Project identifier: 101237607 (EG4HDCEEU4UI)

Programme: ERASMUS-EDU-2025-CBHE-STRAND-1

Project implementation period: 30.09.2025 – 30.09.2028

Project aim is to conduct a comprehensive study of European standards regarding good governance. This is achieved by synthesizing and accumulating the structural experience of countries that have successfully undergone the systemic transition from a post-communist institutional framework to full membership in the European Union.

Consortium members:

• Dragomanov Ukrainian State University (Kyiv, Ukraine) – Project Coordinator;
• Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University (Kyiv, Ukraine);
• Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine);
• Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University (Nizhyn, Ukraine);
• Kryvyi Rih National University (Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine);
• Berdyansk State Pedagogical University (Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine);
• Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnonational Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
• Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (Lublin, Republic of Poland);
• University of Economics in Bratislava (Bratislava, Slovak Republic);
• Baltic International Academy (Riga, Republic of Latvia).

Key objectives and activities: to achieve its mission, the project focuses on the following strategic tasks:

• development and subsequent piloting of a specialized academic training course;
• organization of professional roundtable discussions and forums to facilitate high-level dialogue;
• fostering a robust environment for the international exchange of expertise and professional experience;
• drafting comprehensive policy proposals and submitting them to state authorities for further integration into national governance frameworks;
• dissemination of successful European practices through dedicated public resources and specialized academic platforms;
• establishment of sustainable horizontal communication networks connecting higher education institutions, think tanks, educational programme stakeholders, and governmental bodies;
• active promotion of European governance models and sustainable development strategies within the Ukrainian educational and administrative landscape.

Project coordinator: Leonid Yemets, Vice-Rector for Relations with State Authorities and Local Self-Governance at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, Doctor of Science in Law, Professor.

Project co-coordinator: Nataliia Vinnikova, Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, Doctor of Science in Philology, Professor.