User:Tetiana 2105/KUKLIN OLEG VOLODYMYROVYCH

Oleg Volodymyrovych Kuklin (born January 18, 1961, Šiauliai ) is a Ukrainian scientist-economist, educator and organizer of education [1], civic leader. Professor, Doctor of Economic Sciences, PhD in Pedagogical Sciences. Honored Education Worker of Ukraine. [2] Academician of the Academy of Economic Science of Ukraine.

Director of Cherkasy State Business College

Biography
In 1978, he graduated from Secondary School No. 3 in Šiauliai, Lithuania, with a silver medal.

He started his career at the age of 17 as a milling apprentice at the Tauras television plant (Šiauliai, Republic of Lithuania).

In 1984, he graduated from Riga Polytechnic Institute (Riga Technical University, Republic of Latvia) with a degree in mechanical engineering.

In 1996-1998, he studied at the Academy of Economics (Leipzig, Germany), majoring in Economics and Education Management and received the qualification of Education Manager.

In 2016, he completed advanced training under the U.S. Department of State's International Leadership Visitor Program at Florida State University, Florida, USA.

He received the degree of Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences for his dissertation “Organizational and Pedagogical Conditions of Professional Training of Commercial Specialists (Based on the Material of a Training Company)” [3] (scientific advisor - Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Olha Shcherbak), Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology of Vocational Education of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2001.

He received the scientific degree of Doctor of Economic Sciences for his dissertation “Transformation of the Institute of Higher Education in the Context of the Formation of the Knowledge Economy” (scientific advisor - Professor Iryna Kaleniuk), Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University, 2011.

He became the first director of the college in the history of independent Ukraine to be awarded a doctorate in economics.

He was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor of the Department of Economic Theory and International Economics (2005) and Professor of the Department of Economic Theory and International Economics (2013).

Professor at Information Systems Management Institute (ISMA University), Riga, Republic of Latvia (2014).

Member of the editorial board of the international scientific journal “Economics & Education” [4] (since 2015, Republic of Latvia).

Author and co-author of more than 150 scientific and scientific-methodological works [5], including 12 educational manuals and monographs[6]. He was the first to introduce the concepts of “educational risk management”, “educational-scientific cluster”, “Uniscrum” technology in higher education” into scientific circulation.

Research interests: economics of education, entrepreneurship in education, organization of higher education in modern conditions, institutional theory.

In terms of attracting grant resources and participation of students (teachers) in the European Union's Erasmus+ program (38 personal grants have been received since 2017), as well as in various European and American educational programs, Cherkasy State Business College has been a leader among colleges (academies, institutes) in Ukraine since 2019. As of September 2023, 10 students have received grants and are studying abroad: 4 - in the United States, 3 - in Canada, 2 -  in Latvia, and 1- in the Netherlands.)

Participant in the grant programs of the European Union Erasmus+ (2017, 2019, 2021), the U.S. Department of State Program Alumni Symposium in Washington  (2019), [8] and the International Leadership Visitors Program (2016),  the program of the U.S. Agency for International Development (2015),  the program of  the Main Office of the Polish Teachers’ Trade Union (2004), and the Government of Canada (1995). He has managed two grant projects of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine (2018, 2019-2020) [9], and was a scholarship holder of the Transform Program [10] of the Federal Government of Germany for Ukraine (1998).

He was the first non-military resident of Cherkasy to be awarded the state award, the honorary title of Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine [11] during the Russian invasion of Ukraine (September 2022). For his services to the Ukrainian people, he was awarded the Diploma of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (December 2022). He was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Ukrainian Association of District and Regional Councils for his dedication to Ukrainian statehood (December 2022). For establishing international cooperation under martial law, he was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Cherkasy Regional Military Administration (July 2023).

He was awarded the honorary badges of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine “Excellence in Education of Ukraine” (1996), “ Petro Mohyla” (2005), “ For Scientific and Educational Achievements” (2021) and  Medal of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine “K.D. Ushynskyi” (2016),  Awards of the Banking University  “For Professional Excellence” (2016),  Federation of Employers of Ukraine “For Merit” (2020),    Badge of Honor of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine “For Development of Social Partnership” (2023).

Member of the Board of the Federation of Employers of Cherkasy Region, 2016 -present. [12]

Member of the Supervisory Board of the Cherkasy Region Development Agency, 2015 -present.

Deputy of the Cherkasy City Council, 2010-2014 [13]

Deputy and member of the Presidium of the Cherkasy Regional Council (Chairman of the Standing Committee on Regulations, Local Self-Government, Law Enforcement and Human Rights), 2020 [14] to the present.