Representatives of nine higher education institutions took part in the seminar. These included, in particular, student self-government coordinators of Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University and the Vyacheslav Lypynsky Volyn Institute of the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP), lecturers of the Volyn Institute of Economics and Management and Lutsk Humanitarian University, deputy directors and other representatives of the administrations of Lutsk Basic Medical College, Lutsk Pedagogical College, the Volyn Technical School of the National University of Food Technologies, the Technical College of Lutsk State Technical University, and Lutsk Higher Vocational School.
The experts on student self-government affairs were Dmytro Kulibaba, Advisor to the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine on student self-government affairs, and Serhiy Adamchuk, member of the Board of the All-Ukrainian Student Council under the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The guest of the seminar was Serhiy Reshetov, a representative of the Democracy Assistance Fund of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.
The purpose of the seminar was to increase the level of understanding of and loyalty to student self-government on the part of university administrations. During the event, questions were raised about the role and functions of student self-government in higher education institutions, opportunities for mutually beneficial cooperation between student self-government bodies and university administrations, student self-government in European Union countries and its role in the transition to the Bologna Process, and the policy of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on student self-government. Project participants also had the opportunity to exchange experience on the functioning of student self-government bodies and cooperation with the leadership at their educational institution.
To characterize the seminar, two theses that were supported by all its participants can be cited. Namely, that "student self-government must prepare the individual" and that "the powers of student self-government should be clearly defined in legislation, because without this there will be no result."
Based on the results of the event, it can be concluded that students of those higher education institutions whose representatives were at the seminar can confidently take on serious work on developing student self-government, since their leadership has a clear vision of the necessity of such institutions.
Additional information: On December 19, 2007, the Volyn Regional Youth Public Organization "Association of Young Reformers (AMoRe)" held its XII reporting and election conference. The composition of the Council and the Audit Commission of the organization was renewed. And Mykhailo Shelep was again elected head of AMoRe.
