Cooperation under the CERGE-EI Foundation Distance Learning Program

From March 4, 2024, students and post-graduate students of Sumy State University will start studying courses under the distance learning program with the support of the CERGE-EI Foundation. This became possible thanks to the support of the head of the Department of International Economic Relations, Doctor of Economics, Professor Yuriy Mykolayovych Petrushenko and the director of the CERGE-EI Foundation course program, Ph.D. Danijela Vuletić Čugalj. The training will take place in two terms: from March 4 to April 26 and from April 29 to June 21, 2024.

The lecturers of Academic and Research Institute of Business, Economics and Management will accompany the courses together with foreign colleagues as local instructors. The distance learning program involves teaching undergraduate economics courses at universities in Eastern Europe and the former USSR. The goal of this program is to provide core and specialized courses that many institutions may find difficult to offer either due to insufficient student demand or a lack of faculty with relevant experience. Most of the Western qualified lead instructors are based in Prague and the courses are taught in English.

In the spring semester, students can study the following courses:

1. Сlimate Change Economics (main lecturer – Ph.D. Sylvester van Koten; local instructor – Doctor of Economics, Professor Olena Yuriivna Chygrin).
2. Development Economics (the main lecturer is Ph.D. Martina Miotto; the local instructor – Ph.D., Associate Professor Viktoriіa Oleksiivna Shcherbachenko).
3. Health Economics (main lecturer – Ph.D. Eva Hromadkova, local instructor – Doctor of economics, Professor Fedir Oleksandrovych Zhuravka).
4. 4. Introduction to Data Science (main lecturer – Ph.D. Vahan Sargsyan; local instructor – Ph.D., Associate Professor Hrytsenko Kostiantyn Hryhorovych).
5. Behavioral Economics (main lecturer – Aizhamal Rakhmetova; local instructor – Ph.D., Associate Professor Viktoriіa Oleksiivna Shcherbachenko).
6. Econometrics in  a Nutshell (the main lecturer is Ph.D. Ella Sargsyan; the local instructor – Ph.D., Associate Professor Vitaliіa Vasylivna Koibichuk).
7. International Trade (main lecturer – Ph.D. Pavla Vozarova; local instructor – Ph.D., Associate Professor Inessa Yevgenivna Yarova).

The lecturers of Sumy State University underwent appropriate training before starting to teach the specified courses and received certificates of participation in pedagogical training for distance learning program local instructors.

Students who successfully complete the above courses will receive certificates from the CERGE-EI Foundation.