Cooperation for development
BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov actively cooperates with the universities of Donbass. Recently, an agreement was signed on cooperation with the Donbass State Technical Institute (DonSTI) of the Luhansk People's Republic. And at the end of last week, a delegation of the Donbass National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture paid an official visit to the Belgorod State Technological University. DonNASA Rector Nikolai Zaichenko and Vice-Rector Yaroslav Nazim met with First Vice-Rector Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Vice-Rector for International Affairs Ruslan Lesovik, discussed ways of cooperation and outlined a further program of interaction. The guests visited the exhibition complex of the university and went on excursions around Belgorod. The main outcome of the meeting was the signing of a number of documents on mutually beneficial cooperation. The networking agreement will make it possible to implement joint educational programs for obtaining double diplomas by students of both educational institutions. For bachelors, this will affect such specialties as architecture, design of the architectural environment, urban planning, construction (roads and airfields). In the magistracy, it will be possible to get higher education in the specialties of architecture and construction (roads, road construction materials science).
Cooperation under this agreement will expand students' access to modern educational technologies and teaching aids, as well as give students the opportunity to study academic disciplines (modules) of their choice. Not only students of Belgorod and Donetsk universities will benefit from such mutually beneficial cooperation.
The parties signed an Agreement that will allow academic and research exchange of information and documentation between institutes / faculties, departments, including the exchange of scientific publications. In addition, it will provide an opportunity for the exchange of teachers, scientists and students for joint scientific research, lectures, consultations, methodological work, educational, industrial and scientific internships and practices. As a result of the negotiations, an agreement was reached on the opening of the International Scientific and Educational Center "Theory and Practice of Restoring Destroyed Cities" on the basis of the Donbass National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture.