August 12-23, 2018, with the support of Ushynsky University, a visit was made by university lecturers and other educational institutions to the cities of Harbin and Beijing of the People's Republic of China under the program "Innovations in the system of school and university education of the People's Republic of China".

The reporting Conference of the Educational and Cultural Center "Confucius Institute" at Ushynsky University was held on August 16, 2018 in Harbin Engineering University at the meeting of the Board of Partners. The results of the Center for the years 2017-2018 have been presented by the co-director of the Confucius Institute from the Ukrainian side - Olexandra Popova, the Chinese side- Ding Xin. After the report there have been a discussion of the results of the work. Among the significant achievements are the following:

August 16, 2018, the official opening of the "Ukrainian Cultural Research and Information Center of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky" was held on the basis of Harbin Engineering University. The representatives of the diplomatic missions of the Government of the People's Republic of China, university rectors and public organizations have been invited to the event. The representative delegation of scientists, teachers of various educational institutions, students in the number of 25 people have arrived from Odessa to Harbin.

June 12, 2018, a seminar-training for the administrations of the leading institutions of
secondary education in the region "NEW UKRAINIAN SCHOOL: CREATION AND
FUNCTIONING OF THE INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF AN
EDUCATION INSTITUTION" was held

June 10-11, 2018 to expand Ukrainian-Korean cooperation, under the auspices of the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Ukraine, Mr. Lee Young-Gu, the delegation of Chonbuk National University visited South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D.Ushynsky.
Chobuk National University of is a powerful academic center of the Republic of Korea, which has a 70-year history. In the Korean institution of higher education, based on 116 faculties, there are 32,000 students and 1050 professors.

June 5, 2018, the XIXth meeting of the Ukrainian Universities Consortium and Warsaw University took place in Lviv, in which 35 representatives of Polish and Ukrainian higher education institutions participated.
The forum has been attended by the Rector of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky, Academician Olexii Chebykin, with the presentation of our institution of higher education. After discussing the presentation, members of the consortium unanimously approved the decision to accept Ushynsky University as an international consortium.
Congratulations to the team of Ushynsky University on this event and we wish to further deepen cooperation with European educational and research centers.

The men’s handball team of the Faculty of Physical Education at Ushynsky University in a stubborn struggle won 1 PLACE in XXVI regional student games among the universities of Odesa. Our guys beat the team of the environmental university with a score of 23: 19 in the finals!
The team has been greeted and rewarded by the President of the FEDERATION OF THE HANDBALL OF THE ODESA REGION Grinevets'ky S.R.