The Don't (meno) PAUSE project promotes healthy lifestyle and physical activity as vital tools for enhancing well-being and fostering confidence in women navigating menopause. This is achieved through high-quality educational materials, innovative digital tools and the development of a supportive, active community.

The aim of the project is to empower menopausal women through the integration of sports science, digital innovation and community support. The project brings together partners from six countries (Croatia, the Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Italy and Ukraine) to create an inclusive environment where women can receive expert support and share experiences.

Key Deliverables. The project framework involves the creation of comprehensive educational and interactive resources:

• Digital Health Guide: A comprehensive guide addressing menopause-related challenges, providing physical and psycho-emotional health support, and promoting holistic wellness.
• Development of a comprehensive digital guide dedicated to menopause issues, physical and mental health support, and promotion of a healthy lifestyle.
• Interactive Web Platform: A user-friendly digital hub that centralizes educational resources and features real-time community engagement tools.
• Community Engagement: Structured online and offline events designed to increase physical activity, support mental health, and mitigate social isolation.
• Sustainability: Ensuring continued access to project resources beyond the Erasmus+ funding period to foster the long-term growth of the initiative.

Expected Outcomes. The primary result of the project will be the establishment of a sustainable cross-border network, engaging over 200 women and providing them with Open Educational Resources (OER). By ensuring long-term access to these materials, the project empowers women to maintain their physical and mental health independently. Ultimately, the initiative seeks to break social isolation and seamlessly integrate healthy habits into participants' daily lives.

Implementation Period: January 1, 2026 – June 30, 2028 (30 months)

Project Coordinator: Georgii LOPATENKO, Dean of the Faculty of Health, Physical Education and Sports, PhD, Associate Professor

Project Participants:

Iryna GRUZEVYCH, Deputy Dean for Research and International Affairs at the Faculty of Health, Physical Education and Sports, PhD, Associate Professor

Olena TIMASHEVA, Head of the Department of Physical Education and Sports Pedagogy, PhD, Associate Professor

Kseniia LITVINOVA, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sports and Fitness, Faculty of Health, Physical Education and Sports

Framework project structure: Approved by CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure), Certificate No. 11372/DOC-176. Implementation period: 28.10.2024 – 27.10.2027

Project objectives:

• organization and coordination of academic and technical activities related to digital linguistics and lexicography;
• research and development in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP);
• semantics research of linguistic units focused on digital linguistics and NLP applications.

Key project tasks:

• development and exchange of digital language tools and web services;
• exchange and/or linking of digital linguistic datasets;
• development and establishment of interoperability for AI-compatible lexicographical standards for European languages, specifically:
  • DMLex Standard – Data Model for Lexicography;
  • OntoLex Standard – Lexicon Model for Ontologies;
• facilitating the interoperability of lexical and lexico-phraseological data of European national languages;
• advanced scientific research in digital lexicology and lexicography;
• development and linking of Large Language Models (LLMs) for AI;
• application of Large Language Models (LLMs) for the research and implementation of AI-based digital lexicography;
• knowledge exchange, including the organization of training sessions and research visits between partner institutions;
• organization of international conferences, workshops, and other academic events related to the project’s scope;
• other activities conducive to the achievement of the aforementioned objectives.

Partner institutions

• Coordinating Institution: Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Artificial Intelligence (Slovenia) – Project Coordinator: Simon Krek;
• Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH), Austria;
• Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, Latvia;
• Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;
• Institute for Digital Resources and Interdisciplinary Research, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania;
• Society for Danish Language and Literature, Denmark;
• Dutch Language Institute (Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal), Netherlands;
• Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia;
• Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia;
• School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA CLUNL), Portugal;
• National Library of Norway, Norway;
• Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy;
• Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, Ukraine;
• Trier Center for Digital Humanities, University of Trier, Germany;
• HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary;
• Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria;
• Institute for Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli", National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ILC), Italy.

Institutional project coordinator: Rusudan Makhachashvili, Head of SRL of Internationalization of Higher Education, Doctor of Science in Philology, Professor.

Partnership: Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University and Co-Serve International (USA)

Implementation period: Ongoing since 2010

Project overview:

The collaboration between Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University and Co-Serve International began in 2010 with the introduction of servant leadership programmes for students. It subsequently expanded to include academic staff and university administration. Co-Serve International has become a key strategic partner in the University's mission to cultivate a robust leadership culture.

The project’s implementation encompasses the development of specialized curricula, seminars, and lectures featuring American trainers and experts. Students and staff participate in a unique leadership track and the annual International Servant Leadership Academy (hosted in Portland, Oregon, USA; Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan; and Kyiv, Ukraine).

Core stages of the international servant leadership programme (ISLP):

• Module 1: Foundations of servant leadership: participants gain a deeper understanding of self and others while identifying the core principles and values of servant leadership.
• Module 2: Mentorship programme: to deepen their understanding, participants work with mentors through a series of 20 weekly discussions. These sessions focus on key servant leadership principles and their practical application in daily life.
• Module 3: International Servant Leadership Academy: a 16-day intensive practicum providing first-hand exposure to the lives of servant leaders. Students visit various organizations and engage with their leaders to study the practical implementation of servant leadership.

In the USA: partners include First Fruits of Washington, AKT LLP, Intel Corporation, Medical Teams International, Warner Pacific College, and others.

In Ukraine: students explore companies such as the Law and Justice Legal Centre, Get Code IT company, Osnovy Foreign Language Centre, Zorya Agricultural Company, AIR company, etc.

• Module 4: Demonstration project: participants synthesize their learning by implementing a capstone project that serves the community and applies the knowledge gained throughout the programme.

Detailed information and participation opportunities: http://cpls.kubg.edu.ua/sluzhinnia/islp.html

Project coordinator: Olena Bondareva, Leading Research Fellow at the Department of Ukrainian Literature, Comparative and Grinchenko Studies, Faculty of Ukrainian Philology, Culture and Art, Doctor of Science in Philology, Professor.

Implementation period: 2025–2026

Host Institution: Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University

Supporting Organizations: Supported and funded by the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE) and the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

The project is designed to achieve the following strategic goals:

- to consolidate scholars from across the Black Sea region to facilitate the exchange of expertise regarding governance, culture, and societal transformations within the area;

- to investigate primary challenges and threats to the region's sustainable development, thereby stimulating academic discourse and expert deliberations on crisis-management strategies and the planning of future case studies and research initiatives;

- to broaden the horizons of international cooperation by engaging new global partners and fostering synergy between diverse academic networks.

Research focus

The international research team will concentrate on the Black Sea region through the lens of historical and contemporary global contexts.

Key areas of inquiry include:

Exogenous and endogenous factors of (in)stability within the region;

Matters of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and conflict transformation;

The intricate intertwining of national identities, cultures, and religions.

Final phase: Summer School

The project will culminate in a week-long International Summer School in June 2026, hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University.

Target Audience: domestic and international scholars, representatives of higher education institutions from the Black Sea region, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and other relevant stakeholders.

Project coordinator: Tetiana Kostiuk, Doctor of Science in Public Administration, Associate Professor, and Professor of the Department of Political Science and Sociology.