On March 21, 2020 the training sessions on the discipline «Researcher’s Academic Culture: European and national Contexts» with the use of distance learning technologies for postgraduate students of the first year of study were conducted.

The objectives of the classes are: the formation of values of academic culture, norms of academic integrity, linguistic and communicative competence, the system of knowledge on national and European practices of academic ethics, academic mentoring, culture of academic communication; cognitive-discursive skills of operational processing and modeling of academic texts of various genres, including by means of digital technologies; readiness to carry out an effective dialogue in the process of presentation of the materials and research results within the scientific community, in particular within the interdisciplinary and/or an international expert environment on the basis of subject-subject relations.

During this week we were working on the terminological culture of the researcher, we were analyzing important sites of National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (Ukraine): https://www.facebook.com/…/a.39079962778…/1290640707800599/; «Strengthening Academic Integrity in Ukraine Project» – https://saiup.org.ua/, Ukrainian materials and resources on academic integrity – https://www.skeptic.in.ua/integrity/, issue 6 of the information bulletin «Academic Integrity». Student Plagiarism, Part 2, we discussed how not to promote student plagiarism and share ideas that teachers could implement.

We are grateful to Yevhen Nikolaev for important materials which promote clearer understanding of the questions of avoidance of plagiarism, help to get acquainted with the best world practices and to understand what «academic integrity» should be in Ukraine.

I am grateful to the head of the group Alina Trofimenko for the coordinated work.