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DESTIN: INFORMATION SHEET
Erasmus+ KA2 – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices – Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education
Journalism Education for Democracy in Ukraine: Developing Standards, Integrity and Professionalism
Project number: 598964-EPP-1-2018-1-UK-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
Project acronym: DESTIN
Type of project: National Project
Action type: Joint Projects
Priority: Higher Education and Society
Project duration: 15 November 2018 – 14 November 2021
EU funding instrument: European Neighbourhood Instrument (Erasmus+: KA2 CBHE)
Erasmus+ (CBHE) grant amount: 798470,00 €
Target groups: Ukraine and EU Universities, university students, secondary schools, employers i.e. Journalism staff teams, media managers, lifelong learning.
Grant holder: Bath Spa University, United Kingdom
Coordinator and General Manager: Prof. Paul Hyland, Head of European and Postgraduate Taught Development, Bath Spa University
Contacts: tel: +44 (0)1225 875564, email: p.hyland@bathspa.ac.uk
Partnership:
Ukraine
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Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
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Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy
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Academician Stepan Demianchuk International University of Economics and Humanities
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Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
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Mariupol State University
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Sumy State University
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Ukrainian Catholic University
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Uzhhorod National University
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Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
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Zaporizhzhia National University
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NGO “Ukrainian Association of Students”
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PO “Hromadkse Radio”
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Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
EU
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Bath Spa University, United Kingdom
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Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
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Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland
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Linnaeus University, Sweden
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World University Service, Austria
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Ethnical Journalism Network, United Kingdom
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European Journalism Training Association, Netherlands
Project goals and objectives:
A1. Curriculum Reform: to reform, start to deliver and evaluate new/revised curriculum for 9 BA and 11 MA Journalism programmes (2 degrees in each of the 10 Ukrainian partner universities), and the institutional quality assurance for academic programmes, so that all new/revised programmes are aligned with European Qualifications Frameworks (EQF), meeting European standards of integrity and professionalism, improving students’ industry engagement, career preparation and employability, and enabling staff and students to develop strong and sustainable connections with European journalism departments and associations;
A2. Curriculum Context: to enhance the media environment in which Journalism graduates will work: improving the ‘media literacy’ of key target groups, providing new opportunities for Journalism students to engage with public audiences during their training, and raising public awareness of the vital role of journalists and media in the promotion and protection of citizens’ rights within a multi-cultural democracy.
Specific project objectives are:
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to audit (desk review) all current curriculum (20 degrees), with gap analyses and action plans;
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to train curriculum teams in the alignment of programmes and QA with EQF standards;
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to use European models of Journalism education to inform curriculum reform;
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to train academic and professional staff in principles and processes of peer review;
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to conduct peer review (including 10 site visits) of all new/revised programmes;
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to deliver and evaluate the first year of all new/revised BA and MA programmes;
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to produce National Guideline Statements for BA and MA Journalism education;
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to maximize public stakeholder engagement and participation in the work of the project;
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to deliver and evaluate Outreach Media-Literacy Courses for target groups;
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to maximize the sustainability of the work and outputs of the project.
Activities:
The DESTIN project will be conducted through many kind of activities: from confidential discussions with an external stakeholder and analysis of anonomysed student opinion to large public conferences and open online discussion forums. All of the tools and methodologies employed are tried and tested means of educational management, staff and student development, and ethical change management in general. The style of ‘presentations’ may occasionally appear didactic (depending on the presenter) but the pedagogical design and ethos for conferences, meetings etc. will be inclusive and interactive (as in the spirit of SCL).
The materials for many of the key activities/processes in the Development WPs for the project will be largely derived from the recent ALIGN project. These materials and practices are already well understood by at least 7 of the DESTIN partners (as former partners in ALIGN); are all readily available in Ukrainian translation as well as English; and were highly praised by all internal and external voices in the final evaluation of the project. This means that DESTIN can build upon a strong base, and that is vital in order to attain our objectives in good time.
Key milestones will be:
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Completion of all essential start up, including Launch conference, GB meeting, procurement of equipment in the first months of the project. We aim to undertake considerable pre-project planning before the start on 15/11/2018.
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Completion of all the programme revisions and presentation of new documentation for approval within each Ukrainian university, so that new/revised programmes can be delivered for at least one whole year, starting in Autumn of 2020. We will ask for clear and official statements from each university to ensure good understanding of our needs, and our compliance with each university’s requirements.
The distinction between new and revised programmes is not easy. We are anticipating profound changes to most BA and MA programmes in many ways (curriculum and pedagogy, training, assessment, industry engagement, etc.), but they may not change their names (title of awards) so they may not technically qualify as ‘new’ courses. We know that these are programmes that are already in existence: so these are not new courses in that sense.
There will certainly be a suite of totally new courses (the Outreach Media-Literacy Online Courses) within three study programmes delivered online. These will also provide a supervised training opportunity for Masters student in the new/revised academic programmes.
Expected results:
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Qualitative changes in development of journalism education in Ukraine through audit, assessment, review of existing and delivering of new or revised curricula for 9 BA and 11 MA Journalism programmes in 10 Ukrainian universities with the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) and European standards of integrity and professionalism.
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Development of National Guideline Statements for BA and MA journalism education in Ukraine.
