On November 6, 2019 the project participants took part in the discussion of problems of innovative network management. The member of the scientific school of pedagogical comparative studies of Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor Irina Chistiakova was invited to participate in such a discussion. An interesting aspect of the discussion was the projects of extrapolation of progressive foreign experience to the national reality, in particular, and the problems that are being explored by the postgraduate students – the project participants.

On the same day the postgraduate students met with Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences Victoria Donchenko, whose experience of granting work at the university was supported by brilliant own victories in obtaining prestigious international grants. In particular, Victoria Donchenko studied within the framework of the Erasmus + program at Iaşi University (Romania) and performed the study as a part of the Fulbright Program at the US University (Washington). During the meeting they discussed the specifics of the international activities of American and Ukrainian universities, the models of internationalization of universities in different countries.