Events

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.

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.