On April 28, 2021 the journals of ARMG Publishing Center Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks (FMIR), SocioEconomic Challenges (SEC), Business Ethics and Leadership (BEL), Marketing and Management of Innovations (MMI) were added to Sherpa Romeo. It is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.

April, 22, 2021 Managing Editor of journals “Business Ethics and Leadership”, “SociEconomic Challenges” and “Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks” participated in the online webinar “Scopus selection criteria and process for journals”, organized by Katarzyna Gaca-Zając, PhD Eng., Senior Customer Consultant for Central-Eastern Europe, Elsevier.

On 12 April 2021, the members of Editorial Board of “SocioEconomic Challenes” journal Tetyana Pimonenko and Oleksiy Lyulyov held an open public lecture on social entrepreneurship development in the EU for students and graduate students. Under the project, “EU policy for SMEs: perspectives and challenges for Ukraine” (619999-EPP-1-2020-1-UA-EPPJMO-MODULE), the Poland experts were invited to present the EU experience in developing social entrepreneurship, considering requirements of sustainable development.

On 1 April 2021, Oleksiy Lyulyov became the member of the European Marketing and Management Association. The EUMMAS membership gives the opportunity:

• to expand the professional and academic networks;
• to promote scientific activity;
• to open new opportunities to improve the educational process;
• to follow the current innovations in the labour market;
• to increase personal growth and a host of other things for development!

Dr. Karina Kasztelnik and Dr. Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan, the members of Editorial Board of SocioEconomic Challenges Journal published 2 articles in issue 1, 2021. The first article titled “Innovative strategies for social-economic development financial strategies in the development country”. Here is the link to the article: https://armgpublishing.com/journals/sec/volume-5-issue-1/article-5/. The second article entitled “The Role of SMEs in Strengthening the UK-USA Partnership”. Here is the link to the article: https://armgpublishing.com/journals/sec/volume-5-issue-1/article-6/.

Member of Editorial Board of the journal “Business Ethics and Leadership”, Doctoral student of the Department of Marketing Olena Chygryn conducted a series of webinars for students of economics in the framework of the Jean Monnet project “Carbon Neutral Economy: Best Practices for Ukraine” (620232-EPP-1-2020-1-UA-EPPJMO-MODULE).
The participants of the online project discussed the problems of promoting the main stages of the implementation of this strategy:

A monograph entitled “Public Goods, Sustainable Development and the Contribution of Business” by Roland Bardy, PhD,Member of Editorial Board of the journal “Business Ethics and Leadership”, consultant at BardyConsult in Mannheim, Germany has been published on February, 22, 2021.

A monograph entitled “The Issues of Tourism Development in Armenia” by Gayane Tovmasyan, PhD in Economics,Member of Editorial Board of the journal “Business Ethics and Leadership”, a senior researcher at the “Amber” Research Centre in ASUE, a teacher at PAARA, has been published with the approval of the Scientific Board of the Public Administration Academy of RA.

A new English-language monograph “Modeling and forecasting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on socio-economic development” was published. Its authors are Ph.D. Letunovska N.Ye, Doctor of Economics, Prof. Vasilieva T.A., Doctor of Economics, Prof. Leonov S.V. (published by the Centre of Sociological Research (Poland, 2020, 145 p.).

The first session of the Global Virtual Class took place on 4h of February, which is one of many planned within a new course «International Relations and Global Leadership». This course is designed and provided jointly with the Washington State University. From Sumy State University, the following faculty will participate this semester: Dr. Hanna Shvindina,