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Training for Civil Servants and Social Workers “Modern Challenges in the Management and Policy-Making of the European Union”
February 4, 2021
The Conference “Lisbon Treaty – 10 years after its entry into force. What has changed in the functioning of the EU? ”
December 2, 2019
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Comprises three modules
Module “EU Governance and Politics of European Integration”
Institutional and Legal System of the European Union
- The Evolution of the Institutional System of the European Union
- Bodies and Institutes of the European Union: their Composition, Plenary Powers and Order of Functioning
- Council of the European Union in the Structure of the EU Bodies
- European Commission: the Composition, Functions and Plenary Powers
- The Features of Functioning of the European Parliament
- Court of Justice and European Court of Auditors in the Institutional System of the EU
- Inter-institutional EU Bodies that Play Specialized Roles
- Legal System of the European Union
- The Procedure for the Adoption of Legislative Acts in the European Union
- National Legal Systems of the EU Member States
Politics of European Integration
- Main Stages of European Integration
- Four Enlargements of the EU in the 20th century
- Challenges of the European Enlargement in the 21st century
- Ukraine and the Politics of European Integration
- The Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU
- The External Policy of the EU and Integration
- The External Policy of the EU and Prospects of Further Enlargement
- Contemporary Challenges of European Integration
EU governance and decision-making
- The EU institutions
- The EU Decision-Making process
- The distribution of power between the European Union and the Member States
Amount of student in 2019-2020 a.y.
Public Administration and Management
Social Work
For me personally, listening to the lecture material and attending practical classes on European Integration Policy and EU Governance and Decision-making was quite interesting. The unusual educational format of the classes, as well as the use of computer equipment for better visual perception of the material, aroused great interest in acquiring new knowledge about the history of the EU, the processes of European integration, and the EU's relations with other countries in the international arena.
After the day at work, I perceived the classes as a vacation for myself. Since I am not a professional historian and have not previously studied EU issues, I have had an opportunity to learn a lot about the history of the EU and some aspects of its present activities. During the classes I had an opportunity to look at the previously known facts from a different perspective and in a different way.
I should stress that working in small groups during the classes was very beneficial. Such work has not only helped to absorb new material, but also helped to develop teamwork skills and to discover one’s own potential as individual participant and as the team as a whole. Considering all of the above, I believe that such teaching approach should be implemented in relation to other academic disciplines that the students study.
Dmytro Slobodyanyuk
MA in Public Management and Administration, Institute of Public Administration, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University
Yulia Popova
MA in Social Work, Institute of Public Administration, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University
The EU Institutional and Legal System course was interesting and gave me an invaluable baggage of knowledge. Some questions seemed difficult at times, but thanks to the information provided at the lectures by Svitlana Soroka and interesting seminars by Dmytro Say, as well as due to a multimedia textbook - everything was understandable and was not so difficult.
The teaching of this discipline was well organized. The lectures were interesting and informative - the information was presented both orally and through video materials. Both Svitlana Soroka and Dmytro Say are highly qualified for teaching this course. It is also very good that we had the opportunity to test our knowledge after each topic with the help of test questions of the multimedia textbook of the course.
Inna Semenova
MA student in Social Work, Institute of Public Administration, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University
Personally, this course gave me invaluable knowledge about Ukraine-EU relations and the essence of European integration, helped me to understand almost all aspects of the accession of states to the European Union, as well as the peculiarities of EU policy. This topic is relevant and should be studied by students. With the help of this course, students, based on a wide range of sources and literature, can analyze the advantages and disadvantages of Ukraine's European integration and come to their own conclusions. Diverse materials were provided during the study of the course, with the help of which it was possible to understand in detail the main aspects of the current state of the European Union and its member states. This course is based on the work of famous modern scientists from Ukraine, Europe and America and allows you to look at the object of study from different angles.
Special thanks to the teacher Svitlana Soroka, who teaches this course on the highest level, provides concise information. She is impartial and open. Therefore, she gives students the opportunity to understand the material and form their own opinion on each topic.
Roman Romazanov
MA student of the Institute of Public Administration, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University
This semester we studied an interesting course "EU Institutional and Legal System". I would like to share my impressions. First, the course itself was very interesting, filled with a variety of interactive and visual materials (videos, photos, tables, diagrams). Second, I learned a lot about EU law and institutions. It broadened my knowledge, and in today's world it is very important to be a fully developed person. Third, it is positive that the training took place with the help of a multimedia textbook developed by the teachers of the course.
I really liked that each section of the multimedia textbook has tests to evaluate our knowledge. This course is conducted with elements of learning English. You will know the basic concepts of the EU in a foreign language for sure. Therefore, I recommend this course to anyone interested in EU law and the functioning of its institutions.
Anastasiya Kotenko
MA student in Social Work, Institute of Public Administration, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University
Our 561 group had the opportunity to study a course on the institutional and legal system of the EU. I can confidently say that this course was really interesting, informative and contained quite a variety of tasks, after which the material was better consolidated. I would like to tell about the topics of the course. All of them contained logically structured material and were very relevant. Lectures were always accompanied by various videos, presentations on topics. Equally important that after passing each topic, we had to take a small test, which gave the opportunity to determine the level of knowledge on this topic.
Valeria Matvienko
MA student in Social Work, Institute of Public Administration, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University