On the 16th-18th of April 2025, the Second International Research-to-Practice Conference “Climate Service: Science and Education” took place at the Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University, which attended by 165 participants from 11 countries.
On the 18th of April 2025, Rector of Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University Vyacheslav Truba welcomed a delegation from the German volunteer organization ERMSTALHILFT e. V. that arrived in Ukraine with a humanitarian mission. The First vice-rector Maya Nikolieva, the vice-rector for research, teaching and international cooperation Andrii Smitiukh, and the Head of the Office for the International Relations Yurii Hrinchenko attended the meeting. The German delegation consisted of 8 people, led by the Director of Board ERMSTALHILFT e. V. Simon Nowotni, along with the vice-director of the ERMSTALHILFT e. V., Martin Salzer, and the former member of the Bundestag, Beate Müller-Gemmeke.
On the 7th-11th of April 2025, an offline part of the VII training in the Erasmus+ ClimEd project titled “Developing skills to use climatic information and services for various climate-dependent branches of economy” took place at the Rovira i Virgili University, Spain. In the course of the training, the participants were learning to work with climate indexes and specialized software for creating sectorial climate web-services.
On the first week of April the Vice-Rector of International Cooperation of ONU, Andrii Smitiukh, met with the Vice-Rector of Education and Diversity of the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, Doris Hattenberger.
On the 7th -11th April the first spring school for approbation of the educational course C3 – Sustainable pathways and risk management in times of crises – took place at the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic, Зображення under the international project ERASMUS+ TransLearn.
- When? From June 30 to July 4, 2025, in Le Havre, France.
- Program Content: The program covers key topics related to the development of port cities and their sustainable development, including:
This training aims to provide knowledge, skills and network opportunities to PhD students focusing on security and resilience in the Baltic Sea Region. Accepted students will receive mentoring and feedback on their thesis from an expert in the field, as well as participate in a research event – the BUP Symposium.
On March 24, 2025, on the eve of Greece’s Independence Day, a meeting took place between the Consul General of the Hellenic Republic in Odesa, Mr. Christos Zacharopoulos, and the Rector of Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Vyacheslav Truba. The meeting was also attended by the vice-rector for research, teaching and international cooperation Andrii Smitiukh , the dean of the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology Nina Kravchenko and the head of the International Relations Department Yurii Hrinchenko.
We cordially invite you to the following meeting:
January 31, Friday, at 6 pm (Kyiv time)
Speaker: Svitlana Balinchenko is a Senior Researcher at the Department of History of Foreign Philosophy, H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, NAS of Ukraine. Since 2001, she has studied the integration tendencies and choices of Ukraine through the perspective of social philosophy. Since the war-triggered internal displacement from Donetsk oblast in 2014, the focus of the research has shifted to the democracy, social cohesion, and solidarity challenges in the context of the war impact on the social-cultural space of Ukraine, in particular, migrants’ visibility in host communities, as well as postwar scenarios for the currently Russia-occupied parts of Ukraine.
Seminar Title: Visibility Contexts of Migration in Ukraine
The Translation Department of the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology is pleased to announce that we now have brand new digital equipment for training students in conference interpreting. This upgrade is part of the grant programme “Master's Degree Program in Conference Interpreting – Odesa National I.I. Mechnikov University. Semester I and Semester II of 2023–2024 and Semester I of 2024–2025 academic year” funded by DG LINC. The grant project is implemented on the basis of the Master’s Degree Program “Translation and Interpreting from English and the Second Foreign Language into Ukrainian”. The purchase was tender-based to ensure the best quality and transparency.
The Translation Department of the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology is implementing the grant programme “Master's Degree Program in Conference Interpreting – Odesa National I.I. Mechnikov University. Semester I and Semester II of 2023–2024 and Semester I of 2024–2025 academic year” by DG LINC. Through this collaboration under the European Parliament Grant Programme, Master’s students in Conference Interpreting gain real-world experience, benefiting from the guidance of top-level professionals at the Directorate-General for Logistics and Interpretation for Conferences (DG LINC).
During Semester I, students attended several European Parliament events designed to enhance their knowledge, skills, and understanding of multilingual communication. These sessions included:
- Introducing Interpretation at the European Parliament
- Day of Multilingualism
- Day of Multilingualism for Universities
- Master Class in Interpreter’s Note-Taking
- Special Individual Session: Practice and Demo Session in Consecutive Interpreting
In the Practice and Demo Session, two Master’s students had the opportunity to interpret live in front of experienced European Parliament interpreters. They received instant feedback, encouragement, and valuable tips from seasoned experts.
This hands-on experience complements the strong theoretical and practical curriculum of the Master’s Degree Program “Translation and Interpreting from English and the Second Foreign Language into Ukrainian” at Odesa National I.I. Mechnikov University. By blending academic rigour with professional insights, the programme prepares graduates to meet the highest standards of European conference interpreting.
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ONU Mechnikov was included (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/.../world-ranking...) in the international ranking THE World University Rankings 2025, where it took 1501+ place (out of 2857 universities whose records are included in the ranking). Link to the source in the first comment
The delegation of Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University visited Harbin, China, and took part in the International Seminar on Cooperation between Ukrainian and Chinese Experts 2024, which was held at Harbin Engineering University.
