On 7th July 2022, the National Erasmus+ Office in Ukraine together with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, European Association for International Education, German-Ukrainian Academic Society, Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), and Erasmus Student Network Ukraine in close cooperation with the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine and National Erasmus+ Agencies invite Universities from the Erasmus+ Programme Countries and International Professional Networks organised International Contact Webinar: Supporting Ukraine in Higher Education. Considering the war in Ukraine and specific measures provided by the European Commission to Ukraine, the main aim of the Contact Webinar was to help Ukrainian universities to match the EU universities to find opportunities for cooperation.
More than 250 representatives from over 25 countries joined the webinar: Austria, Belgium, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Ukraine, etc. Participants represented the European Agency for Education and Culture (EACEA), the EU Delegation, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and other international organizations, representatives of HEIs and VETIs, Erasmus+ coordinators, representatives of international cooperation departments and others.
The lecturers of the department, Jean Monet project coordinators Vladyslava Zavhorodnia and Olha Shvaher joined the event. The webinar, which lasted more than 3 hours, provided opportunities for direct communication and exchange of contacts between representatives of the international academic community and provided a powerful impetus for the development of future cooperation.
