May 21, 2026, project team member Professor Yan Kapranov had the honor of delivering a guest lecture to undergraduate and graduate students at the Vinnytsia Institute of Trade and Economics of the State University of Trade and Economics.

The lecture took place as part of the Jean Monnet module of the Erasmus+ program “Integration of European Values into Ukrainian Education, Science, and Sports” (EVUESS), which is implemented at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University and co-funded by the European Union.

Lecture topic: “From Texts to Values: How Corpora and Artificial Intelligence Help Explore the European Dimension of Ukrainian Education, Science, and Sports.”

During the meeting, we discussed how corpus linguistics and artificial intelligence tools can help future philologists and translators analyze not only words but also meanings, values, cultural contexts, and institutional discourse.

Yan Kapranov presented the module’s results and the activities that were carried out as part of the project’s implementation in Ukraine.

Special attention was paid to key European concepts related to values, such as human dignity, inclusion, equality, justice, academic integrity, solidarity, and fair play. The discussion explored how these concepts function in real-world contexts and why translators should not rely solely on dictionaries but should verify usage through corpora, collocation lists, concordances, and contextual analysis. The role of artificial intelligence in linguistic and translation work was also discussed.

The main message was clear: AI can support analysis, systematize examples, suggest translation options, and speed up work—but it should not replace critical thinking, evidence from corpora, or the professional responsibility of a linguist and translator.

It was a pleasure to share this point of view and contribute to the academic discussion on European values, digital tools, corpus-based translation, and the future of the humanities.