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We are pleased to announce that the book we will be reading in April and will discuss it at the next KSU Book Club meeting, intertwining and expanding the topics of the following KSU Speaking Club.

So, we invite you to read a fascinating story about the friendship of Harvard students, their ambitions, betrayal and innovation - The Accidental Billionaires. The Founding of Facebook" by Ben Mezrich. Read the story in English this month, watch its film adaptation The Social Network, and join us for a discussion and exchange of impressions in early May!

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📣 Last week, the KSU English Speaking Clubs and KSU Book Club met to discuss both fun and serious things.
In particular:
✅ with KSU students and representatives of the University of Kent we talked about humour and jokes;

✅ with the staff of our university, we told funny pranks that happened to them;
✅ and with the participants of the book club we shared our impressions of the beautiful, but heartbreaking and thought-provoking book by Colleen Hoover - ‘It Ends with Us’.

It was interesting and useful!
So we invite you to participate in our future English-language events!

On April 2, the office of Kherson State University in Ivano-Frankivsk was visited by distinguished guests - Luis Alves, Head of Erasmus+ National Agency in Portugal, Svitlana Shytikova, Coordinator of the National Erasmus+ office in Ukraine, and Kateryna Zhdanova, Leading Manager of the National Erasmus+ office in Ukraine.

Dear members of our English-speaking community!

We invite you to join the KSU Book Club meeting next week, on 2 April at 4 pm (Kyiv time) on the Zoom platform via link:
https://ksu-ks-ua.zoom.us/j/81265108632?pwd=bOiVQn2cGqHOCiKjYxDbOPBzr3lkXJ.1
Meeting ID: 812 6510 8632
Passcode: 063913

We will discuss the book It Ends with Us by Colin Hoover and its film adaptation.

Participation is free and without registration!
Save the date and join us soon!

We are happy to announce that the book that we are going to read during March and discuss at the next KSU Book Club meeting is a novel about a strong and brave woman and from the #1 New York Times bestselling female author Colleen Hoover - “It Ends with Us”.

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true…

An honest, evocative, and tender novel, It Ends with Us is a glorious and touching read, a forever keeper.

☝️So, don’t waste your time and start reading right now and right here .

📍Read the story during this month and/or watch its famous film adaptation and join the meeting at the beginning of April to discuss it and share your impressions.

Stay safe and see you soon!

This week, KSU English Book Club met to discuss the detective story The Incredible Theft by Agatha Christie.

✔️ The participants shared their impressions of the book, discussed the plot and its red herrings, as well as the themes covered in the novel.
✔️ We talked about the writing style and legacy of the famous writer.
✔️ And, of course, we described and compared the approach of the detective Poirot.

On 25 February, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Mykhailo Vynnytskyi visited the Ivano-Frankivsk office of Kherson State University as part of his visit to the Carpathian region. The representative of the Ministry of Education and Science met with KSU Rector Oleksandr Spivakovsky and the university staff, inspected the infrastructure of KSU's Ivano-Frankivsk office, and joined the opening of new classrooms.

We are happy to announce that the book that we are going to read during February and discuss at the next KSU Book Club meeting is a short detective story  "The Incredible Theft" by Agatha Christie.

You’re probably familiar with Agatha Christie, even if you’ve never read any of her work. She’s been deemed “The Queen of Mystery” in honour of her prolific career as a mystery writer, which spanned fifty-five long years. In fact, Christie is the most widely published author of all time, after Shakespeare and the bible.

So we propose you to try one of her most famous works in English, which you can find here.

📍Read the story during this month and join the meeting on the first Wednesday in March to discuss it and share your impressions.

Stay safe, and see you soon!

✔️ Participants shared their impressions of reading a book in English, discussed the plot, main characters and themes covered in the work.

✔️ They also discussed the moral lessons that can be drawn from the story's events for the modern world.

It was a pleasure to meet true fans of classic English literature. We thank everyone who joined us!

