The Department of European Economy and Business focuses its research on the essence, dynamics, and character of global integration processes, as well as the role of international business within this context. The Department's faculty has published over 500 scientific papers in various countries, including Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Turkey, the UK, and others.

   During the period from 2021 to 2025, research work at the department is carried out within the framework of the topic "Global Economic Development in the Conditions of Formation of a Digital Society". The department's staff focuses its scientific research on the section "Sectoral and Regional Integration Mechanisms in the Process of Digitalization of Global Development", within which the following three areas of research are highlighted: economic models and mechanisms of regional integration in the conditions of digitalization; sectoral trends of economic integration in the conditions of the formation of the EU common digital market; economic strategy of Ukraine in the EU common digital market.

    During the period from 2016 to 2020, research work conducted by the Department was centered around the theme “National Development Strategies in the Paradigm of Global Economic Policy”. Our staff focused their research efforts on Chapter 4, titled “Imperatives of Global Integration Processes”. The scientific supervisor of the department's research is Doctor of Economics, Professor Chuzhykov V.I. The academic staff of the Department provided research in three basic directions: modern integration models; development and realization of sector strategies and horizontal policies of the European Union; integration policy of Ukraine in the system of geo-economic coordinates. 

      Our Department has established strong scientific connections with several scientific and educational institutions. The Cooperation Agreement signed in 2007 between Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman and Krakow University of Economics opened up opportunities for interdepartmental and interfaculty collaboration between these two leading institutions in Ukraine and Poland. Jointly organized conferences, round tables, numerous joint publications created a fundamental background for diversification of scientific contacts between the Faculty of International Economy and Management at KNEU and the Faculty of Economy and International Relations at Krakow University of Economics.  A significant achievement of this collaboration was the publication of the first fundamental joint monograph, released in Poland in 2009.  The title of the book is “Konwergencja modelіekonomіcznych Polska i Ukraіna” edited by Michał Gabriel Woźniak, Viktor Ivanovych Chuzhykov, and Dmytro Grygorovych Lukyanenko. It was published in Krakow by the Fundacja Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie and consists of 716 pages. The Ukrainian version, titled “Convergence of Economic Models of Poland and Ukraine,” was edited by D.G. Lukyanenko, V.I. Chuzhikov, M.G. Woźniak, and others, and was published in Kyiv by KNEU, totaling 719 pages.

       In September 2010, the administrations of both universities agreed to translate the book into English after further editing.

THE LIST OF ACTIVE PH. D. RESEARCH DIRECTIONS:

Economic models and mechanisms of regional integration in the context of digitalization

• Modelling of savings of the EU population based on blockchain technology
• Support system for economic emancipation of women in the EU

Sectoral trends of economic integration in the context of the formation of the EU common digital market

• Development of international outsourcing in the context of digitalization of the world economy
• The imperative of artificial intelligence in the transformation of global business models
• Modernization of banking activities in the EU financial system
• Modernization of the transport and logistics infrastructure of the EU agricultural market
• Polystructural regulation of the film industry market in the European Union

Ukraine's economic strategy in the EU common digital market

• Integration of Ukrainian companies into the value-added chains of the EU creative business
• Paradigmatic transformation of international technical assistance of the European Union to Ukraine

Sectoral and regional integration mechanisms in the process of digitalization of global development:

• Economic models and mechanisms of regional integration in the context of digitalization;
• Sectoral trends of economic integration in the context of the formation of the EU common digital market;
• Economic strategy of Ukraine in the EU common digital market.

Integration models of modernity:

• Regional and local dimensions of integration processes in Europe;
• Strategies for the country's economic development in the context of global instability;
• Models of support for the development of innovative business activities in the EU.

Development and implementation of sectoral strategies and horizontal policies of the European Union:

• Strategies for the development of the media market and art business within the EU common market;
• Modern principles and mechanisms for the formation of bioeconomy in the EU;
• Integration of educational systems of European countries.

Ukraine's integration policy in the geoeconomic coordinate system:

• Evaluation of the effects of cooperation between Ukraine and the EU in the format of an association and a deep free trade area;
• Sectoral advantages of the development of economic cooperation between Ukraine and the EU;
• Convergence of the labour markets of Ukraine and the EU.