INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS' MEETINGS AS A KEY TO RESILIENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

The notion «resilience» is mostly used in Psychology. It is defined by American Psychological Association as «the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands» [4] (APA Dictionary of Psychology). Nowadays, the Ukrainian reality under martial law dictates everyone to pay attention to the new way of resilience, not only personal, but educational too. The notion «resilience in higher education» means not only flexibility and adaptivity to stressful situations during the study process in academic community at high school. According to the research of Ukrainian scientist K. Balakhtar, «the advantages of the action of resilience are determined: high adaptability, psychological well-being and success in the activities of teachers of higher education institutions and the main features of resilient people (social features, emotional features, cognitive/academic features)»