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Polissia National University

Coordinates: 50°14′55″N 28°40′07″E / 50.24861°N 28.66861°E / 50.24861; 28.66861
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Polissia National University
TypePublic
Established1922 (1922)
RectorSkydan Oleg Vasylyovych[1]
Location, ,
50°14′55″N 28°40′07″E / 50.24861°N 28.66861°E / 50.24861; 28.66861
Websitewww.znau.edu.ua
Polissia National University is located in Zhytomyr Oblast
Polissia National University
Location in Zhytomyr Oblast
Polissia National University is located in Ukraine Zhytomyr Oblast (country map)
Polissia National University
Polissia National University (Ukraine Zhytomyr Oblast (country map))

Polissia National University (Ukrainian: Поліський національний університет), known as the Zhytomyr National Agroecological University prior to 2020, is a university in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. The University provides specialists in the majority of national economic sectors in the Ukrainian Polesia (Zhytomyr, Rivne and Volyn oblasts). The university has some seven thousand students and is divided into eight faculties (agronomy, technology of animal production and processing, veterinary medicine, agricultural engineering and energetics, ecology and law, forestry, accounting and finance, economics and management) and 42 departments.[2]

History

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Polissia National University was established in 1922 on the basis of Novo-Chortoryi Agricultural School of Novorad-Volynskyi district and was initialyy named Volyn Agronomic College.[3] It received national status on August 27, 2008.[4]

International profile

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On 6 July 2017 Polissia National University became the first among the national agricultural universities, and the second-highest educational institution in Ukraine, to join the EUROSCI Network, a network of international academic players that brings together universities, research centers, departments, and expert groups, with a common interest in the study of the European Union and European integration from a scientific perspective.[5][6][7]

An important direction of international activity is to provide students with the opportunity to study the latest agricultural technologies and the organization of business activities in the field of agricultural development in the agricultural economies of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, the United States.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Governance". Zhytomyr National Agroecological University. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  2. ^ "About the university". Zhytomyr National Agroecological University. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Історія Поліського Університету". zhytomyr.one (in Ukrainian). 2023-07-10. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  4. ^ "Поліський національний університет". vue.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  5. ^ "Zhytomyr Agrouniversity is the second university of the country that joined the EUROSCI Network". 1ZT.ua. 10 July 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  6. ^ "У ЖНАЕУ вивчатимуть євроінтеграцію у межах EUROSCI Network". Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  7. ^ "У ЖНАЕУ вивчатимуть євроінтеграцію у межах EUROSCI Network". Державне інформаційно-виробниче підприємство видавництво "Педагогічна преса". 11 July 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  8. ^ Реактор, компанія. "Житомирський національний агроекологічний університет у Житомирі 🎓Education.ua". www.education.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-09-28.