NLAO structure

International cooperation

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V. A. Tuljakov - the pro-rector on the international communications, professor

International cooperation has been one of the priorities of the Academy since the early days of its existence and its management and staff has taken all necessary steps to promote this activity.

In 1990 the Academy established partnership relations with international Research and Exchange Council (IREX), the American Council for International Education, the British Council, The “Know How”, Foundation of the British Government, the CDFR Foundation, the US Information Agency, the International Center for Academic Exchange (IEAC), TEMPUS, the “Renaissance”, International Foundation and the Regional Delegation of International Committee of the Red Cross. The cooperation with these international foundations involves exchange of experience and resources as well as the implementation of long-term educational and cultural programmes.

The Academy also promotes various forms of cooperation with different institutions in Austria, the United Kingdoms, Germany, Greece, Lichtenstein, Norway, the USA, Turkey, France, Switzerland, Sweden and has been established contractual relations with research centers and educational institutions from Azerbaijan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, the USA, Poland, Turkmenistan, the Russian Federation and the UN educational departments. The agreements with the above mentioned institutions provide the basis for faculty and students exchange, familiarization with foreign experience, acquisition of foreign specialized literature and dissemination of the Academy’s publications abroad.

Further development of international cooperation leads to the intensification and the expansion of this activity involving new partners from English, French and German speaking countries. Thus recently the Academy has established links with educational and research institutions in Germany, such as the Goethe Institute in Ukraine, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Hans Seidel Foundation and the German Academic exchange Service (DAAD). These foundations provide organizational support and funding for the faculty and students’ internships at the Law faculty of the Hamburg University, the Institute of International Communication and with the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” editorial board. The “Österreichishe Kooperation” from Austria has provided scholarships, enabling members of the teaching staff and students from the Academy to improve their German language skills within the frame of a certified training programme at the Institute of International Law and International Organizations and at the Law School of Salzburg University in Austria. With the support of the Embassy of Ukraine in France and the French Cultural Centre in Odessa the Academy is now in the process of establishing relations with the centers of legal education and research in France. One of the accomplishments in this area is the Agreement on students’ and academic exchange signed in 2000 with the university in Bordeaux.

As a logical result of this work in 1998 the Academy was granted full membership at the European Universities Association. In 2000 the “Yuridichny Visnyk” specialized journal, issued by the Academy, was registered by the International Register for periodicals in Paris. In 2001-2002 the Academy joined the Magna Charta Universitatis and the Bologna Declaration “the European Space for Higher Education”. Having signed these documents the Academy was recognized as a participant and an active subject of the Bologna process.

The Academy has steady partnership relations with the following higher schools abroad: Vienna Diplomatic Academy, The University of Salzburg (Austria); Open University Brussels (Belgium); The Buckingham and the Nottingham Universities (U.K.); The Universities in Patros and Athens (Greece); The “La Sapienza” University (Italy); The Queens University (Canada); The Chisinau State University and “ULIM” University (Moldova); The Universities of Passau, Regensburg and Hamburg (Germany); The Warsaw University, The Lodz University and the Academy of Physical Training and Sports (Poland); Moscow State University, Moscow State University of International Relations (the Russian Federation); The Universities of Colorado, Michigan, Maryland, the American University (USA); The Central European University (Hungary); The St. Gallen University (Switzerland).

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