Official launch of the Optima project: Live streaming of the Kick-off meeting

OPTIMA (Open Practices, Transparency and Integrity for Modern Academia) is a project funded by the Erasmus+ programme, through the scheme Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education. It will last 3 years, from January 2021 to January 2024.

The aim of the project is to improve the quality of higher education in Ukraine through the introduction of open practices and transparency in relevant content and services (open science, open peer review platform), and to modernize the internationalization of Ukrainian HEIs. UCA's role as a European partner is to share our institution's best practices in these areas with Ukrainian partners (partner countries). The project is coordinated by Lviv Polytechnic National University – LPU and counts other 5 partners from Ukraine and 5 partners from Europe, generally universities and research centers (France/UCA, Poland, Belgium, The Netherlands and Austria).

The project will be streaming the Day 1 of the Kick-off meeting at the following address: Live streaming of Optima project, starting from 10:45 CET on Feb 23, 2021. Everybody will be able to comment and ask questions to speakers on the chat.

Day 1. Feb 23, 2021 (Open to public)*

* The agenda may be subject to change: check this webpage for updates.

11:00-13:00 CET – Official opening

Welcome Speeches (11:00-11:20 CET):

• Yuriy Bobalo, Rector of Lviv Polytechnic National University
• Jean-Claude Burgelman, Professor of Open Science Policy at the Free University of Brussels and former Head of Unit for Open Science Policy at the European Commission
• Andrii Vitrenko, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine
• Belén Enciso, Project Officer, European Commission, Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)
• Svitlana Shytikova, Head of National Erasmus+ Office in Ukraine
• Olesia Vashchuk, Head of Young Scientists Council at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
• Pavlo Zhezhnych, Vice-Rector for Education and Informatization of Lviv Polytechnic National University, OPTIMA Project Coordinator

Virtual Group Photo with speakers and Rectors (around 11:20 CET).

Presentations (11:20-13:00 CET):

• OPTIMA Project Overview
  Oleksandr Berezko, Assoc. Prof. at Lviv Polytechnic National University, OPTIMA Project Manager
• Ukrainian Displaced Universities
  Illya Khadzhynov, Vice-Rector at Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University
• Open Science and Open Peer Review
  Tony Ross-Hellauer, Leader of Open and Reproducible Research Group at Graz University of Technology
• Contemporary Issues in Academic Integrity: European Context
  Sonja Bjelobaba, Vice-president of the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI)
• Academic Integrity and Education Quality
  Nataliia Stukalo, Vice-Head at National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance, and Artem Artiukhov, Assoc. Prof. at Sumy State University
• Climate Change and Open Science
  Svitlana Krakovska, Senior Researcher at National Antarctic Scientific Center of Ukraine

13:00-14:00 CET – Lunch Break

14:00-16:00 CET – Presentations of Project Partners, Questions and Discussion

• Technische Universitaet Graz (Austria)
  Tony Ross-Hellauer
• Universite Cote d'Azur (France)
  Auréa Cophignon
• Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland)
  Wojciech Wodo
• Stichting eIFL.net (Netherlands)
  Iryna Kuchma
• The European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Belgium)
  Agnieszka Żyra
• Sumy State University (Ukraine)
  Kostyantyn Kyrychenko
• Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University (Ukraine)
  Illya Khadzhynov
• Lutsk National Technical University (Ukraine)
  Oksana Liashenko
• National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (Ukraine)
  Nataliia Stukalo
• State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center (Ukraine)
  Anatolii Chernov
• Unicheck Ukraine (Assoc. Partner, Ukraine)
  Andrii Sidliarenko
• Lviv Polytechnic National University (Ukraine)
  Oleksandr Berezko

Day 2. Feb 24, 2021 (Project team only)

Day 3. Feb 25, 2021 (Project team only)