9th of November, 2016

Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University

November 9, 2016 within the project Tempus "Education for leadership, intelligence and development of talent» (ELITE - Education for Leadership, Intelligence and Talent Encouraging) at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University was held the Second International Scientific and Practical Conference "University and Leadership".

Participants of the conference were greeted by Daina Hudoniyene, coordinator of the project Tempus program, Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania); Simon Williams, Director of the British Council in Ukraine (UK); Vasyl Kremen, President of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine (Ukraine).

At the plenary session of the conference key speakers were: Jill Jamison, University of Greenwich (UK), Victor Ogneviuk, Rector of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University (Ukraine); Vuokko Kohtamaki, University of Tampere (Finland), Gregory Rayter, Rayter Corporation (USA).

Conference continued with the next thematic sessions:

• "Leadership Practices: program of development leadership potential of Ukrainian universities"
• "The quality of higher education"
• "Cooperation with the business"
• "The practice of leadership in Ukrainian universities"

The results of the conference summarized moderator of the event, Svetlana Kalashnikova, Director of Institute of Higher Education National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, who underlined the importance of the universities’ participation in the international projects, and invited participants to the Third International Scientific Conference "University and Leadership", that would take place on the basic of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University in May 2017.