Editor in Chief
Olha Prokopenko,
Doctor of Economics, Professor, Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences, Estonia
Personal information
Full name: Olha Volodymyrivna Prokopenko
Born: 1974, May 4
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Education & Degrees
State Institution "Taras Shevchenko Luhansk National University" (Starobilsk, Ukraine)
2022. Master in Philology (Germanic Languages and Literatures (Translation Inclusive), the first – English).
Poltava University of Economics and Trade (Ukraine)
2013. Specialist in International Economics.
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (Kyiv)
2010. Full Professor at Economics Department.
2004. Associate Professor at Marketing Department.
Institute of Market Problems and Economic and Ecological Research of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Odesa)
2009. Doctor of Economics (thesis topic «Theoretical and methodological fundamentals of socio- economic motivation of greening innovation activity»).
Sumy State University (Ukraine)
2001. Ph.D. in Economics (thesis topic «Economic basis of the formation of the market of green goods»).
1997. Specialist in Economy of Enterprise, honors degree.
Academic Employment
Sumy State Makarenko Pedagogical University (Ukraine)
2022–p.t. Professor at the Department of Business Economics and Administration.
Vilnius University Šiauliai Academy (Lithuania)
2022. Visiting Professor.
Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences (Tallinn)
2021–p.t. Researcher.
National University of Uzbekistan (Tashkent)
2021–p.t. Professor at Department of Polymer Chemistry.
Collegium Mazovia Innovative University (Siedlce, Poland)
2020–p.t. Professor at Economics Department.
2019–2020. Adjunct Professor at Economics Department.
International Humanitarian University (Odesa, Ukraine)
2018–2022. Director of the Center for European Education and Research, Professor at the Economics and International Economic Relations Department.
Sumy State University (Ukraine)
2018–2021. Part-time Professor at the International Economic Relations Department.
2017–2018. Part-time Professor at Economics Department.
2009–2017. Head of Economics Department.
2010–2016. Dean of the Economics and Management Faculty.
2010–2016. Professor at Marketing Department.
2002–2010. Associate Professor at Marketing Department.
2004–2009. Deputy Director of Institute of Extramural and Distance Education.
1998–2001. Assistant at the Economy of Enterprise Department.
Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (Belarus)
2021. Visiting Professor with funding from the Ministry of Education of Belarus within the State Program «Education and youth policy», subprogram 5 "Development of the higher education system" framework.
2019. Visiting Professor with funding from the Ministry of Education of Belarus within the State Program «Education and youth policy» framework.
2012. Visiting Professor with funding from the Ministry of Education of Belarus within the State Program for Development of Higher Education for 2011–2015 framework.
Joint Stock Company "Kazakh University of Technology and Business" (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan) 2020. Part-time Professor.
Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)
2020. Part-time Project Assistant at the Business Administration Department (the Sustainable Business Development Research Group).
2019–2000. Researcher, Project Assistant at the Business Administration Department (the Sustainable Business Development Research Group).
Odessa National Academy (University) of Food Technologies (Ukraine)
2018–2019. Part-time Professor at the Management and Logistics Department.
Kyiv National University of Technology and Design (Ukraine)
2017–2019. Part-time Professor at the Advanced Studies and Pedagogical Innovations Faculty. 2017–2018. Professor at the Business-Economics Department.
University of Bielsko-Biala (Poland)
2017–2019. Professor at Management Department.
2016–2017. Professor at the Marketing and Entrepreneurship Department.
Academician Yu. Bugay International Scientific and Technical University (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2018. Head of the International Management Department, Professor at the International Economics, Audit and Finance Department.
Riga Technical University (Latvia)
2017–2018. Visiting Professor in Erasmus+ program.
Vitebsk State Technological University (Belarus)
2017. Visiting Professor with funding from the Ministry of Education of Belarus within the State Program for the Development of Higher Education framework.
Matej Bel University (Banska Bystrica, Slovakia)
2016–2017. Lector in National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic.
Southwestern University "Neofit Rilski" (Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria)
2014–2017. Visiting Professor in Erasmus+ program.
University of Economics and Humanities (Bielsko-Biala, Poland)
2014–2016. Director of the International Scientific and Didactic Institute.
2013–2016. Professor.
Tianjin University of Technology (China)
2015. Visiting Professor within the framework of cooperation with Sumy State University.
Polotsk State University (Belarus)
2014. Visiting Professor with funding from the Ministry of Education of Belarus within the State Program for the Development of Higher Education framework.
Sumy National Agrarian University (Ukraine)
2011–2012. Part-time Professor at the Applied and Theoretical Economics Department.
Ukrainian Humanities Institute (Kyiv region, v. Bucha)
2002–2004. Head of Finances Department.
2001–2002. Head of the Finances and Marketing Department.
Research Projects
Scientific and technical organization Teadmus (Tallinn, Estonia) (supervised by me)
2022 «Economic Features of the Use of Electric Vehicles in Delivery Services in Estonia».
2020 «Prospects for the Reorientation of Investment Flows for Sustainable Development under the Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic».
Sumy State University (Ukraine) (only those projects supervised by me, the total number of projects with my participation is more than 40).
2015–2018 «Methodology for ensuring the competitiveness of socio-economic systems in the conditions of global transformations» (with Shkola V.Yu.).
