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.
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.
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).
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.
Representatives from leading Ukrainian universities, along with Vice-President of the European Parliament Ewa Kopacz and representatives from European university alliances, met at the University of Strasbourg in France. The event, coordinated by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, saw Odesa National I.I.Mechnikov University represented by Vice-Rector for International Cooperation Andrii Smitiukh. During the meeting, representatives from European university alliances shared their collaborative experiences with Ukrainian universities. Notably, the partnership between Odesa National I.I.Mechnikov University and the SEA EU Alliance, particularly with the University of Gdansk, was highlighted as a commendable example. Anna Jurkowska-Zeidler, Vice-Rector of the University of Gdańsk, summarised this collaboration in her report.
On March 4, 2024, in the humanitarian building premises of ONU named after I.I. Mechnikov, with the contribution of the Consulate General of the Republic of Bulgaria in Odesa, a memorial plaque was solemnly innaugurated in honor of the outstanding writer, translator, journalist, lawyer and public figure of Bulgaria Aleko Konstantinov.
In his introductory speech, the head of the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency, Kiril Kilchev, congratulated the management and students of ONU present at the event. The life and activities of Aleko Konstantinov were another example of the close ties that exist between Bulgaria and Odessa. And the opening of a plaque in his memory is a sign of further strengthening of the long friendship between our peoples.
Andrii Smitiukh, Odesa National Mechnikov University Vice-Rector for International Cooperation, represented our University at the Global Congress of the Alliance of European Universities SEA EU "Strong Partnership to Face Global Challenges and Achieve Sustainable Development Goals". The event took place at the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal, and brought together 213 participants from 31 universities and 14 private institutions spanning 28 countries across 4 continents.
During the SEA EU Global Congress in Portugal, Odesa National Mechnikov University, along with 42 other institutions, became a signatory of the Global Gateway Declaration. It reiterated the commitment of the signatory organisations to the goals of sustainable development, quality education, social justice, human rights protection, promotion of a culture of international cooperation, peace, respect for human life, promotion of academic mobility, open science and free exchange of ideas.
A new chapter in the internationalization of education at Odesa I.I.Mechnikov National University (ONU) unfolded as the first offline defense of master qualification works by foreign students, whose
studies were conducted entirely in the English language, took place.Despite the challenges posed by the wartime situation, Chinese master`s students from the Management specialty (Faculty of Economics&Law) arrivedin Ukraine to personally present their works before the Examination Committee.
The committee included the heads of the Management and Innovation Department - Eduard Kuznetsov, the Marketing and Business Administration Department - Olena Sadchenko, the program guarantors: Prof. Yevhen Maslennikov, Prof. Yuriy Hrinchenko, and Prof. Yuriy Robul.
The defense was attended by ONU Rector Vyacheslav Truba, Vice-Rector for International Cooperation Andriy Smitiukh, the Head of the Faculty - Liudmyla Tokarchuk, Director of the Center for International Education Nataliia Kriuchkova, and Deputy Head of the Faculty - Olha Poberezhets.The successful implementation of programs conducted in Englishcontributes to the quality of education offered by ONU and strengthens the University's position in the international educational landscape.
In late 2023, a group of Chinese students visited Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University to complete their master's degree in Management at the Faculty of Economics and Law.
Andrii Kavetskyi, the Head of the Faculty's Student Council, and Kseniia Maltseva, the Head of the Faculty's Student Union, undertook a duty to coordinate international students in a series of integration events, aiding in their adaptation to the Ukrainian environment.
Our Chinese guests participated in events organized by theStudent Council and Student Union, explored the Botanical Garden and visited the Paleontological Museum of their Alma Mater, as well as took a tour around Odesa.
The visit of Chinese students to Our University during these challenging times shows their support and, likewise, stands as a testament to their trust in Ukrainian education, particularly in Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University.
On November 23, 2023, the first vice-rector of the ONU I. I. Mechnikov, Maiia Nikolaieva, had a meeting with the Ambassador of France to Ukraine, Mr. Gaël Veyssière. The meeting was also attended by the delegation of the French Embassy of Olivier Jacot, adviser on culture and cooperation, Oleg Sosnov, head of cultural projects, and Yaroslava Lezhentseva, head of the Odesa representative office of Alliance Française, and by ONU representatives - head of the international relations department Yurii Hrinchenko, Dean of the Faculty of Romano-Germanic Philology Nina Kravchenko, Head of the Department of French Philology Malvina Marinashvili and Professor of the Department of French Philology Marianna Knyazyan.
