"The project EUV is designed to promote excellence in teaching and academic research in European Union studies in SSU, enhance the training of pro-European-oriented specialists, develop the perception of the EU values in the professional legal and academic communities. The complexity of the project's activities includes: 1. Development of the detailed module program, including promotional events, key lectures, seminars, workshops, debates, case studies, group work, topics for discussions, and test items.2. Development of teaching materials and educational manuals on each course topic ""Values of the European Union.""3. Creation of project web resources for dissemination of information; publication of information materials on the project results on the Department of International, European, and Environmental Law website.4. Teaching: Delivering the new elective course ""Values of the EU"" to at least 50 students of 1st cycle Bachelor program ""Law"" in Academic and Research Institute of Law of Sumy State University.5. Research to follow-up student/faculty feedback and new developments in studies, particularly new legislation and implementation practices in the EU and Ukraine; updated syllabus and course materials to deliver as a revised version of the module in the next year. 6. Conducting the promotional event ""Enforcement of EU Values in Ukraine: Presentation of the Project"" to present and discuss the module with the general public (1st academic year); conducting promotional events (2nd and 3d academic year) aimed at showing the announcements of project events, outcomes of the project, Open Online Course, and other web resources of the project; preparation of handouts for students, teachers, law professionals, public administration, civil society, and other participants.7. Development of e-learning tools for blended-learning, Open Online Course materials for various target audiences, and Distance Learning Course for distance learning students;8. Conducting annual Debating Tournament on EU values for students, teachers, law professionals, civil society, and other stakeholders at Sumy, regional and national levels.9. Conducting annual workshop ""EU Values: the Role for Ukraine"" (with focusing attention on a particular set of values each year) for the law professionals, students, teachers of SSU and other regional and national educational entities, civil society representatives aimed at the promotion of EU values, enhancing civic activism and value-based legal reasoning ain the professional circles of lawyers. The event also embraces presenting the Open Online Course and other Open Electronic Resources of the project, lectures, and questions & answers session.10. Conducting an annual workshop ""EU Values: New Teaching Tools and Methods,"" for teachers of SSU and other educational entities to promote innovation in teaching and research and to share the experience using of newest methodical techniques relevant to the teaching of specific topics and ideas;11. Research activities: The study ""Prospects for Enforcement of EU Values in Ukrainian Law"" with the publication of collective monographs and articles in peer-reviewed journals."

Background and rationale of the project:Freedom of expression and information is a fundamental human right and a prerequisite for the rule of law, peace, sustainable development, democracy, and the effective functioning of civil society. The project is designed to promote excellence in teaching and research in the EU studies concerning the EU standards on freedom of expression and information, the EU media law and policy. It aims to improve professional training quality and equip students with the necessary skills and knowledge.The objectives of the project are:1. to promote excellence in teaching and improve the quality of professional training of SSU bachelor and postgraduate students;2. to facilitate education in the field of European studies during the war and post-war reconstruction;3. to raise awareness of media and civil society representatives about European media standards and best practices; to encourage the broad public to the full use of opportunities related to freedom of expression and information for the development of civil society and a democratic state, thus contributing to the European integration of Ukraine;4. to promote excellence in research, generate knowledge and insights in support of EU policy-making, raise awareness of EU media law and policy, media and informational literacy, and European standards on freedom of expression and information.The impact of the project:1. formation of professional knowledge on EU standards on freedom of expression and information for students of SSU;2. drawing attention to the problems of improving media legislation;3. promotion of ethical and responsible journalism and blogging; 4 enhancing civic skills, media and information literacy of civil society actors. The novelty of this project lies in its specific focus, complex and multifaceted approach to improvement of curriculums, taking into account the contemporary realities of informational warfare and the Russian military invasion of Ukraine.

