On October 28-29, 2021, the international scientific-practical conference "CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND HIGHER EDUCATION" was held, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the opening of the specialty "Management of International Activity" at the Ukrainian National Forestry University. The conference was initiated and directly organized by the Department of Management and Marketing, which was established on the basis of the Department of Management of Foreign Economic Activity and the Department of Management of Organizations and Administration.

The conference was co-organized by well-known universities and organizations in Ukraine and in the world, in particular: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv Polytechnic National University, National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" (NTUU KPI), Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, Odessa National University of Economics, Odessa Polytechnic State University, Poltava University of Economics and Trade, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Lviv Regional Department of Forestry and Hunting, Batumi University of Navigation (Batumi, Georgia), Azerbaijan University of Cooperation (Azerbaijan), Institute of Rural Development and Agriculture (Warsaw, Poland), Higher School of Economics in Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland), Poznan School of Banking (Poznan, Poland), Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics (USBE) (Umeå, Sweden), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Uppsala, Sweden), Pennsylvania State University (State College, Pennsylvania, USA).

The conference was planned to combine the traditional face-to-face format with the distant technology, however with the growing threat of a pandemic, the organizers held it exclusively in the distant form of participation.

The conference covered a number of issues, including:

• Problems and prospects for the development of theory and practice of international business management and innovation in the context of sustainable development.
• Current state, problems and prospects of social, political, economic integration of Ukraine, the Baltic States and the EU.
• Challenges and prospects for the development of the educational process in the world.
• Trends, institutional environment and problems of international cooperation in modern conditions.
• Marketing aspects of international business.

The conference was attended online by more than 130 participants from 30 universities, including 15 professors, doctors of sciences, more than 90 PhDs, as well as graduate students from leading higher educational and research institutions, and practitioners from Ukraine, Poland, Sweden, USA, Georgia and Azerbaijan.