Youth leadership towards the consolidation of EU initiatives in the context of cross-border instability in Ukraine

Project acronym: YouthLeadtoEUinUA

Call: ERASMUS-JMO-2022-HEI-TCH-RSCH

Topic: ERASMUS-JMO-2022-MODULE

Type of action: ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants

Granting authority: European Education and Culture Executive Agency

Project starting date: 1-st ofOctober 2022

Project end date: 1-st ofOctober 2025

Project duration: 36 months

The EU has set the goal of being a global leader in addressing the climate and environmental issues. Ukraine seeks to follow this ambitious path together with the EU, which needs to consolidate EU initiatives in the face of cross-border instability. Ukrainian educational programs lack knowledge of EUGreenDeal and other European initiatives, as well as insufficient experience in implementing European practices for transforming the business environment. In response to these challenges, a team from KNEU teachers and young researchers developed this project.

The main objective of the project:

The project aims to ensure the dissemination of cutting-edge knowledge on the EU's global competitive leadership strategy and the creation of a climate-neutral economy.

Project objectives are:

• Creation of an open University’s Open Network for Research and Internships with the goal of a sustainable collaboration of students and professors, researchers, employers, all other interested stakeholders in promoting the EUGreenDeal in Ukraine
• Development and approbation of a completely new university internship program as an action plan for transforming the employment models under the conditions of global challenges
• Development and implementation of a completely new open distance education course for studying the European model of green development and the possibilities of its adaptation in Ukraine
• The research of the progress and prospects of a climate-neutral economy both in the EU and in Ukraine
• Round tables on the green course of Ukraine’s economic movement towards the sustainable Europe for Ukrainian politicians and government officials, representatives of business / small and medium-sized enterprises, NGOs and the civil society
• Online promotion of the values and approaches of the EU for a wider audience.

Project on social networks:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572530213314

Project results:

1. Trainings conducted

November 14 - December 05, 2022

Training participants

Certificates

May 01 – May 29, 2023

Training Participants

Class Schedule

Certificates

October 30 - December 2, 2023

Training Participants

Certificates

Class Schedule

April 22 - May 31, 2024

Training Participants

Certificates

Class Schedule

December 02 to December 20, 2024

Training Participants

Class Schedule

Certificates

April 28 - May 30, 2025

Training Participants

Class Schedule

Certificates

 September 12 - September 26, 2025

Training Participants

Class Schedule

Certificates Fall 2025

2. University internship program

• Methodological recommendations for organizing and completing internships for bachelor's level students
• Methodological recommendations for organizing and completing internships for master's level students

Internship for Bachelor's degree applicants:

• 2023
• 2024 - full-time, distance learning and correspondence forms
• 2025 - full-time, distance learning and correspondence forms

Internship for Master's degree applicants:

• 2023
• 2024 - full-time, distance learning and correspondence forms
• 2025

Network for Researches and Internships

During the internship, higher education students surveyed representatives of ьщку ерфт 1000 enterprises on their readiness for green transformations. This was a significant step towards the creation and development of an open university network for research and internships with the aim of sustainable cooperation between students and teachers, researchers, employers, and all other stakeholders in promoting the EUGreenDeal in Ukraine (the list of companies is provided below).

We invite you to join the open network!

Corporate Social Responsibility Platform: dissemination of results of researches

Corporate Social Responsibility of Companies

3. Round tables

• Round table "Green platform for economic breakthrough of Ukraine"
  
  December 7, 2023
  
  Video recording
  
   
• Roundtable “Sustainable Development and Environmental Well-Being in the Context of Global Challenges”
  
  6 of March, 2025
  
  Video recording

• Roundtable “European Integration Dimension of Green Transformation of Ukraine’s Economy: Synergy of Business, Government, Education and Community”
  
  May 16, 2025
  
  Video recording

• Roundtable "Benchmarking the Readiness of Institutional Strategies and Business Models of Ukrainian Companies for "Green Changes""
  
  September24, 2025
  
  Video recording
  
   

4. Educational and methodological complex of the discipline "Green Economy":

• Abstract of the academic discipline "Green Economy"
• Work program of the academic discipline "Green Economy"
• Methodological materials of the academic discipline "Green Economy"

5.Publications:

