International School of Young Scientists

as a New Form of Professional Scientiﬁc Growth

of Educational Institutions of Higher Military Education of Ukraine

Iryna Trubavina

1,2 a

, Oleksandr Cherednychenko

3 b

, Kyrylo Nedria

4 c

, Svitlana Klimova

5 d

and

Kateryna Kalina

6 e

Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, 7 Vokzalna Str., Lubny, 37500, Ukraine

Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, 54 Gagarin Ave., Kryvyi Rih, 50086, Ukraine

Institute of Legal Personnel Training for the Security Service of Ukraine, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University,

77 Pushkinska Str., Kharkiv, 61024, Ukraine

Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, 26 Gagarina Ave., Dnipro, 49005, Ukraine

Education and Research Institute “Institute of Public Administration”, Kharkiv National University named after

V. N. Karazin, 75 Heroiv Kharkova Ave., Kharkiv, 61001, Ukraine

Kharkiv National Medical University, 4 Nauky Ave., Kharkiv, 61022, Ukraine

Keywords:

Scientiﬁc Activity, Content of the Program, Theoretical Approaches, Young Scientists, International School,

Non-Formal Education, Security and Defense Sector.

Abstract:

The relevance of the research topic is due to the need to raise the military science of Ukraine to the level

of world standards for the implementation of scientiﬁc activity, the ethics of the behavior of scientists, the

presentation of results and achievements, as well as the transition of military affairs to international standards,

the European integration of Ukraine, which requires the internationalization of military science, professional

informal communication and joint scientiﬁc activity, new forms of scientiﬁc knowledge and education with the

preservation of military secrecy, the speciﬁcs of military professional activity. The purpose of the article is to

substantiate the essence, content, methods, conditions of preparation and conduct of the school. The research

methods were on: 1. Theoretical: pedagogical analysis literature; synthesis and generalization; 2. Empiri-

cal: pedagogical experiment, observation and individual conversations, questionnaires, focus groups, express

surveys. The scientiﬁc novelty of the article is: theoretical foundations of such education (complex of sci-

entiﬁc approaches: competence, activity, system, environmental, ethical, theory of blended learning, distance

learning, content of education, digital learning, digital pedagogical competencies, problem-oriented learning,

theory of adult education, ideas of Waldorf pedagogy, developmental education (according to L. V. Zankov),

personal, democratic.), its essence, content, methods of implementation, stages and conditions of preparation

and implementation. The practical signiﬁcance of the research is: methods of identifying stakeholder needs,

features of material selection for such an event. The prospects for further research are the organization of the

following events taking into account the needs of scientists in the war.

1 INTRODUCTION

The process of reforming the sphere of science and

education in Ukraine made it possible to move it to

the best world standards, a single global scientiﬁc

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space. Today, Ukraine has a large number of higher

education institutions (HEIs), as well as departmen-

tal HEIs (DHEIs). The operational management of

the Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine

(MES) does not include a large part of departmental

higher education institutions, primarily military and

special ones. At the same time, they all have common

problems that require solutions. Thus, the problem

of forming scientiﬁc consciousness and an individ-

ual scientiﬁc style of professional activity, teaching

the logic of scientiﬁc research are urgent tasks for the

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image, accreditation, licensing, and rating of DHEIs.

It should be noted that military science is charac-

terized by certain limitations regarding open access

to the work of foreign partners, a certain closedness

and limitation of the scientiﬁc environment of the

Armed Forces of Ukraine, scientiﬁc discussions due

to a small number of specialists who are often sub-

ordinate to each other. Departmental restrictions and

bureaucracy do not contribute to the development of

science, for example, the regulatory framework of the

Ministry of Education and Culture and military de-

partments often contradicts each other. The presence

of a signiﬁcant number of closed specialized scien-

tiﬁc councils for the defense of dissertations reduces

the level of access to scientiﬁc achievements and their

discussion, inhibits the academic mobility of scien-

tists of higher education institutions.