The delegation included Vice-Rectors Andrii Smitiukh and Oleksandr Hryhoriev, Director of the Centre of International Education Nataliia Kriuchkova, Head of the Office for International Relations Yurii Hrynchenko, Director of the Interdepartmental Scientific and Educational Physical and Technical Center of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine Yaroslav Lepikh, Head of the of the Department of Land Hydrology Valeriia Ovcharuk, Head of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Angelina Chuhai, Professor of the Department of Oceanology and Marine Environmental Management Mykola Berlinskyi, Associate Professor of the Department of Meteorology and Climatology Inna Khomenko, and Associate Professor of the Department of Algebra, Geometry and Differential Equations Nataliia Sharai.
The members of the delegation made presentations, participated in discussions and held a series of talks with representatives of Chinese universities on the prospects for further cooperation.
The topic of study concerns the latest scientific knowledge on climate change from interdisciplinary perspectives, from the natural sciences to socio-economics and the arts.
Undergraduate and postgraduate students of various specialties from Ukraine, Armenia, Denmark, Finland and other EU countries are invited to participate.
From August 25 to 31, 2024, in Hamburg, Germany, within the framework of the project “European Universities' Support to Legal and Civil Society Capacity for the Environmental Restoration of Ukraine - GROMADA”, Associate Professor of the Department of Meteorology and Climatology Inna Khomenko took part in a transdisciplinary summer school with a lecture on “Climate Resilience and Environmental Law: Overcoming the Climate Consequences of War and Environmental Crimes”.
The main goal of the summer school was to explore the role of citizen science and international law in preventing and mitigating the environmental consequences of war by providing communities with tools to address environmental issues.
The summer school culminated in a mock trial, which examined war crimes committed by the Russian Federation against Ukraine that had or may have serious environmental consequences: Kakhovka Reservoir, Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, and ecocide. The task of the summer school participants was to comprehensively study the legal aspects of war crimes against the environment and represent the interests of the plaintiff (Ukraine, supported by the United States, the European Union and Georgia) and the defendant (Russia, supported by Belarus, India and China) at the mock trial.
Associate Professor of the Department of Constitutional Law and Justice of ONU Anzhela Viktorivna Levenets carried out international academic mobility to the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and took part in the International Summer School “Internationalization and Internationalization at Home through Virtual Exchange: Creating a Motivating Environment for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)” within the project ‘BNI-UE-2023-23: Cooperation of Adam Mickiewicz University with Ukrainian Universities within the Alliance of European Universities’. During the summer school, she attended lectures by Polish colleagues on the organizational aspects of the internationalization of the educational process, the main challenges faced by both teachers and students from different countries, and ways to solve them. The experience of communicating with colleagues from different Ukrainian universities turned out to be extremely positive, which led to the establishment of new connections and communications.
01-15.07. 2024 Professor of the Department of Marketing and Business Administration of the Economic and Law Faculty of ONU Maryna Chaikovska carried out scientific mobility to the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel, where she attended lectures by leading professors, the Innovation Transfer Center, and the laboratory of interdisciplinary projects (analyzed the challenges of teamwork in the context of interdisciplinarity, successful cases of increasing the effectiveness of multidisciplinary teams); business incubator (a meeting was held with startup owners and their mentors, effective methods of selecting viable ideas, business models for their scaling, and sources of funding for startups in the EU and Ukraine were discussed).
Last week, the Department of Microbiology, Virology, and Biotechnology at Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University held the XIX International Summer School "Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, and Biomedicine." This scientific event, held annually since 2005, aims to provide high-quality education, promote cutting-edge science, and support the development of young scientists, even amidst the ongoing war in Ukraine. The Summer School serves as a platform where Ukrainian students, graduate students, and young scientists from various countries can interact and listen to lectures from leading scientists worldwide on a wide range of topics in modern biology, biotechnology, and biomedicine.
Dear participants of the Online International Philosophical Permanent Seminar «Post Scriptum», I sincerely invite you to the next meeting, which will take place on June, 26, 18 EET (Kyiv-Odesa)
Speaker: Eugenia Ivanova (PhD, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History, University of Aberdeen (UK); Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling (UK) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Title: Museum as Complex System
22 травня 2024 р. відбулось чергове засідання міжнародного філософського семінару “Post Scriptum”, який був організований кафедрой філософії ОНУ імені Мечникова разом з нашими вітчизняними та зарубіжними колегами. Цей семінар - знаковий для нас. Географічно ми подолали кордони Європи, США, Канади. Азія приєдналась до нас. Наш спікер представляє Університет Сінгапура.
Speaker: Luke David O'Sullivan
Associate Professor,Department of Political Science,National University of Singapore,Faculty of Art and Social Sciences: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Head of the Department of Theory and Practice of Translation, Associate Professor Iryna Raevska and Department’s Associate Professor Olga Grynko visited Brussels with a study tour to the European Parliament. The visit has become a part of the grant programme awarded to our Master's degree programme "Translation from the English and a Second Foreign Language into Ukrainian". Within the grant implementation, the programme is focused on conference interpreting training.
On Friday, 05 April 2024, Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus, professor at the Touro University Law Centre (US) held another lecture for the Economic and Law Department’s students of the ONU. The would-be law practitioners discovered many insights about the peculiarities of American common law.
On Friday, 29 March 2024, Robin Boyle Laisure, Professor of Legal Writing at St. John's University Law School (USA, New York), gave a lecture on Contract Drafting to the undergraduate students of the ONU’s Economic-and-Law Department (speciality 081 "Law"). The lecturer equipped the students with the practical knowledge on the structure, content and wording of contracts in the US legal system.
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On March 22, 2024, Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus, professor of Touro University Law Center (US), gave a lecture on US contract law to the undergraduate students of Economics and Law Faculty of Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University, 081 "Law". The students had a unique opportunity to learn about the differences of American contract law rights and the Ukrainian law, asked questions and participated in scientific discussions on the topic.