• Research results 2023-2025: “Benchmarking the readiness of business strategies for “green changes”: Ukrainian realities”. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
• IlnytskyyD., Stoliarchuk Ya. Green mechanism for de-shadowing the global economy. Effective Economy. 2023. No. 3. URL:https://www.nayka.com.ua/index.php/ee/article/view/1260/1269 https://doi.org/10.32702/2307-2105.2023.3.3
• Research Anthology on Feminist Studies and Gender Perceptions. Ed.by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour. 2022. pp. 144-169. (Chapter “Women's Empowerment as a Tool for Sustainable Development of Higher Education and Research in the Digital Age” by Lina Kurchenko, Denys Ilnytskyy, Evhenia Kolomiyets-Ludwig)DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4511-2.ch009URL: https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/womens-empowerment-as-a-tool-for-sustainable-development-of-higher-education-and-research-in-the-digital-age/296612
• Stoliarchuk, Y., Ilnytskyy, D., & Rudkovskyy, S. (2023). Green investments as a mechanism of global sustainable development. Herald of Khmelnytskyi National University. Economic Sciences, 316(2), 241-246.URL: http://journals.khnu.km.ua/vestnik/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-316-39.pdfhttps://doi.org/10.31891/2307-5740-2023-316-2-39
• Yaroslava Stoliarchuk, Denys Ilnytskyy, Serhiy Rudkovskyy, Nataliya Moskalyuk. KEY TOOLS OF GREENING OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE. Scientific innovations and advanced technologies, Section: Economics.2023. № 6(20). pp. 345-353. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52058/2786-5274-2023-6(20) URL: http://perspectives.pp.ua/index.php/nauka/article/view/5043/5071
• Stoliarchuk, Y., Ilnytskyy, D., Chernytska, T., & Rudkovskyy, S. (2023). Global financial organizations in the institutional system of unshadowing of the world economy. Collection of Scientific Papers "Scientific Notes", 31 (2), 186-199.URL:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k7kqT-Y-7poZlKFkas0AGDFvLJoYyuzI/view DOI 10.33111/vz_kneu.31.22.02.16.110.116
• Chapter 21. Economic and monetary policy. Postpandemis revival and sustainability / in  «Green and safe EU» : monography / [A. Boyar (ed.), I. Kytsiuk, N. Romaniuk etc.]. Lutsk : Vezha-druk, 2023. 592 p. (pp.285-301)
• Ilnytskyy, D., & Stoliarchuk, Y. (2023). Greening the Energy Sector and the New Quality of Globalisation. International Economic Policy, 1 (38), 7-38.URL:  http://iepjournal.com/journals/38/2023_38_1_Stolyarchuk_Ilnytskyy.pdf DOI: 10.33111/iep.2023.38.01
• Stezhko N. Ecological footprint: assessment of the impact of human activity on the environment and strategies for its reduction. Proceedings of the VIII International Scientific and Practical Conference "Inclusive Development of the National Economy: Global Trends, Opportunities of Ukraine and the Role of the Agri-Food Sector, Experience and Cooperation with the EU". October 23-24, 2024. Kyiv: NUBiP, 2024.Pp. 119-121.
• Stezhko N. Decarbonization strategies and the transition to sustainable agriculture in the EU. International scientific-practical conference “Current issues of economics, finance, accounting, management and law: theory and practice”: conference proceedings (Aarhus, Denmark, October 25, 2024). Aarhus, Denmark: Scholarly Publisher ICSSH, 2024.pp. 4-7
• Ilnytskyy D., Drobotiuk O.,  Andrusyk V. Sustainable Development through Green Innovations: Economic Strategies of China and the EU Compared. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences (2024), ISSN 2704-6524, pp. 512-252. DOI: 10.24818/ICESS/2024/048. https://www.icess.ase.ro/sustainable-development-through-green-innovations-economic-strategies-of-china-and-the-eu-compared/
• Ilnytskyy, D., Stoliarchuk, Y., Khomanets, V., Solodkovskyy, Y., Nechyporchuk, M. Green and Digital Transformation of the Global Financial Services Market: Functional and Trend Modifications of the Banking Sector.. International Economic Policy, Vol. 40 (1), 2024. DOI: 10.33111/iep.2024.40.04 http://iepjournal.com/journals_eng/40/2024_40_4_Ilnytskyy_et_al.pdf
• Stezhko N., Ahmed J. Obaid Role of International Trade in Food Resources’ Redistribution. Fifth International Conference on Applied Sciences: ICAS 2023 AIP Conf. Proc., May 2024, 3097 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0209408
• Stezhko N., Obaid A.J., Kotukh Y. The ecological footprint as an indicator of living standards: the relationship between consumption patterns and environmental sustainability. Frontiers in AI and Computational Technologies: Proceedings of ICONEST 2024 / eds. A.J. Obaid, Z. Polkowski, A. Burlea-Schiopoiu, M. Muthmainnah. – Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2025. P. 93–109. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-89960-7_7

• Stoliarchuk, Y., Ilnytskyy, D., Batorshyna, A., Karpiuk, K., & Khomanets, V. (2025). Scenarios for global financial sector development: greening, digitalisation, institutionalisation. Journal of Innovations and Sustainability, 9(2), 01. https://doi.org/10.51599/is.2025.09.02.01

Research of young scientists:

Topics of bachelor's theses:

• 2023 - 2024 - 2025

Topics of master's theses:

• 2023 - full-time, part-time study
• 2024 - full-time, part-time study
• 2025 - full-time

Publications of student research abstracts at scientific conferences

• 2022
• 2023
• 2023 (autumn)
• 2024
• 2024 (autumn)
• 2025

6. Project reports

• Deliverable 1.1 New open distance learning course "European Model of Green Development"
• Deliverable 1.2 The certified new open distance learning course "European Model of Green Development"
• Deliverable 1.3 The University Internship Program
•  Deliverable 1.4 Research “Benchmarking of business strategies’ readiness for “green changes”: Ukrainian realities” (2023-2025)

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union, European Commission or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. Project "YouthLeadtoEUinUA" received financing within ERASMUS-JMO-2022-HEI-TCH-RSCH, grant agreement №101099170.