WEST UKRAINIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

 Recently, at the initiative of Oksana Koval, Director of the Education and Research Centre for Communications at West Ukrainian National University, a joint online meeting was held as part of the Dutch-Ukrainian project ‘Fair, Transparent and Accountable Criminal Justice System in Ukraine’.

 From 11 to 13 November 2025, the Rector of WUNU Oksana Desyatnyuk and Vice-Rector for Research Mykola Divak paid a working visit to Tomas Bata University in Zlín (Zlín, Czech Republic).

 From 10 to 16 November 2025, teachers of the Department of Information and Computing Systems and Control, Myroslav Komar, Khrystyna Lipianina-Honcharenko and Oleksandr Osolinskyi visited Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) on an international work trip.

 With a view to expanding international cooperation in the field of higher education, fostering scientific and academic ties, and establishing professional links between Ukrainian and Latvian educational and legal institutions, academics from West Ukrainian National University visited Riga.

 At West Ukrainian National University, participants of the retraining and social adaptation programme for internally displaced persons are currently undertaking studies in the field of ‘Entrepreneurship’, which is being implemented as part of the international TURBO project (‘The Universities’ Reaction to Big Obstructions: Building resilient higher education to respond and manage societal crises’). This project aims to support IDPs, develop entrepreneurial skills, facilitate professional adaptation to new living conditions, and create opportunities for self-fulfilment.

 As part of the TURBO project (“The Universities’ Reaction to Big Obstructions: Building resilient higher education to respond and manage societal crises”), training sessions on psychological first aid were held for internally displaced persons participating in the project. These initiatives are designed to support people who have suffered from the war and were forced to leave their homes. They help restore emotional balance, develop self-help skills, and strengthen psychological resilience in new living conditions.

 A meeting was held at West Ukrainian National University between Dr. Svitlana Kominko, Professor of Psychology at VSIT (Vancouver, Canada), Executive Director and Co-founder of the Canadian non-profit organisation Maple Hope Foundation, and the university administration.

 Professor Antin Shuvar, Professor Ivan Senyk and Associate Professor Uliana Tkach took part in the International Conference ‘Applied Use of Methods to Influence the Heracleum Population with the Aim of Restoring Biodiversity in the Cross-Border Territories of Ukraine and Poland’, which was held in Lviv.

 The first meeting between the administration of West Ukrainian National University and the leadership of the National School of Administration in Dakar (Ecole nationale d’Administration, ENA, Republic of Senegal) took place.

 From 15 to 18 October 2025, students and lecturers from the Faculty of Law atWUZNU, as well as students from the School of Polish and European Law, went on a study visit to Warsaw at the invitation of the Allerhand Institute.