«KROK» University team expresses its sincere gratitude to our partner IMC Krems (Austria) for the warm Christmas parcels with sweets and cute things that will keep us warm in winter!  Postcards with words of support are especially valuable in difficult times for our country.

Thank you, dear partners, for standing with Ukraine!

Dear KROK family!

We want to thank you endlessly for the good things we do together for our defenders!

For those who just yesterday sat at the student bench, listened to lectures, and today defend our land and need our attention and support. We are deeply grateful for your material and moral support of charity projects!

December at the University was full of charity events. On December 11, Charity Day was celebrated. We aimed to collect packages with warm things, letters of gratitude and sweets for the military subdivision of our graduate Ihor Razumiey for St. Nicholas Day, and the name of this charity project is «Give warmth to the defenders».

We express our gratitude for the help at various stages of the implementation of the project to the administration of the University and Professional College, Accounting Office, Department of Advertising and Public Relations, Admission Office, Legal Department, the Department of Preparatory Training, Institute of International Education, Alumni Association, Career Development Center, Printing Department, Student Council of the University, Dance Theater of the University, Department of Security and Protection. We are infinitely grateful to all colleagues, divisions and students of the University and College who donated to cards, bought New Year's products, wrote letters, brought warm things and sweets! You are incredible! We are impressed by your kindness, concern and sensitivity!

We managed to collect:

• donations and financing of the event by the University - 15,827.00 UAH;
• funds for purchased New Year's decor - 7,900.00 UAH;

The funds were donated by Professional College and project «Indomitable» for participation in the charity concert «The dawn shines on the world» - 2,000 UAH. A total of 25,727 hryvnias, brought warm things and sweets were formed by the Student Council of the University into 100 packages, which were sent to Donetsk region!

We are proud that we managed to implement this charity project, and you can see who received help! Our hearts are warmed by words of gratitude, photos and videos of Ihor and the fighters of his subdivision!

We do not stop thanking all KROK benefactors and congratulate you on the coming holidays!

Let's take care and continue to do good things!

Everything will be Ukraine!

Ukraine Global Faculty project has been launched: foreign professors from leading universities, top experts and entrepreneurs will give lectures online for the Ukrainian audience:

• 100% online format;
• access to the lecture archive 24/7;
• content in English with simultaneous translation into Ukrainian;
• a wide range of topics: from IT and engineering to economics and entrepreneurship;
• world-class speakers who support Ukraine and Ukrainians;
• the opportunity to ask the lecturer questions and find colleagues based on interests;
• certificates of participation (can be counted when professional development);
• free access for all participants.

Ukraine Global Faculty is implemented by K. FUND charitable foundation with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Already more than 20 universities have become partners of UGF. How can students/graduates/lectures participate in UGF? Register at ugf.academy by clicking For Participants: SIGN IN

Choose the lectures that interest you in your own office. You can even subscribe to lectures for which dates have not yet been set. As the student groups are formed, the lectures will choose the dates and the UGF will notify you.

Enter your office and participate in online lectures. No special programs are needed for this. Choose a convenient language (English or Ukrainian). Ask questions to the lecturer in the chat, he/she will answer the most interesting ones.

Look for lectures that are useful for you not only among the planned ones, but also in the archive of lectures (video recordings in English and Ukrainian). Follow our news on the ugf.academy website and the Telegram channel t.me/UkraineGlobalFaculty. We'll keep you posted on new lectures and contributors.

Expand your professional network and develop together with Ukraine Global Faculty.

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!