Head of the Department of International Economic Relations, Yuriy Petrushenko, and senior lecturer of the Department of International Economic Relations, Svitlana Tarasenko, won the Lane Kirkland Research Scholarship competition.
Kirkland Research scholarship is a scholarship for a stay in Poland from mid-September to late January. Kirkland Research Program grantees participate in scientific seminars and work individually under the supervision of an academic advisor; this work is to result in the preparation of a scientific article. The requirement for obtaining a diploma for completing the Program is a scientific article approved for printing by the grantee’s academic advisor and the presentation, during the January convention of scholarship holders, of the results of this work.
The Kirkland Research scholarship program is funded by the Polish-American Freedom Foundation and aims to support democratic and free-market transformations in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
In order to obtain this prestigious scholarship, it is necessary to present and defend scientific research plans, as well as pass a qualifying exam on the knowledge of the Polish language.
The topic of Yuriy Petrushenko’s research is the influence of the lifelong education system on the development of local communities. Svitlana Tarasenko will study the areas of application of artificial intelligence technologies in the economy of Poland and Ukraine.
Research should begin in September 2022.
