VFU "CHERNORIZETS HRABAR" WILL PARTNER WITH UNIVERSITIES IN THE USA, GEORGIA AND UKRAINE UNDER THE ERASMUS+ PROGRAMME
10 July 2023
Varna Free University won a project under the Erasmus+ Programme for educational mobility of students, lecturers and administrative staff in the field of higher education, involving third countries not associated with the programme. As a result of the project, VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar" will partner with universities in Georgia, Ukraine and the USA.
Varna Free University cooperates with the University of Georgia in the implementation of the internationalization strategy in the field of exchange of knowledge and skills with foreign researchers and scientific institutions. In 2022, VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar" signed a Memorandum of Mutual Understanding with the College of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia - the oldest public university in the USA, established in 1785. Prof. Sonia Hirt, PhD - Dean of the College of Environment and Design is visiting Varna.
The Georgian Institute of Public Administration is also among the new partners of Varna Free University. A cooperation agreement was concluded with them in 2022, according to which VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar" can accept students, lectures and administrative staff from the Georgian Institute under the Erasmus+ Programme, as well as to send their own students, lecturers and staff.
With the Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy "AN Beketov", Ukraine, the Faculty of Architecture at Varna Free University has a long-standing cooperation not only under the Erasmus+ Programme, but also in various projects.
The Sumy State University in Ukraine has been a long-standing partner of the Faculty of Law at VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar" on the basis of memorandums of joint cooperation. Our university hosts numerous events in which lecturers and scientists from Sumy State University participate.
Varna Free University has been cooperating with the Kyiv University of Law under the Erasmus+ Programme since 2016. Traditionally, lecturers from the Kyiv University participate in the Summer Scientific Sessions of the Faculty of Law of VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar".