The Content and Technology Laboratory started working at the Faculty of Journalism on September 1, 2021. The KiT Training Laboratory (KiT – Content and Technologies) at the Department of New Media of the Faculty of Journalism is a structural unit of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, which expands the educational opportunities for students of the Faculty of Journalism in creating modern digital content and its promotion. The laboratory was established as a result of cooperation between Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko and Bath Spa University (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) within the Erasmus + KA2 project “Journalism Education for Democracy in Ukraine” (which lasts from 2018 to 2022).

The laboratory was created in order to bring the conditions of training of future journalists as close as possible to the conditions of work with modern digital publications, to form in them the ability to work with multiplatform content.

Main tasks and functions:

– Ensure the quality of the educational process at the Faculty of Journalism, providing students of all departments with access to modern means of creating digital content for in-depth mastery of skills to create and promote innovative content for online media (VR-technology, game (gaming) journalism), respectively to the requirements of the media market.

– To create an innovative educational and professional journalistic environment for students and teachers of the Department of New Media of the Faculty of Journalism.

– Grant access and the right to use the laboratory equipment free of charge to other employees of the faculty or the University who implement joint projects on the basis of the Faculty of Journalism.

– Collaborate with employees of other faculties of the University, which would contribute to the creation of the latest initial and professional programs to work on media platforms.

– To promote the implementation of state educational and research projects and programs in the identified priority thematic areas of research of the faculty in general and the Department of New Media in particular.

– Involve students, graduate students, doctoral students and young scientists in educational and educational-professional projects.

The technical equipment of the Laboratory was purchased on the basis of the Erasmus + KA2 project “Journalism Education for Democracy”:

 

Within its powers, the laboratory cooperates with structural divisions of the University to expand the educational opportunities of students of the Faculty of Journalism.

The Ki-laboratory is a platform for meetings with online journalists, bloggers, and new media researchers. Recently, The Ukrainians School of Practical Journalism continued to work with colleagues from the Faculty of Journalism and the Content and Technology Laboratory and offers students to master the specifics of the journalistic profession on the basis of the editorial office. During this training, students will have a real opportunity to immerse themselves in the work of online editing, learn to write news by journalistic standards, as well as join the media ecosystem “The Ukrainians” – writing interviews, reports, podcasts, photos and videos, SMM.

Meetings with interesting speakers within the Laboratory take place almost every week – this is a great opportunity for students to have space for diverse learning based on practical cases.

Laboratory staff:

Lavrysh Yuliana Stepanivna – head of the laboratory (yulianaloverysh@gmail.com)
Mandryka Andriy Vasyliovych – laboratory engineer (andriymandryka@ukr.net)
Struk Maryana Vasylivna is a leading specialist of the laboratory (strukmaryana113@gmail.com).

We can be found at: st. Generala Chuprynki, 49, aud. 107