On 21 of December 2016 Senior Project Manager of IRO (NMAU) Iryna Sorokina took part in the seminar “Internationalization of Higher Education: experience of EU Tempus PICASA and UNIVIA projects” organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

 More than 50 participants from different HEIs and research institutions of Ukraine attended the event. Representatives of Ministry and National Erasmus+ Office in Ukraine moderated the seminar. Eight speakers form PICASA and UNIVIA Tempus projects presented the results of the projects’ implementation, sharedthe experience obtained by their universitieswithin the projects, namely:

-          creation of internationalization strategy in HEIs;

-          management of internationalization processes in HEIs;

-          building the structures, organization and coordination the activities of the International Relations Offices;

-          management of internationalization processes in education and research;

-          quality assurance system in the internationalization processes of HEIs;

-          creation of criteria for quality assessment of internationalization processes;

-          examples of integration the cultural components in internationalization process, etc.

Iryna Sorokina made the presentation with the topic “Management of internationalization processes of education and research in higher education: experience of the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine”.In the frames of the speech, Iryna has delivered information about:

-          conceptual modifications on administrative and academics level implemented at the NMAU within PICASA project;

-          objectives and functions of International Relations Office at NMAU;

-          revised educational programs in line with internationalization – changes and benefits;

-          international activities at the NMAU, strengthening the role of English in the education process;

-          concluding of international agreements.

 The seminar was much informative and had practically orientated.