Discussion "Urban Education in Ukraine: Challenges and Prospects"

"How great is Ukraine's need for urban planners - specialists who play an important role in the creation of new cities and the development of existing ones?! What knowledge and skills are important for a young specialist in the industry?!
Currently, there are many problems in society that require the help of qualified specialists and effective solutions! During the online discussion ""Urban Education in Ukraine: Challenges and Prospects"" we will discuss:- about educational programs in the direction of urban studies that have appeared or are planning to appear recently;- how education itself can (or cannot) meet the needs of the labor market as of now;- how aware are the challenges of the same reconstruction and how educational programs respond (or not) to them.During the discussion, the challenges facing the educational communities will be considered - how to survive and adapt to the conditions of transformations in times of war, to teach male and female students to create the spaces of the cities of the future.
The following will take part in the discussion:- Tetyana Vodotyka - academic director of the master's program ""Urbanism and post-war reconstruction"", Kyiv School of Economics;- Daria Ozhiganova - director of bachelor's programs, Kharkiv School of Architecture;- Alirza Mamedov - Dean of the Faculty of Urbanism and Spatial Planning, Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture;- Kostyantyn Mezentsev - Head of the Department of Economic and Social Geography, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University- Svitlana Shlipchenko - head of the Center for Urban Studies, lecturer at KNUBA and the Kyiv School of Economics"