Cooperation under the CERGE-EI Foundation Distance Learning Program

From March 4, 2024, students and post-graduate students of Sumy State University will start studying courses under the distance learning program with the support of the CERGE-EI Foundation. This became possible thanks to the support of the head of the Department of International Economic Relations, Doctor of Economics, Professor Yuriy Mykolayovych Petrushenko and the director of the CERGE-EI Foundation course program, Ph.D. Danijela Vuletić Čugalj. The training will occur in two terms: from March 4 to April 26 and from April 29 to June 21, 2024.

The lecturers of the Academic and Research Institute of Business, Economics and Management will accompany the courses with foreign colleagues as local instructors. The distance learning program involves teaching undergraduate economics courses at universities in Eastern Europe and the former USSR. This program aims to provide core and specialized courses that many institutions may find difficult to offer due to insufficient student demand or a lack of faculty with relevant experience. Most of the Western qualified lead instructors are based in Prague and the courses are taught in English.

In the spring semester, students can study the following courses:

1. Economics of climate change (main lecturer – Ph.D. Sylvester van Koten; local instructor – Doctor of Economics, Professor Olena Yuriivna Chygrin).
2. Development economics (the main lecturer is Ph.D. Martina Miotto; the local instructor – Ph.D., Associate Professor Viktoriіa Oleksiivna Shcherbachenko).
3. Economics of health care (main lecturer – Ph.D. Eva Hromadkova, local instructor – Doctor of economics, Professor Fedir Oleksandrovych Zhuravka).
4. Introduction to data science (main lecturer – Ph.D. Vahan Sargsyan; local instructor – Ph.D., Associate Professor Hrytsenko Kostiantyn Hryhorovych).
5. Behavioral economics (main lecturer – Aizhamal Rakhmetova; local instructor – Ph.D., Associate Professor Viktoriіa Oleksiivna Shcherbachenko).
6. Briefly about econometrics (the main lecturer is Ph.D. Ella Sargsyan; the local instructor – Ph.D., Associate Professor Vitaliya Vasylivna Kobiychuk).
7. International trade (main lecturer – Ph.D. Pavla Vozarova; local instructor – Ph.D., Associate Professor Inessa Yevgenivna Yarova).

The lecturers of Sumy State University underwent appropriate training before starting to teach the specified courses and received certificates of participation in pedagogical training for the distance learning program local instructors.

Students who successfully complete the above courses will receive certificates from the CERGE-EI Foundation.