On April 27, 2020, an extraordinary meeting of the Workshop ” Sustainable development goals. NURE’s task for their implementation.” Under the conditions of quarantine, the meeting was held remotely in the form of a teleconference.
The seminar discussed results of the world ranking Times Higher Education Rankings Impact 2020. The rating is based last year for the promulgation of the influence of the University community on the decision of the sustainable development goals. NURE participated in this ranking and in 2019 and in 2020.
On April 22, 2020, NURE joined the Times Higher Education Innovation & Virtual Impact Mini Summit, where the results of the second edition of the world University rankings University Impact Rankings 2020 were presented.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/rankings/impact/2020/overall.
The mini-summit was held remotely and gathered viewers and participants from many countries of the world.
The mini-summit began with an open debate on the importance of the UN sustainable development Goals as a basis for evaluating national and regional innovations. Then there was a master class conducted by Duncan Ross, Director of information technology at THE, and expert analysis from the heads of Elsevier and vertigo Ventures consulting company on the review and processing trends of new data for the rating. After the master class, a Q & A session was held, during which participants could ask questions about data, methodology and meaning of results, better demonstrating their influence, individual and collective efforts in achieving the CSR. Much attention was paid to the challenges facing universities in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. The event ended with the announcement of the rating results.
A rating is an experimental project designed to compare universities by the so-called “third” mission.
THE experts see the university as an open system, determine how the university is integrated into social life, into the social environment, how developed its partnerships are, what ecosystem it forms around itself.
This year, the rating methodology has been slightly improved and more attention has been paid to research on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, including the provision of quality education, including inclusive and lifelong education, good health and well-being, commitment to gender equality and non-discrimination, creation of decent working conditions and economic growth, introduction of innovations, participation in solving environmental problems, in local and state governance.
The rating methodology consists of more than 220 indicators, which can be divided into several thematic groups: institutional (building effective management and decent conditions of study and work at the university), knowledge transfer to society (lifelong learning, education, pre-university education), technology transfer in society (research innovations and services), transfer of other experience to society (in the field of ecology, health care, sports, culture and art, overcoming socio-economic problems, etc.).
The rating is fully inclusive, ie any higher education institution that has conducted an internal audit of the “third mission” based on THE indicators and has provided appropriate confirmation can participate in the rating. This year it was done by 11 HEI of Ukraine from 766 universities from 85 countries. SSU holds a position in the group 201-300. Second place is shared by LNU named after I. Franko, KNEU and Ostroh Academy (position 401-600 in the world) In the third place Lviv Polytechnic, NURE, KhPI. KPI, ChNTU and National Pharmacological University (Kharkiv) also joined this year. Another participant from Ukraine – Kremenchug University – did not reach the overall rating, but was marked in separate thematic nominations. NURE scored a total of 39.3 points out of 100 possible. We have the best results in achieving CSW 3 – good health and wellbeing of 38 points, CSW 5 – gender equality – 33.9 points, CSW 10 – reducing inequality – 37 points. Also mandatory for SDG submission 17 – Partnership for Sustainability, we have 48.5 points.
According to some metrics, NURE received quite a large number of points. For example, Lifelong learning measures (CSW 4) – 100 points, Employment practices (CSW 8) – 85.4 points, Collaborations and health services (CSW 3) – 70 points.