Therefore, cooperation is needed in the scien-

tiﬁc professional growth of scientiﬁc and pedagog-

ical workers (SPW), between domestic and foreign

higher education institutions, between higher edu-

cation institutions and higher education institutions,

between young scientists and experienced ones for

the exchange of scientiﬁc activity experience. Pre-

viously, such activity would have been prohibited

due to military secrecy and the secrecy of military

teams from civilian life (Viiskova osvita, 2011). To-

day, the following changes are being implemented in

the Higher Education and Higher Education Institu-

tions: transition of military teams and armed forma-

tions of Ukraine to NATO standards, implementation

of the competence approach, ensuring the require-

ments of the National Agency for Quality Assurance

of Higher Education for the quality of education. This

is possible under the conditions of maintaining the

requirements for working with information with lim-

ited access and providing information that is open and

generally scientiﬁc. It should be noted that profes-

sional growth of SPWs is their duty under the Law of

Ukraine “On Higher Education” (Verkhovna Rada of

Ukraine, 2014), it can be carried out in the form of

internships, advanced training, scientiﬁc schools, we-

binars, seminars, etc. Until 2022, there were almost

no international scientiﬁc trainings at DHEIs. There

were projects to train teachers in foreign languages,

soft skills, etc. by the British Council, the Ministry

of Defense of Canada. The ability to conduct sci-

entiﬁc research was not developed at the DHEIs and

in the programs for obtaining the scientiﬁc degree of

Ph.D. It was only about training in the educational

component of the programs in research methods and

methodology, pedagogical skills and professional dis-

ciplines from the specialty. Practical issues regarding

the fulﬁllment of requirements for qualiﬁed scientiﬁc

works were not the focus of such programs. The is-

sue of conducting scientiﬁc research was also absent

in the programs for obtaining a master’s degree at

DHEIs. Although some programs had “Methods and

methodology of scientiﬁc research” disciplines, they

did not provide a holistic view of scientiﬁc activity

and its practical implementation.

Existing research in the military sphere and

the available experience, which demonstrate the

results of scientiﬁc research and work for their

approval, were considered during the interna-

tional scientiﬁc and practical conferences “Educa-

tional and scientiﬁc support of the activities of

the components of the security and defense sec-

tor of Ukraine” (Osvitno-naukove zabezpechennia

diialnosti skladovykh sektoru bezpeky i oborony

Ukrainy, 2021); “Philosophical-sociological and

psychological-pedagogical problems of training a

military professional in a globalized world” (Minis-

terstvo oborony Ukrainy et al., 2021). Separate stud-

ies of military education are dedicated to the method-

ology of scientiﬁc research, and according to the def-

inition of Medvid et al. (2021), each level of method-

ology and theory of scientiﬁc knowledge contributes

its vision to the solution of the problem and allows us

to outline the range of issues that it solves (Trubav-

ina, 2022). Oliynyk (2021) deﬁned the forms and

methods of training future masters of military and

social management, which is important for the fur-

ther improvement of forms, conducting international

schools. Kozubtsov (2017) claims that the develop-

ment of the methodological culture of adjuncts during

the period of study at the adjunct must be in insep-

arable unity with the scientiﬁc school, organized on

the new basis of scientiﬁc and methodological sup-

port (Kozubtsov, 2017, p. 30). Boiko (2020) argued

for carrying out scientiﬁc research on the problem of

training military leaders on the basis of scientiﬁcally

based concepts of leadership (Boiko, 2020, p. 37). A

competent approach should be the basis of the content

of all training of military and civilian military person-

nel. These studies reveal the common foundations of

conducting scientiﬁc research. Some of the scientiﬁc

activities at the Military Academy are conducted even

with the involvement of international organizations

and the Military Academy (Trubavina et al., 2021),

which demonstrates a certain openness of scientiﬁc

research in military science. At the same time, sys-

tematic training in the practice of integral scientiﬁc

activity in the Higher Education and Research Insti-

tute was not the subject of attention of science man-

agers and scientists. Today, this deﬁciency is com-

pensated by the multifaceted informal education and

experience of individual scientists of higher education

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institutions, their personal authority in science and

opportunities for cooperation. Scientiﬁc circles, sci-

entiﬁc schools, master classes, scientiﬁc laboratories,

webinars, methodological seminars of departments,

seminars of individual professors on scientiﬁc topics,

trainings on various aspects of scientiﬁc activity can

be highlighted.

Internationality is present at many events of HEIs,

which allows the exchange of experience and train-

ing, internships at the best world models. An exam-

ple is the annual spring and autumn international sci-

entiﬁc schools at H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National

Pedagogical University, in which for a week graduate

students from different cities and countries immerse

themselves in scientiﬁc activity and the atmosphere

of science, which includes getting acquainted with the

lives of great scientists (for example, H. S. Skovoroda

museum in the village of Skovorodinivka), lectures

by leading scientists, exchange of experience, train-

ings, excursions, etc. The international conference

at the same institution is dedicated to current prob-

lems of pedagogy and psychology of higher and sec-

ondary schools, is held online with master classes and

trainings, with co-organizers and participants from all

over the world. These are the best samples of scien-

tiﬁc thought with attention to every study from stu-

dent to academic. The conference is held over 3 days,

with 300+ participants. Military scientists who have a

non-secret topic of scientiﬁc activity often take part in

such events. At the same time, they and other partici-

pants do not see such a scale and scientiﬁc activity in

their HEIs of this scale, which to some extent under-

estimates the level of scientiﬁc achievements of the

military.

