On February 17, 2022, a round table meeting "Expansion of sports horizons" was held at the National University "Lviv Polytechnic" together with the participation of representatives of higher educational institutions of Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Among the participants of the event were vice-rectors, heads of departments of physical education and heads of sports clubs of higher education institutions of the two regions, who are involved in the project "Let's change the country together".

A representative of our university, Victor Gural, the head of the sports club "Lisotechnik" attended the event.

The meeting was opened by the Chairman of the Board of Rectors of Lviv Region, Rector of Lviv Polytechnic National University Yuriy Bobalo, who stressed that physical education and sports in universities are an extremely important component of modern higher education.

Participants of the round table expressed deep concern over the lack of necessary regulatory support for sports, indifference of some heads of higher education institutions to student sports, lack of financial support for student sports from sports departments of regional state administrations and complete disregard for financial needs of student sports. 

Summing up the meeting, they proposed to approve the appeal to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine and other interested institutions on the need to address the issues discussed. The initiative was unanimously supported by all participants of the project "Expansion of sports horizons".

Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk Regional Branches of the Committee on Physical Education and Sports of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Lviv Regional Sports Society Hart, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ivan Bobersky Lviv State University of Physical Culture organized the project "Expanding Sports Horizons" in cooperation with the Lviv Regional Council and the public organization "Carpathian-Ukraine Euroregion".