TSATU signed an agreement with the public organization Booster Development (Goal 4, Goal 5). Booster Development organized training for female military personnel, entrepreneurs who lost their businesses due to military operations, young people from rural areas, and unemployed women. The main tasks of cooperation between Booster Development and TSATU were identifying vulnerable categories and studying issues related to improving education, introducing practical cases of small business creation, and developing business revival models. TSATU organized 3 focus groups and 1 questionnaire to enhance higher education and support gender equality in business development. The relevance of the educational project “Professional orientation. Career. Entrepreneurship” was presented to students of economic specialties. The coordinator presented research results for the rector’s report and the report of the USAID Program project Economic Support of Ukraine.
TSATU initiated a dialogue between youth, educators, public figures, and representatives of the executive power of Melitopol. In 2023, TDATU organized the Youth of Tavria and invited Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov, Melitopol Deputy Mayor Mykhailo Semikin, Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine and Honored Coach of Ukraine Valeriya Gazaeva, Director of the Centralized Library System of Melitopol Innau Yefimenko, Coordinator of the “Dream and Act” program (IREX ) Tatiana Nesvat. The Youth of Tavria is an interactive two-day platform for a discussion dialogue between the youth and the authorities. In 2023, more than 300 participants participated in the debate, including graduates of secondary education institutions, students and teachers of TDATU, and public figures. The interactive event aims to realize and implement young people’s ideas in the revival of Melitopol and its sustainable development in the post-war period.
Scientists of TDATU are members of the public organization Zaporizhia Information and Consulting Center Agro-Tavria. The main goal of the Center is to provide consulting services regarding introducing innovative solutions in the fields of agriculture, engineering, and food technology. The Сenter also provides business consulting services and project support in the agricultural sector.
Management and teachers participated in associations, meetings of project teams of universities, and academic missions (rector’s report, pp 45-47). In 2023, TSATU rector Sergey Kyurchev gave a speech at the Pennsylvania State University: Ten steps of survival of an agrarian university in wartime conditions: occupation and relocation (SDG 4,16). V. Skyba, O. Antonovsky, and V. Lemeshchenko-Lahoda of TSATU discussed ways to improve work university with representatives of the World Water Quality Alliance (SDG 15). D. Legeza and O. Yatsuh presented directions for enhancing education by implementing digitalization in the universities of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Latvia (SDG 4). M. Kolesnikov spoke about the results of land improvement on the university’s experimental fields during an educational mission to the Netherlands on Regenerative Agriculture (SDG 15). Y. Sokil gave a report at Mykolas Romeris University about supporting the career growth of women in education (SDG 5,9).
In 2023, TDATU, as a partner of the Erasmus project Digitization of the economy as an element of sustainable development of Ukraine and Tajikistan (DigEco) 618270-EPP-1-2020-1-LT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP took part in educational and scientific activities (SDG 4, 5, 8). The project partners introduced an innovative practice of developing ideas and creating a creative business with the help of joint inter-university scientific projects. Interuniversity teams of students presented their scientific projects at the competition. The jury of the competition was public figures and business representatives. The partner team organized courses for entrepreneurs and business managers to update their digitalization and data analysis skills. At meetings in Hamburg, Khujand, and Vilnius, the partners discussed the main methods and tools for improving higher education, maintaining gender equality, and introducing innovative digital ideas in business.
D.Phil. Sc. Tetyana Sharova, professor of TSATU, founded the Public Organization “Innovative Horizons of Ukraine”. The PO aims to introduce innovative teaching methods in higher education (SDG 4, 8). The NGO “Innovative Horizons of Ukraine” results are presented on the website. In cooperation with TSATU, “Innovative Horizons of Ukraine” conducts advanced training for higher education teachers and discusses directions for introducing innovative technologies and principles of sustainable development in higher education. The PO Innovative Horizons of Ukraine presented and discussed results of the work to the Institute of Modernization of Higher Education in Ukraine.
The main results of the work of the NGO in 2023:
Publication of the results of scientific research on the introduction of innovative methods
Communication with stakeholders in the public space
Organization of the social project “Why do I choose Ukrainian?”
