17–21 March 2026
Rome, Italian Republic

From 17 to 21 March 2026, the first coordination meeting of partners in the international project “Don’t (MENO) Pause”, implemented within the Erasmus+ Sport programme, took place in Rome. Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University was represented at the event by Iryna Hruzevych, Associate Professor, Deputy Dean for Research and International Affairs at the Faculty of Health, Physical Education and Sport, and Olena Timasheva, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Physical Education and Sports Pedagogy.

During the working meeting, project partners from Sportsko učilište PESG (Croatia), ROMNI APS (Italy), Udruženje Žene za Žene International (Bosnia and Herzegovina), ATERMON BV (Netherlands), ANCE (Greece), and Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University (Ukraine) worked on aligning the project vision, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and defining the next steps for implementation.
The discussions covered key areas such as project objectives, work packages, communication, quality assurance, and financial matters. The meeting participants developed a dissemination strategy for the project results and discussed opportunities for publishing materials in journals indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) databases, as well as presenting findings at international conferences.

The event marked an important milestone in strengthening international cooperation and reaffirmed the status of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University as a leading coordination hub and research support center for the project in Ukraine. The meeting provided a platform for exchanging ideas and forming a shared understanding of the project's strategic direction.