WEST UKRAINIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

 "My name is Ivanna Svystun, and I am a fourth-year student at the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy of the B. Havrylyshyn Institute of International Relations at WUNU. I am majoring in International Relations. Currently, I have a wonderful opportunity to study for a semester at the Poznan University of Economics and Business as part of an academic exchange programme under a bilateral agreement between our universities.

 The Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine's Public Diplomacy Centre hosted the Young Diplomat Award 2025 ceremony, organised by United Youth. As part of the event, the Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Family Foundation announced a special award for the best original practices in the field of youth diplomacy.

 Students of the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy of the B. Havrylyshyn Education and Research Institute of International Relations at WUNU, who are studying under the International Relations educational programme – Solomia Okun, Yelyzaveta Chernetska, Bohdan Mykhailyshyn, and Daria Syniarska – took part in the autumn SD Campus, which was an inspiring experience and a true school of leadership for them. The event was organised by the SD Platform NGO with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

 Celebrations marking International Volunteer Day took place on 5 December at the Ternopil Regional Council. Volunteers from all corners of the region took part in the event. Among them were students from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the West Ukrainian National University — Khrystyna Baumketner, Diana Humenna, Nataliia Petryshyn, Kateryna Shapoval, and student dean Vladyslav Barna. For their active community work, significant personal contribution to the development of the volunteer movement, and demonstrated patriotism, they were awarded certificates of recognition from the Ternopil Regional Council.

 On 6 December 2025, the wrap-up of the STEM School of West Ukrainian National University was held. This educational project lasted two months and brought together the most gifted schoolchildren of Ternopil.

 The Department of International and European Law of West Ukrainian National University hosted a meeting as part of the event ‘Ukraine–Africa: Searching for New Opportunities,’ during which students and teachers spoke with Iryna Ivashchuk, Honorary Consul of Senegal in Ukraine.

 As part of the Accounting and Taxation course, an interactive practical training session was held for second-year students of the Faculty of Finance and Accounting at West Ukrainian National University.

 On the eve of St. Nicholas Day, the teaching staff and students of WUNU joined the charity campaign ‘St. Nicholas Day for All Ages’, in which young people from our city, together with employees of the Ternopil charity fund ‘Caritas,’ will visit the homes of lonely elderly people to give them sweet gifts and share with them the warmth and joy of the coming holiday.

 As part of practical training in the discipline of ‘Control and Audit,’ fourth-year students of the Faculty of Finance and Accounting of WUNU, who are majoring in ‘Accounting and Taxation,’ visited the auditing firm Ter Audit.

 This year, the staff of the L. Kanishchenko Library of WUNU and everyone who supported their initiative became true helpers of St. Nicholas. Throughout December, they organised a collection of gifts for children who eagerly await the winter holidays and a little miracle. Thanks to the kindness of our colleagues and friends of the library, it was possible to put together dozens of packages with sweets, toys, art supplies, and other nice little things that are sure to put the children in a festive mood.