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- 10 modules of the main part of the program
- 3 elective courses
- Site visit to Kyiv (within one of the program modules)
- Preparation of a diploma project
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MSc in Innovations and Entrepreneurship
Innovations and Entrepreneurship Program is a master’s degree education for those who look for personal and professional development and want to start their own business within realms of technology or innovations.
For Whom
The master’s program of Lviv Business School (LvBS) of UCU MSc in Innovations and Entrepreneurship is designed for ambitious people who are ready to create and launch their business projects within realms of technology or innovations, want to broaden their knowledge in entrepreneurship and get the understanding of business and innovations. The condition of completing the program is creation of a new business project “from scratch” or implementation of innovative approaches in activity of a company or an enterprise which already exists. The main principle of the program is focusing on practical aspects which will let the participants study a market and enter it with their own business project.
Program Structure
Admission to the program
PROGRAM ADMISSION
Updated rules for admission as of May 2022, provided by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
Admission to master’s programs in 2022 requires:
for those entering on the basis of a bachelor’s degree:
- Master’s Test of Academic Competence (MTAC)
- professional exam in an educational institution
The Master’s Test of Academic Competence will be held in the form of online computer testing.
The format and contents of last year’s professional exam programs can be viewed at the link.
for those who enter on the basis of a master / specialist’s degree:
You can choose to take:
- Master’s Test of Academic Competence (MTAC) or an oral interview in a foreign language. The interview should take place according to the program of the Unified Entrance Exam.
- professional exam in an educational institution.
If you are planning to join this year, you need to:
Register on our website and have an introductory meeting with the program manager (offline or online).
Apply for admission.
Pass the appropriate entrance exams.
Get acquainted with the results of admission (rating lists recommended for enrollment) and fulfill the requirements for enrollment (submit originals of required documents, enter into a training agreement).
Important dates:
- registration of entrants for the Master’s Test of Academic Competence (MTAC) begins on June 27 and ends at 18:00 on July 18;
- registration of electronic offices of entrants, download of necessary documents begins on August 1;
- the main session of the MTAC is held from August 10 to August 17;
- acceptance of applications and documents begins on August 16 and ends at 18:00 on September 15;
The dates of the entrance exams are still being agreed.
*Contact the program manager for details
REQUIRMENTS
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in any program of study (foreign diploma requires recognition *).
- Knowledge of English at a level that meets the Ministry of Education and Science requirements for admission to a Master’s degree in “Management”.
- Ability to think logically and critically, knowledge of mathematics at a sufficient level, verbal and communicative skills, willingness to successfully continue the studies.
- Knowledge of management and administration, sufficient for passing the entrance exams;
- It is recommended to have two years of experience as a manager or work in a public organization (NGO) or volunteering experience.
* We would like to draw your attention to the need for a mandatory recognition procedure of educational documents issued by a foreign educational institution, based on which you plan to enter the Ukrainian Catholic University. Instructions for remote submission of documents necessary for the recognition procedure by the Information and Image Center and a list of required documents are available at the link
FAQ
- Can I get a scholarship for the program studying?
Yes, you can get a scholarship on condition of successful completion of predevelopment program and defense of the project. - What does modular form of studying mean?
The studying takes place once in a month for four days (Wednesday – Saturday) from 10 am to 6 pm) during the last or last but one week of a month. According to the state standards of higher education, a modular education equals to a full-time education. During the intemodule period the participants perform practical tasks. - Is deferment of military service in The Armed Forces of Ukraine given?
Yes, for the whole period of studying within the program till the moment of awarding of the diploma. In case of expulsion, the right on deferment is lost. - Is it required to pay full tuition fees immediately?
Payment is made in three tranches at the beginning of each semester (September-February-September). - Can I enter the program if I do not have an idea yet?
Yes, though the priority would be given to the participants who have a project idea and will be able to apply the knowledge received during studying on their own project. - Can I enter the program if my English level does not meet the requirements?
English level has to be not lower than B2. - Does the diploma of the program’s graduate give a possibility to continue studying abroad?
Yes, it does after undergoing the procedure of apostilization. - Can I enter the program parallel to the Master’s I am already doing?
No, as in Ukraine it is not possible to study at two full-time master’s programs simultaneously. The participant has a possibility to study at the program as a listener what does not affect quality of teaching and the amount of tuition fees respectively. - How many ECTS credits will I get in case of successful completion of the program?
90 ECTS credits what corresponds to 1,5-year master’s program.
Academic board
Co-founder and CEO of Platformedia. Publisher of the Internet magazine http://platfor.ma/, Innovation Advisor. He was an editor and a journalist up to 2014. Stanford University JSK Fellow 2015/16.
In July 2016, he graduated from the JSK Fellowship program at Stanford University, where he studied strategic management, entrepreneurship, basics of venture capital, media business, investment, design thinking, disruptive innovation, and the democracy development.
He headed the department of journalistic investigations of the Ukrainian version of Forbes magazine from early 2012 till August 2013. Majored in exposing corruption of the state senior officials: tender, financial fraud, offshore schemes, smuggling, and ownership transparency.
After the Dignity Revolution victory participated in the project YanukovychLeaks.org, which was aimed at preserving and providing free access to documents of the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych that were thrown into the Dnieper River. As a result of the project, more than 20 thousand internal accounting documents of Yanukovych companies were dried up, digitized and posted for open access. The documentary film “Newsroom Mezhyhirya” has been shot about the joint efforts of journalists and their work.
At various times in his career, he worked on materials for Thomson Reuters, Buzzfeed, Ukrainska Pravda (Українська правда), Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Дзеркало тижня), Svidomo (Свідомо) Bureau, “Inter” TV channel.
In 2016, together with his wife Kateryna, created a concept and offered the Center for the Democracy and Rule of Law of Stanford University to establish Ukrainian Emerging Leadership Program, an annual educational program for the new leaders of Ukraine, which, starting from the fall of 2017 will accept three professionals in the field of reforms, law, economic development, and entrepreneurship per annum.
Founding Dean and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of UCU Business School, Vice Rector Academic Affairs at the Ukrainian Catholic University.
Her areas of expertise are Organizational Behavior and Learning Organizations, Organization Development, Entrepreneurship.
Background:
Sophia Opatska received her education from Ivan Franko University in Lviv, a degree in International Economic Relations, and defended her thesis work in Management and Human Capital Development. She studied at Executive Education programs the University of Michigan Business School (USA), IEDC- Bled School of Management (Slovenia), China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and had on-the- job training at InnoSpace Company (Denmark) and at the Warsaw School of Economics (Poland). In 2017, she was on a semester fellowship at Nanovic Institute of European Studies, University of Notre Dame (USA). Sophia Opatska is a founder and supervisor of the Global Shapers project in Lviv and an Advisory Board member at the Emaus Center.
Work Experience:
From 2001 to 2004 she held the position of the MBA Program Director at the Lviv Institute of Management. From 2004 to 2007 Ms. Opatska worked as MBA Director at Kyiv Mohyla Business School (kmbs). In 2007 she worked on building the personnel development and training system for Concern Galnaftogaz OJSC. She is Founding Dean of Business School at the Ukrainian Catholic University, which she had been leading for 10 years. From 2016 Sophia is Vice Rector Academic Affairs at the Ukrainian Catholic University and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LvBS.
Vice President of Business Development at KM CORE. Bohdan Kupych, a Canadian, has worked in the information technology, telecommunications and technology industries for almost 30 years, 22 of which have been in Ukraine, Russia and CEE. Active in the international business community, was a founding member and the first President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine and Board Member for more than 10 years. Today Bohdan is Vice President of Business Development at KM CORE a technology investment company, responsible for business development and a portfolio of investments in IT Services, datacenter, cloud computing, semiconductor design and nanotechnology based in Kyiv, Ukraine. De Novo, a portfolio company is the largest datacenter and cloud computing service provider in Ukraine. Bohdan led the investment process attracting Intel Capital and IFC as minority shareholders.
Previously, was VP Business Development at Sitronics, the largest high-tech company in the CIS and CEE and a key member of the IPO team, successfully listing the company on the London Stock Exchange in 2007. Previously held positions as CEO and VP Business Development at Kvazar-Micro Corp., Chief Marketing Officer at UMC, the leading mobile operator in Ukraine, Country Director at Digital Equipment Corporation, the first major international IT company to enter Ukraine. Previous to moving to Ukraine, Bohdan worked in business development and sales at Digital Equipment of Canada.
