OSENU

Odessa State Environmental University is a multi-campus public university providing innovative undergraduate and graduate education that contributes to the development of society and the individual through harmonization of mankind-nature relations, the key National Research-and-Studies Centre for training specialists in Environmental Science, Hydrometeorology, Management, Computer Science and Water Bio-Resources.

Odessa State Environmental University is a multi-campus public university providing innovative undergraduate and graduate education that contributes to the development of society and the individual through harmonization of mankind-nature relations, the key national educational centre for training specialists in Environmental Science, Hydrometeorology, Management, Computer Science and Water Bio-Resources.

OSENU 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 a long period the main aim of OSENU (founded in 1932) was to train personnel in the fields of environmental quality monitoring and environmental control. In the field of 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 all over the world.  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, Alioune 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, businesses, 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.

For 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 is involved in implementation of ‘Qualifications Frameworks for Environmental Science at Ukrainian Universities’, QANTUS, 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 is aimed at enhancement of quality and relevance of higher education in Ukraine and increasing convergence with EU developments through elaboration of qualifications frameworks.

In October 2015 launching of the 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 is expected. The project, which is to be generally coordinated by University of Helsinki, Finland, with participation of OSENU and EU partners from Slovakia and Bulgaria, will be aimed to build capacity for improving the educational level of society towards more resilient social and economic development.

Vice-Rector for Studies:

Mykola Serbov

E-mail: serbov@odeku.edu.ua

Phone: +38 0482  326 764

 

Vice-Rector for Research:

Yuriy Tuchkovenko

E-mail: science@odeku.edu.ua

Phone:  +38 0482  357 371

 

Vice-Rector for Study Methodology and Techniques:

Valerii Khokhlov

E-mail: metod1@odeku.edu.ua

Phone: +38 0482 326 762

 

Vice-Rector for Administrative Activity:

Mariia Krachkovska

E-mail: social@odeku.edu.ua

Phone: +38 0482 427 766

OSENU is a powerful academic, training and scientific centre which consists of the Hydrometeorological Institute, three full-time faculties – the Nature Protection Faculty, the Faculty of Environmental and Economic Science and the Faculty of Computer Science, The Faculty of Master and Post-Graduate Training, the Preparatory Faculty, The Training and Consulting Center for Distance Learning, the Centre for Postgraduate Studies, the Department for Foreign Students, Kherson and Kharkiv technical schools of Hydrometeorology, Southern Branch of the State Institute of Professional Development and Retraining of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, research laboratories for advanced study of the Antarctica, of atmospheric air pollution, nuclear and radiation safety, physics of compound systems and the environment that provides a wide range of unique educational programmes in the fields of Environmental and Earth Sciences.

The number of academic staff:

1. a) full-time: 222
2. b) part-time: 58
3. c) current number of academic staff holding a doctorate: 31 (Doctor of Science), 125 (Candidate of Science/PhD)

Nature Protection Faculty

Provides training of researchers, experts, inspectors for organisations and offices engaged in environmental control, activity of scientific-research centres, manufacturing enterprises, regional departments of environmental con­trol and regional government administra­tions. Students of such specialisations as Environmental Management, Environmental Aspects of Recreational and Health Resort Economy, Hydroecology, Radioecology, Environmental Aspects of Fish Industry are given training at the faculty.

Tel.: +38 0482 425 718

Faculty of Environmental Science and Economics

Provides training of officers for legal and economic departments of the organisations engaged in developing and planning activities in the field of environmental monitoring and control, sustainable nature management, state regional departments of environmental safety, environmental inspectorates as well as experts in nature-conservative activities for enterprises in both public and private sectors of national economy.

Students of such specializations as Border Environmental Control, Environmental Law, Nature Management Economics are given training at the faculty.

Tel.: +38 048 785 2718

Hydrometeorological Institute

Training is provided in the field of Meteorology, Agrometeorology, Hydrology, Oceanology, Hydrography.

Within the domain of Meteorology as a speciality there exist the following specializations: Weather Forecasting (Metcasting), Aeronautical Meteorology, Radiometorology and Radiolocation.

Since 1999 the department has provided training for the students in the field of Polar Meteorology.

Since 2013 admission to the specialities of Atmospheric Geophysics and Climatology is planned.

From the third year of study on the students of Hydrology are given the opportunity to specialize in Complex Water Management, Water Conservation and Institutional Basics of Water Industry

Tel: +38 0482 425 717

Faculty of Computer Science

Provides training of specialists in the field of Computer Science to work up and develop components of data processing and project management systems, specific software and geoinformation systems. Training is given with due consideration to the environmental description of the University.

