The project is implemented by a consortium of Ukrainian and European universities and institutions. The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance, HEIs, business associations and stakeholders will work together within the DigiUni project for mutual learning among and between public authorities aiming to:

Foster systemic improvement and innovation in the higher education sector.
Develop inclusive higher education system to ensure the right conditions for students of different backgrounds and fewer opportunities to access and succeed in their studies.
Modernise governance and financing of Ukrainian higher education system.
Increase the capacities of Ukrainian HEIs by synergies with ongoing EU initiatives including Erasmus+.

All members of the consortium are eager to play a role in setting up a high-performing digital education ecosystem that can ensure continuity and performance in their academic activities to keep attracting all learners and enhancing their employability in a knowledge-driven economy.

Project goal

General and specific objectives

Goal 1
Development of a high-performing digital educational ecosystem in Ukraine to ensure continuous, high-quality, inclusive, and transparent education, regardless of the student's and teacher’s location, using the existing digital innovations in the field of education and the understandable paradigm of involving future innovations, develop holistic and sustainable higher education system to meet socio-economic needs and broad ambitions for a knowledge-based economy.
Goal 2
Digitalization of teaching and learning methods and providing the infrastructure necessary for online and inclusive education.
Goal 3
Contribution to the progressive synchronization of Ukrainian and European universities in line with the values, standards, and priorities of the European Higher Education Area, and in the perspective of the future accession of Ukraine to the European Union (EU). The project aims to promote the manifestation of European solidarity on a "bottom-up" principle based on inter-institutional cooperation and a result-oriented approach, combined with various levels of political decision-making.

Specific goals

Specific objectives of the Digiuni project:

to develop the concept, strategy, and action plan for creating an integrated and inclusive digital educational ecosystem in Ukraine to be submitted for state adoption;

to develop and launch the all-Ukrainian digital educational environment – DigiPlatform;

to develop DigiUni as a pilot organizational mechanism for uniting, transforming, and integrating HEIs and other interested institutions for achieving the common objective, it includes the creation of the Open DigiUni-Ukraine Charter;

to develop the rules for ensuring and improving the quality of the digital content at the higher education institutions of Ukraine, methods of the digital content quality assessment, developing methodology and guidelines for creating digital content and digital courses;

to build up the project infrastructure and tools: to create DigiCentres at each Ukrainian higher education partner institution with the necessary software and equipment;

to develop the primary DigiPlatform content, in particular, the complete list of the available digital courses and other digital materials of the Ukrainian partner-HEIs with direct links to their university's digital resources; to place and/or create on the platform direct links to the digital courses/resources of the European partners which they are ready to provide the Ukrainian audience with granted access;

to develop 100+ new courses in different fields of knowledge, with 20 of them incorporating the use of virtual or/and augmented reality and/or virtual/remote laboratories; to build in and/or create virtual and remote laboratories;

to create 20 separate educational modules and 30 microlearning modules for the non-university audience;

to train 600 educators as digital content facilitators, 30 – as administrators of the content, and 40 – as specialists in quality assessment of the content;

to provide 5,000+ students with courses and 1,000+ non-academics with educational modules using DigiPlatform within the pilot DigiUni project;

to realize 20+ examples of student virtual mobility among UA partner HEIs.

DigiUni - modern digital education for everyone!

Target groups

The target groups of the DigiUni project are:

students of higher education institutions, general secondary education institutions, and vocational pre-higher education institutions;

lecturers of Ukrainian higher education institutions who need to learn to work in a new digital environment, create new digital content, and use existing content provided by other higher education institutions in Ukraine and partners from the EU;

veterans, temporarily displaced persons, persons affected by military actions in Ukraine who need retraining for employment;

persons with limited educational opportunities who want to obtain higher education or improve their qualifications;

persons interested in professional and personal development, obtaining micro-credits under a flexible training program.

Team

Project coordinators:

Kseniia Smyrnova,
Project Coordinator
In 2002, she enrolled on the postgraduate program (Department of Comparative and European Law, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) and graduated from it in 2005. In December 2005, Kseniia Smyrnova defended the Candidate of Sciences dissertation “Sources of Law in the European Union” (specialty 12.00.11 – International Law). November 2000 – September 2005 – a practicing lawyer. October 2005 – August 2006 – a lecturer at the Department of External Policy and International Law, the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Since September 2006, she has been a member of the Department of Comparative and European Law, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, first holding the position of Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor. She was awarded the academic rank of Associate Professor in July 2011. In 2015, Kseniia Smyrnova defended the Doctor of Sciences dissertation “The Legal Order of Competition in the European Union (New Development Tendencies)”. October 2016 – Head of the Scientific and Methodological Committee at the Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. 2017 – Professor at the Department of Comparative and European Law (Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). Kseniia Smyrnova was awarded the academic rank of Professor in 2019. Professor Smyrnova participated in research and academic programs in the EU (Germany, France, Poland) and the US. She was a visiting lecturer in the EU, UK, Turkey, China (Hong Kong) and other countries. Professor Smyrnova is the head of the Section of the EU Law at the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence (Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). She has authored about 200 academic publications, supervised 4 Candidates of Sciences and PhDs. Honorary award of the Supreme Council of Justice (2012). Recognition Letter from the Prime Minister of Ukraine (2017). Honorary award of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2017). Recognition Letter from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (2019). 2017 – Member of the Expert Advisory Council at the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. August 2019 – Member of the Legal Reform Commission under the President of Ukraine.
Vice-Rector for Education (International Affairs). Professor at the Department of Comparative and European Law (Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv).

Project team:

Olha Kravchenko, Academic director

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine

Associate Professor of the Department of Information Systems and Technologies. Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

Larysa Chovnyuk, Project Manager

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine

Head of the International Relations and Cooperation Department

Ivan Kozii, Project Manager

Sumy State University, Ukraine

Vice-Rector for Scientific and Pedagogical Work Doctor of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

Iryna Zolotaryova, Project Manager

Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, Ukraine

Professor of the Department of Information Systems, Assistant to the Rector for International Affairs. Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor

Oleksii Besedovskyi, Academic director

Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, Ukraine

Associate Professor of the Department of Information Systems Candidate of Economic Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy. Associate Professor

Georgiy Vorobets, Project Manager

Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine

Head of the Department of Computer Systems and Networks. Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor

Alina Synytska, Project Manager

Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine

Head of the Center for Educational and Innovative Technologies

Oleksandr Spivakovskiy, Project Manager

Kherson State University, Ukraine

Rector, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences

Alla Tsapiv, Academic director

Kherson State University, Ukraine

Professor of the Department of English Philology and World Literature named after Prof. O. Mishukov, Assistant to the Rector for Internationalization Doctor of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor

Tetyana Marena, Content Manager

Mariupol State University, Ukraine

Vice-Rector for Scientific and Pedagogical Work, Professor of the Department of Economics and International Economic Relations Candidate of Economic Sciences. Associate Professor

Partners