INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY
The ongoing support from the Regional English Language Office of the U.S. Embassy enables the Department's educators to participate in various projects and programs.
In 2025-2026 the Department of Foreign Languages hosted Daniel Hagen, a Virtual Educator from the USA, who conducted online classes for two groups of students and a group of academics from both our Department and other departments of our university.
In 2023 the Department won a RELO grant to meet the needs of Ukrainian professionals and civil servants who will need English to carry out duties now or in the future. Within the framework of the project Empowering civil servants with English to strengthen Ukraine, five teachers from the department conducted online professional English classes for those working in governmental institutions in the Dnipropetrovsk region. As a result, during October 2023 - November 2025, two cohorts (almost 200 people) of public servants improved their English communication skills.
British Council is one of the most important partners in international cooperation for the Department of Foreign Languages. The Departmental staff took part in the majority of the British Council Ukraine projects for English language teaching at tertiary level: Business English Course Design, the National ESP Curriculum for Universities, National Trainer Development Scheme.
In 2015, our University joined the project English for Universities carried out by the British Council and the Ministry of Education. This project aims to improve existing practices of teaching English and teaching in English at the tertiary educational level.
In the framework of this project, more than 30 language teachers and lecturers of various departments of the National Mining University successfully passed the language test APTIS and took part in training sessions delivered by British experts. Teacher Development trainings, which covered the following areas of teaching�
- EAP (English for Academic Purposes),
- ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and
- EMI (English as a Medium of Instruction),
�were held in Kyiv (24-29 November, 2015) and Lviv (1-6 December, 2015)
We are happy to share valuable practices and experiences gained during these events with our colleagues from other universities. Please follow the announcements for seminars and trainings given by the project participants on our�News page�and on�Facebook.Those who couldn't attend the events can find the presentations, handouts and other�materials here:
