INTERNATIONAL MASTER PROGRAM “EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL INCLUSION”: A MODEL OF ACADEMIC MOBILITY IN UKRAINIAN HIGHER EDUCATION

After signing the Bologna Declaration in 2005 Ukraine initiated the most global structural and substantial reform of its higher education system. The universities are actively included into cooperation with European educational institutions constructing consortia for university staff, researchers’ and students’ academic mobility. New approaches towards academic mobility, their classification and the main purposes of international mobility organizations and programs have been analyzed. International academic programs are an important part of Bologna education system and substantive innovation for Ukrainian higher school. One of such programs was adopted in Zaporizhzhya National University (Ukraine). This educational project had an aim of Master students’ training in the field of Social Inclusion. The Paper detects goals, principles, reasons, procedures and results of the program implementation, forms and methods of the study process and researches in the project. It also includes ideas concerning principles and trends of academic mobility in Ukrainian and European systems of higher education. The methods used are critical analysis of theoretical issues and statistical data and evaluation of practical experience in the field of Master education and Social Inclusion in the modern conditions of university subjects’ academic mobility.