International Applicants Karazin University

Dear friends!

Choosing your professional path, you choose the direction of your life and its future intensity of daily bright, useful, and important tasks. A decent choice of speciality is always rewarding and encourages to move forward.

The profession of ecologist is usually a choice of the Person who is ambitious, active, creative, caring for his/her environment and life, who seeks to do things and not make a noise, who is able to dream and make his/her dreams come true.

We wish you to acquire a modern and decent qualification that will be the source of your professional inspiration for life. Welcome to our school!

STRUCTURE

The School consists of three departments:

• Department of Ecology and Neoecology;

• Department of Environmental Safety and Environmental Education;

• Department of Environmental Monitoring and Management.

Also, the School’s subdivisions are the Eco-Toxicological Laboratory and Eco-Analytical Laboratory.

FACULTY

More than 25 instructors, including the academician of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, eight doctors of sciences, full professors and 17 PhDs, associate professors are engaged in scientific research and training of specialists.

The scientific groups of the School are headed by the leading scientists:

• Sviatoslav Baliuk — Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Full Professor;

• Alla Nekos — Doctor of Geography, Full Professor;

• Hanna Titenko — PhD in Geography, Associate Professor.

TRAINING ACTIVITY

Training of ecologists is conducted on a broad interdisciplinary ground based on a whole range of sciences — chemistry, biology, geography, geology, etc.

The training consists of the cycles of humanitarian and socio-economic disciplines (history of Ukraine, philosophy, cultural studies, economic theory, political studies, sociology, psychology, etc.), natural science disciplines (higher mathematics, chemistry, physics, computer science, systemology, etc.), and professionally-oriented disciplines (environmental studies, fundamentals of general ecology and neoecology, environmental monitoring and protection, environmental monitoring and management, environmental and technologenic safety, etc.).

Educational practices are held in the Crimea, the Carpathians, Kharkiv region. Students undergo their on-the-job training in various institutions and organizations by their choice in almost all Ukraine’s regions, and in some cases, abroad.

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

The School offers postgraduate and doctoral studies, has the Thesis Committee on Constructive Geography and Rational Use of Natural Resources.

The School publishes the University Bulletin, series Ecology, as well as the journal “The Environmental Protection from Anthropogenic Load” and “The Human and Environment. Problems of Neoecology”.
The School is conducting scientific activity in the following areas: environmental safety, research on the impact of pollution on food quality, soil and environmental studies, assessment of natural resource potential of Kharkiv region, landscape and environmental research, aerospace topsoil research (radiogeography), environmental education, environmental examination, environmental management and audit, environmental activities management, prevention and liquidation of emergency situations.

EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS FOR GRADUATES

The ecologist’s employment scope is rather broad. it includes environmental protection management, state environmental inspections, environmental control, nature reserves, and other subdivisions of the profile ministry system, research institutes, higher educational institutions, etc.

PARTNERS

• KHODA Department of Ecology and Natural Resources;

• Research institution “Ukrainian Research Institute of Environmental Problems” of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Ukraine;

• National Scientific Center “O. N. Sokolovskyi Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry”;

• Ukrainian Order of Honor of G. M. Vysotskyi Research Institute of Forestry & Forest Melioration, and many others.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The School cooperates with universities of the near and far-abroad, including:

• Lodz University of Technology (Lodz, Poland);

• University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Vienna, Austria), and many others.