Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University has been cooperating with the Ukrainian Standardized External Testing Initiative Legacy Alliance (USETI Alliance) since 2011. This year our University and American Councils for International Education signed the Memorandum of cooperation for the implementation of the project aimed at the improvement of the external testing system in Ukraine (Phase II: 2013-2015).

In the framework of joint cooperation the following activities have been planned:
1) trainings for Kyiv teachers and the directors of Kyiv schools;
2) joint activities to improve the Testing System in Ukraine and to ensure equal access to qualitative higher education in Ukraine;
3) development of a new Master's program in Education Studies ("Osvitologiya") at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University.

During the first year of Project implementation Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University hosted U.S. experts : Yarema Bachynsky, Christina Pendzola-Vitovych, Mark Zelman, Zarko Vukmirovic, which made presentations on testing system in The USA for Kyiv teachers, students of Master's Program "Managers in Education", academic staff of the Research Laboratory in Education Studies (Osvitologiya) and the Institute of Society.

Project coordinator is Olga Veselovska, Head of the International Department