Bohdan studied Political Science at York University in Toronto, attended executive programs at INSEAD and Haas Schools of Business, holds a Graduate Diploma in Management and MBA from Athabasca University in Canada. Bohdan is a mentor at several Ukrainian incubators and lectures on innovation and entrepreneurship at Lviv Business School. Board experience includes the advisory board of De Novo and the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Venture Capital Association.
Master in Management in Foreign Economic Activity of Companies at Lviv National Polytechnic University. Studied economics at the University of Coventry (UK). Experience in project management in ‘Nordpraktik’ program (Stockholm, Sweden). After that – initiated several successful projects in Ukraine, including franchising projects. 15 years of practical experience in business, including management and development of family business, launching and management of start-ups. Representation of foreign companies interests in Ukraine.
Rewies
The project was born during my study at LvBS. Of course, being still an idea it looked somewhat differently, but studying framed it pointing at important things and leaving what was not needed out… You can be lucky but without knowledge you can lose everything in a moment or be not productive or ineffective. I guess everyone understands education in his/her own way. One can read hundreds of books and make no use of it and another one can without reading any book attend a lecture instead which will later change his/her life. I like the format when I know what to read and a teacher can put it in simple words as usually his/her knowledge is a real experience. This all I received in the school and this is all that’s needed.
Tetiana Kostina
The author of an inspiring journal about the journey around Ukraine “La Boussole”
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Program Benefits
Individual Approach
The program provides interactive format and comfortable schedule for the students. These are 4 days monthly during 1,5 year in a modern learning campus of UKU and in unique atmosphere of European Lviv
The best combination of practice and theory
Learning from teachers-practitioners from Ukraine and abroad, permanent mentoring by successful entrepreneurs regarding projects, business trip to Kyiv
Applied project learning
In the course of studying students test their own business idea, create a working product/service prototype, carry out few rounds of the prototype testing and collect feedback from the clients. The next step is getting the product/service on a stable level and description of the whole business process in the diploma project
Master's Degree
Participants of the program will earn Master`s degree of Lviv Business School of Ukrainian Catholic University, in the case of successful complete of the program and defend the project with a positive assessment by the expert committee. The diploma can be legalized abroad after Apostille procedures
LvBS Ecosystem
Participants will become a part of the dynamic business community of LvBS, which is a long-term investment in their development
A possibility to find investments
The best diploma projects can be a candidate for the prize From 0 to 1 – StartUp Innovation
Visiting Lecturer in Management. President of Euroindex. Ukrainian businessman, the president of “Euroindex”, which is the leading organizer of exhibitions “business to business” in Ukraine. Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the exhibition center “KyivExpoPlaza”. Member of the Board of Directors of the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry UFI, vice president of the Exhibition Federation of Ukraine. The author of a textbook for high school students “Fundamentals of Exhibitions.” He has experience in various fields of business and diverse experience working in public sector organizations.
Author of numerous articles and publications on organizational development. Valery has close contact with the markets because his company annually hosts more than 20 exhibitions, which involve almost 2,000 companies and visits about 100 000 specialists from all over Ukraine.
Co-founder and CEO of «Yes&Design» and «Platformedia». Publisher of the Internet magazine, innovation advisor. He was an editor and a journalist up to 2014.
In July 2016, he graduated from the JSK Fellowship program at Stanford University, where he studied strategic management, entrepreneurship, basics of venture capital, media business, investment, design thinking, disruptive innovation, and the democracy development.
He headed the department of journalistic investigations of the Ukrainian version of Forbes magazine from early 2012 till August 2013. Majored in exposing corruption of the state senior officials: tender, financial fraud, offshore schemes, smuggling, and ownership transparency.
After the Dignity Revolution victory participated in the project YanukovychLeaks.org, which was aimed at preserving and providing free access to documents of the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych that were thrown into the Dnipro river. As a result of the project, more than 20 thousand internal accounting documents of Yanukovych companies were dried up, digitized and posted for open access.
At various times in his career, he worked on materials for Thomson Reuters, Buzzfeed, Ukrainska Pravda, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia; Svidomo bureau, «Inter» TV channel.
In 2016, together with his wife Kateryna, created a concept and offered the Center for the Democracy and Rule of Law of Stanford University to establish Ukrainian Emerging Leadership Program, an annual educational program for the new leaders of Ukraine, which, starting from the fall of 2017 will accept three professionals in the field of reforms, law, economic development, and entrepreneurship per annum.
Education – MBA at DeGroote School of Business (McMaster University, Canada) and MA Economics (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv). He worked and trained at Bank of Nova Scotia (investment strategy and asset allocation of small portfolio) and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (Macroeconomic forecasting and modeling). He is a founder and a CFO of the operating business. He is engaged in financial management of several start-ups and consulting in the field of management and finance. He is a member of the Plast Scout Organization subdivision “Peredovi”(Leaders).
A graduate of the first master’s program in HR and OD at Lviv Business School, HR professional, business coach, consultant in organizational development and transformation.
Has 13 years experience in international companies (Astelit, PeopleNET, TurkCel Global Bilgi, Imperial Tobacco Ukraine, Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine), 8 of them in HR. The last 3 years has devoted to work on projects for the implementation of changes (structural, technological and process information in Imperial Tobacco Ukraine) and on the development of corporate culture and level of engagement (in Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine (2800 employees)).
Vice Rector for administration and financial affairs of UCU. Lecturer of Master’s programs and programs on management development of LvBS. Within the program, he teaches separate topics on the course “The Principles of Finance Reporting and Finance Accounting”. In 2007-2009, he worked at the Investment Department of IP “Universal Investment Group”. In 2009-2010, he worked at the Department of Corporate Finance and Investor Realations of PJSC “Galnaftogaz”. Since 2010, he has been the financial director of the Ukrainian Catholic University. In 2012, he acted as Director of the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation in Chicago (USA).
Member of the Beneficial Organization “Lviv Education Foundation”. He is involved in the consultancy on issues of the managerial records and budgeting.
The lecturer at the UCU Lviv Business School (LvBS), academic leader of the program «HRM in Business», HR Business Partner of the DataArt company.
Natalka delivers lectures within the managerial and master’s programs, mainly holds the following courses: «HRM: Corporate Context», «Corporate Culture and Leadership», and «Team-Work Experts». She is a certified coach and a Gestalt consultant. With more than 18 years of professional business experience, mainly in the sphere of HR, she worked as an HR director at Eleks software engineering company (established a full-fledged department of human resources management, the program of employee maintenance, development and assessment), managed educational and consulting projects, elaborated and held author’s training programs in the IT companies, namely SoftServe, Intellias, and the Prosteer Group. She also elaborated the program «The Basics of Team Management within ІТ» for Lviv Project Management School. Natalka is currently reading the course of socio-economic approach to management at the ISEOR Institute (France).
Marketing Director of Kormoteh. Lecturer of the Marketing course of MSc in Innovations and Entrepreneurship program. Graduate KEMBA LvBS. He has experience in marketing for over 12 years. Areas of Expertise: strategic marketing; brand portfolio management; developing and launching brands; promotion of brands. Kormoteh – the market leader in animal food in Ukraine (2015).
Professor in Leadership, HR&OD, CEO of UCU Center for Leadrship. Andriy Rozhdestvenskyy served as a profiler and analyst in Israel’s security service, where he specialized in counter-terrorism matters, including special communications and negotiations. Later he became HR Business Partner-Retail at Oschadbank with subsequent promotion to Head of Personnel and Training in the bank (35,000 employees). Rozhdestvenskyy adjusted classical sales techniques to the bank’s needs and then started tailoring training programs to suit the needs of other areas of business (telecommunications, IT industry, agriculture etc.). As a result, he started his own business – a consulting company with emphasis on developing and tailoring personnel training systems for specific businesses.
Andriy provides assistance to organizations specializing in childhood cancer and alcohol and drug rehabilitation. He is a member of the movement “Change Ukraine – Start with Yourself” and organizer of the Everest 2025 project. Mr. Rozhdestvenskyy received a higher education degree in Psychology from the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, did his post graduate studies at the G.S. Kostiuk Institute of Psychology in Kyiv and successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. He also successfully completed Anna Vlasova’s HRM School.
Attorney in law, Managing Partner with law firm Grynchuk and Partners (law practice 2004). Practice in supporting investment projects, corporate law, tax disputes, protection of business relations with regulatory authorities. Andriy combines legal practice with social work. He is a member of Lviv Entrepreneurs Committee, Ukraine Bar Association. Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Lviv.
Contacts
Daryna Koval
Customer Experience Manager
- +380 93 898 2818
- dkoval@lvbs.com.ua
