The great event in the life of Poltava Polytechnic, the ceremony of signing the MCU 2020 was held within the XV All-Ukrainian Scientific Festival and the 73rd Conference of Professors, Teachers, Researchers, Post-Graduates and Students of our university:
“Our university has been a part of the Charta for 10 years already - since 2011. National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” was the first higher education institution in Poltava and one of the first Ukrainian universities (along with Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Ivan Franko Lviv National University) that were represented at the Ceremony of Signing the Magna Charta Universitatum on September 16, 2011, at the oldest university in the world - the University of Bologna. By signing the updated Magna Charta Universitatum 2020 our university proves its loyalty to the declaration and the implementation of its Principles, Values and Responsibilities, states the strengthening of the universities’ role in the preservation of our planet and the safety of our health, the life and education in the world. This document determines the ground principles that universities are governed by. The Charta secures the main values, rights and responsibilities of universities as the key institutes of societies, the activities of which are focused on determining and spreading the most important principles and knowledge, providing the societies with intellectual guides,” Rector Volodymyr Onyshchenko commented.
The Magna Charta Universitatum has been signed by 904 universities from 88 countries since 1988. The partner universities that Polytechnic provided with recommendations also joined the Magna Charta Universitatum, in particular, it was signed by Poltava State Medical University and National University Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic.
The Magna Charta Universitatum affirms the fundamental principles and values of the notion of university, which has formed the basics of the scientific and social progress of the humanity for centuries. By signing the Magna Charta Universitatum, universities took on the duty to conform with its principles and values. The main principles of MCU claimed by the Rectors of the European signing universities are as follows:
- The university is an autonomous institution at the heart of societies differently organized 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.
- Teaching and research at universities must be inseparable if their tuition is not to lag behind the changing needs, the demands of society, and the advances in scientific knowledge.
- Freedom in research and training is the fundamental principle of university life. 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.
- A university is the trustee of the European humanist tradition. Its constant care is to attain universal knowledge, to fulfill its vocation it transcends geographical and political frontiers, and affirms the vital need for different cultures to know and influence each other.
The principles laid out in the Magna Charta Universitatum are as valid today as they were in 1988, and they are the necessary precondition for human advancement through enquiry, analysis and sound action.
The formal launch of the updated Magna Charta Universitatum will take place on June 16-17, 2021 online, according to the decision of the Observatory of MCU.
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