On December 5, 2022, College of «KROK» University hosted an introductory meeting of students participating in the Education USA Ukraine - improving soft skills Teens' Skills-up Club program.

This year the Representatives of Education USA Ukraine has again chosen our College to participate in the Teens' Skills-up Club soft skills improvement program.

The first meeting of the Club was held in a warm and friendly atmosphere, despite the fact that the participants had to gather in a shelter, because of the air alarm and blackout. However, the classrooms on the ground floor are lit by a generator, so the students did not feel any discomfort.

After getting to know each other, the participants creatively and with inspiration worked on creating the name and emblem of the Club, as well as developed general rules of conduct. The project is coordinated by Novak O., Deputy Director of College for Educational Work.

On November 17, 2022, the traditional Meeting of teaching staff of «KROK» University took place. This year, they were held in a special format: for a sense of greater cohesion, lecturers-participants were gathered offline in a new interactive audience, which made it possible to connect online participants as well.

Due to martial law in the country, the educational process at «KROK» University is increasingly taking place in a mixed format (i.e., a combination of online and offline formats), because the use of such an approach to teaching helps to ensure the safety of students, and also gives a feeling of barrier-freeness - namely students , regardless of their location, can feel their inclusion in the educational process as if they were in the audience.

It is to be noted that there are already several such interactive classrooms at «KROK» University, and they appeared precisely at the demand of time. Powerful equipment (projector, web cameras, interactive whiteboard and a powerful computer) was purchased at the expense of a grant from one of the international projects in which our University is participating. With the help of a projector, you can demonstrate all the necessary information to the audience, a powerful PC processor helps to simultaneously reproduce visuals on the board offline and online.

During the meeting, A. Kuchko, Rector of «KROK» University, N.Litvin, First Vice-Rector, V.Holovan , Director of Information Technologies Department. presented an interactive classroom, demonstrated the full range of functionality of its work and key technological capabilities, and talked about the techniques of recording classes for online.

To conclude, interactivity, modernity, online and offline visibility at the same time. All this is the guarantee of flexible decisions that are made for the successful education of our students!

On November 10-15, 2022, Oksana Siedashova, Associate Professor at KROK Business School, International Ambassador for Creativity in Ukraine, who represents the global initiative of the UN World Day and Week of Creativity and Innovation, took part in the working meeting of the European Council for Creativity and Innovation in Brussels, Belgium.

The Ambassadors for Creativity of Belgium, France, Northern Ireland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, Finland, Germany and Ukraine gathered together to present their achievements in the development of creativity in different countries, to form strategic plans for the coming year, to initiate new types of activities and international partnerships.

Oksana Siedashova gave presentations on «Inspiration in Ukrainian», in which she emphasized that creativity should be a superpower for solving the world's most complex problems, as well as a presentation on building an all-Ukrainian community of experts in creative thinking, Creative U-People.

During the meeting, the European Ambassadors for Creativity involved each other in various creative activities, during which common values as a European community were formed, priority actions for the near future were determined, responsibility was assumed, a plan was outlined for the dissemination of knowledge about creativity and innovation in order to achieve the global plan for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Development until 2030.

During the meeting, Oksana Siedashova agreed on a partnership with international creative organizations on joint holding of certificate programs on creative thinking, development of didactic materials, provision of literature on creativity to the library of KROK Business School and other types of inspiring cooperation.

Follow the news of the KROK Business School - expect the start of recruitment for new creative certificate programs in the new year. We move forward despite the troubles, because innovation is our way, the way of Ukraine.

On October 28, 2022, the Hallowen party was held for the leaders of the project teams: Dance Theater, Vocal Studio, Student Council of College and «KROK» University.

Representatives of Student Council of College took part in the Halloween party organized by Cultural Center of «KROK» University. Guests of the party were treated to delicious delicacies, teams competed in various competitions, participated in interesting interactive activities and photo sessions.

The Dance Theater led by Alina Holtseva won the team competition, and Student Council of College won the costume competition. Oleksandr Kurenkov, Head of Technical Support Committee got the sweet award went for the image «Sleepless student».

The party was extremely atmospheric and gave the participants pleasant moments of communication and put them into a good mood!

Friends! We have great news to share with you. The global ranking of the best master's programs in 2022 by the international rating agency EdUniversal has been published. We were happy to learn that in the global rating of part-time MBA programs, compiled in all regions of the world, KROK - BSK Business School took 69th place in the list of 70 MBA part-time programs. We are the only ones from Ukraine in this nomination - Master of Business Administration! The best business schools and universities of the world from all continents and countries took part in the rating.

A total of 5,600 МВА and Master’s programs from 154 countries were rated. We are proud of our team of instructors, students, graduates of the MBA program and continue to work in current difficult conditions to constantly improve the quality and level of satisfaction of the students of the master's programs of the KROK Business School.