It should be noted that when compiling the con-

tent of the programs of international science schools

in HEIs, the wishes of the degree holders are not

taken into account. As a rule, their topics come from

the resources of the school’s organizer of higher ed-

ucational institutions, scientiﬁc achievements and re-

search of professors. The school program should se-

lect the speakers and their topics, and not the con-

ditions of higher education institutions will determine

the purpose and content of education. This means that

an international school will be successful when its

content is built on the needs of all stakeholders of the

educational process, when the difﬁculties in the scien-

tiﬁc work of young scientists are taken into account in

the school program, and the speakers will come from

Ukraine and the world, higher education institutions

and higher education institutions are those who corre-

spond to the topic and can speak at the event. Note

that this is either work under a grant or on public

grounds in Ukraine for speakers and co-organizers.

And this is non-formal education, which should not

repeat the subject of the educational and scientiﬁc

program of those obtaining a scientiﬁc degree or a

master’s degree, but should supplement it with what

young scientists need. Therefore, the format of the in-

ternational school as a form of informal education for

young scientists of higher education and higher edu-

cation is relevant, adequate and useful. This article is

devoted to the justiﬁcation of the content and results

of the work of such a school. These questions became

the purpose of the article.

2 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY,

METHODS AND MATERIALS

To achieve the goal, we used the following scientiﬁc

approaches: competence-based (we form research

competence in all participants); activity (certain qual-

ities, skills and competences can be formed only

in the relevant activity); systemic (we take into ac-

count non-formal education as a subsystem of the ed-

ucational program); environmental (learning through

the creation of an educational and scientiﬁc environ-

ment), ethical; theories of blended learning, distance

learning, content of education, digital learning for

conducting an online school; problem-oriented learn-

ing, an androgogical approach to learning based on

their own experience; ideas of Waldorf pedagogy re-

garding learning by epochs; developmental (learning

at a fast pace at the level of theoretical concepts and

categories followed by independent practice of skills

in practice); personal (educates through the person-

ality of a scientist); democratic (taking into account

needs).

We used the following methods of scientiﬁc re-

search:

1. Theoretical: theoretical analysis of sources on the

problem to determine the format of the event and

its content; synthesis and generalization for cre-

ating a school program, clarifying the difﬁcul-

ties of scientists, identifying similar experience in

Ukraine and abroad;

2. Empirical: a pedagogical experiment to identify

the effectiveness of Program 1 of the International

School of Young Scientist of the Security and De-

fense Sector; individual conversations, surveys of

all stakeholders; express survey of listeners re-

garding satisfaction with her program.

We will present the content of the entrance ques-

tionnaire. Questionnaire questions were formulated

taking into account the purpose of the school and

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to adjust the topics of the speeches. The exit ques-

tionnaire provided for identifying the results of the

school’s work, ﬁnding out whether the needs of the

applicants were met, which are questions for the fu-

ture.

Express-survey of participants was interactive,

electronic and required an answer to 1 question – are

you satisﬁed with your participation in the work of the

school? A) Yes; B) Partially; C) No.

The questions for interviews with academic lead-

ers were: What are the difﬁculties in writing and con-

ducting scientiﬁc research for your applicants? What

do they ask you most often? What mistakes do you

often see in the works of graduate students and asso-

ciate professors? What should you pay attention to in

school? The questions for the heads of higher educa-

tion institutions and departmental higher educational

institutions, leaders of possible members of the orga-

nizing committee were as follows: What issues, in

your opinion, should be included in the school pro-

gram? Do you like the topic of the speeches? What

can be added to them, taking into account the inter-

ests of DHEIs? The results of the surveys resulted in

an information sheet outlining a list of topics for the

school’s performances for future participants of the

school.

The pedagogical experiment to check the effec-

tiveness of the school was carried out in the following

stages:

1. Diagnostic – provided for the deﬁnition of criteria

and performance indicators. We chose motivation

as a criterion for the effectiveness of the school’s

work, since it did not include training and exer-

cises for the formation of skills, but was focused

on teaching the basic concepts and categories of

science at a fast pace in a generalized form with

speciﬁcation and advice for further independent

practice of skills in practice when writing your

work Stakeholders’ satisfaction with the school

was also a criterion. We chose cognitive needs

as an indicator of satisfaction.