Tel:  +38 0482 326 759

Sub-faculty of Military Training

A programme for training of regular hydrometeorology officers for the Ukrainian Army, Navy and Air Force has been carried out at the Sub-faculty of Military Training. The students who are given training in civil specialities at the University are provided Senior Division Programme.

Tel: +38 0482 326 743

Regional branches:

Kharkiv Technical College of Hydrometeorology,

Kherson Technical College of Hydrometeorology,

Odessa College of Computer Science,

Southern Branch of the State Institute of Professional Development and Retraining of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources.

Principal graduate and post graduate qualifications awarded and period of study normally required for each, number of student for each category of qualification.

Full-time Studies:

Bachelor of Science (4 years of the Undergraduate Studies), 1350 students

Specialist (1 year, upon the completion of the Baccalaureate Course), 450 students

Master of Science (2 years, upon the completion of the Baccalaureate Course), 150 students

Doctor of Philosophy Post Graduate Study (4 years, upon completion of the Master Course), Defence of a Candidate Thesis, 55 students

Doctor of Science Doctorate Study, (2 years) Defence of a Doctoral Thesis, 2 students

Odessa State Environmental University is the object of state property and is an affiliated body of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The University was founded on 1 May 1932 in the city of Kharkiv, the former capital of Ukraine, as the Kharkiv Engineering Hydrometeorological Institute. In July 1944 by the Decree of the Soviet Government the Institute was transferred to Odessa. For 80 years of its existence the higher educational establishment has been developing two basic trends. On the one part, a trend associated with training of engineers in the field of Hydrometeorology and Monitoring of the Environment which has been developed traditionally. On the other part, the specific character of the Hydrometeorological trend in training of specialists provided a highly qualified staff, teaching methods and scientific research basis for organizing a system of environmental education at the University.

BSc Programmes:

073. Management

074. Public Management and Administration

101. Environmental Science

103. Earth Sciences

122. Computer Sciences and Information Technologies

183. Environmental Protection Technologies

207. Water Bioresources and Aquiculture

242. Tourism

A wide range of MSc Programmes in:

051. Economics

073. Management

074. Public Management and Administration

081. Law

101. Environmental Science

103. Earth Sciences

122. Computer Sciences and Information Technologies

183. Environmental Protection Technologies

207. Water Bioresources and Aquiculture

PhD Programmes:

051. Economics

101. Environmental Science

103. Earth Sciences

113. Applied Mathematics

122. Computer Sciences and Information Technologies

183. Environmental Protection Technologies

The Term of Study comprises respectively:

• Bachelor of Science – 4 years,
• Master of Science – 2 years,
• PhD – 4 years,
• Doctor of Science – 2 years.

Graduates of the University are given assignments to various jobs at the Hydrometeorological Service, regional structures of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine,  the Ministry of Emergencies & Affairs of Population Protection from Consequences of Chornobyl Catastrophe of Ukraine, the State Committee of Ukraine of Water Management,  the State Hydrographical Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, the National Antarctic Scientific Center of Ukraine, other ministries and departments.

Since 1992 training of regular specialists in Hydrometeorology for the Ministry of Defence and the Security Service of Ukraine has been carried out at the University.

In the field of „Hydrometeorology’ OSENU has been training specialists for the World Meteorological Organization – the specialized agency of the UNO for more than 50 years. The curricula for training specialists in this field meet all international standards and are acknowledged by hydrometeorological services all over the world. Since 1957 the University has provided training for more than 1600 specialists form more than 70 countries, including circa 150 Candidates and Doctors of Science.

Odessa State Environmental University has one of the best material and technical bases, as well as one of the most potent staff in the region.

Two scientific-research and training complexes are established on the basis of the University – The Ukrainian Centre for Hydrometeorological Education and the Centre for Environmental Education.

The University has been extensively developed and looks ahead with perfect confidence.

Preparatory Faculty of the University. 1 – 2 years of study for the pupils of the senior classes of high schools. 500 students

The University has a network of preparatory training centres in 7 provinces of Ukraine.

The Training and Consulting Center for Distance Learning: 1200 students

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, businesses, teaching staff of other universities and the community.

OSENU, as a scientific institution, has been carrying out research into:

• provision of weather forecasts and issuing timely warnings of hazardous weather phenomena for various areas of economic activity and kinds of organizations;
• modelling of geophysical objects and tendencies of climate change, estimation of their impact on various fields of economic activity;
• comprehensive and integrated study of water objects, development of science-based guidelines for the management of water regime and environmental conditions as well as prognostics of qualitative and quantitative changes in the future;
• study of regularities in creation of hydrological,  hydrochemical and hydrobiological regimes in the off-shore and open seawater areas, modelling and prediction of their environmental conditions and  water dynamics as well as hydrodynamic processes in the coastal zones;
• mathematical design for influence of weather conditions on the processes of productivity formation, development of new and improvement of the existent methods for agrometeorological prognosis of growth, development and productivity formation;
• provision of hydrometeorological and geophysical data for the Air Force, the Army, the Artillery and Rocket Power and the NAVY.
• management, economic and legal substantiation of nature protection activity.

At Odessa State Environmental University the following scientific schools have been designated:

Theoretical and Applied Hydrology (founders – Anatoliy Mykolaiovych Befani  – a world-renowned scientist, Doctor of Science (Engineering),  Professor and his successors Yevgen Dmytrovych Gopchenko – Doctor of Science (Geography), Professor, and Alexander Grygorovich Ivanenko – Doctor of Science (Geography),  Professor)

Simulation of Crop Productive Processes (founder – Anatolii Mykolaiovych Polovyi – Doctor of Science (Geography), Professor);

Fundamental and Applied Research into the Boundary Geophysical Layer (founder – Wolf Abramovych Schnaidman – Doctor of Science (Physics and Mathematics), Professor and his colleagues: Anatoliy Grygorovych Tarnopolskiy – Doctor of Science (Geography), Professor, and Sergiy Mykolaiovych Stepanenko – Doctor of Science (Physics and Mathematics), Professor).

Regional Oceanology. The founders of this school which was created and evolves on the basis of the oceanology department are Viktorina Fyodorovna Sukhovei – Doctor of Science (Geography), Professor, Anatoliy Yerofeevich Filonov – Doctor of Science (Physics and Mathematics), Professor, and their colleague Yuriy Stepanovych Tuchkovenko – Doctor of Science (Geography), Professor.

Amount of specialists involved in researches:

237 (215 faculty staff + 22 researchers)

Significant scientific-research projects:

• EU-Ukraine TACIS Project: «Lakes of the Lower Danube» (2002),
• «Warning of extraordinary situations and flood protective measures in the European Region of Lower Danube» (2006),
• «Technical assistance at planning of the basin management of the Lower Dnestr» (2006),
• «Forming of of the of Pan-European Ecological Network, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity and Protected Areas» (2006),
• NATO project ESP/NUKR.Ev 982416 “Hydrology of and Ecology of Steppe Rivers in Eastern Europe” (2006),
• NATO research grant ‘Science for Peace’ – Sfp 981044 “Extreme precipitation evens” (2004 – 2006),
• International project of “Cooperation in WRF and ALLADIN Modelling Systems” (2007),
• International research project “Nonlinear Non-Equilibrium Systems” under the joint EU and International fund of Human Capital and Mobility Program (2004-2005),
• NATO research grant  ‘Science for Peace’ for implementation of the international project of “Climate Variability/Change and Health of the Black Sea’s Ecosystem”
• Network Environment Assessment and Remediation (NEAR)-3, a program of international cooperation between the universities of Central and Eastern Europe sponsored by a grant from the research fund of the government of Switzerland. (2007)
• FP7 – LAGOONS – Integrated water resources and coastal zone management in European lagoons in the context of climate change – LAGOONS (2011-2014)
• SEE TCP – OrientGate – network for the integration of climate knowledge into policy and planning – OrientGate, the South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme, INTRA – 5100828 (2012-2014)
• Black Sea Basin Programme – HOT BLACK SEA
  Integrated hotspots management and saving the living Black Sea ecosystem – HOT BLACK SEA (2013-2015)

Significant scientific & innovative achievements in latest 10 years (Patents, Awards):

