A delegation from The Leavitt Institute for International Development recently traveled to Kharkiv, Ukraine, to meet with university partners and discuss cooperation for the upcoming academic year.

The meeting September 8 included Lorne Grierson, TLI president, along with Ukraine country director Sviatoslav Tkachuk and Ukraine deputy country director Kseniia Tkachuk.

This year in the Kharkiv region, four universities will participate in the TLI program. Two of them, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University and Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, are renewing longtime partnerships with TLI. Two others, Yaroslav the Wise National Law University and Kharkiv Educational and Scientific Institute of SHEI “Banking University,” will participate in the program for the first time.

During the visit, the TLI team signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the parties. The delegation also got acquainted with the history and structure of the universities as well as with the academic and student life at the faculties.