On November 1, the implementation of the student research project "Organization of the work of a deputy of the local council (on the example of Odesa regional council and Odesa city council)" started for the students-managers of the Department of Educational Management and Public Administration.
Oleksandr Balan, the chief of staff of Odesa Regional Council, personally told the students about the functions and regulatory support of the activities of Odesa Regional Council, the peculiarities of work in sessional and intersessional periods, and the structure of its staff. There was also an impromptu tour of the premises of the regional council, during which the students of Ushynsky University got to know the departments operating as part of the apparatus and their leaders.
Until the end of the current academic year, a group of 8 students of specialty 281 "Public management and administration" under the leadership of Oleh Dolzhenkov, Professor of the Department of Educational Management and Public Administration will participate in the work of the standing commissions of the regional and city councils, will help the deputies in the reception of voters, will learn the work of structural subdivisions in local councils. In addition to the research component, the project provides for the acquisition of practical competencies for future work in the field of local and regional administration.