For 20 years in Ukraine it has been annually held a competition "Teacher of the Year", which became a traditional holiday of pedagogical creativity. This year teachers competed for the title of "Teacher of the Year 2017" in the categories: "Biology", "Computers", "Art of Music", "Primary education".

The event took place on the 14th December 2016 with the participation of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Norway to Ukraine Mr. Ole T. Horpestada, acting Odessa Regional State Administration Chairman S. Bobrowska and representatives of the International Foundation for Social Adaptation (Kyiv), the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and others.

December 14, 2016 specialists of the University visited a school in Guangzhou (China) where over 1,000 students are trained, in order to select talented graduates of our university. At the end the Rector Olexiy Chebykin was photographed with prospective students from China.

The week began with the competition of wall newspapers on legal topics for students of specialties “Law” and “Political Sciences”.

The 50th anniversary of his capture playing volleyball celebrated Ph.D., assistant professor of History of Ukraine at South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky Volodymyr Chumak.

Odessa, December 7-9, 2016 in the educational and cultural center "Confucius Institute" at South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky there was held a selection of Ukrainian participants at the International Competition "Chinese Bridge"

December 9-12, 2016 in Kunming (China), the annual International Conference of Confucius Institutes, which was attended by more than 500 institutes from all over the world.