Precarpathian University

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The Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University is the first University in Western Ukraine of classic type. The history of formation and development of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University started in January 1940 when, at the request of local authorities, preparation for Teachers Institute's opening in Stanislav started. On March 1 the training began. With the proclamation of the independence of Ukraine, more favourable conditions for the integration of education and research were created. August 26, 1992, Ivano-Frankivsk Pedagogical Institute was reorganized in Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian University. At that time, the institution has long been in one of the country's first places thanks to its scientific potential. One of the most significant events of 2004 was granted the university "National" status.
For a short period of its existence university has grown into the leading centre of science, culture and education of Prycarpathia. New specialities, faculties and chairs were opened, the staff was filled up with highly skilled scholars.
The University consists of 15 educational institutes and faculties, 36 scientific establishments (research, scientific and educational institutions, centres, laboratories, among them joint research laboratory on tape physics of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine with the status "national acquisition", botanical garden, dendrological park, scientific library), Ivano-Frankivsk college of the Public Higher Education Institution "Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpatian National University", where young specialists, bachelors, masters are trained, three educational centres for distance communication.
More than 16 thousand students are studying at the University, 135 Doctors of Sciences, Professors, 629 Candidates of Sciences, PhD, Associate Professors are working.
In terms of extension of globalization and integration processes, the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University has acquired significant experience in cooperation with cultural centres in Europe, Asia and the USA in such fields, as a joint research activity, improvement of the scientific process, usage of progressive technology, conduction of conferences, symposiums, scientific and pedagogical personnel training. The University has signed more than 70 agreements on cooperation with foreign higher educational establishments.
The University is undertaking diligent work towards expanding international relations with higher educational institutions of different countries. At the invitation of the Lithuanian Republic's honorary consul in Uzhgorod and Zakarpattia oblast Viktor Hrapko the University's rector, Ihor Tsependa took part in meetings with the representatives of Lithuanian university circles in Vilnius. While on the business trip on March 2 the rector held a meeting with Mykolas Romeris University's administration, whose founder is the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (in the photo).
In the course of the conversation, the question about signing a collaboration agreement was discussed. Also, the matter of developing programs of double diplomas was raised. Special attention was devoted to fulfilling mutual grants within the program Erasmus+ and other European Union programs. Mykolas Romeris University's colleagues also suggested to the Precarpathian National University lecturers that they should take advantage of Web of Science and Scopus publications opportunities.
The students - biochemists, attended a five - day training course in the breeding and using the laboratory animals. It was run by Biology Research Centre of Warsaw University under the Polish Research Society of the Laboratory Animals (PolLASA). Three hundred students from Ukraine and Poland were the participants of the international course. Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University was represented by Alina Zayachkivska (III course), Vladyslav Kogut (III course), Oleg Shevchyk, Myroslava Vatashchuk and Natalia Butenko (IV course).
The lecturers of Warsaw Medical University, the Institute of Physiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences conducted the classes. The students could learn about the peculiarities of the laboratory animals' morphology, anatomy, physiology, and pathology. They were taught how to fill in the documents about planning and performing laboratory animals experiments according to the European Union's standards. The participants of the international courses got their certificates.
Volodymyr Lushchak, the Head of the Department of Biology of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian University informed that the students would be involved in the Ukrainian – German project "The Mechanism of Ageing While Reducing the Calories".
On February 26, the Confucius Institute of Kyiv National Linguistic University came on a visit to our University. During the meeting, Ihor Tsependa, university president, and the director of the institute Shy Yatsziun, volunteer teachers and the president's counsellor of the National Academy of Arts Valentyn Velychko discussed the prospects of cooperation. The possibility of the university teachers and students being engaged in the International scientific centre "Observatoriya" and the young students' gatherings were considered.
The university president Ihor Tsependa states that the University has been actively working on enhancing international ties and cooperating with new partners. The director of the Confucius institute got acquainted with the University's work and expressed his admiration about the methodical provision of teaching the Chinese language.
While attending the classes in Chinese, the director presented new educational text editions to our students. The Chinese colleagues also visited the Institute of Arts, the international exhibition of Arts and the sports healing centre "Smerichka".
A working meeting of Ukrainian-Polish experts on the restoration of the Astronomical Observatory on Mount Pip Ivan took place in Mykulychyn. The Director of the Eastern European Studies of the University of Warsaw Jan Malitsky, the Rector of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University Ihor Tsependa, the Chief of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk region Volodymyr Chernetskyi, scientists and experts summarized the work of the previous year and identified the priority areas of work for 2018, which is a jubilee year for the Observatory.
During the previous year, several international projects were implemented. A planned reconstruction was carried out. A rescue unit of the State Emergency Service was opened with appropriate conditions for service. A joint Ukrainian-Polish rescue training was held with the following acquisition of unique supply and equipment.
In 2018, several new projects were planned that would bring enthusiasts closer to the second opening of the Observatory and increase tourists' safety level in the mountains. Festive Academy on the occasion of awarding diplomas to university graduates took place in the Assembly Hall. More than eight hundred young professionals have received Master's Degree diplomas, and 224 graduates have earned their diplomas. The rector of the University, Professor Ihor Tsependa, wished young colleagues good, inspired work, self-belief, and new achievements to benefit native land and Ukraine. Graduates thanked the teaching staff for their hard work, support and understanding.
The Academy was accompanied by a festive concert with students and graduates of the Institute of Arts. Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Head of the Department of Professional Education and Innovation Technologies, Oksana Dzhus stressed the project's essential tasks: an innovative computer class for teachers' usage of innovative teaching tools to improve the quality of higher pedagogical education.
During the discussion, teachers expressed their desire to participate in the project at the stage of developing methodological recommendations on the use of ICT in the pedagogical process and the implementation of the results in the educational process of secondary schools in the region. Within the meeting framework, there was a presentation of training modules: organization of the children's educational environment integration: thematic and activity approach cooperative learning pedagogy of partnership.

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