On October 26, 2019, the Horlivka Institute of Foreign Languages hosted a training within the Let's Open Green STrEAM program, organized by a team of our teachers and students together with representatives of the Open Policy Foundation with the support of the Embassy of Lithuania in Ukraine and the Cooperation and Support Program. democracy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania.
In response to the training, which took place in late September in the Carpathians, associate professors of our institute Gorlova Olena Volodymyrivna and Kokorina Lyudmyla Volodymyrivna, and students of the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Sciences Usyk Victoria and Shevelyova Diana shared competencies acquired at the International Green School. It was decided to hold the meeting in a format unusual for the walls of a formal educational institution - a festival. Combining the best traditions of the International Green School. Klima Churyumova - education, Ukrainian culture and digital technologies was unexpected and was received by the participants of the training. The extensive program included presentations of GREEN STREAM events, as well as Cool Digital Teaching methods (Padlet and Kahoot platforms). The masters of our city invited to the festival demonstrated interesting ethnic crafts, including dry and wet felting, birch painting. Everyone had the opportunity to join in the making of small masterpieces in the technique of dry felting. The surprise of the ethno-workshop was a demonstration of the creation of a traditional doll-motanka, but unusual - alive, the model for which was one of the teachers. The festival ended with a performance by our student, who performed jazz compositions on saxophone.
Teachers and students who visited the International Green School this September received certificates of completion of the Let's Open Green STrEAM program. Undoubtedly, the technologies presented by this program are very relevant for integration into the educational process of our institute. That is why we have high hopes that the training will be just the beginning of cooperation between the Horlivka Institute of Foreign Languages and the International Green School.