During December 11-12, a working group led by the first vice-rector of the university, Valentyna Yakubiv, worked at Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) within the EDUC project “Enhancing EDUC Capabilities for Inclusive ERA Development”. This project is implemented within the framework of the most prestigious grant program Horizon Europe.

Experts of the working group: Valentyna Yakubiv, Tetyana Hrynyshak and Volodymyra Boychuk presented the first results of analytical research on trends in changes in the national and institutional system of scientific research evaluation in Ukraine and at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.

Together with experts from partner universities within the EDUC Digital Universities Alliance, they exchanged experiences and worked on developing strategic priorities to improve the research evaluation system at all universities in the alliance: Masaryk University (Czech Republic) University of Potsdam (Germany) Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Ukraine) University of Cagliari (Italy) Jaume I University in Castellón (Spain) University of Southeast Norway (Norway) University of Pécs (Hungary) University of Paris Nanterre (France) University of Rennes (France).

Integrating into the European Research Area, in 2024, Precarpathian National University joined the international research evaluation system CoARA (Coalition for the Advancement of Research Assessment).

During the meetings, key tasks for 2025 were discussed within the framework of the work package on improving the research evaluation system at universities.

The experience of collaborating with universities in the EDUC digital universities alliance provides important experience in developing our institutional research evaluation system.