University of Forestry

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The University of Forestry, based in Sofia, is a state university with six faculties with a total of 30 departments.
It is located in Sofia, the Bulgaria capital, and is close to the Technical University and the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy. The University of Forestry has two Research Forests: the first one located near the village of Yundola in a coniferous forest, and the other in the village of Barzia in a deciduous forest. It also has a Training and Experimental Field Station in the Vrazhdebna suburb of Sofia.
For more than 90 years now, the University of Forestry has been the only University in Bulgaria providing education in forestry, forest management, landscape architecture, and wood processing. In the 1990s, the range of scientific fields was expanded to include ecology, agronomy, veterinary medicine, and business management.
In the mid-1990s, the University adopted the three-level degree system of bachelor's, master and doctor degrees. At that time, it also introduced the European Credit Transfer System.
The motto of the University is Bulgarian traditions and European standards in education. As an educational institution, the University of Forestry strives to establish an academic environment in which values such as professionalism, freedom of speech and thought, humanism, collaboration, and tolerance are encouraged.
The mission of the University of Forestry (UF) - Sofia, as a State Higher School, is to carry out the state policy for the development of higher education and science in the Republic of Bulgaria in a uniquely combined complex of specialties related to the management and technological provision of the use of natural resources, products, and services. UF is a nationally recognized educational and scientific center, called to provide highly qualified specialists with higher education, as well as to develop scientific and research activities in the fields of Forestry, General Engineering, Earth Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Plant Breeding, Plant Protection, Tourism, Administration and Management.
With its highly educated academic staff of nationally recognized and internationally recognized lecturers and scientists, the University of Forestry provides personnel recruitment and scientific servicing of major branches for the country and their sectors - forestry, woodworking and furniture industry, engineering design, ecology and environmental protection, landscape architecture, agriculture, veterinary medicine, alternative tourism, etc. In this way, the main aspects of the university institution's mission - the creation, dissemination, and use of knowledge and skills for society's benefit are covered.
As an autonomous university, UF seeks to maintain and develop an academic environment in which not only the training of qualified staff is achieved, but also to educate socially responsible individuals showing entrepreneurship, adaptability, and creative capabilities for successful professional realization, adopting the European values for lifelong learning and contributing to the prosperity of Bulgaria and the development of the European Union towards a "knowledge-based economy."
The activity of the UF for the fulfillment of this mission is based on the country's traditions in higher education, the achievements in the fields mentioned above with full respect for the interests of the Republic of Bulgaria, and harmonization with the requirements of the European higher education and the trends in the development of the European educational and scientific space.

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