• In 2002 the University was awarded a Diploma by the results of the International Academic Rating ‘Golden Fortune’ and the Silver Medal ‘10 years of Independence of Ukraine’ № 022 for ‘Significant Contribution to Training of Specialists for the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine’.
• In 2005 the University was declared the laureate of the International Contest ‘Golden Trade Marks’ and became the winner of the ‘Public Acclaim’ Order Award.
• Grand Prix of the International Exhibition ‘Hi-Tech Education’ (Odessa, Ukraine) – 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011.
• The Gold Medal for Development of International Cooperation in the Field of Education and Science. Kyiv, International Exhibition ‘Education & Career – 2011’, 7-9 April 2011.
• Grand Prix for Development of International Cooperation in the Field of Education and Science. International Exhibition ‘Education & Career – 2011’, Kyiv, 17-19 November 2011
• Grand Prix for Development of International Cooperation in the Field of Education and Science. International Exhibition ‘Education & Career – 2012’, Kyiv, 29-31 March 2012
• Grand Prix for Development of International Cooperation in the Field of Education and Science. International Exhibition ‘Education & Career – 2012’, Kyiv, 15-17 November 2012
• Honorary Sign and Diploma ‘The Leader of Scientific and Technical Activities’ and
  Diploma for Quality of Scientific Publications of the IV International Exhibition ‘Modern Educational Establishments – 2013’, Kyiv, 28 February – 02 March 2013
• Grand Prix for Development of International Cooperation in the Field of Education and Science. International Exhibition ‘Education & Career – 2013’, Kyiv, 11-13 April 2013
• Grand Prix for Development of International Cooperation in the Field of Education and Science. International Exhibition ‘Education & Career – 2015’, Kyiv, 12-14 November 2015
• Grand Prix for Development of International Cooperation in the Field of Education and Science. International Exhibition ‘Education & Career – 2016’, Kyiv, 14-16 April 2016
• Grand Prix for Development of International Cooperation in the Field of Education and Science. International Exhibition ‘Education & Career – 2016’, Kyiv, 17-19 November 2016
• Diploma of the Laureate of the First Degree under the Nomination of “Innovation in Enhancement of International Cooperation in the Area of Education, Research and Culture” and a Diploma for Taking an Active Part in Innovative Educational Activities. 8th International Forum ‘Innovation in Modern Education’ and the 4th International Exhibition of Foreign Educational Institutions ‘Edu World’, Kyiv, 25-27 October 2016.

I. All-UNIVERSITY lABORATORIES

1.1. Geophysical Marine Research-and-Training Laboratory.

The laboratory is equipped with a complete complex of instruments and equipment, which provide practical work in the field for the undergraduate students, specialist and master degree students in the following specialities: ‘Oceanology’, ‘Hydrography’, ‘Hydroecology’, ‘Meteorology’, ‘Water Biological Resources’ (in the Mariculture section) and scientific research in the respective areas.

In particular, the list of instruments and equipment includes: a moor with a motor vessel, complexes of controlling and measuring instruments for marine environment conditions (hydrochemical indices of the water, wave phenomena, sea currents, flow velocity, volume, intensity, water temperature, depth measurement etc.). The laboratory is equipped with a meteorological instrument ground which provides full complex of meteorological observations of atmospheric conditions; devices, needed for assessment of biological conditions of the marine environment, the influence of sea waves on coastal condition, as well as the automated complexes for handling information, which determine the assignment of the laboratory equipment.

1.2. Meteorological Research-and-Training Laboratory.

The Meteorological Research-and-Training Laboratory, above all things, provides studies and research for such specialities as ‘Meteorology’, ‘Agricultural meteorology’, ‘Radiometeorology and Radiolocation’. The laboratory is equipped with a number of meteorological instrument grounds which enable full complex of measurements of environmental conditions, in particular – parameters of the atmospheric air (wind speed and direction, atmospheric pressure, humidity, data on air temperature at various levels etc.), as well as agrometeorological data (soil temperature at various depths, humidity, physical indices of soil etc.). Experimental instrument grounds for conducting research into assessment of the influence of meteorological factors on various crops, are also situated in the territory of the laboratory. Agroclimate research is provided by a biotron.

The work of radiometeorologists is enabled by the following laboratory equipment: radiometry devices for estimation of the state of the atmosphere at various altitudes, meteorological radars and cloud seeding facilities.

1.3. Fluvial Hydroecological Laboratory.

The main activity of the laboratory consists in provision of students’ training and research in ‘Hydrology and Hydrochemistry’, ‘Hydrography’, ‘Hydroecology’, ‘Water Bioresources and Aquiculture’. The laboratory is equipped with a full complex of instruments for implementation of the hydrometry in rivers, lakes, reservoirs (speed, level, temperature conditions, flow patterns, depth measurement, hydrochemical indices for pollution of surface and ground waters etc.). An automatic hydrological station (Certified by the Committee of Ukraine on Hydrometorology), a laboratory of hydrochemistry and a complex of equipment for estimation of biological productivity of objects are installed. The laboratory is equipped with a moor and a motor vessel, a meteorological instrument ground and a training ground for estimation of surface runoff formation and soil erosion.

1.4. Training Laboratory of Technical Means for Teaching and Control

Provides training process with hardware for teaching at all stages of training. The equipment which enables training process in the interactive mode, multimedia facilities for presenting information and workstations comprise the inventory of the laboratory.

