On April 14, 2026, master's students and members of the Inter-University Research Laboratory of Modern Technologies of Teaching Foreign Languages and Cultures Vlada Homolia and Mariia Biziuk held an online film club session for students of Sumy Professional Medical College and Sumy State Pedagogical University.

We are pleased to announce that researchers of the Inter-University Research Laboratory of TESOL Modern Technologies of the Department of English Philology and Linguodidactics presented a joint research paper titled: "Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence of Pre-Service ESL Teachers Through AI-Driven Games".

On March 26, at the TESOL 2026 International Convention & Expo in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (Salt Palace Convention Center, March 24-27, 2026), colleagues and co-authors presented the methodology developed by Dr. Hanna Podosynnikova, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Head of the Department of English Philology and Linguodidactics, Head of the Inter-University Research Laboratory of Modern Technologies of Teaching Foreign Languages and Cultures, Vice President of TESOL Ukraine.

On the last day of March 2026, a regular meeting took place between third-year International Relations students from the Educational and Scientific Institute of History, Law, and International Relations at Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko and the 11th-grade students from the Municipal Institution of Sumy Regional Council, Sumy Regional Academic Lyceum named after Dmytro Yevdokymov.

On March 25, 2026, we were delighted to host an inspiring interactive webinar led by Beril Ayman Yücel (Turkey), ELT Consultant & Teacher Educator, the Joint Coordinator of the TESOL Türkiye Teacher Education and Development Special Interest Group.

On March 19 2026, the Department of English Philology and Linguodidactics at Sumy State Pedagogical University hosted a timely and engaging methodological seminar entitled “Sparking Creativity in the Classroom,” dedicated to contemporary approaches to teaching English.

On March 19, 2026, an engaging career guidance meeting was held with the ninth-grade pupils of Sumy Secondary School No. 15 (teacher of English and World Literature, Iryna Usik).

We are proud to share that our University, the Faculty of Foreign and Slavic Philology was represented at an outstanding international event through blended academic mobility – with the university professors Dr. Viktoriia Herman, Dr. Hanna Podosynnikova and Nataliia Shevtsova travelling to Innsbruck in person, and MA students Vlada Homolia and Mariia Prokopenko contributing as co-authors and remote participants.

On March 3 and 5, 2026, the Sumy Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education hosted online training sessions for English teacher Olena Tkalenko, who won the second round of the nationwide Teacher of the Year 2026 competition in the “English Language” category.