Klimkin in the UzhNU said that he would be grateful for advice on the competent implementation of the new law on education

According to the information and publishing center of UzhNU, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin met with the staff of Uzhgorod National University yesterday in the framework of his working visit to Transcarpathia. In the past two weeks, this is the second minister’s visit to UzhNU – on November 17, the Minister of Education and Science Lilia Grinevich visited the university, the prozahid.com informs.

During the meeting, Klimkin stressed that he regards Transcarpathia as an extremely special and unique region and said that he would be grateful for ideas and advice on the competent implementation of the new law on education. The vice-rector Miroslava Landyel said that UzhNU had already launched the program for licensing of the specialization "Ukrainian language and literature for schools of national minorities". In her opinion, it is also very important to give financial incentives to teachers working in schools of national minorities.

Volodymyr Prykhodko, the Head of the Department of International Economic Relations of UzhNU, voiced a number of proposals for the further development of cross-border cooperation, creation of new international border crossing points on the borders of Ukraine with the states of the European Union, development of mechanisms for investment attractiveness of the country as a whole and regions in particular. Other university scholars could express their vision of the situation too.