1.5. Laboratory of Quality Monitoring for Programmes of Study (Curriculua)

A complex of information technology equipment, which provides automated estimation of quality for training of specialists at various stages of the studies is introduced. The proper software has been developed.

1.6. Computation Center

Provides the studies and scientific research with proper computer facilities and peripheral equipment. 70 personal computers and sufficient number of printers, scanners and others kinds of peripheral units are connected to the local area network of the university and have the Internet access.

ІІ. THE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE

2.1. Training Laboratory for Analysis and Processing of Hydrometeorological Data.

2.2. Training Laboratory for Meteorological Observations.

2.3. Training Laboratory for Computation of Hydrological Information.

2.4. Training Laboratory for Reception of Hydrometeorological Information.

2.5. Training Bureau for Weather Forecasting.

2.6. Training Bureau for Hydrological Forecasting.

2.7. Training Laboratory of Agroclimatology.

2.8. Training Laboratory for Agroecosystem Productivity Modelling.

2.9. Training Laboratory of Soil Science.

All the abovementioned laboratories of the OSENU Hydrometeorological Institute are fully provided with up-to-date equipment and devices which are in present-day use of hydrometeorological services all over the world under conducting observations and measurements. The inventory includes: devices for measuring regime of the atmospheric air and water bodies (rivers, reservoirs, lakes, and ground waters), devices for agrometeorological and agroclimatological measurement, measuring devices for marine and hydrographical measurement. The whole list of the equipment and devices in the training laboratories of the Hydrometeorological Institute numbers more than 500 items.

In particular, ‘The Weather Forecaster’, ‘The Hydrologist’ and ‘The Agricultural Meteorology’ workstations and a meteorological satellite station have been employed in the academic process.

ІІІ. THE FACULTY OF Ecology, Environmental Protection and Sustainable Nature Management

3.1. Training Laboratory of Environmental Research.

The laboratory is provided with modern devices and equipment, in particular: mini-express laboratories for conducting chemical analysis in the field, analyzers of oil-product content, the measuring devices for noise and vibration control, the measuring devices for strength of the field of industrial frequency, gamma-radiation energy spectrometers, including the ones for conducting field research, analytical systems of the ‘Ecotest-VA’ type for estimation of state of the environment, etc.

3.2. Training laboratory of Hydrometry, Hydraulics and River-Bed Processes.

The laboratory is provided with devices for conducting hydrometeorological instrumentation of all kinds of water objects: propeller flow meters, devices for measuring of water levels, runoff rate, flow velocity, temperature and water hydrochemical indices, various types of sampling devices for estimation of alluvium flow, automated hydrometric measurement complexes of the GR type, hydraulic devices, test trays, up-to-date echo-sounding devices and navigators, etc.

3.3. Training Laboratory of Geodesy and Geophysics.

The laboratory is equipped with geodesic and topographical devices – level gauges, theodolites, GPS devices, other instruments and equipment.

3.4. Training Laboratory of Water Bioresourses, Aquarium.

The laboratory is equipped with electronic microscopes, facilities for assessment of diseases of biological objects, conducting of biological analysis, the aquarium serves as the complement of the laboratory.

3.5. Training Laboratories of the Department of General and Theoretical Physics.

The laboratory is provided with standard physical equipment which makes it possible to conduct basic training of students in all fields and specialities at the University. A class of radiological and dosimetry devices to conduct assessment of contamination of the environment, including field sampling, constitutes a unit of the laboratory.

3.6. Training Laboratories of the Department of Chemistry of the Environment.

Training laboratories of the Department of Chemistry of the Environment are provided with a standard set of chemical equipment which provides proper training of students, with the requirements of the industries being taken into account. In particular, a class of personal computers works within the structure of the laboratories and training of students is carried out with the use of the up-to-date information technologies. The studies are provided with the specially developed and certified software systems. In the research laboratory of the Department of Chemistry of the Environment modern equipment, chromatographs and spectrometers are installed.

3.7. Training Laboratory for Physical Experiments.

The laboratory is provided with computer hardware, licensed program complexes, and standards of materials which make it possible to conduct modelling of various physical processes with the use of up-to-date information technologies.

IV. THE FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCE

4.1. Training Laboratory of Information Systems of Management.

The laboratory is provided with personal computers, necessary peripheral units and licensed software.

4.2. Training laboratory of the Department of Environmental Law.

The laboratory is provided with personal computers, necessary peripheral facilities and licensed software. In particular, ‘the Environmentalist’ workstation certified by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine is installed at the laboratory.

