On February 7, 2025, the closing session of the online course “European Practices of Scientific Excellence in the Digital Era” (January 13 – February 7, 2025) took place. The course is implemented within the framework of the Jean Monnet Chair project “Strengthening EU Leadership and Capacity in Science and Innovation” (101175767—EU_STRENGHTS—ERASMUS-JMO-2024-HEI-TCH-RSCH) for 2024-2027, under the leadership of Associate Professor Inna Koblianska, Ph.D, from the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Business Administration at Sumy State University.
The course instructors include Inna Koblianska; Oleksandr Kubatko, Doctor of Economics, Professor at the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Business Administration at Sumy State University; Dr. Vasyl Kvartiuk from the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO, Germany); and Oleksii Yehorchenkov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, and researcher at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia.
This unique educational project brought together over 900 researchers from various scientific fields and disciplines, who are at different stages of their academic careers. The course participants represented research institutions and higher education institutions from various regions of Ukraine, including Zhytomyr, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Kyiv, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Sumy, Kharkiv, and many other cities.
The course program covered relevant topics:
- Open Science and FAIR Data Management as the Foundation of Research in the EU.
- Ethics and Data Privacy in the EU.
- Research Idea and Project Preparation: EU Practices.
- Collection and Management of Research Data: EU Practices (including training on using OpenAIRE resources).
- Fundamentals of Data Analysis (including working with R, STATA, basic programming, data visualization, and digital content creation).
- Academic Writing and Publishing Research Results: EU Practices (including training on using Zotero for bibliography management).
- Funding Opportunities for Scientific Research in the EU.
- Scientific Communication and Collaboration: EU Resources.
During the learning process, participants engaged in independent work aimed at preparing materials for presentation at the international conference “Economics for Ecology,” scheduled for May 2025.
As a result of the course implementation:
- 643 participants successfully passed the final knowledge test and received certificates of completion.
- An electronic learning course was created on the Canvas LMS by Instructure platform.
- Five educational material publications were made available in open access on the Zenodo repository.
- A platform was established to foster collaboration among course participants in scientific and educational activities.
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