Information Sheet for Incoming Exchange Students
Academic year 2020/2021 WELCOME TO TARAS SHEVCHENKO
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV!
UNIVERSITY INFORMATION Name of the Taras Shevchenko National University of University Kyiv
Pic code 994789903 Rector Prof. Leonid V. Huberskyi Website http://www.univ.kiev.ua/en/#geninf INTERNATIONAL OFFICE INFORMATION Name of the Office Office for International Cooperation
Address 60, Volodymyrska Street, 01601, Kyiv, Ukraine Phone +380442393182 E-mail [email protected] Homepage http://www.umz.univ.kiev.ua/index.php/en/ FB page https://www.facebook.com/irotsnuk/?ref=bookmarks STAFF INFORMATION Vice-Rector on Research and Academic Prof. Petro Bekh
Affairs (International Cooperation) E-mail: [email protected] Phone:+380442393182 Room № 229 Head of the Office for International Andrii Kravchenko Coopeartion E-mail: [email protected] Phone:+380442393182 Room № 229 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TEAM Erasmus+ Coordinator Aliona Kurchenko E-mail:[email protected] Phone:+380442393150 Room № 267 Mevlana Officer Nadiia Seryogina E-mail: [email protected] Phone:+380442393150 Room № 267 International Cooperation Officer Anna Romanchuk (Invitation) E-mail: [email protected] Phone:+380442393150 Room № 267 International Cooperation Officer Mykola Semiankiv (Residence permit) Phone:+380442393150 Room № 267 BEFORE THE MOBILITY HOW TO APPLY?
Required Documents:
Erasmus+ Programme • Nomination. The home university sends nomination letter (name, duration of stay, field of study and e-mail address of the nominated students) by e-mail to [email protected]. • Application form (see Annexes). • Learning Agreement. It should be duly filled in electronically (not handwritten), agreed signed by you and also signed and stamped by the responsible coordinator at your university. • Scan of passport.
• Consent to personal data collection and processing (see Annexes).
Bilateral Coopeartion • Nomination from a sending institution. • Application form. • Your study plan should be duly filled in electronically (not handwritten), agreed with your academic coordinator at Home and Host institution, signed by you and also signed and stamped by the responsible coordinator at your university, language certificate, transctipt of records • Scan of passport, Consent to personal data collection and processing (see Annexes).
Mevlana Exchange Cooperation - Nomination from home university (name, duration of stay, field of study and e-mail address of the nominated students) by e-mail to [email protected] - Application form (see Annexes), Learning Protocol (It should be duly filled in, agreed & signed by you and also signed and stamped by the responsible coordinator at your university, language certificate - Scan of passport & Consent to personal data collection and processing (see Annexes).
Course catalog*:
http://mobility.univ.kiev.ua/?page_id=1711&lang=en
*Please, note that the course catalog is subject to change.
All documents must be in pdf-format, sent to the e-mail: [email protected]. In subject field of his/her e-mail, student should write – PROGRAMME-NAME OF THE UNIVERSITY-STUDENT_MOBILITY- NAME OF STUDENT. Example: ERASMUS+-UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA-STUDENT_MOBILITY-MARIA CAVALLIO N.B!
Please, check with your home university how many ECTS you need to cover!
We would recommend you to visit courses for approximately 30 ECTS per semester or 60 ECTS per year.
Application deadlines for incoming students
For winter term: May 15 For summer term: November 15 INVITATION AND VISA
All students are required to obtain a visa for a period longer than 3 months. Office for International Cooperation will provide incoming students with an Invitation needed to receive a visa.
Documents 1. Passport (scan copy) required for 2. Consent to personal data collection and processing Invitation Preparation Up to 3 weeks time Invitation Via e-mail (scan copy) delivering Via University post* (hard copy) Via express delivery services (in urgent cases; fee)
*Invitation delivering via University post (no fees) can take few weeks. Visa After receiving an Invitation, you should apply to the Embassy of Ukraine in your country / any Consulate outside Ukraine**
N.B! In case if the Ukrainian Embassy in your country asks you for an e-mail from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, stating our acknowledge of your Erasmus, Mevlana or exchange student status headed off to Kyiv or tells you that it did not received a copy of your Invitation or you are not registered in its data base, we kindly ask you to inform us about this on the e-mails: [email protected] [email protected] immediately!
