Svitlana Shytikova is EU-Funded Project Coordinator, National Erasmus+ Office and Higher Education Reform Experts Team - Ukraine and ILID Head of the Board, Institute for Leadership, Innovations and Development.

Svitlana Shytikova  has over 20 years of teaching, research and international cooperation experience. Her PhD thesis is devoted to the Implementation of the EU-funded Programmes of International Cooperation as a Mechanism for Higher Education Internationalisation in Ukraine. Ms. Shytikova track record includes national and international, public, private and civil society organisations as well as European Union, Swedish Institute, Marta KAP,  World Bank, Canadian International Development Agency and other International Cooperation Programmes. Since 2009 she has been coordinating the Ukrainian National Tempus/Erasmus+ Office team with the mandate to promote and support the international dimension of the EU-funded Programmes in education, training, youth and sports in Ukraine.