From August 4 to 17, 2024, the National University of Water and Environmental Engineering (NUWEE) will have the honor of hosting a delegation from Fordham University (New York, USA) for a joint Summer School.

This event marks a significant milestone in the expansion of international cooperation and the strengthening of academic ties between our universities.

In the Carpathian village of Babyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region, the Summer School for active students of the Alliance of Ukrainian Universities has ended. At the same time, the event was also a volunteer BUR-camp (BUR-camp is a volunteer construction camp in small towns or villages of Ukraine, which attracts young people from all over the country to volunteer).

In the spring of 2023, the Alliance of Ukrainian Universities was founded to address the challenges facing the country and Ukrainian society after the full-scale invasion of russia.

In addition to the National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, the community includes Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Dnipro University of Technology, Sumy State University, Ukrainian Catholic University, and Kyiv School of Economics.

The National University of Water and Environmental Engineering joined the creation of a network of the Veteran Development Centres on the basis of higher education institutions with the support of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine and the Rivne Regional Military Administration. 

I had a great opportunity to participate as part of the Erasmus+ KA171 program in the international summer semester "Agriculture, Food and Nutrition", which lasted from April 22 to July 12, 2024 at the University of Applied Sciences, Triesdorf, Germany. The semester program has been specially designed for undergraduate students in the field of agricultural sciences and focuses on modern aspects of agriculture and food security.

The final monitoring of the grant project "Development of organic berry growing in united territorial communities", which was implemented with the support of Switzerland within the framework of the "Organic trade for development in Eastern Europe" (OT4D) program, implemented by IFOAM - Organics International in partnership with HELVETAS Swiss, took place Intercooperation and Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL, Switzerland).

On July 26, a team of students of the "Agroengineering" specialty and lecturers of the Agricultural Engineering Department presented their developments in the final of the "BGV HARDWARE ACCELERATOR" acceleration program.

On 26.07.2024, Jeffrey Fredericks, infrastructure manager of the "Harvest" project of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) visited NUWEE on a working visit.

On Thursday, July 4, a photo exhibition dedicated to volunteers from Belarus who fought on the side of Ukraine and died during the Russian-Ukrainian war was opened on the fourth floor of the first building of the University.