Yurii Kazantsev
Senior Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages
General Information
Date and place of birth: March 23, 1980, Sumy.
Education
2001 — Graduated from A. S. Makarenko Sumy State Pedagogical University, qualification: teacher of English and German language and literature.
2018 — Obtained a Master’s degree at Sumy National Agrarian University in “Entrepreneurship, Trade and Exchange Activities,” qualification: manager of enterprises, institutions, organizations, and their divisions.
Professional Experience
2001–2002 — English teacher, Sumy Classical Gymnasium.
Since 2001 — Lecturer, now Senior Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages, SNAU.
Takes part in the department’s organizational work, conducts career guidance in Sumy schools, and works as an interpreter at educational events.
Main courses taught: “Foreign Language for Professional Communication,” “Advanced Foreign Language,” “Business Foreign Language.”
Research Work
Research area: innovative approaches to foreign language teaching, internationalization of higher education.
Published 19 scientific articles and publications in 2001–2022.
Grants and contract work: training of experts in assessing soils damaged by hostilities (organized by SNAU and RAU); project interpreter under the consulting services contract of the Royal Agricultural University dated 01.08.2024 (Agreement No. 109 dated 01.08.2024).
Publications:
• Kazantsev, Y. (2025). Teaching Staff Mobility under the Erasmus+ Programme as a Driver of Internationalisation of German Higher Education (2018–2023). Educational Analytics of Ukraine, (3), 107–122. DOI
• Petrova, A. V., Kazantsev, Yu. V., & Tsyhanok, H. M. (2024). Educational strategies for developing digital competence of higher education students. DOI
• Kazantsev, Yu. V. (2024). European experience in the internationalization of higher education: Lessons and prospects for Ukrainian universities. Proceedings of the 3rd International Scientific and Practical Conference “Modern Science: Exploring Theories, Innovations and Practical Solutions”, 10–14. Link
• Kazantsev, Yu. V. (2024). Leading channels of perception as a source of data for AI-powered teaching technologies and personalized learning. Proceedings of the 3rd International Scientific and Practical Conference “Modern Science: Exploring Theories, Innovations and Practical Solutions”, 121–124. Link
• Kazantsev, Yu. V. (2024). Personalized learning of foreign languages with AI-powered technologies. LII International Scientific and Practical Conference “Scientific Research in the Age of Virtual Reality: Exploring New Frontiers”, 218–222. Link
• Kazantsev, Yu. V. (2023). The use of artificial intelligence in education: Opportunities and security. In Proceedings of the All-Ukrainian Sociolinguistic Seminar: The Concept of “Security” in Scientific and Intercultural Domestic (Ukrainian) and European Discourses (pp. 54–56). EUSPACED. Sumy.
• Kazantsev Yu. V. Using NLP techniques in the educational process: methods for improving perception and assessment of material // XV International Scientific and Practical Conference “Current Scientific Achievements – 2019” (June 22–30, 2019). Prague: Publishing House “Education and Science,” 2019.
• Kazantsev Yu. V. Management of the product range of dairy processing enterprises // Proceedings of the All-Ukrainian Student Scientific Conference of SNAU (Sumy, November 12–16, 2018). Sumy: SNAU, 2018. P. 488.
• Kazantsev Yu. V. Practical use of NLP techniques in foreign language teaching // Proceedings of the Scientific and Practical Conference of Lecturers, PhD Students and Students of Sumy NAU (Sumy, April 19–21, 2018). Sumy: SNAU, 2018. P. 35.
• Kazantsev Yu. V. Using NLP techniques in the educational process // Proceedings of the XXXIV All-Ukrainian Internet Conference “Domestic Science at the Turn of Epochs” (June 20, 2017). Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, 2017.
• Kazantsev Yu. V. NLP technologies in teaching students with different leading channels of information perception // XI International Scientific and Practical Conference “Current Achievements of European Science – 2016” (Sofia, June 15–22, 2016). Sofia: Byal GRAD-BG, 2016.
• Kazantsev Yu. V. Methods for determining the leading channel of information perception // XI International Scientific and Practical Conference “Current Achievements of European Science – 2016” (Prague, June 22–30, 2016). Prague: Publishing House “Education and Science” s.r.o., 2016.
Professional Development
- November – December 2023 — Professional development at A. S. Makarenko Sumy State Pedagogical University.
