Journalism Education for Democracy in Ukraine: Developing Standards, Integrity and Professionalism
Name of Erasmus+ programme direction: KA2: Cooperation Among Organisations and Institutions
Project type: Capacity Building in Higher Education
Project number: 598236-EPP-1-2018-1-LT–EPPKA2-CBHE–SP
Project name: Journalism Education for Democracy in Ukraine: Developing Standards, Integrity and Professionalism
Short name of the project: DESTIN
Main project coordinator: Bath Spa University (Great Britain)
Project coordinator from KNU: Bohdana Nosova, Candidate of Social Communications Sciences (PhD), Associate Professor at the Department of Social Communications
Structural unit, on the basis of which the project is implemented: Institute of Journalism
Project implementation period: 2018-2021.
Consortium members:
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)
Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (Ireland)
Linnaeus University (Sweden)
World University Service (Austria)
Ethical Journalism Network (UK)
European Journalism Training Association (Netherlands)
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine)
Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy (Ukraine)
Academician Stepan Demianchuk International University of Economics and Humanities (Ukraine)
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine)
Mariupol State University (Ukraine)
Sumy State University (Ukraine)
Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukraine)
Uzhhorod National University (Ukraine)
Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University (Ukraine)
Zaporizhzhia National University (Ukraine)
Public organisation “Ukrainian Association of Students” (Ukraine)
Public organisation “Public Radio” (Ukraine)
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (Ukraine)
Brief description of the project:
The purpose of the project:
- Curriculum reform: to reform, begin disseminating and evaluating new/revised curricula for 9 undergraduate programmes and 11 graduate journalism programmes (2 curricula in each of 10 Ukrainian partner universities) and institutional quality control of academic programmes so that all new/revised curricula were made in accordance with the European Qualifications Framework (EQF), met European standards of integrity and professionalism, improved student engagement in the industry, training and employability, and enabled staff and students to develop strong and sustainable links with European journalism faculties and associations;
- Curriculum – context: to improve the media environment in which journalism graduates will work: to improve the level of “media literacy” of key target groups, to provide journalism students with new opportunities to engage the public during their studies, and to raise public awareness of the vital role of journalists and the media in protecting the rights of citizens and supporting these aims in a multicultural democracy.