The International Festival of Contest of Arts "New Year’s Consonance-2018" was held on December 10-11 in Chornomorsk. The contest has gathered talented and creative young people from different parts of Ukraine who demonstrated their talents in the following categories: choreography (classical, folk, ballroom and contemporary); vocal - solo (academic, folk, pop); instrumental genre (solo and ensemble performance on a musical instrument).
On the Day of Local Self-Government the students of the specialties "Political Sciences" and "Law" of Ushynsky University at the invitation of the Odesa City Council have visited the Office of Physical Culture and Sport of the Odesa City Council and familiarized with the specifics of the Office's activities, problems and prospects of local self-government in Ukraine.
Under the slogan "The University hospitably invites ..." an interesting meeting of the leadership of the institution of higher education with future entrants has been held.
December 6, 2018, on the basis of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky, a working meeting of representatives of the administration with the president of the Charitable Foundation “Ignate Europe” (Zurich, Switzerland) by Sean Brown, who is also a lecturer at the Royal University in Southlake (USA).
December 6, 2018, the students of the Department of Educational Institution Administration and Civil Service of the specialty "Public Management and Administration" attended the " Doors Open Day" event of the Department of Education and Science of the Odesa City Council.
The important initiatives of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky proposed by the Rector, academician Olexii Chebykin and co-directors of the Confucius Institute Educational and Cultural Center, by Dyn Syn and Olexandra Popova, were carefully considered and endorsed by the XIII International Conference of the Confucius Institutes held on 3 -6 December 2018 in Chengdu, China.
December 6, in the big hall of Odesa Philharmonic Theatre, a concert titled "Shocking like the heart of the orchestra" was held. The author of the project and the soloist is the teacher of the Faculty of Music and Choreography, the winner of international competitions in Italy, Serbia, Moldova, Ukraine, Ph.D. in History of Arts Anna Ralo. In the first part of the concert program the students presented a concert for Marimba and the chamber orchestra Emanuel Sezerne. In the second part of the concert was performed by the chamber orchestra of Odesa Philharmonic Theatre under the direction of the Honored Artist of Ukraine Igor Shavruk and the ensemble of percussion instruments under the direction of associate professor Olexii Ralo, the work of Rodion Shchedrin "Carmen Suite" was performed.
December 5, 2018, at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway, at South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky, an external monitoring was carried out on the quality of the training of students of the course "Business Management", which is taught within the framework of the project "Ukraine-Norway". The inspection has been carried out by the representative of the audit firm of Switzerland Mr. Oleksandr Burian.