**We kindly ask you to inform us which one
RESIDANCE PERMIT
You can start your registration procedure in Ukraine upon arrival. TSNUK Office for International Cooperation will assist you in this.
Required documents:
8 photos 3,5/4,5cm;
Passport with visa (!with marks crossing the border!), translation into Ukrainian language of the first page will be made upon arrival;
Ukrainian insurance. You will have to get it in Kyiv in the Migration Office, price is 450 UAH/semester (=14, 68 EUR), 600 UAH/year (=19, 57 EUR), as of May 2019.
N.B! If the Embassy of Ukraine in your country demands an insurance while you apply for visa, we suggest you to get the cheapest one for one month, because if you obtain the insurance in your country of residence for the whole period of academic mobility, you will need its translation into Ukrainian language and the cost of translation will be much more expensive than to purchase the insurance in Ukraine.
Residence permit fee around 900UAH (=29, 37 EUR) , as of May 2019.
ACCOMODATION
All incoming students could be provided with University dormitory with relevant fee. The total number of University dormitories is 21. For detailed information concerning a dormitory, you should contact your academic coordinator on the host department/faculty of Kyiv University. The list of academic coordinators is provided below.
ACADEMIC COORDINATORS
Faculty/Institute Academic Coordinator’s Name and contact e-mail Faculty of Economics Ms Tetiana Onysenko Web: econom.univ.kiev.ua [email protected]
Faculty of History Ms Alina Kornienko [email protected] Web: history.univ.kiev.ua Faculty of Sociology Ms Svitlana Babenko
Web: soc.univ.kiev.ua [email protected]
Institute of Philology Ms Kateryna Bilyk
Web: philology.knu.ua [email protected]
Institute of International Relations Mr Anton Nenavov [email protected] Web: iir.edu.ua
Other Faculties/Institutes – on demand via [email protected]
WHAT IS MY DORM ADDRESS?
You can find an address of your dormitory on https://studmisto.knu.ua (available in Ukrainian only).
You can paste https://studmisto.knu.ua into google translate and have other language version.
ACADEMIC CALENDAR*
Winter Summer term term September 1 - Mid January- December 31 June 30
Examinations Examinations - end of - end of June December
*Academic calendar is subject to change
DURING THE MOBILITY LEARNING AGREEMENT
During your study at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv you can make changes to your Learning Agreement (LA). You should ask your Academic Coordinator about information on right titles of new disciplines, number of credits etc. Then you should submit your LA to Academic Mobility Office for signature and stamp.
Academic Mobility Office
Address: 60, Volodymyrska Street,
Room 222
Phone: +380442393285
E-mail: [email protected]
STUDENT CARD
Office for International Cooperation will assist you in obtaining a student card (room 267).
1 Photo 3x4 cm LANGUAGE COURSES*
• Ukrainian Languages • Russian
• Institute of Philology Place • Room 61
• Monday, Tuesday, Thursday When? • 1 p.m.
Registration • upon arrival
Fee • free of charge
*Extracurricular TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDS
Transcript of Records is NOT delivered automatically. First you should ask for your academic results at the faculty/institute you are studying. Then you need submit your academic results to Academic Mobility Office which will provide you with an official Transcript of Records.
You have to receive your transcript BEFORE leaving Ukraine.
