academic staff;
– presentation of the Institute’s employees for awarding departmental awards of the NAES of Ukraine;
– enrollment into the Institute’s postgraduate program;
– renewal in the Institute’s postgraduate program of a PhD applicant for the dissertation defense;
– making changes to the editorial board of the academic journal «Philosophy of Education»;
– preparation for the round table discussion «Industry and Education 4.0: Philosophical, Legal and Economic Aspects of the New Research Infrastructure»;
– approval of the «Requirements for Manuscripts of Textbooks Prepared as Part of the Institute’s Academic Research».
As a result of the consideration of these issues, the Academic Council of the Institute has made the corresponding decisions.

The following issues were considered during the session of the Academic Council:
approving: the tasks that will be implemented when carrying out the comprehensive academic research «Generalization of the conceptual and terminological apparatus on the current problems of higher education in the conditions of European integration»; Academic supervisor – coordinator, Responsible executor, Academic supervisors of tasks and the composition of temporary research teams – executors of the comprehensive academic research «Generalization of the conceptual and terminological apparatus on the current problems of higher education in the conditions of European integration».
As a result of the consideration of these issues, the Academic Council of the Institute has made the corresponding decisions.

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

• results of the state attestation of the Institute of Higher Education of the NAES of Ukraine;
• ensuring the quality of training postgraduates students for the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Sciences at the Institute;
• approving: the results of certifying postgraduate and doctorate students of the Institute; the Curriculum for the preparation of applicants for the third (educational and scientific) level of higher education of the educational and scientific program «Policy and Leadership in Higher Education»;
• dismissing of doctoral students;
• approving the results of: participation of postgraduate students of the Institute in international academic mobility at the University of Tampere (Finland); internship at the Institute of Biology of the Pomeranian University (Slupsk, Poland);
• inviting R.M. Vabalaitė, Philosophy Doctor, Research Fellow at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute (Vilnius, Lithuania) to the editorial board of the academic journal «Philosophy of Education».

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

On 2025 August 6th, Angelina Khomenko, a PhD student of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education program delivered a training session “AI Made Simple: AI for Life, AI for Peace.” The training was held for patients and medical staff of the post-acute and long-term rehabilitation department at the National Military Medical Clinical Center “Main Military Clinical Hospital.”

Angelina taught participants how to use artificial intelligence to quickly create texts and images, present themselves or their projects, create a resume, and generally feel safe and confident in the digital world.

One of the training’s goals was to encourage combatants and veterans to share their stories and experiences with the public and the outer world. Angelina was invited to return to continue the study of AI. We hope that, with time, we will see and read more stories from combatants and veterans that will inspire us and others to continue working and moving toward victory.