On 3d of December, 2018 Associate Professors of the Department of European Economy and Business Oksana Vinska, Svitlana Tkalenko and Kateryna Leshchenko met with Professor Edgardo Sica from Foggia University  (Italy) and discussed the peculiarities of university education in Italy and Ukraine. Particular attention was paid to gender issues, namely the empowerment of women and the use of femininitives.