Starting the September 2024, the course on “EU trade policy and international business” for foreign (mainly Chinese) and Ukrainian students began. The lecturer of the discipline is Oleksandr Kubatko, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration.
This course aims to provide students with information on EU trade and EU policies related to support of international business. The program of the course includes several units. Unit 1. Economic bases of trade (theoretical bases of trade, partial and general equilibrium analysis, history of EU trade). Unit 2. The European domestic and external trade. Unit 3. EU-Ukraine trade before and during the war in Ukraine. Unit 4. The content of DCFTA between EU and Ukraine (market access for goods, trade remedies, technical barriers to trade, sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, customs and trade facilitation, public procurement, support of Ukraine during the war.). Unit 5. EU companies and international business. The 16 hours lectures and 32 hours of seminars are delivered in two groups of students (totally 40 students).
The course is based on the results of the educational and scientific project of EU Jean Monnet Module which is currently being carried out at the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration: Jean Monnet Module “Youth & Business: EU Practices for cooperation” (101126538 – YouthBEU – ERASMUS-JMO-2023-HEI-TCH-RSCH headed B. Kovalov