2017 «Development of mechanisms of management of the innovative component of economic security of Ukraine» (according to the grant of President of Ukraine, money from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, scientific-research topic No GP/F74/165).
2016–2017 «Methodology of forming organizational and economic tools for ensuring sustainable development».
2015–2017 «Methodology of forming mechanism of national economics innovative development based on alternative energy» (according to budget money from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, scientific-research topic No 53.15.01-01.15/17.ZF).
2014 «Fundamental and applied bases of innovative marketing of educational services».
2012–2015. «The Methodology of the development of social-economic systems in a global environment».
2013–2014 «The Methodology of innovative providing of sustainable development of entrepreneurship».
2013–2014 «Fundamental bases of sustainable development management of company, territory, society».
2009–2012. «Fundamentals of Social and Economic motivation of region's innovative development». 2007. «The Formation of management mechanism for the innovative entrepreneurship with ecological orientation» (according to the President of Ukraine's grant, money from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, scientific-research topic No GP/F13/0108).
University of Economics and Humanities (Bielsko-Biala, Poland) (only those projects supervised by me, the total number of projects where I have participated is about 10)
2013–2015 «Theoretical and scientific-methodical basis of socio-economic systems development under conditions globalized economic space».
2013–2014 «Formation of the methodology of innovative marketing of educational services». 2013–2014 «Development of the scientific and methodical basis of innovative providing of sustainable development of economic systems».
2013–2014 «Theoretical and applied aspects of sustainable development of the enterprise, region, society».
Publications
More than 500 publications in English, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Kazakh and Georgian languages in Armenia, Belarus, Britain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA.
Research Grants & Scholarships
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (Kyiv)
2022–p.t. Budgetary funding for the fundamental theme (won for Sumy State University with my participate).
2020–2022. Budgetary funding for the fundamental theme (won for Sumy State University and fulfilled with my participate).
2018–2020. Budgetary funding for the fundamental theme (won for Sumy State University under my leadership and fulfilled with my participate).
2015–2017. Budgetary funding for the fundamental theme (won for Sumy State University and fulfilled under my leadership).
Meritt Group Ltd. (Warsaw, Poland)
2017–2018. Co-financing project from the European Regional Development Fund (coordinator in Ukraine and Kazakhstan).
Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland)
2017–2018. Individual research scholarship from the Queen Jadwiga Scholarship Fund.
President of Ukraine
2017. Research grant.
2007. Research grant.
National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic (Bratislava, Slovakia)
2016–2017. Individual scholarship for the research stay in Matej Bel University (Banska Bystrica). Swiss National Science Foundation
2015–2017. Tripartite (Switzerland, Estonia and Ukraine) educational and research grant (head from Ukrainian side).
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
2008–2010. Individual research scholarship.
2005–2007. Individual research scholarship.
Diplomas & Awards
Zywiecki Institute of Social Economy (Zywiec, Poland)
2023. Certificate of Honorary Professor.
Odesa District Council of Odesa Region (Ukraine)
2022. Diploma of honor for conscientious work, high professionalism, active social and life position, significant personal contribution to the development of scientific research.
International Humanitarian University (Odesa, Ukraine)
2022. Diploma of the best scientific and pedagogical employee of 2021.
Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv)
2021. Gold medal named after M.I. Tugan-Baranovsky for significant personal contribution to the development of economic and scientific and technical spheres and active public activity for the benefit and development of Ukraine.
Environmental Academy of Science, Ukrainian Black Sea Branch (Odesa, Ukraine)
2021. Certificate of «Academic Advisor».
National Institute of Economic Research (Batumi, Georgia)
2021. Honorary Diploma for Scientific Achievements in the Field of Economics.
2019. Title of Doctor Honoris Causa.
National Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine (Kyiv)
2020. The second level diploma of the annual national competition for the best publication of 2020 in the category «Popular Science Edition».
Forum of Interdisciplinary Research in Mathematical Science (Jaipur, India)
2020. Global Research Excellence Award.
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (Kyiv)
2020. Diploma for preparing the second level winner of the All-Ukrainian contest of student's research papers in the direction «Management».
2011. Diploma for preparing the first level winner of the All-Ukrainian contest of student's research papers in the direction «Agriculture and agro-industrial complex».
Beskid Association of Ecological Production and Tourism BEST PROEKO (Jelesnia, Poland)
2018. Certificate of Honorary Professor.
Senate of the Republic of Poland (Warsaw)
2016. Medal of the Senate granted from the Senator of the Republic of Poland Tadeusz Kopiec. International Association for Sustainable Development (Varna, Bulgaria)
2016. Certificate of Honorary Professor.
Sumy Regional State Administration (Ukraine)
2015. Diploma for the significant achievements in scientific, methodological and scientific work, the significant personal contribution to the training of specialists, organization and conducting of scientific work among students youth.
PostSecondary School of Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Zywiec, Poland)
2015. Certificate of Honorary Professor.
Sumy State University (Ukraine)
2015. First level diploma of the competition of pedagogical innovations «Innovations in the organization of students scientific activity».
2012. Honorary diploma for persistence in achieving scientific goals and professionalism.
University of Economics and Humanities (Bielsko-Biala, Poland)
2014. Gold Medal and Certificate of Distinguished Professor.
