The Student Support Centre
The Student Support Centre of the Department of Social and Educational Initiatives and Community Development is a structural unit of the Department of Social and Educational Initiatives and Community Development of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. The Centre’s mission is to provide comprehensive support to students, create a favourable, safe, and barrier-free educational environment, promote their successful adaptation and personal development, support the exercise of their rights and opportunities, and coordinate the University’s activities related to services provided to meet students’ needs.
The Centre’s main areas of activity include:
- Providing comprehensive support to students in adapting to the educational process, personal development, well-being, and exercising their rights.
- Coordinating the activities of the University’s structural units in providing services and meeting students’ needs aimed at supporting students.
- Promoting the creation of a safe, barrier-free, and student-centred educational environment in accordance with Ukrainian legislation and the University’s internal regulations.
- Regularly researching, identifying, and analysing the current needs of students in order to ensure timely responses, anticipate risks, and develop targeted comprehensive support programmes.
- Organising and coordinating counselling, information, social, psychological, legal, and other support for students within the Centre’s remit.
- Ensuring clear routing of student enquiries, coordinating them, and referring students to other specialised centres within the Department for specialised assistance.