According to the decision of Magna Charta Observatory, Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University became a cosigner of the Magna Charta Universitatum.
This document defines the fundamental principles on which the universities’ activity is based to ensure the development of education and innovations, and to build cooperation between higher education institutions from all over the world. The Charter covers the main values, rights and obligations of a university as a key institute of society, whose activity is devoted to determining and spreading the most important principles and knowledge, and providing intellectual orients to the society.
The Charter was signed firstly by 388 universities in 1988 during the celebration of the 900th anniversary of the University of Bologna. Now, there are more than 800 participants of the Charter. National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” was the first Poltava higher education institution and one of the ten leading Ukrainian universities (together with Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ivan Franko Lviv National University and others) that was represented at the Ceremony of Signing Magna Charta Universitatum on September, 16, 2011, at Aula Magna di S. Lucia in Bologna.
The fundamental principles of Magna Charta Universitatum delivered by the rectors of the European signatory universities are as follows:
1. The university is an autonomous institution at the heart of societies differently organised because of geography and historical heritage; it produces, examines, appraises and hands down culture by research and teaching.
To meet the needs of the world around it, its research and teaching must be morally and intellectually independent of all political authority and economic power.
2. Teaching and research in universities must be inseparable if their tuition is not to lag behind changing needs, the demands of society, and advances in scientific knowledge.
3. Freedom in research and training is the fundamental principle of university life, and governments and universities, each as far as in them lies, must ensure respect for this fundamental requirement. Rejecting intolerance and always open to dialogue, a university is an ideal meeting-ground for teachers capable of imparting their knowledge and well equipped to develop it by research and innovation and for students entitled, able and willing to enrich their minds with that knowledge.
4. A university is the trustee of the European humanist tradition; its constant care is to attain universal knowledge; to fulfil its vocation it transcends geographical and political frontiers, and affirms the vital need for different cultures to know and influence each other.
According to the Rector of Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University Serhii Bielikov, joining Magna Charta Universitatum is a new stage of university development.
“This event, important for me and my colleagues, became possible thanks to the long-lasting cooperation of our higher education institutions, so I would like to personally thank Volodymyr Onyshchenko and the Academic Board of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” for the support and recommendations. On this occasion, I express my hope for further successful cooperation of our universities,” Serhii Bielikov said.
The universities have had the agreement on cooperation in education and science for more than 10 years. The students of technical specializations of Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic can do internships, earn practical skills at the companies of Zaporizhzhia, and visit the unique laboratories of Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University. The universities take part in various business projects, successfully realizing the dialogue of business and science, education and innovation on practice.
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