On November 3-4, 2022, the visit of the working group of «KROK» University to Moldova (Kishyniv) took place within the framework of the International project «Integrating dual higher education in Moldova and Ukraine» COOPERA, the visit of the working group of «KROK» University to Moldova (Kishyniv) took place.

«KROK» University was presented by Nelia Momot, Head of International Relations and Journalism Department, who visited Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova.

During the visit, the implementation of dual higher education programs and their main achievements were discussed. At «KROK» University, this project is implemented on major «Journalism», so it was useful to get acquainted with the specifics of such programs in Moldova.

Nelia Momot presented a general description of the model of dual higher education implemented by «KROK» University. The experience of Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova in dual education will be useful for the integration of this project in «KROK» University.

Despite all the challenges, lecturers and employees of «KROK» University continue to conduct information activities. And it is extremely pleasant when this activity (this titanic work, as it is sometimes conducted not only in shelters), but also with periodic blackouts, is recognized as successful.

We are happy to inform you that «KROK» University not only did not lose its position in the international uniRank University Ranking (world’s biggest ranking engine that revolutionizes the field of higher education containing reviews and ratings of more than 13,600 officially recognized universities and colleges in 200 000 of countries), and even managed to improve them - our University is a leader among private educational institutions of Ukraine.

The authors of the Internet rating note that its results are designed to help students, teachers and scientists find out how popular a particular university is in a particular country. For this purpose, the UniRank uses independent webometric indicators that characterize the visitation of the websites of HEIs and the mention of the university on the Internet.

We are proud of the fact that our social networks and internet presence in general were rated at a fairly high level (2nd place among private HEIs and 45th place among Ukrainian HEIs). Further higher, further more!

We are grateful to everyone involved in informational work on the website and in social networks, because only TOGETHER we win on all fronts!

Everything will be Ukraine!

On October 27, 2022, the selection of “KROK” University students for mobility programs with European higher educational institutions took place.

The selection committee included: Andrii Lotariev, Director of Educational and Scientific Institute of International Education, Anna Drobyna, Head of International Office, Maryna Yevchenko, Project Manager of International Office, Iryna Savchuk, Manager of Student Office, Alina Holtseva, Acting Director of Department of Students’ Affairs.

This time, universities from Austria, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey and Croatia were represented among the partners offering mobility programs for the next semester.

The selection of applicants consisted of three stages, namely:

• Motivation letter;
• B2 level English language test;
• Interview with the selection committee.

Selection results are now available at the Facebook group KROK_Exchange. To ensure the transparency, the event was recorded, watch the recording at the link.

Congratulations to the winners! We believe that you will benefit from spending the semester at the European higher educational institution and will worthily represent “KROK” University at the international level!

Good news for those who could not participate in the selection! An additional Call for participation in mobility programs is announced!

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On October 21-22, 2022, sustainability events of Erasmus+ project «Mediation: Training and Society Transformation» were organized in Berlin, Germany, with participation of MEDIATS partners from Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, the Netherlands and Spain. The activities were organized at Freie Berlin University by Hultgren Nachhaltigkeitsberatung UG, consulting company from Berlin, partner of the project.

Halyna Bohachenko, Director of International Project Office of Educational and Scientific Institute of International Education of «KROK» University, represented MEDIATS team of «KROK» University in the role of Partner and Co-coordinator.

During the sustainability training, under the guidance of Oliver Schmidt, director of Hultgren Nachhaltigkeitsberatung UG, and Jan van Zwieten, Rector of Netherlands Business Academy, partners continued to work on sustainability of Mediation program and mediation structure, as well as on ensuring that the project results will be used by multiple stakeholders.

During the project activities management sessions were also organized, using the opportunity of presence of all partners. The general overview of the project was done, focusing on the achieving of project results according to qualitative and quantitative indicators.

On the same days Entrepreneurship summit was conducted, being visited by part of EANET team «Entrepreneurship Alumni Network» (2013-2017). Taking into account that some EANET partners are MEDIATS partners, participants were brought together, joining the Summit and having networking sessions.

Thanks to our partners for organizing such kinds of events.

On October 17, 2022 the first joint lecture of "KROK" University and Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) on the discipline "Sustainability Management" took place. The course is taught simultaneously for students of Ukrainian and German higher educational institutions. Students of the second and fourth year of study of the English-taught programs of "KROK" University (Management (English) and International Economic Relations (Educational Program: International Business) joined the event. The discipline is taught by Doctor of Economics, Prof. Volodymyr Tokar (“KROK” University) and Oliver Schmidt (Freie Universität Berlin).

We would also like to note that the possibility of carrying out this initiative arose as a result of the implementation of the joint Erasmus project of Freie Universität Berlin and “KROK” University - EANET, and with Mr. Oliver Schmidt, our HEI currently cooperates within the Erasmus+ KA2 projects INTERADIS, MEDIATS and CLIMAN.

We thank the German partners for the opportunity for our students to get an interesting experience and we hope for further cooperation!