2. Formative – the school itself was held, classes

with students according to the program.

3. Final – an exit survey was conducted regarding

the effectiveness of the school.

Then the results were compared, the effectiveness

of the school was revealed.

3 METHODS OF ORGANIZING

AND CONDUCTING THE

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF

YOUNG SCIENTISTS

The 1st International School of Young Scientists of

the Security and Defense Sector (1st ISYSSDS) was

held on February 3-4, 2022 at the National Academy

of the National Guard of Ukraine (NANGU) and in-

cluded the following stages of work:

1. Organizational stage. With the aim of forming

the organizing committee, selecting experts who wish

to speak, co-organizers of DHEIs and HEIs, interested

teachers and managers of DHEIs were told about the

idea, the proposal to join the organizing committee

and speakers, agreements were made with DHEIs and

HEIs, questionnaires, questions for express surveys,

interviews were drawn up, focus groups, the form of

work of 1st ISYSSDS was selected. This made it pos-

sible to train a larger number of scientists. The choice

of the form of education was determined by the edu-

cational goal. The school is a non-formal education

for those obtaining a scientiﬁc degree. It is concen-

trated in time to immerse the participants in the scien-

tiﬁc development environment. We have the idea of

advancing at a fast pace and learning in epochs what

the participant needs most, which excludes spending

time on motivating and stimulating the participants,

activating their attention and concentrating their at-

tention on the topic of the performances. The school

provided for learning through listening, asking ques-

tions and understanding listeners for further indepen-

dent application in practice. School is a format of

habitual communication in an educational environ-

ment, when it is necessary to convey a lot of material

quickly to a large mass of listeners.

As for the organizing committee of the 1st

ISYSSDS, it was formed from among experienced

scientists and scientiﬁc leaders, like-minded people

who wanted to go beyond the boundaries of one

DHEIs and with joint efforts to do a good job in

military education and science to help scientists and

spread the best examples of scientiﬁc activity. The

members of the organizing committee volunteered to

become: the Government Commissioner of the CMU

on gender policy, rectors and vice-rectors of HEIs and

DHEIs – co-organizers of the event, well-known sci-

entists who had interesting scientiﬁc achievements.

All of them had something to say to the partici-

pants, and the topics of their speeches were dis-

cussed in the context of the relevance of the pro-

gram, identiﬁed problems and difﬁculties of gradu-

ate students and adjuncts. The following list of in-

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stitutions – co-organizers was received on this basis:

Government Commissioner for Gender Policy of the

CMU; Ukrainian and foreign higher education insti-

tutions and higher education institutions, the Council

of Young Scientists at the Ministry of Education and

Culture. Not everyone who wanted to speak and con-

vey their thoughts on scientiﬁc research was able to

participate in the ﬁrst school – there was not enough

time in the program, their reports can be used in the

next event. All members of the organizing committee

and speakers were warned about the free participation

in the event and its freeness for the participants, the is-

suance of certiﬁcates of the member of the organizing

committee and the school participant. At this stage,

technical support for the event was organized with the

participation of a large number of people through Big-

BlueButton.

2. Diagnostic stage. It was conducted with the

aim of identifying the needs of those seeking educa-

tion, compiling the content of the program. Answers

to the entrance questionnaire and applications were

received from 198 participants from 25 institutions of

higher military education and civilian higher educa-

tion institutions, both domestic and foreign. Among

the participants were citizens of Ukraine, the People’s

Republic of China, and the EU. According to this

questionnaire, the following answers were received

from future participants of the school (these are ad-

juncts of higher education institutions and gradu-

ate students of civilian higher education institutions),

they could choose several answers to the questions at

the same time (table 1).

So, from table 1 we can see the interest of all top-

ics for the participants, we put the most interesting

topics for the majority in the program. These ques-

tions did not concern military secrecy, only the con-

duct of scientiﬁc research, are open for discussion.

On the other hand, we were interested in the prob-

lems of scientists from other countries in their sci-

entiﬁc activities. We interviewed post-graduate stu-

dents from the People’s Republic of China and the

EU (15 people, various higher education institutions)

about what worries them about science. It turned out

to be the same questions. The exception was the prob-

lem of the procedure for the protection of scientiﬁc

works, their registration, which are different in differ-

ent countries. Regarding the desire of the heads of the

DHEIs and HEIs institutions: to speed up the running

of the school and asked what help is needed, there was

a desire to include a gender approach in scientiﬁc re-

search, issues of working with information with lim-

ited access and academic integrity.

The results of all surveys resulted in an informa-

tion sheet, which outlined the list of topics for the

school’s presentations as follows: On February 3-

4, 2022, the 1st International School for young aca-

demics of the security and defense sector, who want

to improve the quality of their scientiﬁc activities,

master modern technologies of creative scientiﬁc re-

search and expand the scientiﬁc and educational envi-

ronment of interaction with colleagues from different

regions of Ukraine. During the work of the school,

it is planned to conduct classes for young scientists

of the security and defense sector by leading scien-

tists of Ukraine from various areas of organization,

methodology of conducting scientiﬁc research, prepa-

ration and defense of dissertations, etc. Based on

the results of the scientiﬁc forum, it is planned to is-

sue a collection of reports with the assignment of a

DOI digital identiﬁer, to send the presentations of the

speeches to the participants, and to post a recording

of the speeches on the YouTube video hosting site.

The subject of the classes was given. After sending

out the information letter, NANGU started receiving

applications from future participants.

3. The stage of direct implementation of the school

program. On the basis of surveys of all the main

stakeholders of the school, we compiled a curriculum

taking into account the approaches to its formation.

All speakers made presentations, which were then re-

ceived by all participants along with certiﬁcates. We

present the content of the program (table 2).

The main method was informative messages in the

form of advice from scientists lasting 20-30 minutes

from speakers with the opportunity for listeners to ask

questions in the chat for the speakers. This is due to

the difﬁculty of feedback and the use of online inter-

active methods with a large number of participants for

speakers and technical support. At the same time, we

did not foresee exercises for 2 days of school work,

since the task of applying this in practice corresponds

to the individual independent work of everyone on

their topic, and the speakers did not have the opportu-

nity to work individually with each of the 198 partici-

pants during these 2 days. But it does lead to thoughts

about creating an ongoing webinar and blog with ad-

vice for degree seekers on methodological and prac-

tical tips for advancing academically. And repeating

the school after a certain period of time with a new

program. Therefore, the school is the ﬁrst. We expect

2, 3 and further schools after the victory of Ukraine

in the war with the Russian Federation. It should

be noted that the theoretical material was combined

with examples of its application, which meant con-

cretization and visual teaching methods. Speeches in-

cluded methods of activating the attention of listeners:

addressing the audience, showing errors and difﬁcul-

ties, using diagrams, tables, complete and incomplete

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Table 1: Entrance questionnaire.

Question Answer options Survey results

1. What difﬁcul-

ties do you have

when writing a

scientiﬁc work?

a) choosing a topic;

b) substantiation of the scien-

tiﬁc apparatus;

c) theoretical review of the

state of development of the

problem;

d) writing professional articles;

e) writing articles in sciento-

metric databases;

g) use of mathematical statis-

tics methods;

g) substantiation of research

methodology and theory;

h) registration of scientiﬁc

work;

i) something else, specify.

a) 101 people (51%)

b) 136 people (69%)

c) 140 people (71%)

d) 98 people (49%)

e) 180 people (91%)

yes) 87 people (44%)

g) 101 people (51%)

z) 80 people (40%)

i) passing the process of preliminary defense, defense, issues of plagia-

rism check, academic integrity, idea generation, patience and calmness

while working on the dissertation, receiving grants and participation in

scientiﬁc projects, working with information with limited access, etc. –

147 people (74% )

2. What are your

expectations from

participating in the

event (school)?

a) obtaining new useful infor-

mation;

b) the opportunity to commu-

nicate and get to know like-

minded people;

c) the opportunity to check the

correctness of one’s scientiﬁc

investigations;

d) formation of research skills;

e) something else, specify.

a) 98 people (49%)

b) 36 people (18%)

c) 24 people (12%)

d) 89 people (45%)

e) getting a vision of what a scientiﬁc work is and how to write it, what is

scientiﬁc novelty and how to ﬁnd it, learn how to write a scientiﬁc text –

102 people (51%)

3. Are you inter-

ested in the subject

of classes within

the event (school)?

a) yes;

b) partially;

c) no.

a) 198 people (100%)

b) 0

c) 0

4. What subject of

classes arouses the

greatest interest?

provide an answer

– methodology of scientiﬁc research in the security and defense sector –

102 people (52%);

– gender approach in scientiﬁc research of forces of the security and de-

fense sector – 61 people (31%);

– methods and methodology of dissertation work – 78 people (39%);

– use of the regulatory framework in the dissertation work – 88 people

(44%);

– preparation and submission of scientiﬁc publications to journals in-

cluded in international scientometric databases (Scopus, Web of Science,

etc.) – 134 people (68%);

– preparation of scientiﬁc professional articles and theses of reports –

156 people (79%);

– methods of conducting scientiﬁc research and experimental work – 122

people (62%);

– theoretical foundations and state of development of the dissertation

problem – 145 people (73%);

– work with scientiﬁc text: methodical recommendations – 102 people

(52%);

– academic integrity in scientiﬁc research of the security and defense

sector, prevention of corruption risks – 140 people (71%);

– compliance with information with limited access in scientiﬁc research –

121 persons (61%);

– publications abroad and internships in EU countries, participation in

EU scientiﬁc projects – 88 people (44%);

- grants in the EU for scientiﬁc research. Fundraising activities – 68

people (34%).

– creativity in scientiﬁc work. How to develop it – 90 people (45%)

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Table 2: Program of the 1st ISYSSDS.

Time The topic of the speech

1st day (February 3, 2022)

12.30-12.40 Opening of the school, greetings from the members of the school’s organizing committee

12.40-13.10 How to choose a topic for scientiﬁc research and stages of work on it

13.10-13.40 How to write a literature review for a dissertation, which is the theoretical basis of scientiﬁc re-

13.40-14.00 Methodology and technique in scientiﬁc military-pedagogical research: essence and content

14.00-14.20 Opportunities for foreign publications and internships in Slovakia

14.20-15.15 Break

15.15-16.00 Academic integrity in scientiﬁc research in the security and defense sector, prevention of corrup-

tion risks. Compliance with Ukrainian legislation in the process of working with information with

limited access in scientiﬁc research

16.00-16.30 Ukrainocentrism – origins, challenges, answers of scientiﬁc research

16.30-17.00 Stress resistance in the work on the dissertation

17.00-17.10 Break

17.10-17.40 Demarcation of legal acts according to the signs of their normativity during scientiﬁc activity

17.40-18.00 Preparation of scientiﬁc professional articles and theses of reports

2nd day (February 4, 2022)

12.30-13.00 How to turn from an adjunct into a scientiﬁc and pedagogical employee of DHEIs

13.00-13.30 Gender approach in scientiﬁc research of the security and defense sector

13.30-14.00 Modern trends in educational measurements to improve the quality of training of specialists in the

security and defense sector of Ukraine

14.00-14.15 The importance of the creation and functioning of the Councils of Young Scientists in the Military

Academy of the Security and Defense Sector of Ukraine (based on the experience of the National

Academy of Land Forces named after Hetman Petro Sahaidachny)

14.00-15.00 Break

15.00-15.30 Grants in the EU for scientiﬁc research. Fundraising activity

15.30-16.00 Working with a scientiﬁc text: methodical recommendations

16.30-17.00 Creativity in scientiﬁc work. How to develop it

17.00-17.30 Preparation and submission of scientiﬁc publications to journals included in international sciento-

metric databases (Scopus, Web of Science, etc.)

17.30-18.00 School closing. Summing up. Delivery of certiﬁcates

comparisons, highlighting the main point, presenta-

tions, rhetorical questions, examples, explanations,

switching attention by the teacher, using techniques

of attracting involuntary attention. All speakers were

experienced lecturers and prepared for speeches in

advance, consulted among themselves and with the

organizing committee regarding the content of the

speech and its design, communicated with each other

as like-minded people on how to do it better and more

clearly. Therefore, teamwork was present not only at

the stage of forming the content of the program, but

also during the school. The performances were from

different places in Ukraine and from abroad, it was

difﬁcult to unite everyone in time, for everyone to ﬁnd

a convenient time, free from work and classes, the In-

ternet connection did not always work and the perfor-

mances sometimes changed places, some people were

sick with COVID-19 and performed together with one

of their colleagues in a pair, because they could not

speak for a long time. But the school was held, the

program was maintained.

4. The ﬁnal stage – with the aim of identifying the

level of satisfaction of needs and solving problems,

identifying issues for clariﬁcation for the future.

It should be noted that among the 198 partici-

pants there were also collective connections, where

there were whole groups of masters, assistant profes-

sors and postgraduate students in the audience, who

connected centrally in their educational institution.

Therefore, the 1st ISYSSDS aroused considerable in-

terest among applicants with its subject matter. Dur-

ing the 2 days of work, the listeners were not excluded

from work, photographed the presentations, actively

asked questions to the speakers, registered on time

and returned from the break. This indicates great mo-

tivation for learning and correctly chosen topics of

speeches. The express survey showed that 98 percent

of students were completely satisﬁed with the school

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Table 3: The results of the survey.

