Materials and News «Green Campus Strategies: EU Experience for Ukrainian Universities» (2025)
CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS: COURSE COMPLETED
The restless received a mega-interesting experience from the CERGE-EI Foundation (Czech Republic). For two months (April and May 2024), students studied the discipline “Climate Change Economics”
in English.
The lecturer of the course is Professor Silvester Van Koten (Netherlands).
The main topics were:
– global climate change,
– development of renewable energy,
– experience of the European Union in preventing climate change,
– economic instruments of decarbonization,
– ways to overcome global negative externalities.
The course included a series of intensive lectures, online quizzes, practical seminars, and individual tasks.
Marketers joined modern teaching practices, gained new knowledge, and gained experience in communicating with foreign teachers.
The course was accompanied by a professor of the Department of Marketing, Olena CHYGRYN, from SumDu.
More to come…
STUDENTS FOR A GREEN CAMPUS
On April 26, 2024, within the framework of the Jean Monnet Erasmus+ project of the European Union, within the framework of the module “Green Campus Strategies: EU Experience for Ukrainian Universities”, the Department of Marketing held a festival of student initiatives, the purpose of which was to present ideas on how to make the university campus environmentally friendly. The team of restless students was joined by managers, economists, and engineers.
Participants presented their projects on:
implementation of green technologies and recycling at the university (Anna Kholod “Implementation of green campus practices in Ukraine and the EU: alternative energy and recycling technologies”;
landscape design (Katerina Shevchenko “Green campuses: modern solutions in landscape design”);
organization of student spaces (Darya Tereshchenko, Dirya Zavalna, Yulia P’yatachenko, Dmytro Lypovy, Daryna Kichko “Creation of modern academic spaces to promote green campus ideas”);
development of green infrastructure (Pavlo Tkach, Serhiy Kutas “Ecological trail”).
The presented projects aroused interest in the audience, and the festival participants shared their experience in implementing environmental activities within the framework of green campus development (Ecoweek, Ecotoloka, etc.).