On October 1, 2020, an exhibition of paintings of the artist, senior lecturer of the UNFU Department of Design Yuriy Yamash entitled "Hutsul Vacations" was opened at the cafe-gallery "Shtuka" (8 Kotlyarska street).

13 works, thematically combined, were presented to the public. The works presented at the exhibition are the result of Yuriy Yamash's creative vacations in the Carpathians - a place with a strange natural and cultural phenomenon, which has always attracted people of art, artists, poets, directors, musicians.

Bright saturated acrylic painting by Yuriy Yamash is characterized by temperament, expressive life-affirming energy, the works are easily recognizable by strong strokes, dynamic compositions, and their emotional action is concentrated in color.

The opening of the "Hutsul Vacations" art project was attended by the curator of the exhibition, owner of the "Shtuka" cafe-gallery Yevhen Bulavin, the head of Department of Design Volodymyr Prusak, associate professor of Lviv Polytechnic National University Oleksandr Kalinichenko. Friends, colleagues, professors and students of the Department of Design of UNFU, the artistic elite of Lviv - were the first to congratulate Yuriy Yamash on the opening of his personal exhibition, as well as to be the first to evaluate his work.

The ranking of Lviv universities by IT Specialties, based on the results of the 2020 admission campaign, is already updated. It was analyzed which universities were the most popular and where the entrants with the highest competitive score aspired to enter.

The first ranking of universities was published at DOU in 2016, when the opinions of students and university graduates were taken as a basis and surveys were conducted annually. But this year the methodology was changed.

New Methodology: The rating of each university was calculated based on data from Unified State Electronic Database on Education (USEDE). It was focused on the level of preparation of entrants and the popularity of specialties and calculated the rating using the average competitive score for the specialty, "weighted" by the share of applications for it in universities. For example, the university has two IT specialties with average scores of entrants of 170 and 150 points. The first specialty received 70% of all number of applications, the second - 30% of applications. If you take the arithmetic mean, you get 160 points. But this will not fully reflect the popularity / demand for specialties in higher education. Therefore, the ranking is based on "weigh" the average score of the specialty on the share of applications for the specialty. That is, in our example, the rating of the university: (170 * 0.7) + (150 * 0.3) = 164 points.

Specialties that were analyzed in ranking: "Computer Science", "Software Engineering", "Cyber security", "Computer Engineering", "Automation and Computer-Integrated Technologies", "Information Systems and Technologies", "System analysis", "Telecommunications and radio engineering", "Applied mathematics", "Mathematics", "Electronics", "Applied physics and nanomaterials".

International online seminar

On October 6, 2020, by the initiative of rector, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Yuriy Tunytsia, an international scientific seminar was held at the Ukrainian National Forestry University (UNFU) in cooperation with the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and the International Institute-Association of Regional Ecological Problems in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals for 2016-2030, of the Paris Climate Agreement 2015 and the Transition Strategy of the Alternative Energy Sources. The seminar aimed to discuss the following main issues:

• impacts of underwater gas pipelines on the environment, society and economy;
• preconditions and prospects of development of a comprehensive integrated and transparent assessment of the impact of gas pipelines on the environment on basis of international environmental law and a broad public consensus outside the influence of political preferences;
• expansion of the international research consortium established during the first seminar in 2019 by the signatories of the Kyiv Communiqué and outlining the strategy for further interdisciplinary research on the impacts and risks of the gas pipelines;
• future activities for development of a system of measures and instruments for environmental policy (pro-active, preventive and compensatory) based on the principles of ecological economics and sustainable development;
• scientific publications, press releases and other information materials based on the results of the seminar;
• dissemination of the results of seminar taking into account the peculiarities on national and international levels.

Participants of the seminar - experts in ecological law and ecological economics, representatives of universities, research institutes and other stakeholders, as well as undergraduate students.

By the results of the seminar, Baltic Communiqué was adopted and it was underlined a general need of revision of the approaches and current practices of large-scale projects, that create various negative effects and the need for the formation of an international research consortium for the development of detailed programs of interdisciplinary researches of influence of gas pipelines on the environment, human health, energy security, economic stability, and social welfare.

I met Claudia Brözel the first time 2016 when I was at Eberswalde University for a stuff exchange in an Erasmus+ program. I was attending her Module “eTourism” now for four years in a row.

The setting of this Module is very interesting, because it is interactive, and the teaching aspects are very extraordinary. Claudia Brözel, as an active part of the International Federation for Travel and Technology, has direct access to the latest research in this field. She is also reviewer for the conference papers of the organization. So, she is collecting peer reviewed papers and put current topic on the list for the students. She organized the module with a huge structure list, where every student gets a paper and related papers and articles. Every student has to prepare a paper and for another student one times the minutes, which are guided with questions. In this way the participants discuss a lot of current issues from papers, but also related development and research methods. The Module always has a Motto, which is always related to the current situation or development in the research discussion. The students get not only a lot of information about the current research ideas and results, they are also diving deep in their topics and understand different methods and why researcher used it. The course follows a clear and logical structure.

The introduction Claudia Brözel is giving, follows on the one hand the idea to describe the current situation in travel technology, also the discussion and the current issues and place the topics in a scientific context.

She also starts in her introduction with a short journal paper about “how to read a paper” and gives a lot of supporting ideas and questions, that help students to deal with research papers.

This year, 2020, was the first year the Module was held online, because of the Corona restrictions. Claudia Brözel managed it very well. She invited also other students and colleagues from different countries, who vivified the discussion. She also includes Guests – mostly from the tourism industry – which makes the research mainly more concrete.

This year she did a discussion before the course and recorded it for the students, so that they could individually watch the discussion with two outstanding and well-known analysts from the industry and discuss that in class later.

I really appreciate the format and the structure of this Module and how Claudia Brözel is leading this course. The students are highly involved and mostly the discussion after a paper presentation takes places on a high level. Even with the online format mostly all students made it to motivate a short discussion.

In this Module students deal with research papers, they learn to prepare a certain topic – also with time restrictions, and they learn how research is done and what are current topics.

Deputy director of the Scientific and Educational Institute of Ecological Economics and Management Alexander Adamovsky