Within the program Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching, from April 28 to May 2, 2025, lecturers of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University – Associate Professor of the Department of Ukrainian Language of the Faculty of Ukrainian Philology, Culture and Art, PhD in Pedagogy Tetiana Horokhova and Senior Lecturer of the Department of Germanic Philology of the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology, PhD Tetiana Horodilova took part in academic mobility at the University of Palermo (Università Degli Studi Di Palermo), Italy.

The process of familiarizing with the work of the University of Palermo and the peculiarities of the implementation of Erasmus+ program was performed during meetings with Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of the Department of Slavic Studies of the University of Palermo Oleg Rumyantsev and the Representative of the International Office Chiara Ajovalasit.

Associate Professor Tetiana Horokhova conducted a series of lectures for Italian students on the course "Ukrainian Language and Culture". The course combined grammatical and lexical material with interactive teaching methods, project work and the use of digital tools. The classes became a lively intercultural dialogue between Ukraine and Italy.

Senior Lecturer Tetiana Horodilova collaborated with the Professor of the Department of Germanic Studies Sabine Hoffmann on practical classes in the German language and linguistic didactics for master students, who are future teachers of German.

Fruitful cooperation included the exchange of experience in teaching methods and techniques, enrichment of the spectrum and content of the offered academic disciplines, launching common initiatives for the development of linguistic studies. The acquired experience of teaching foreign students of philological specialties is extremely useful.

Also, within the framework of the mobility program, colleagues discussed the possibilities of presenting the results of scientific research on Ukrainian and Germanic studies in common publications of academic editions of the University of Palermo.

We sincerely thank our colleagues from the University of Palermo for their organizational support, openness to new projects and support of Ukrainian culture in the European education area!

Materials provided by SRL of Internationalization of Higher Education