Healthy Economy and Policy: European Values for Ukraine

2026-07-22

"Project ""Healthy Economy and Policy: European Values for Ukraine (HEPE4U) aims to share knowledge and EU experience among students on sustainable development and health policy. Dissemination of solving health issues will reduce economic and social disparities among different regions. The HEPE4U module will provide participants with EU cohesion regional policy principles, EU legislation in health promotion, EU policy toward physical and e-health securement, and sustainable regional development support requirements. The project team consists of three young women-scientists with experience in promoting and researching healthy regional development. Implementation of JM includes using cognitive technologies and considering the importance of edutainment. The main activities of JM are interactive courses, seminars, hackathons, roundtables, dissemination of the results through website, pages on social networks, distribution of study content in the form of broadcast. In pandemic prolonging, JM could be realized with online instruments (streaming in real-time, Google Meet, MS Teams, e-learning platforms). The target group of the JM are BA, MA, Ph.D. students of Sumy State University (SumDU), partner universities of Ukraine. The project specifics are students' involvement from different specialties (economists, managers, marketers, physicians), which will provide interdisciplinary collaboration to realize the objectives of HEPE4U. JM proposes the involvement of experts (entrepreneurs, representatives of local authorities, public organizations) to discuss project issues. The outputs of HEPE4U include three EU-related courses (""Healthy regional development: best EU practices"", ""Promotion EU cohesion policy in sustainable competitiveness in the regions"", ""Healthy consumer behavior and motivation: EU & Ukraine"", manual, training materials, scientific articles, monograph, online platforms to promote further dissemination of knowledge about EU approaches to the region's improvement."

Ukraine

2025-12-15