V. THE FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

 5.1. Training Laboratory of Informatics and Numerical Techniques.

Seven training classes of personal computers constitute the complement of the laboratory. The total rated display seating capacity makes 70 workstations. The laboratory is connected to the local area network of the University and has an Internet access.

5.2. Training Laboratory of the Automated Systems of Monitoring.

The laboratory is equipped with devices for organization of monitoring of environmental conditions – the meteorological stations, automated hydrological (gaging) stations, automated stations for control of contamination in the atmospheric air, automated complex for observation of hazardous weather phenomena (thunderstorms, hail, squalls, extreme precipitation, etc.) development.

5.3. Training Laboratory of Hydrometeorological Devices.

In the laboratory a wide spectrum of hydrometeorological devices which makes it possible to conduct observation of the state of various objects (the atmosphere and the soil, the superficial and subterranean water, the sea and the ocean) is presented.

5.4. Training laboratory of Radar Meteorology and Meteorological Radar Equipment.

In the structure of the laboratory radar devices and equipment, which are in present-day use of the network of the Committee of Ukraine on Hydrometorology, cloud seeding and aircraft flight support facilities, are presented. For example, a set of the AMAS-1-1 automated meteorological station, which   provides meteorological information for the departments of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Ukraine in the fully automated mode and ‘The Observer Meteorologist’ workstation are installed in the laboratory.

At all the stages of training of specialists and carrying out research, alongside with various devices, instruments and equipment, computer hardware is widely used.

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC ACTIVITY

International academic projects and programmes participated by the institution

‘Development of Qualification Framework in Meteorology’ (159352-TEMPUS-FI-TEMPUS-JPHES). The project consortium consists of the University of Helsinki (Finland), the University of Tartu (Estonia), the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Russian State Hydrometeorological University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Academic Association of the Russian Universities in the Area of Hydrometeorology (Russia), Roshydromet Advanced Training Institute (Moscow, Russia), non-profit organisation ‘Meteoagency of Roshydromet’ (Moscow, Russia), Tver State University (Russia).

‘EU Based Course in Foodstuff Expertise & Quality Control’ (159173-TEMPUS-1-2009-1-DE-TEMPUS-JPCR). The main participants of this project are: University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf (Germany) – Grant Applicant; University of Parma (Italy); Agricultural University – Plovdiv (Bulgaria); P&B – Association of Consultants (Portugal); Kharkiv State Zooveterinary Academy (Kharkiv, Ukraine); Dnipropetrovsk State Agrarian University (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine); Kherson State Agrarian University (Kherson, Ukraine); Odessa State Environmental University (Odessa, Ukraine); Ukrainian corporation of the industrial meat production (Kyiv, Ukraine); Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine; Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine.

‘Environmental Governance for Environmental Curricula’ (511390-TEMPUS-1-2010-1-SK-TEMPUS-JPCR). The project consortium consists of Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia), Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), IVAM (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Life Science University in Warsaw (Poland), Universitat Klagenfurt (Austria), Kharkiv National Academy of Municipal Economy (Ukraine), Belarusian State University, Central Research Institute for Complex Use of Water Resources (Minsk, Belarus),  International A. Sakharov State Environmental University (Minsk, Belarus), Joint University of Belarus and Russia, Ecoproject (Minsk District, Belarus), Russian State Hydrometeorological University (St.-Petersburg, Russian Federation),  Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation), Independent Environmental Chamber of Krasnoyarsk Kray, Pskov State Pedagogical University (Russian Federation), Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians (Lviv, Ukraine), MEDIAN S.C.P (Valldoreix, Spain)

‘Enhanced three-level competency-based curricula in Applied Marine Science’ (517271-TEMPUS-1-2011-1-DE-TEMPUS-JPCR). The project consortium involves the University of Bremen (Germany), Russian State Hydrometeorological University, St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Immanuel Kant State University of Russia, Academic Association of RF Universities in Hydrometeorology (Russian Federation), Klaipeda University (Lithuania), University of Cadiz (Spain).

‘Qualifications Frameworks for Environmental Science at Ukrainian Universities’ (544524-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-PL-TEMPUS-SMHES). Partners: Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Jagiellonian University (Poland), Odessa National Maritime Academy, Odessa State Environmental University, Kharkiv National University, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of UA, Lviv National Agrarian University, Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University, Uman National University of Horticulture, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Science and Methodology Centre for Agricultural Education, Institute of Innovative Technologies and Educational Content, Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians NASU, State Department of Enviromental Protection in Odessa Region (Ukraine), University of Pavia, University of Genova (Italy), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Vienna, Austria), University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany), University of Lleida (Spain), Association for European Life Science Universities, International Relations Officers’ Network of Assoc of ELSU (Belgium).