We are pleased to announce that the first meeting of KSU Book Club will take place on 5 February at 16.00 (Kyiv time).
We remind you that the meeting will be dedicated to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and its film adaptation. You can read the story below:
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It will be great to exchange impressions and thoughts on the plot, main characters and main themes of the book. See you soon!
P.S. The call to the Zoom meeting will be published a little later.

We are pleased to inform you that the KSU Book Club in the format of book discussions and film adaptations, is back! It will take place once a month as a part of the Educational and Cultural Hub ‘Interesting Ukraine’ and FLEO activities.

For our first meeting in January, we invite you to immerse yourself in the festive atmosphere during the winter holidays and breaks by reading the classic - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and watching numerous film adaptations. Download an electronic copy of the book

As part of the weeks of in-person training for the staff of the Ivano-Frankivsk office, Daria Domanchuk, Head of the KSU Social and Psychological Service, conducted a training on Psycho-Emotional Support during War: Healing Techniques. The event focused on preserving mental health and providing psychosocial support to IDPs from the Kherson region, developing the resilience of the population and promoting the development of social mechanisms of interaction. According to Daria Domanchuk, this is an important step for mutual support of the university staff.

On 27 November, KSU Educational and Cultural HUB hosted a presentation of a postage stamp series ‘New Names on the Map of Kherson’ dedicated to prominent personalities whose names are immortalised on the updated toponymic map of the city.

As part of the full-time training held at the Ivano-Frankivsk office of Kherson State University, bachelor's and master's students of the Faculty of Education attended a workshop on the basics of robotics.

For the third time, Kherson State University joins the initiative to support sports programming in Ukraine and acts as a hub for the International Sports Programming Olympiad from the IT company DataArt Proggy-Buggy Contest, which will take place on 26 October 2024 at 13:00 (Kyiv).

In celebration of World Mental Health Day and within the work of the Educational and Cultural HUB, the KSU community joined the webinar ‘Stress-Free Education: How the U.S. Experience of Supporting Mental Health in Educational Institutions Can Benefit Ukraine'.

The students of the Faculty of Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics of Kherson State University attended a workshop ‘VR Technologies in Education’. It was held by Oleksandr Lemeshchuk, Vice-Rector for Digitalisation, Innovation, Investment and Scientific and Pedagogical Work of KSU, and Yevhen Khomenko, a postgraduate student of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering.

On 7 October, Kherson State University hosted a solemn meeting on the Day of Education Workers of Ukraine. Due to the equipment obtained within the HUB operation, the event was held simultaneously at the Ivano-Frankivsk and Kherson offices in a hybrid mode.

The classes were held at the KSU office in Ivano-Frankivsk in the discipline ‘Physiology of Sport and Physical Activity’, conducted by the Head of the Department of Medical and Biological Foundations Serhii Holiaka.

On 16 August, Kherson State University hosted a landmark event - the diploma awarding ceremony for bachelor's and master's graduates of the 222 Medicine speciality. More than 500 participants joined the event due to the equipment obtained within the Educational and Cultural HUB operation. The celebrations were held in a hybrid mode.

From 7 to 11 August, Ivano-Frankivsk will host a summer research school for young geographers entitled ‘Research on the De-occupied Territories’. A number of events will be held at the Educational and Cultural Hub of Kherson State University.

On 14 June, the Rector and Vice-Rectors of Kherson State University joined the Rector's Council session and a meeting of the scientific community of Ivano-Frankivsk region with Oleh Sharov, the General Director of the Directorate of Professional Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The event was held at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.

We are also happy to announce that our final Book Club meeting took place last week despite anything! Thank you to everyone who joined the discussion, it was a great pleasure! 🤗 We will see you after the summer break - recharged and ready to continue the journey of English learning!

On 25 May, the spring round of the annual International Programming Proggy-Buggy Towel Contest 2024 by DataArt took place. This year, 1526 participants from 45 countries joined the competition.