Kiel and Kherson, 1. January 2023. Today phase 2 of our project started. It aims to more closely connect teaching at Kherson State Agrarian and Economic University (KSAEU) and Kiel University. Our vision is to create an international campus where students and teachers of our two Universities can work and learn together, exchange ideas and collaborate when they think about solutions for the challenges ahead.
As a first step towards this end, we plan to introduce a fully digital Certificate in Quantitative Analysis for Business, Economics and Public Administration as a joint initiative which brings together the relative strengths of both partners. While the Faculty of Economics at KSAEU is strong in the fields of business administration, economics and public administration with a Ukraine-specific focus, Kiel’s Institute for Statistics and Econometrics (ISE) is specialized in empirical methods and their applications.
To earn the Certificate, students have to choose course pairs from a two-tier list of eligible courses. Tier one includes courses on substantive matter like State and Regional Management or State and Public Law provided by KSAEU lecturers. As a complement, tier two features ISE’s statistical and econometric methods courses. Students enrolled in the Certificate program need to choose courses from both tiers, combine and train this knowledge in additional seminars, and finally submit and defend an applied seminar paper.
The German Academic Exchange Service generously supports this project phase as part of its initiative Ukraine digital: Ensuring academic success in times of crisis with funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research from January to December 2023. The Institute for Statistics and Econometrics, the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Science, and the International Center of Kiel University co-financed a considerable part. Therefore, we are still able to award 30 scholarships per semester for students at KSAEU and two visiting scholarships to Kiel University.