‘Adaptive learning environment for competence in economic and societal impacts of local weather, air quality and climate’ (561975-EPP-1-2015-1-FI-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP), ERASMUS+ programme. Grant coordinator: University of Helsinki (Finland). Partners:  Agricultural University – Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Stredoeuropska vysoka skola v Skalici (Slovakia), Kherson State Agricultural University, Odessa State Environmental University, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine), Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Advanced Training Institute (Zheleznodorozhny, Russian Federation).

‘Educational campaign Ecoligical TV’ project of the Netherlands Embassy.

Network Environment Assessment and Remediation (NEAR)-3, a program of international cooperation between the universities of Central and Eastern Europe sponsored by a grant from the research fund of the government of Switzerland (2005-2008). The project consortium consists of the University of Geneva, the Forel Institute (Switzerland), University of Bucharest (Romania), GeoEcoMar (Romania), Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Institute of Oceanology (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Institute of Geology (Academy of Sciences of Georgia).

Educational program ‘NEAR 4 (Network Environment Assessment and Remediation)’, funded by the Switzerland Government. The project consortium consists of the University of Geneva, the Forel Institute (Switzerland), Kharkiv National University (Ukraine), St Andree University of Patriarchate of Georgia, Geology Institute of Azerbaijan, Moldova State University, GeoEcoMar (Romania), University of Bucharest (Romania), Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Cracow University of Technology (Poland)

Collaboration in exchange of students, study of opportunities for students’ practical placement and conditions for finalizing diploma projects, exchange of academic staff and facilitating academic activities (with the New York State University, USA);

Development of bilateral collaborative projects in the field of Distance Learning (with the New York State University, USA)

INTERNATIONAL JOINT RESEARCH ACTIVITY

International research projects and programmes coordinated by or with the participation of OSENU