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Creation of interaction and cooperation network between universities, national employers and students self-government in the field of journalism education in Ukraine.
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Creation of interaction and cooperation network between Ukraine and EU universities and professional organizations in the field of journalism education.
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Development of Media-Literacy Online Courses for non-professionals target groups in the field of journalism, media and communications.
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Creation and launching of specialized website for further dissemination and exploitation of DESTIN project results.
Project coordinator in Ukraine:
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of Journalism
http://www.univ.kiev.ua/en/
Tel.: +380(44) 239 31 82,+380(44) 239 31 66, +380 (44) 239 31 50, fax: +380(44) 239 31 00, +380(44) 239 31 50 (Office for International Cooperation, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
Tel.: +380(44) 481 44 01, fax: +380(44) 483 09 81 (Institute of Journalism of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
Responsible person: Bogdana Nosova, Associate Professor of Social Communications Department, Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Contacts: tel.: +380505064732 (Mobile); email: bogdana.nosova@gmail.com
Partners from Ukraine:
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Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, Department of Journalism, Advertising and PR-technologies
http://www.cdu.edu.ua/en/
Tel.: +38(0472) 37 21 42, +38(0472) 35 44 63, fax: +38(0472) 35 44 63
Responsible person: Svitlana Koval, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Journalism, Advertising and PR-technologies, Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy
Contacts: tel.: +380504645074 (Mobile), +380979761979 (Mobile);
email: svitlana.koval.chnu@gmail.com
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Academician Stepan Demianchuk International University of Economics and Humanities
http://www.megu.edu.ua/en/
Tel.: +38(0362) 63 72 34, fax: +38(0362) 23 01 86
Responsible person: Olha Mitchuk, Dean of the Faculty of Journalism, Academician Stepan Demianchuk International University of Economics and Humanities
Contacts: tel.: +380964107513 (Mobile), +380503393424 (Mobile), email: mitchukoa@ukr.net
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Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Faculty of Journalism
http://www.lnu.edu.ua/en/
https://journ.lnu.edu.ua/
Tel.: +38(032) 261 14 91, +38(032) 239 47 24, +38(032) 239 41 82
Responsible person: Nataliia Habor, Associate Professor at New Media Department, Faculty of Journalism, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Contacts: tel.: +380505052045 (Mobile), email: nat.gabor@gmail.com
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Mariupol State University
http://en.mdu.in.ua/
Tel.: +38 (0629) 58 75 90, fax: +38 (0629) 53 22 70
Responsible person: Svitlana Bezchotnikova, Professor of Mariupol State University
Contacts: tel.: +380972454231 (Mobile), email: sbezchotnikova@gmail.com
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Sumy State University
http://sumdu.edu.ua/int/en
Tel./fax: +38(0542) 68 77 55, +38(0542) 64 04 99
Responsible person: Kostyantyn Kyrychenko, Head of the International Affairs Office of Sumy State University
Tel/fax: +38 (0542) 33 10 81, Mobile: +380990799552, email: info@dir.sumdu.edu.ua
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Ukrainian Catholic University, School of Journalism
https://ucu.edu.ua/en/
Tel.: +38(032) 240 99 40, email: info@ucu.edu.ua
Responsible person: Iurii Opoka, Head of the Ukrainian Catholic University Master’s Program in Journalism
Contacts: tel.: +380674555358 (Mobile), email: Yraopoka@gmail.com
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State University “Uzhhorod National University”, Faculty of Philology, Department of Journalism
https://www.uzhnu.edu.ua/en/
Tel.: +380503723767 (Mobile), +38 (03122) 3 33 41, fax: +38 (03122) 3 42 02
Responsible person: Galyna Shapovalova, Associate Professor at Journalism Department, Faculty of Philology, State University “Uzhhorod National University”.
Contacts: tel.: +380501625285 (Mobile), email: hshapovalova@gmail.com
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Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
http://en.chnu.edu.ua/
Tel.: +38(0372) 58 48 10 – Rector, +38(0372) 58 47 02 – Department of Journalism, fax: +38(0372) 55 29 14, +38(0372) 58 47 07 – Rector
Responsible person: Roman Paziuk, Associate Professor at the Department of Journalism, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
Contacts: tel.: +380667853822 (Mobile), email: paziukpost@gmail.com
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Zaporizhzhia National University, Faculty of Journalism;
https://www.znu.edu.ua/frontpage/3594.eng.html
Tel.: +380(61) 289 41 11, +380(61) 289 12 24, fax: +380(61) 228 75 08
Responsible person: Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova, Associate Professor at Department of
Journalism, Faculty of Journalism, Zaporizhzhia National University
Contacts: tel.: +380661114753 (Mobile), email: ksirinyok@gmail.com
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NGO “Ukrainian Association of Students”
http://uas.ngo
Tel. Mobile: +380939150872, +380734997970
Responsible person: Lidiia Fesenko, President of the Ukrainian Association of Students
Contacts: tel.: +380939150872 (Mobile), email: lidafes11@gmail.com
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PO “Hromadkse Radio”
https://hromadske.radio/
Tel: +38(044) 279 72 09
Responsible person: Nataliia Klochun, Grant manager,
Contacts: tel.: +380954865638 (Mobile), email: projects@hromadske.radio
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Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine