KARPOVA OLENA

Foreign Language; Business Foreign Language.

• 17 years of teaching and research experience
• Total number of publications: 2 monographs, 43 articles and conference papers,
• 13 coursebooks and other methodical literature.
• Twice scholarship holder of DAAD (2017, 2024) and the speaker and attendee of many international events in Germany, Austria, Poland, India.

Additional qualification trainings and internship:

• 01 March -31 August 2024 – The scholarship holder of the program “Future Ukraine: Research Grants for Ukrainian Master´s students and researchers, 2024 (57650939)” at DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, the Faculty of Humanities. The project’s topic: “Quality Control and Students’ Competence Measurement in the Framework of Formal and Non-formal Digital Education”
• 01-31 July 2017 – The scholarship holder of the program “Research Stays forUniversity Academics and Scientists” of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, the Faculty of Economics and Management. The project’s topic: “An Interdisciplinary Approach as a Key to the Formation of Professional Communicative Competence of Economics Students”. Cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities, Social Science and Education with further development of the Double Degree program for Masters.
• 08 – 15 May 2016 – As a member of the Ukrainian delegation and the participant of B.Hawrylyshyn charity foundation’s program “Youth will Change Ukraine” visited Germany (Berlin, Dresden) in order to study the system of higher education and make recommendations for the institutions concerned.

Professional certificates:

• 20 August-27 August, 2017 – Took the Intensive English course at the English
• language school “English in Cyprus” (Limassol, Cyprus), which is proved by the certificate of the Advanced level (C1).
• 27 June – 31 July 2023 – Summer intensive course B2 for German Teachers.

Certificate of attendance:

• 15 Jan 2022 – Academic dragon Ltd., Liverpool, UK. Academic Expert (Certificate of Honor). www.academicdragon.ltd

• December 12, 2016 – Docent (Associate Professor). Research discipline: Foreign Languages Odessa National Economic University, Chair of foreign languages. Odessa, Ukraine.
• April 28, 2015 – Candidate of pedagogical sciences (Doctor of Philosophy). The Theory of Education. The National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine.
• June, 2007 – MA in English and German Languages and Literature. Odessa National University named after I. I. Mechnikov, Odessa, Ukraine.

Professional Activity:

• September 1, 2023 – till present – Associate Professor at the Department of Linguodidactics and Foreign Languages at State University of Intellectual Technologies and Communications, Odesa, Ukraine. Responsible for the South Ukrainian Linguistic Center (SLC).
• November 2023 – till present – Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities, Otto;
• von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. The course name: Didactics and Learning Theories in Vocational Education and Training;
• September 3, 2007 – June, 2024 – Associate Professor at the Chair of Foreign Languages at Odesa National Economic University, Odesa, Ukraine.

Major spheres of scientific interest:

AI and VR in Education, Cross-Cultural Communication, Pedagogy, Methodology and Didactics, Social Sciences, History, university management, interdisciplinary researches

Memberships:

• May 2016 – till present – the participant of the Association of Graduates of the program “Youth will change Ukraine”. Kyiv, Ukraine.
• May 7, 2021 – till present – A full member of the Council of the Experts for Civil and Professional Independent Accreditation and Certification in Education of the Agency of Certification and Accreditation “Standard-Expert”