Polissia National University ( uk, Поліський національний університет), known as the Zhytomyr National Agroecological University prior to 2020, is a university in

Zhytomyr Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital city, a ...

, Ukraine. The University provides specialists in the majority of national economic sectors in the Ukrainian

Polesia Polesia, Polesie, or Polesye, uk, Полісся (Polissia), pl, Polesie, russian: Полесье (Polesye) is a natural and historical region that starts from the farthest edge of Central Europe and encompasses Eastern Europe, including East ...

(

Rivne Rivne (; uk, Рівне ),) also known as Rovno (Russian: Ровно; Polish: Równe; Yiddish: ראָוונע), is a city in western Ukraine. The city is the administrative center of Rivne Oblast (province), as well as the surrounding Rivne Raio ...

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.

History

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. It received national status on August 27, 2008.

International profile

On 6 July 2017 Polissia National University became the first among the national agricultural universities, and the second-highest educational institution in

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

, to join the

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, 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 The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...

and European integration from a scientific perspective. 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.

References

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