Question Answer options The results

1. Did your expectations

from the school come true?

a) yes;

b) partially;

c) no.

a) 194 (98%);

b) 4 (2%);

c) 0

2. Which report aroused the

greatest interest?

provide an answer

– methodology of scientiﬁc research – 78 (39%);

– writing articles and theses – 36 (18%);

– writing articles in Scopus and Web of Science journals –

39 (20%);

– literature review – 52 (26%)

3. What topics would you

like to add to the school’s

work program in the future

(provide an answer)?

provide an answer Publication of scientiﬁc articles abroad (such as Scopus,

Web of Science) – 17 (6%)

4. What forms of work

would you like to see at

school?

provide an answer As much practice as possible – 67 (34%)

5. What was useful about

this school for your re-

search?

provide an answer

– methodological part – 57 (29%);

– literature review – 32 (16%);

– writing articles –36 (18%)

6. Should such measures be

carried out in the future?

a) yes;

b) it is difﬁcult to say;

c) no.

a) 186 (94 %);

b) 12 (6 %);

c) 0

7. Which of the speakers did

you like the most?

provide an answer Miroshnichenko V. – 32 (16%), Kalashnyk L. – 42 (21%),

Trubavina I. – 39 (20%), Semyonova A. – 36 (18%),

Cherednichenko O. – 42 (21%), Volkova N. – 52 (26%),

Nedria K. – 48 (24%)

8. What did you not like at

school?

provide an answer There was no time for practice

(table 3).

The results of the interactive express survey also

showed that 98% of students are satisﬁed with the

school. The survey was conducted immediately after

school closed.

Individual conversations with students and their

academic supervisors generally conﬁrmed these state-

ments. The wishes were to make such a school regu-

lar, with practical exercises, which conﬁrms our opin-

ion about the expediency of the event, its beneﬁt for

scientists, compliance with the needs of degree hold-

ers, and their motivation to participate in the event. It

should be noted that all the students were constantly

present at the school on the 2nd day, asked questions

in the chat, and even their supervisors listened in or-

der to learn from their colleagues based on their ex-

perience. 98% of fully satisﬁed listeners means that

the miners’ needs were met. Even the format of the

online school, with a fast-paced progression in the-

ory followed by presentations and speeches, made a

great impression on the trainees, although the trainees

wanted practice. We note that practice is possible with

individual feedback to everyone, which was techni-

cally impossible with online training of 198 people.

There is a question about the pulsating form of the

school – with tasks performed on a regular basis, a

permanent seminar for those obtaining a scientiﬁc de-

gree, checking of tasks and consultations, which re-

quires the paid participation of speakers and project

activities for the school. This is a perspective for fur-

ther actions in this direction and is a debatable is-

sue. The ﬁrst school fulﬁlled its tasks – it united

people, motivated them to participate in scientiﬁc ac-

tivities, exchange experiences, provided the neces-

sary knowledge and information for reﬂection. More-

over, she discovered a team of reserve speakers for

the future who would like to share their creations.

Interest was aroused by the presentations and theses

of the speeches, which all listeners received by mail

along with certiﬁcates. The recording of the school in

YouTube was not taught due to the start of the war,

and the promised manual was also not issued, since

almost half of the speakers went to ﬁght. But de-

spite this, even the oral part online and communica-

tion through mail revealed the unconditional beneﬁt

of the event and its relevance to the needs of stake-

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holders. Heads of educational institutions expressed

their gratitude for the event, were surprised by its

massiveness, the fact that people voluntarily kept in

touch at the non-formal education event. Those seek-

ing education expressed their admiration for the event

and their surprise that science is both interesting and

free. I also liked the program – everything is use-

ful and reﬂects their needs. The speakers were also

satisﬁed – they were listened to very attentively, with

great motivation to learn. Winners even took photos

of presentation slides and took notes. The scientiﬁc

supervisors of the adjuncts and graduate students ex-

pressed their gratitude for the fact that the topics of

the speeches were relevant, the new and classic re-

quirements for dissertations were explained clearly,

brieﬂy and clearly, examples of the fulﬁllment of the

requirements were provided, and the theory was con-

nected with practice. All stakeholders appreciated the

quality of the speeches, the interesting content of the

program and the high level of the speakers’ perfor-

mances. We note once again that the entire project

of the school was on a public basis, using the base

of NANGU and other educational institutions – co-

organizers. A positive feature is that there were 25

DHEIs and HEIs represented at the event, domestic

and foreign. There were performances by foreign par-

ticipants as well as Ukrainian, civil and military. The

commonality of problems and topics, interesting and

useful to every scientist, determined the success of the

event and its high evaluation. Thus, the requirements

for a scientiﬁc online school were met. The content

of the program, which was justiﬁed on the basis of

the needs of stakeholders, turned out to be necessary.

