From September 16 to 22, 2022, Lviv has already traditionally joined the European Mobility Week, the main goal of which is to popularize public transport and alternative modes of transportation among city residents.
Students of the Faculty of Geography who are studying under the educational and professional program “Urban Studies, Spatial Planning, and Regional Development” (1st and 2nd-year students) took part in a number of events and activities. In particular, urban planning students:

joined the discussion in the format of an urban...

In the period from July 24 to 29, 2022, for the first time, the urban section of integrated educational practice was held at the Faculty of Geography for 1st year students studying the educational program “Urban Studies, Spatial Planning and Regional Development”. The purpose of the practice was to consolidate the theoretical knowledge they received while studying the “Fundamentals of Urban Studies” educational discipline.
Each student comprehensively researches one of the urban settlements of Ukraine. The practice program includes a...

On Thursday, July 7, 2022, a plenary meeting of the Regional Spatial Planning Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences organized jointly with the Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was held. The topic of the meeting was “Spatial dimension of development policy in the period of crisis and reconstruction: the case of Ukraine.”
The program of the meeting included three stages: opening and introductory greetings; presentation reports and panel discussion. A wide range of issues...

In the period from April 20 to April 29, 2022, associate professor of the Department of Geography of Ukraine Andrii Zubik took part in the international remote scientific and pedagogical internship for teachers of higher education institutions “Educational and scientific activity in a contemporary university: challenges, solutions, prospects” on the basis of Bialystok State University.
The purpose of this internship was to deepen the knowledge and develop the competences of the scientific and didactic staff of Ukrainian universities from the point...

The monograph “Ukraine and Ukrainians on European Ethnographic Maps” by Andrii Baitsar, associate professor of the Department of Geography of Ukraine, was published. The monograph examines the development of ideas about the Ukrainian ethnic group settlement boundaries in connection with the beginning of ethnographic maps making of the territory of the Austrian and Russian monarchies. Cartographic material on the ethnogeography of Ukraine was analyzed in detail. Separate chapters are dedicated to Rus, Ruthenians, Novgorodians, as well as White Croats and...