Organization of an online school for the use of digital tools
The academic and educational-scientific programs of TDATU provide for the study of mandatory and optional courses that reveal the features of sustainable development. The vital educational programs that demonstrate the principles of sustainable development are Ecology, Geodesy and Land Management, Food Technologies, Agronomy, Agroengineering, Horticulture and Viticulture, Tourism, Public Management, Food Technologies, and Administration. The university offers over 100 courses on achieving sustainable development goals, presented in an online report (see attached link). The main elective courses for studying sustainable development goals are Social Responsibility, Innovative Technologies in Industries (separately with industries within the specialty), and Civil Defense.
- Agrarian policy and information provision of agricultural production
- Agrarian service and information support
- Agroecology
- Agrometeorology
- Agronomic audit
- Academic integrity and protection of intellectual property rights
- Analysis and assessment of environmental risks
- Life safety and basics of labor protection
- Safety of food raw materials and food products
- Safety of engineering systems and equipment
- Bioactive food components and health
- Biogeography
- Bioindication and biomonitoring
- Biological resources and their characteristics
- Biometrics in crop production
- Biotechnological processes and equipment
- Construction of irrigation systems
- Wind energy
- Genetics and selection of agricultural crops
- Geography of tourism and country studies
- Geodesy and land management
- Geoinformation systems in ecology
- Geology with the basics of geomorphology
- Geopolitics and national security
- Hygiene and sanitation of food production
- Hydrobiology with the basics of hydrology
- Hydromelioration
- Global food systems
- Soil science with the basics of geology
- State land management expertise
- State policy and governance
- State and regional administration
- State land cadastre and land management examination
- State control over the use and protection of land
- Environmental safety
- Environmental examination
- Environmental audit
- Environmental management
- Ecology of biocenoses
- Human ecology
- Ecology of plants
- Energy conservation and use of renewable energy sources
- European integration
- Balanced use of nature and modern means of environmental protection
- Land management
- Engineering infrastructure of territories
- Innovations in socio-economic development
- Innovative engineering of food enterprises
- Innovative development of agricultural production
- Innovative development of enterprises
- Innovative technologies (by industry)
- Innovation in socio-economic development
- Institutional support of public authority
- Commercialization of the results of scientific research
- Methods of expert monetary valuation of lands
- Methods of control of food production
- International requirements for the safety and quality of food products
- Microbiology, sanitation and hygiene of food establishments
- Local self-government
- Modeling and forecasting of the state of the environment
- Security monitoring and expertise
- Monitoring and land protection
- Health and dietary nutrition
- Basics of democracy
- Basics of energy management and energy audit
- Basics of resort science and recreation
- Basic principles and requirements of the EU regarding food products
- Environmental protection
- Environmental impact assessment
- Land valuation and registration of land plots
- Public relations
- Political consulting
- Renewable energy sources and energy saving
- Problems of production, transmission and conversion of electrical energy
- Conducting population and biocenotic studies
- Industrial ecology
- Public policy
- Public management and administration
- Public performance
- Rational use and protection of lands
- Recreology and recreational complexes of the world
- Reclamation of disturbed areas
- Agricultural reclamation
- Agricultural microbiology
- Smart technologies in crop production
- Social ecology
- Socio-political studies and philosophy
- Sustainable development
- Standardization and product quality management
- Sustainable development strategies
- Technoecology
- Training course “Leaders of change”
- Training course: Public orientation
- Environmental project management
- Management of land resources
- Project management in conditions of sustainable development
- Territorial development management
- Management of man-made and environmental safety
- Management of finances of territorial communities
- Urboecology
TSATU conducts public events for the academic and scientific community within the scope of activities of the Higher School of Pedagogical Excellence (HSPE) of TDATU. The academic platform “Guest Professor” is open and publicly accessible.
In 2023, HSPE held the following lectures:
- interactive lecture “Pedagogical rhetoric”;
- online workshop “Using artificial intelligence in education: practical cases”;
- lecture “Priority directions of agricultural engineering development”;
- Zeno Effect and Time Crystal in a Semiconductor Spin System;
- Transformation of modern management
HSPE has developed and implemented academic programs for professional development in various areas of professional activity:
- Visualization of verbal material as a means of improving the quality of education;
- Communication and Digitalization;
- Modern Ukrainian language in everyday and professional communication;
- Information and digital space: open education;
- Using Autodesk programs to improve the quality of the educational process.
In 2023, 52 people from institutions of general, professional (vocational and technical), professional pre-higher, and higher education underwent advanced training and received relevant certificates in separate modules of four educational programs. HSPE presents reports for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 online.