During November-December 2023, Associate professors of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Associate Professor Iryna Ablieieva and Candidate of Engineering Sciences, Associate Professor Roman Vaskin participated in training courses on improving the skills of workers in the bioenergy sector within the framework of the EBRD/GEF project "Knowledge Management Program for the Development of Sustainable bioenergy". The executor of the project is Biomass Scientific Research Center.

Inna TRUNOVA, Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Technologies of Sumy State University, and Yevhen BATALTSEV, Senior Lecturer of the Department, completed their studies at the international online summer school of the University of Liverpool, which took place from 3 to 21 July 2023.

Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies Yelizaveta Chernysh took part in the Plant-Soil Restoration UUKi Twinning Network Workshops, which took place on July 4-5, 2023, at the Lancaster University Campus in Leipzig, Germany.

The MSCA4Ukraine consortium has announced the results of the evaluation and selection of grant program participants. Funding under the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Program is provided to 124 scientists from Ukraine to continue their research in 21 host countries. Scholarships were awarded to applicant organizations from the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Among the scientists who received this support is Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies Yelizaveta Chernysh. She received a grant to conduct postdoctoral research at the Czech University of Natural Sciences in Prague as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action grant program.

In the period from December 5 to 22, 2022, Associate Professor Ivan Koziy is undergoing a scientific internship on the topic of "The implementation of the principles of the concept of sustainable development in the environmental protection activities of industrial enterprises - the EU experience" at the Teadmus Scientific and Technical Organization and the Tallinn University of Technology TalTech (Tallinn, Estonia).

Senior lecturer Iryna Vaskina completed a 3-month scientific internship at the Department of Construction and Geoengineering of the Poznan University of Natural Sciences.

Roman VASKIN, Associated Professor at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies, Sumy State University (Ukraine) took part in project ERASMUS+ No. 2021-1-PL01-KA131-HED-000003560 at the Department of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, University of Life Sciences in Lublin. The program lasted from October 3 till October 7, 2022.

In the period from September 8 to October 8, 2022, Associate Professor Roman Vaskin hold a scientific internship on the topic of Research on biogas production processes from agro-industrial waste at the Laboratory of Ecotechnologies of the Poznań University of Natural Sciences (by supervision of prof. Jacek Dah).

The 6-month scientific internship of the Senior Lecturer of the department, PhD, Associate Professor Iryna Ablieieva, which she is taking at the invitation of her colleague Alex Enrich Prast from Linköping University, Sweden. The internship takes place on the basis of the Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Changes of this university. The goal of the academic mobility program is to increase the level of practical training in conducting experimental studies on the determination of carbon content in digestate and carbon accumulation in soil when using digestate as fertilizer on the basis of a chemical analysis laboratory.

October 6, 2022 senior lecturer of the department, Ph.D., Associate Professor Iryna Ablieieva, at the invitation of her colleague Alex Enrich Prast from the Linköping University, Sweden, participated in a webinar lecture for students of higher education studying at this university under various programs, including exchange programs for foreign students.

Postgraduate student of 2 years of study Skvortsova Polina began her internship at the University of Linköping (Sweden) within the framework of the Erasmus + program. Academic mobility involves studying the course "Sustainable Development in a Global Context" and gaining practical experience in the biogas laboratory while taking the course "Research Skills in Environmental Science".

From April 18 to June 30, 2022, senior teacher Iryna Vaskina completed a scientific internship at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection of the Poznań University of Life Sciences. The goal of the academic mobility program was to increase the level of practical training in conducting applied research at the laboratory of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection in the field of measurement and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, analysis of climate changes, as well as biogas and biomethane production technologies from various types of raw materials.

The internship of Viktoriia Chubur, 2nd year PhD student at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies of Sumy State University, is about to be completed at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU) under the Erasmus+ Program.

Associate Professor Roman Vaskin and Senior Lecturer Irina Vaskina took part in 3rd International Scientific Symposium “Sustainable development  – the state and prospects". The event was organized by Lviv Polytechnic National University, Institute of Sustainable Development named by Vyacheslav Chornovil, with the participation of the All-Ukrainian Ecological League. From January 26 to 29, 2022, plenary and sectional meetings were held in the village of Slavske on the basis of the Polytechnic-2 Training and Health Camp.