Odessa State Environmental University is a multi-campus public university providing innovative undergraduate and graduate education that contributes to society and the individual by harmonizing mankind-nature relations, the critical national educational centre for training specialists in Environmental Science, Hydrometeorology, Management, Computer Science and Water Bio-Resources.
OSU is the seat of Environmental Subcommission of the Standing Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in Biology, Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
Over an extended period, the main aim of OSENU (founded in 1932) was to train personnel in the fields of environmental quality monitoring and environmental control. Hydrometeorology OSENU has been training specialists for the World Meteorological Organization for more than 50 years. The curricula for training specialists meet all international standards and are acknowledged by hydrometeorological services worldwide. Since 1957 the University has provided training for some 1600 specialists form more than 70 countries, including circa 150 Candidates and Doctors of Science. Two of OSENU graduates, members of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Рисунок1Alioune Ndiaye and Oleg Sirotenko, were among the awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (2007). For the time being, foreign citizens of 27 countries have been provided education at the University.
OSENU offers both full-time studies and distance learning facilities. The Centre for Postgraduate Studies of the University offers some thirty-five programs of short- and medium syllabi (30 to 150 academic hours) for Professional Development in title specialities and specializations for professionals from various regional organizations and services teaching staff of other universities and the community.
It is on the basis of the Department of Agricultural Meteorology and Agrometeorological Forecasting and the Department of Applied Environmental Science, a Coordination Center for Training and Retraining of Specialists in Agricultural Meteorology, Agroecology and Climate Change from the CIS countries (a Center of Excellence, www.coe.osenu.org.ua ) is established by the decision of International Coordination Meeting within the framework of the 'Development of Qualification Framework in Meteorology', QualiMet, 159352-TEMPUS-FI-TEMPUS-JPHES, www.qualimet.osenu.org.ua), 8 June 2012, Rome (Italy), as a result of the joint actions of the partners under 'EU Based Course in Foodstuff Expertise & Quality Control', EUBCFEQC, 159173-TEMPUS-DE-TEMPUS-JPCR, www.foodstuff.osenu.org.ua, and 'Environmental Governance for Environmental Curricula', EnGo, 511390-TEMPUS-1-2010-1-SK-TEMPUS-JPCR, www.engo.osenu.org.ua) projects and with the decisions of the 24th Session of the Intergovernmental Council on Hydrometeorology of the CIS countries, 4-5 October, 2012, Kazan, taken account of.
International-007In 2011-2014 OSENU participated in the project consortium on Enhanced three-level competency-based curricula in Applied Marine Science, e-Maris, 517271-TEMPUS-1-2011-1-DE-TEMPUS-JPCR, www.emaris.net, involving academic and research institutions from Germany, Russia, Lithuania and Spain.
Since December 2013 OSENU has been involved in implementing 'Qualifications Frameworks for Environmental Science at Ukrainian Universities', QANTAS, 544524-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-PL-TEMPUS-SMHES, www.qantus.osenu.org.ua, project in partnership with universities and organizations from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain. The project aims to enhance the quality and relevance of higher education in Ukraine and increase convergence with EU developments by elaborating qualifications frameworks.
In October 2015 a project on Adaptive learning environment for competence in economic and societal impacts of local weather, air quality and climate, ECOIMPACT, 561975-EPP-1-2015-1-FI-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP, under new ERASMUS+ programme was launched. The project, which is coordinated by the University of Helsinki, Finland, with the participation of OSENU and EU partners from Slovakia and Bulgaria, aims to build capacity for improvement of society's educational level towards more resilient social and economic development.
Odessa State Environmental University (OSENU), a multi-campus public university, provides innovative undergraduate and graduate education that contributes to the development of the society and the individual by harmonizing mankind-nature relations to facilitate learning through discovery, synthesis, preservation and dissemination of knowledge on the Environment.
Odessa State Environmental University has a glorious history, which dates back to 01 May 1932. Within this period, the University has become a unique institution of higher learning that provides quality higher education under the international standards in the extremely topical specialities related to protection, monitoring, and forecasting the Natural Environment's state. The essence of our mission is to change our society's outlook and turn over the nature in which it is comfortable to live into the generations-to-come. Join us in our work!
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