June 1, 2018, a charity event "Sunny Moments" was held in the streets of Odessa on International Children's Day by students of the Faculty of Preschool Pedagogy and Psychology. During the promotion, the students talked with their children and their parents. The following questions were asked to parents - How and from what should children be protected? - Do they think their child is protected? The children were given small gifts of sweets and yellow balls as part of the sun and a symbol of the Faculty of Preschool Pedagogy and Psychology. Also, among the gifts for parents, there were the words of well-known teachers about upbringing and children’s protection. During the action, the students distributed to young people and parents booklets with information about the University and the Faculty.

May 31-June 3, 2018, on the basis of our university, for the first time in Ukraine, a unique creative project took place - International Workshop "Choir Art in the XXI Century: Theory, Practice, Methodology", which consisted of a number of master classes by leading choral conductors from Moldova and Ukraine.
The organizers of this project were: Music and Choral Association of Moldova - President Olena Marian, All-Ukrainian NGO "Union of Musicians of Ukraine" - Head of Odessa Branch Sergey Savenko and South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after                K.D. Ushynsky - Faculty of Music and Choreography, Department of Conductor-Choral Training (Dean Belova Natalya Konstantynivna, Head of the Department - Osadcha Tetiana Vsevolodivna).
It has been a wonderful couple of days of creative communication, acquaintance with new scientific forms and achievements, several days of the choral laboratory in which creative tasks were addressed and ways of their solution were found. We hope that the continuation of the artistic project will continue in the further productive cooperation of all its participants!

Ushynsky University again has become at the epicenter of scientific and practical events. For several years already, the Social Humanitarian Faculty successfully cooperates with the public organization "Rehabilitation Center of St. Paul" and jointly organizes a series of activities aimed at improving the quality of providing psychological assistance by specialists-psychologists, social workers and educators.
On June 1-2, 2018, a third psychological conference "The Way to Healing: Experiences and Prospects" was held with the participation of leading specialists from Germany for 100 psychologists, social workers, and military personnel who provide assistance to survivors of traumatic events.
The participants of the conference listened to almost 10 reports, as well as had the opportunity to attend 14 master classes.

May 2018, Ushynsky University signed an agreement on cooperation with the LLC "Anti-plagiarism". From now on, the University has the opportunity to use the online information system "Unicheck", which is intended to reveal coincidences / identity / similarities in the texts of scientific and other works, free of charge.
This will provide an opportunity to thoroughly review the texts of theses of the applicants of scientific degrees for the availability of scientific results obtained by other authors and / or reproduction of published texts, intellectual products of other authors without corresponding references. At the same time, Unicheck's use of the system will make it possible to check for scientific publications of the periodicals of Ushynsky University free of charge for the availability of text borrowing during the year.
Today, the use of anti-plagiarism software becomes a necessity to adhere to the principles of academic integrity by participants in the educational process.

The trainers of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky O. Kon, M. Sokal, K. Tambovska, Yu. Shpalarenko, who carry out the training of students in the specialty "Primary Education", at the end of May 2018, successfully completed their training at the course "Formation of Civic Competences for Future Primary School Teachers" by the Swiss- Ukrainian project "Development of Civil Competences in Ukraine - DOCCU".

May 23, "MIS USHYNSKY UNIVERSITY -2018" took place, where girls were able to show their talents to students in general. The Faculty of Philology also wasn’t an exception. The student of the first course Julia Buinovska, despite the young age, was not afraid to compete with already well-educated beauties and not badly. For her diligence, she won the title of "II VICE-MICE", "MIS ARITHISM" and "MISS PEOPLE’S CHOICE". The participant was supported by friends, the faculty and the curator of the group.

May 21, 2018, on the initiative of the Chairman of the Odessa regional state administration Maksym Vladimirovich Stepanov and the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Liliya Mikhailivna Hrynevich, at South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky, an exhibition "Arsenal of ideas of the New Ukrainian school" was held.

At the exhibition, over 30 different manufacturing organizations and institutions had an opportunity to present a variety of state-of-the-art equipment for both primary and basic secondary and specialist schools.

Ushynsky University presented the conceptual model of teacher training as an idea of ​​the New Ukrainian School, as well as various innovative developments for professional pedagogical training related to digital technologies, primarily cloud technologies and the Internet of things. At the exhibition, the University presented fragments of innovative laboratories in robotics, computer science and natural sciences, inclusive education and psychology. Students, along with students from partner schools at the University, demonstrated robots that not only performed simple teams, movements, but even danced, which aroused considerable interest from many visitors to the exhibition.