CPEA-201510119-Internarional_Collaboration_Project_Bergen_NaUKMA_LNU

2022_Frankfurt_Report_Learning Economics with Dynamic Modelling

EURASIA PROGRAM
Norwegian Cooperation Programme in Higher Education with Eurasia
CPEA—2015/10119 “Extended Learning of Economics with Dynamic Modeling”
2016 – 2019, 2019 – 2022
› Main partner institution in Norway
University of Bergen
System Dynamics Group
Professor David Wheat
› Main partner institution outside Norway
National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”
Department of Finance
Professor Iryna Lukianenko
› Network partners
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Department of Mathematical Economics and Econometrics
Professor Volodymyr Kyrylych
supported by the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education (DIKU).

The overall goal is to Extend successful capacity-building efforts for Learning Economics with
Dynamic Modeling (E—LEDM) by achieving four primary goals:
(1) developing capacity at an additional Ukrainian University LNU in addition to extending and deepening the capacity development underway at NaUKMA
After three years of successful capacity-building collaboration between the System Dynamics Group at the University of Bergen in Norway (UiB) and the Finance Department at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine (NaUKMA), we are extending our partnership to include a third Ukrainian institution: the Department of Mathematical Economics and Econometrics at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (LNU). Just as there has been a history of collaboration between NaUKMA and UiB, a significant relationship between NaUKMA and LNU has developed over the past five years, with LNU mathematics professors participating in NaUKMA conferences and NaUKMA finance department professors participating in seminars at LNU. NaUKMA and LNU professors have also collaborated on joint publications, and NaUKMA professor Lukianenko serves on the dissertation committee of a LNU professor Oliskevych. LNU professors learned about the NaUKMA/UiB dynamic modeling education and training program, they expressed enthusiastic interest in joining our project team and developing dynamic modeling capacity at LNU. Thus, our first primary goal is to continue dynamic modeling capacity – building at NaUKMA and begin similar capacity – building at LNU. All efforts are expected to help us establish a collaborative center of excellence devoted to dynamic modeling of economic systems. The modeling methods would include system dynamics, econometrics, and financial and economic analytics.
(2) engaging with economists at the Central Bank in Ukraine
(3) assisting secondary schools in Ukraine
(4) developing a double-degree program for students qualifying in Norway and Ukraine

Our E-LEDM strategy for extending dynamic modeling capacity – building
• train the trainers in Norway
During each autumn/spring semester, 2016-2022, about 10 master and PhD students from NaUKMA and
LNU have been taken three foundation courses in system dynamics modeling at UiB, along with about 50
other international students who enroll in that program each year. In addition, special topics course in
dynamic modeling-designed has been offered specifically for the small group of Ukrainian students from NaUKMA and LNU.
• provide online training to sustain the collaboration in the years ahead
lt is important that capacity building requires more than Ukrainians traveling to Norway to get training in modelling methods and techniques. It involves institutionalizing the new capacities ‘back home’ in ways that generate a mutually reinforcing process that is sustainable within NaUKMA and LNU. We emphasize curriculum changes involving new courses and new ways to teach old courses. We emphasize utilizing the new skills in research projects in collaboration with senior scholars, dissemination of the research findings in scientific journals and conferences, and building international collegial networks that provide support and motivation for further development of the dynamic modelling skills.

Participants from LNU
in 2022 :
• Anastasia Demchenko (1 year master student)
in 2021 :
• Maria Babii nna Oliskevych (1 year master student)
• Maryna Paletska (1 year master student)
• Diana Hutsul (1 year master student)
in 2019 :
• Kateryna Savolchuk (1 year master student)
• Natalia Dubrovna (1 year master student)
• Oleksandr Hnatiuk (1 year master student)
• Marianna Mychalenych (1 year master student)
• Olena Khrystan (1 year master student)
• Khrystyna Tsvyk (1 year master student)
• Olga Shybystiuk (1 year master student)
in 2018 :
• Khrystyna Kovtun (1 year master student)
• Oleksandra Krasivska (1 year master student)
in 2017 :
• Marianna Oliskevych (Professor)
• Valerii Kozytskyi (Assistance Professor)
• Iryna Petermeier (2 year master student)
• Diana Obarianyk (1 year master student)
• Mariana Kozyra (1 year master student)
• Oksana Sidenko (1 year master student)
• Marian-Makar Bilyk (1 year master student)
• Lesia Protsyshak (PhysicsTeacher at Lviv Academic Gymnasium)
in 2016 :
• Marian Serediak (2 year master student)
• Natalia Leush (2 year master student)
• Kseniia Dosyn (2 year master student)
• Iryna Senyshyn (2 year master student)
• Khrystyna Khomyk (2 year master student)