Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor
E-mail: larysa.kalachevska@snau.edu.ua
Research ID U-3197-2018
ORСID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7090-2518
Scopus ID: 57208282009
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?hl=ru&user=oTzdCBIAAAAJ
Date and place of birth: born on 16 July 1975 in the village of Kosivshchyna, Sumy district, Sumy region.
Education:
1992-1997 – studied at the Sumy Agricultural Institute, specialising in Agricultural Management. In 1997, graduated with honours and received a diploma of higher education.
1996-1998 – studied at the Weihenstephan-Trisdorf University of Applied Sciences (Germany) on the international programme ‘Agricultural Management’. After writing her diploma thesis on ‘Dairy Market Conditions in Germany and Ukraine’, she received a certificate from the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences with honours.
In 2002, she successfully completed her postgraduate studies at Sumy State Agrarian University and defended her PhD thesis on ‘Improving the organisational and economic mechanism of information and consulting support in the infrastructure of agricultural business (based on the materials of Sumy region)’.
In 2004, she received the academic title of Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Economic Activity Management.
In 2019, she successfully defended her dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Economics on the topic ‘Management of innovative development of rural areas: theory, methodology, practice’.
2022 – awarded the academic title of Professor of the Department of Public Management and Administration.
Work experience:
1997-1998 – assistant at the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf (Germany)
1998-2000 – assistant at the Department of Agricultural Management, Marketing and Statistics, Sumy Agricultural Institute
2000-2002 – senior lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Production Organisation, Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness, Sumy State Agrarian University
Since 2005 –Head of the International Cooperation Department of the SNAU
2002-2018 – Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Economic Activity Management of Sumy National Agrarian University
Since 02.11.2020 – Professor of the Department of Public Management and Administration
Main academic courses: Business Management, Production Economics, Management Consulting (Ukrainian and German languages of instruction).
Scientific work: author of more than 120 scientific and methodological works (8 monographs (1 single monograph, 1 international); 9 textbooks and 2 manuals; 48 articles in professional journals; 11 articles in the Scopus and Web of Science database; 5 articles in international journals.
Grants, state budget and commercial contracts:
Coordinator and executor of international projects:
The projects supported by the Swiss Cooperation Office of the Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine and Nestle Ukraine
2020-2022 – public-private partnership for the development of sustainable agriculture in Ukraine.
Projects supported by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
2017-2018 – ‘Support to the development of agricultural cooperatives in Ukraine’
2017 – ‘OSRO/UKR/601/CAN Urgent assistance to food security through the provision of essential agricultural inputs to conflict-affected areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts’
2014-2016 – ‘Successful grain agribusiness on a small area’
Erasmus+ projects CA2 CBHE (Capacity Building in Higher Education)
2017-2021 – From theoretical to practical training in the agricultural sector / TOPAS 585603-EPP-1-2017-1-DE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
2017-2021 – Improving laboratory skills for food technology professionals in Eastern Europe / Ag-Lab 586383-EPP-1-2017-1-SI-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
2022-2025. – ‘Development of Aquaculture and Fisheries Education for the Green Deal in Armenia and Ukraine: from Education to Ecology’, No. 101082557 – AFISHE – ERASMUS-EDU-2022-CBHE
2024-2027 – ‘Restoring agricultural growth in post-conflict Ukraine and Georgia with transition economies’ No. 101179755 – ReGrow – ERASMUS-EDU-2024-CBHE.
Projects of the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD
2025-2026 – German-language study programmes (DSG) in East Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe, as well as in the Caucasus and Central Asia
2019-2024 – Shaping the digital future together – German-Ukrainian university cooperation, phases 1-3 No. 57514792 ‘Digitalisation of Ukrainian higher education institutions’
Advanced training (internships)/academic mobility:
05.2020 – 04.2021 – THEA Ukraine (internship for Ukrainian higher education administrators in the field of internationalisation), University of Applied Sciences Munster, Germany, certificate dated 05.2021.
09.2021 – 02.2022 internship on ‘Business Planning’, ‘Investment Theory’, ‘Making training videos with Camtasia’ within the framework of the DAAD project № 57514792 ‘Digitalisation of Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions’, University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, Germany
20.09.2021 – 30.06.2022 – training programme ‘Public Finance Management’, Kyiv School of Economics in cooperation with the Ukrainian School of Government, certificate of the ZP 31115684/000044-22
06.2022 – 12. 2022 – Researcher with the support of the DAAD Foundation at the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Trisdorf, Germany
02.2024 – 09.2024 – advanced training within the framework of the DAAD THEA X project ‘Multiplication Training for Higher Education Administrators in Ukraine’, developed and implemented by the Wandelwerk Centre for Quality Assurance and Improvement at the University of Applied Sciences of Munster (Germany), certificate of achievement and successful development of skills in the field of internationalisation in higher education, scientific management, training and mentoring in the amount of 180 hours and 6 credits
01.01.2024 – 31.12.2024 – participated in the DAAD project № 57649162 ‘Digit 3: Data collection and digitisation with a focus on university colleges in 2024’, organised by the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, Germany, certificate of participation dated 19.09.2024 in the amount of 180 hours and 6 credits.
Membership in international organisations:
Since 03.2025 – European Association for International Education (EAIE), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Since 04.2021 – Community for Applied Agricultural Sustainability Teaching (CAAST) supported by the Swiss Mercator foundation, Bern, Switzerland
Additional information:
– guarantor of the study programme Administrative Management (the programme is internationally accredited by the European agency ACQUIN until September 2029)
– member of the University Quality Council
– member of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Economics and Management