• EU-Ukraine TACIS Project: ‘Lakes of the Lower Danube’ (2002),
• ‘Warning of extraordinary situations and flood protective measures in the European Region of Lower Danube’ (2006),
• ‘Technical assistance at planning of the basin management of the Lower Dnestr’ (2006),
• ‘Forming of the of Pan-European Ecological Network, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity and Protected Areas’ (2006),
• NATO project ESP/NUKR.Ev 982416 ‘Hydrology of and Ecology of Steppe Rivers in Eastern Europe’ (2006),
• NATO research grant ‘Science for Peace’ – Sfp 981044 ‘Extreme precipitation evens’ (2004 – 2006),
• International project of ‘Cooperation in WRF and ALLADIN Modelling Systems’ (2007),
• International research project ‘Nonlinear Non-Equilibrium Systems’ under the joint EU and International fund of Human Capital and Mobility Program (2004-2005),
• NATO research grant ‘Science for Peace’ for implementation of the international project of ‘Climate Variability/Change and Health of the Black Sea’s Ecosystem’
• Implementation of the ‘Integrated water resources and coastal zone management in European lagoons in the context of climate change’ (LAGOONS) project, funded by the European Commission under the FP7 program (FP7-ENV-2011 call) within the section of ‘Lagoons in the context of climate change’, in the consortium of 8 countries (Portugal, Norway, Poland, Russia, Great Britain, Ukraine, Germany, Spain).
• Implementation of ‘A structured network for integration of climate knowledge into policy and territorial planning’, ORIENTGATE, 2012-2014, INTRA-5100828 project under EU South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme. Participants: universities, research institutes and centers, public authorities, municipalities and NGOs in Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia.
• ‘Building, exploitation and maintenance of solar water heaters’ within the framework ‘Building local capacity for domestic solar heating, hot water and insulation for rural and remote areas in the EEC region’ project of WECF (2011 – 2014). Partners: WECF, CDE (Center for Development and Environment), GERES (Groupe Energies Renouvelables, Environnement et Solidarités); Georgia: The Greens Movement of Georgia, Rural Communities Development Agency, Social Development Center Akhaltsikhe, SEMA; Ukraine: Ecoclub Rivne, National Ecological Center of Ukraine, Vozrozhdenie Tatarbunary.
• CLG ‘Granular materials – protective functions’ NATO grant.
• Participation in the Ukrainian-Russian Federation Programme ‘Structure of the condensed matter 2011-2013’ (jointly with M.M. Bogolyubov Institute for theoretical physics of NAS of Ukraine and the Laboratory of nuclear physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia)
• ‘Astrophysical Energy-Balance Modelling the Earth’s Climate with Effect of Cosmic Rays’ International scientific project. Participants: British Antarctic Survey, Slovenian institute for nuclear research, Institute for nuclear research and nuclear energy, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria, ‘Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute’ State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, the Ukrainian Antarctic Center.
• International project ‘Quantum theory Project’. Participants: University of Florida (USA), University of Athens (Greece), Democritos National Centre for Scientific Research (Greece), University of Uppsala (Sweden).
• Scientific project: ‘Application of the relativistic DFT theory in atomic calculations’; Participants: Democritos National Centre for Scientific Research, Institute of Material Science (Greece).
• Project: ‘GEOMATH’ Computer complex and micros-technology in hydrometeorological and ecological tasks. (2008-2014) Participants: University of Athens (Greece) and Szczecin University (Poland).
• ‘Integrated hotspots management and saving the living Black Sea ecosystem – HOT BLACK SEA’ Project (2013-2015) under the Joint Operational Program “Black Sea Basin 2007-2013”. Partners: National Institute for Research and Development in Electrical Engineering ICPE-CA (Bucharest, Romania) – The Project Coordinator, Foundation Caucasus Environment (Tbilisi, Georgia), TUBITAK Marmara Research Center (Gebze / KOCAELİ, Turkey), Burgas Municipality (Bulgaria), Odessa State Environmental University (Ukraine), Nongovernmental Organization for Sustainable Regional Development and Environmental Protection (SuRDEP, Varna, Bulgaria).
• Bilateral research projects with the partner-universities and organisations: University of Guadalajara (Mexico); Akaki Tsereteli State University (Georgia); Klaipeda University (Lithuania); Comenius University (Slovakia); Warsaw University of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz, Jagiellonian University (Poland); Central European University (Hungary);  Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, University of Bremen, University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan – Triesdorf, University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany); Klagenfurt University, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (Austria); Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (Netherlands); Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research – Bioforsk; University of Murcia, University of Lleida (Spain); University of Aveiro, Paulo & Beatriz – Consultores Associados, Lda (Portugal), University of Dundee, Scotland (UK); Moscow State University, Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Irkutsk State Agricultural Academy (Russian Federation), Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation), Russian Research Institute of Agricultural Meteorology, Russian Research Hydrometeorological Centre, Research Centre for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Ufa State Aviation Technical University, I.G. Petrovsky Briansk State University (Russian Federation), Atlantic Branch of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (Russian Academy of Science), ‘Sevkavgiprovodkhoz’ Company (Piatigorsk, Russian Federation), the Centre for Radioecological Researches (Russian Academy of Science);  Belarusian State University, Belarusian State Agricultural Academy, Belarusian-Russian University, Central Research Institute for Complex Use of Water Resources (Belarus), Institute of Ecology and Geography (Academy of Science of Moldova),  University of Geneva  (Switzerland), Agricultural University – Plovdiv, Technical University of Gabrovo (Bulgaria), Institute of Oceanology (Bulgarian Academy of Science); University of Helsinki (Finland); Asia Pacific Applied Science Associates (Australia); University of Liège, Association for European Life Science Universities, International Relations Officers’ Network of Assoc of ELSU (Belgium); Technological University of Lulea (Sweden); University of Setif (Algeria); University of Messina, University of Parma, University of Pavia, University of Genova (Italy); Democritos National Centre for Scientific Research, Institute of Material Science (Greece); National Institute of Marine Geology and Geoecology – GEOECOMAR (Romania).

 PROPOSALS FOR COOPERATIVE PROGRAMS

Regional Academic Programs

• Adjusting the syllabi and curricula to meet the real labour market demands and conditions,
• Developing multilateral collaborative projects in the field of Distance Learning,
• Developing awareness of necessity for institutional development and search for non-academic partners,
• Strengthening of the University significance as a center of scientific research and business consultancy,
• Building up university entrepreneurial abilities,
• Looking for new markets for educational activities,
• Bringing about the management of change,
• Making the University a centre for holding regional and international seminars, conferences and business trainings via implementation of the University strategic plans, projects and programmes.

COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Elaboration of all kinds of multilateral collaborative research activities in line with the development of current research branches of the University

Mobility Programs for Academics & Students

• Quality support measures for students and academic staff
• Enhancement of international cooperation capacities
• Academic recognition of study periods abroad
• Transparent selection mechanisms
• Visibility and communication strategy

Alliance of Universities for Democracy (AUDEM),

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Svitlana Shmeliova, PhD,

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