4 DISCUSSION

We conducted the ﬁrst such school in the security and

defense sector. It is interesting to compare its con-

tent and results with other schools and the results of

their work (Trubavina et al., 2021; Diundyk, 2018;

International School of Biology in Poland, 2017;

Shevchenko, 2012). In comparison with the work

of international scientiﬁc schools, the following com-

mon and distinctive features can be identiﬁed (ﬁg-

ure 1).

Therefore, 1st ISYSSDS had the right to exist

in this form in comparison with other schools, they

are all different depending on the approach, purpose,

opportunities and needs of the participants and co-

organizers.

5 CONCLUSION

Based on the above, we can say that:

1. The international school is a relevant and possible

form of informal education of young scientists of

institutions of higher military education of the se-

curity and defense sector of Ukraine in the con-

ditions of European integration and the transition

of military affairs in the country to international

standards. We discovered that school education

should be built on a complex of theoretical ap-

proaches, namely: competence, activity, system,

environmental, ethical, theory of blended learn-

ing, distance learning, selection of educational

content, digital learning, digital pedagogical com-

petencies, problem-oriented learning and theories

of adult education (androgogic approach), ideas of

Waldorf pedagogy, developmental (according to

L. V. Zankov), personal, democratic approaches.

2. The content of the program of such an event of

informal education is determined on the basis of

identifying and taking into account the needs of

all stakeholders of the educational and scientiﬁc

process, which ensures the motivation to study

of young scientists, the democratization of edu-

cation and its maximum effectiveness. The sub-

ject of the school program concerns the methods

and conditions of carrying out scientiﬁc activity,

integrity, takes into account the features of work-

ing with information that are common to civilian

and military scientists, and not characteristic of

the content of a separate military science, con-

tributes to the formation of an individual scientiﬁc

style of activity in young scientists and encour-

ages independent creating conditions for scientiﬁc

search. The methods of education in such an event

of non-formal education are, taking into account

its fast pace, the number of questions of the pro-

gram and the huge number of participants, which

complicates feedback and the implementation of

exercises and discussions, are information, exam-

ples, exchange of experience, analysis of regula-

tory documentation, etc. At the same time it is

important to exchange the experience of scientiﬁc

activity between foreign and native scientists, ex-

perienced and young scientists, civilian and mili-

tary scientists, and scientiﬁc supervisors.

3. The conditions for the success of schools in the

security and defense sector are: its international

character in terms of speakers and participants,

the combination of civilian and military institu-

tions of higher education, its separate prepara-

tion and organization as a complex project. A

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Education of Ukraine

Figure 1: Common and distinctive features of international schools of scientists.

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school of this level can be implemented as a char-

ity project on public grounds or as a grant project.

But there are many organizational works before,

during and after its implementation.

4. The International School of Young Scientists of

the Security and Defense Sector is deﬁned by us

as a complex form of informal education, a sepa-

rate large-scale scientiﬁc project that requires spe-

cial organization and training by various institu-

tions of higher education, coordination of work in

a single center on the basis of which it is con-

ducted. The school must be planned and have

stages of implementation: diagnostics and taking

into account the needs of stakeholders in the con-

tent, formulating the content of the school pro-

gram simultaneously with the formation of the or-

ganizing committee and speakers who are chosen

according to the school’s theme, and not accord-

ing to the capabilities and resources of one edu-

cational institution (it should be a motivated team

of like-minded people with experience and high

own results of scientiﬁc activity, with democratic

communication and distribution of duties and re-

sponsibilities), provision of the technical compo-

nent of preparation and conduct of the school, its

actual conduct and moderation of sessions, analy-

sis of its results and feedback.

Motivation of speakers and listeners is required,

which ensures attention and interest in the pro-

gram.

5. Questionnaires to identify the needs of stakehold-

ers, content of the school program, effective meth-

ods for its implementation, stages and conditions

of its organization and implementation were iden-

tiﬁed as practical achievements of the research.

The prospects for further research are the organi-

zation of the II International School of Young Scien-

tists of the Security and Defense Sector in Ukraine,

taking into account the needs and capabilities of sci-

entists in the war, clarifying the needs of stakeholders

in the results of scientiﬁc activity in this difﬁcult time.

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