ADITIONAL INFORMATION HOW TO GET FROM BORYSPIL AIRPORT (KBP) TO KYIV
Taxi Bus/train+metro Useful links
• We suggest you to order Uber • There is a Sky Bus near • Boryspil taxi or Sky Taxi Terminal F (goes to Metro Airport:https://kbp.aero/en/ • Approximate price is around Vokzalna). • Airport Kyiv: 300-500 UAH (9-17 EUR) • Train to Metro Vokzalna. https://iev.aero/en/ • Buses depart every 15-20 • Metro Map: minutes (about 30 minutes at https://100realty.ua/map/metro night after 8 p.m.) PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Metro (subway) – especially useful to avoid traffic jams during the rush hours. Cost - 8 UAH per trip. Plastic coins or cards (the latter less useful for short stay in Kyiv) are bought at the entrance. Metro stations are marked with green (usually) big M letter. It takes about 2-3 minutes to get from one station to another + time for entering and exiting a station (1-5 minutes+ 1-5 minutes – it depends upon depth of metro) + time if you change metro line (about 1-4 minutes)+ time to wait for a train (usually 1 during rush hours, 2-3 minutes in daytime, 5- 15 in late night). Metro starts working about 6 a.m., and is closed right after the midnight, but it depends on specific station.
Buses, trolleybuses, trams – 8 UAH per trip. Tickets are sold inside the bus (or other vehicle) by a special person or the driver.
Marshrutka (smaller buses – usually yellow or white private busses) – the most frequently used. Cost inside the city - usually 8 UAH, but may be different. Tickets are sold inside a vehicle right after entering it. The final destination or intermediate points are often written at the front or right windows. (marshrutkas unlike buses or trolley-buses usually stop only at passengers request).
GRADING SYSTEM
ECTS, the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System, was developed by the Commission of the European Community in order to provide common procedures to guarantee academic recognition of studies abroad. It provides a way of measuring and comparing learning achievements, and transferring them from one institution to another. In ECTS, 60 credits represent the workload of a full year of study; normally 30 credits are given for a semester. It is important that no special courses are set up for ECTS purposes, but that all ECTS courses are mainstream courses of the participating institutions, and followed by home students under normal regulations. Credits are awarded only when the course has been completed and all necessary examinations have been successfully taken. When the student has successfully completed the study programme agreed upon by the home and host institutions, transfer of credit will take place. The student will then continue his or her studies at the home institution without any loss of time or credit. Transfer of credit is realized with a form (Transcript of Records) and by applying a special grading system in addition to the local grading system.
ECTS grading scale
National Grading Conversion into former ECTS grade Definition Grade points System in HEIs in Ukraine
5 (excellent) A Excellent – outstanding performance with only minor errors 90-100 points
4 (good) B Very good – above the average standard but with some errors 85-89 points
C Good – generally good with work with a number of notable errors 75-84 points
3 (satisfactory) D Satisfactory – fair but with significant 70-74 points
E Sufficient – passable performance, meeting the minimum criteria 60-69 points
2 (unsatisfactory) FX Fail – some more work required before the credit can be awarded 35-59 points
1 (poor) F Fail – considerable further work is required 1-34 points
Coronavirus and student exchange to Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, academic year 2020 – 2021
Exchanges at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv during the Academic Year 2020-2021
We welcome exchange students to Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv for the next academic year 2020-2021.
The planning of teaching for the autumn is currently based on the assumption that no teaching-related mass events will be organized, social distancing rules will be observed and people are advised to avoid contact. Most of the teaching and supervision is organized online. Contact teaching can be organized for groups of no more than 50 individuals, taking safety regulations into consideration. Whenever possible, independent studying is offered as an option to people in at-risk groups. Please note that there is the possibility for exchange students to attend online courses from home university.
Follow Ukrainian public health authorities' recommendations and we will inform you if new decisions on teaching and being in University campus will be made.
Before making any arrangements regarding your exchange, please make sure that your insurance cover is comprehensive, includes crisis cover and follows the requirements of the State Migration Service of Ukraine https://dmsu.gov.ua/en-home.html
Information on the current situation
Further information on the current stage of quarantine restrictions is available on the Government Portal official website: https://www.kmu.gov.ua/en/news/viktor-lyashko-sogodni-chergovij-etap-pomyakshennya-karantinu