On February 12-14, Zaporizhzhya National University hosted a founding meeting of the partners of the project "Training of Foreign Language Teachers as a Way to Multilingual Education and European Integration of Ukraine" (Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine's Multilingual Education and European Integration - MultiEd, within the Erasmus + KA2 program in the field of "Development of higher education potential".

Horlivka Institute of Foreign Languages was represented by: Professor TM Marchenko - Deputy Director, Project Manager; Associate Professor M. Yu. Shkuropat - project coordinator at GIIM; IV Svitlakova - acting chief accountant, financial administrator of the project. The meeting was also attended by European project partners - representatives of the University of Tartu (Estonia), Heidelberg Pedagogical University (Germany), Aston University (Britain), Interlink Academy (NGOs, Germany) and colleagues from the universities of Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Cherkasy, Poltava, Kharkiv Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk. All partners participated in the discussion of project objectives, action planning and activities, got acquainted with the requirements of the responsible representation of the donor - the Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture of the European Union (EACEA) - to ensure the quality of results. Svitlana Shitikova, Head of the National Erasmus + Office in Ukraine, addressed the audience via Skype. She sincerely wished success to all designers, provided methodological recommendations for further work, explained the peculiarities of national legislation and called on project teams to ensure quality implementation of tasks. The participants were very interested in the presentations of European guests on the principles of curriculum development and curricula for the training of foreign language teachers at their universities.