Fifty-one universities from Ukraine have been selected for funding under the European Union’s Erasmus+ program, the Ministry of Education and Science reports.
“Thirteen projects involving 51 universities and other organizations from Ukraine have been selected for funding under the European Union’s Erasmus+ program for capacity development in higher education. A total of 145 projects won the competition,” the Ministry’s press service said in a statement.
It is noted that Ukraine has the largest number of projects in the Eastern Partnership region and is one of the top 12 countries participating in the program.
It is expected that the projects will contribute to the reforms of higher education in Ukraine based on the leading practices and experience of partners from the universities of the EU member states.
According to the report, the grant-coordinators of the projects are four Ukrainian universities: Bukovinian State Medical University, National University “Lviv Polytechnic”, State University “Zhytomyr Polytechnic”, Black Sea National University named after Petro Mohyla.
Also the partnership brings together 6 displaced universities from the temporarily occupied territories, five universities are partners in three projects: Melitopol State Pedagogical University named after Bogdan Khmelnitsky (displaced), National University “Chernihiv Polytechnic”, National Technical University “Dniprovska Polytechnic”, National University “Lviv Polytechnic”.
“Among the financed projects are 9 national and 4 international. Among project teams – 65 partners from 24 countries representing Austria, Albania, Belgium, Armenia, Greece, Georgia, Estonia, Spain, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Croatia, Czech Republic, Montenegro, Sweden,” the report says.
“Erasmus+” is a program of the European Union, which through the support of lifelong learning works for the educational, professional and personal development of citizens of the European Union and beyond in education, training, youth and sports.
