Jour Fixe: New Visiting Fellows from Ukraine

The Zukunftskolleg invited everyone to the jour fixe led by our Visiting Fellows from Ukraine.

We invited you to our hybrid Jour fixe on Tuesday, 22 November.

Four of our Visiting Fellows from Ukraine gave a presentation:

Yeliena Kovalska (History and Sociology), Roksoliana Liubachivska (Politics and Public Administration), Maryna Lytvyn
(Economics) and Kateryna Osadcha (Computer Science/Economics Education).

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Yeliena's talk was entitled "Use of factorial design to determine the significance of personal social status characteristics (according to the Adapted for Ukraine Warner’s Status Characteristics Index)".

Abstract:
Adapted Warner’s Index consists of four characteristics: Occupation, Income, Condition of the accommodation and Area of residence. The weight of the characteristics in the formula was calculated as a result of a experts (in the field of stratification of the Ukrainian society) survey. To check the correctness of the weight of characteristics in the formula for calculating Adapted Warner’s Index, it is proposed to use the Factorial Design method. The combination of the potential of the factorial design with the possibilities of methods of measuring social status have perspective cognitive potential. Adapted Warner’s Index, due to its scale-based structure, allows operationalize social status in terms of factorial design. All Adapted Warner’s Index characteristics can be redesign to factors and scales can be redesign to levels. 

Links / literature:
Introduction In: Factorial Survey Experiments
By: Katrin Auspurg & Thomas Hinz

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Roksoliana spoke about "Ukraine's Energy Independence: the roadmap for recovery and energy security".

Abstract:
Energy security is critical to sustaining the state's economic functioning and prosperity. It is also an important component of residents' quality of life and one of the key factors for returning temporarily displaced people to their homes. Furthermore, when Ukraine recovers, energy should become one of the important sectors that generates export income and contributes to the country's financial stability. An informed approach to modernizing Ukraine's energy would enable Ukraine to make a substantial contribution to safeguarding the EU's strategic autonomy and lowering the bloc's reliance on foreign energy supplies. This win-win strategy will hasten Ukraine's entry into the EU. Last 6 months were the most challenging in the history of Ukraine's independence for the Ukrainian energy industry. Such a destruction of energy infrastructure, seizure, bombing of nuclear power plants has never happened before. The primary goal of recovery is to create a stable, modern, and investment-attractive energy industry that provides Ukrainian consumers with clean, affordable, and reliable energy, and relies on responsible domestic energy production development. The key direction is devoted to clean energy, namely renewable energy.

Some interesting links related to the topic

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Maryna talked about "Global Challenges of Sustainable Development of the World Economy".

Abstract:
The topic of the research aims at preparing Ukraine to the adjustment to the European Union. Germany's experience in implementing the policy to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for Ukraine will be used. In November 2020, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) ministers signed the Rome Communiqué, which highlights the key role of higher education in Sustainable development goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations and focuses attention on the support and the development of the higher education institutions’ ability and capacity to prepare their students for “green” work and other activities to achieve SDGs. The following objectives will be formulated in the research: to discuss and summarize the best practices of promoting SDGs, to identify how German universities consider SDGs in their policies, to develop recommendations for quality assurance systems regarding SDG achievement in Ukraine in the context of global challenges.

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Kateryna's presentation was on "Digital design trends and their influence on the training of designers: the experience of blended learning in the conditions of war in Ukraine".

Abstract:
Modern digital art is rapidly developing and penetrating many spheres of human activity, capturing positions in the design of books, posters, advertising products, the computer game industry, and cinema. Innovative areas of digital design are currently augmented and virtual reality, 3D art, Cybernetic art, the art of artificial intelligence, Media art, Space modeling for virtual simulators, Fractal graphics, Digital painting, Web design, Character design etc. All these modern technologies of digital design should be studied during the professional training of future designers.
During the quarantine restrictions caused by the increase in the incidence of influenza (until 2019), the epidemic of the coronavirus disease (after 2019) and during the military aggression of Russia (2022) in Ukraine, the problem of organizing the educational process using technologies of blended, distance, e-learning has become even more relevant.
How to implement the training of future designers in such conditions? This will be not only a conversation, but also a practical example.

Literature:
1.    Osadcha K., Osadchyi V., Kruglyk V., Spirin O. Modeling of the adaptive system of individualization and personalization of future specialists’ professional training in the conditions of blended learning. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 2021.  Vol-3104. P.  43-54.  URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3104/paper138.pdf
2.    Osadcha K. P., Osadchyi V.V., Spirin O. M. Current state and development trends of E-learning in China.    Information Technologies and Learning Tools, 2021. 80(6). P. 207-221. https://doi.org/10.33407/itlt.v80i6.4182
3.    Osadcha K., Osadchyi V., Kruglyk V., Spirin O.  Digital Drawing and Painting in the Training of Bachelors of Professional Education: Experience of Blended Learning    .    In Digital Humanities Workshop (DHW 2021). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 141–147. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3526242.3526245
4.    L'Atelier des Lumières. https://www.atelier-lumieres.com
5.    Kyiv Lights Festival – international festival of light and media art. https://www.kyivlights.com.
6.    Mavka. https://mavka.ua/en/