Biological threats are complex pan-European issues that require the professional attention of experts in various fields. These include healthcare, veterinary, ecological, social services, etc. For instance, in the COVID-19 crisis food security, public health, employment, and labor issues, in particular workers’ health and safety, converge. Ukraine, due to its totalitarian past, must catch up in many areas, including biosafety and biosecurity-related fields. The analysis of the events surrounding the epidemic COVID-19 has shown a low level of Ukrainian society's preparation to dealing with such challenges. Apart from this Sumy is located close to the border and the potential bioterrorism activities really exist. There is an urgent need to raise public awareness on combating various biological threats. In many European countries, the problems of biosafety and biosecurity have been addressed, and many of them have been solved. The methods employed include ecologic measures, setting up biosecurity laboratories, biomedical research, employing educational resources, etc. Education remains the key instrument to prevent biological hazards and to establish biosecurity infrastructure and maintain biosafety.Therefore, this Module offers a series of educational measures for various target groups. The teaching course in European biosafety and biosecurity regulations for undergraduate medical students. Then, a training course focused on the implementation of European biosafety policies in Ukraine. We will organize workshops in biosafety laboratory management. The course guidelines, website, and research articles will be used to disseminate EU studies in biosafety and biosecurity. The target groups will include undergraduate, Ph.D. students, university staff, local policymakers, representatives of civil society, and the general public. The Module will be used as a basis for further penetration of European values in Ukraine.

Ukraine's desire to achieve democratic European standards and obligations under the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union necessitates the introduction of new practices of cooperation between public authorities, local governments and local residents. Such new practices should be the instruments of local democracy, which have proven themselves in the countries of the European Union. Therefore, the project is designed to promote the development of mechanisms and tools of local democracy in Ukraine on the basis of European experience.However, the use of instruments of local democracy to address local issues in Ukraine remains insufficient due to the following factors: lack of proper legal regulation of these instruments, lack of public awareness of existing instruments, traditional low activity of citizens. An additional problem is the lack of professional staff at the level of local self-government bodies, which should promote the introduction of local democracy instruments.The project should help solve the above problems. The implementation of this mission will have positive and lasting consequences for the citizens, local deputies and local government officials involved, will promote the knowledge of existing instruments of local democracy and the acquisition of practical skills for their implementation. The project team focuses its activities on training of pro-European-oriented specialists and promotion of European best practies of local democracy/Tangible results of the project: development of a new discipline and an online course of this discipline; publication of a handbook, promotions, an annual panel discussion for the academic, professional community and the publication of “Best Practices of Decentralization: EU Experience for Ukraine”; debates for pupils and students which dedicated to European Week local democracy.

"Project ""Healthy Economy and Policy: European Values for Ukraine (HEPE4U) aims to share knowledge and EU experience among students on sustainable development and health policy. Dissemination of solving health issues will reduce economic and social disparities among different regions. The HEPE4U module will provide participants with EU cohesion regional policy principles, EU legislation in health promotion, EU policy toward physical and e-health securement, and sustainable regional development support requirements. The project team consists of three young women-scientists with experience in promoting and researching healthy regional development. Implementation of JM includes using cognitive technologies and considering the importance of edutainment. The main activities of JM are interactive courses, seminars, hackathons, roundtables, dissemination of the results through website, pages on social networks, distribution of study content in the form of broadcast. In pandemic prolonging, JM could be realized with online instruments (streaming in real-time, Google Meet, MS Teams, e-learning platforms). The target group of the JM are BA, MA, Ph.D. students of Sumy State University (SumDU), partner universities of Ukraine. The project specifics are students' involvement from different specialties (economists, managers, marketers, physicians), which will provide interdisciplinary collaboration to realize the objectives of HEPE4U. JM proposes the involvement of experts (entrepreneurs, representatives of local authorities, public organizations) to discuss project issues. The outputs of HEPE4U include three EU-related courses (""Healthy regional development: best EU practices"", ""Promotion EU cohesion policy in sustainable competitiveness in the regions"", ""Healthy consumer behavior and motivation: EU & Ukraine"", manual, training materials, scientific articles, monograph, online platforms to promote further dissemination of knowledge about EU approaches to the region's improvement."