WEST UKRAINIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

 The educational resource "Osvita.ua" published a consolidated rating of Ukrainian higher education institutions for 2019. According to it, Ternopil National Economic University was ranked 40th in the overall rating of Ukrainian higher education institutions and second in the regional rating.

To compile the consolidated rating of higher education institutions of Ukraine, the most authoritative ratings among the experts and the media were used: "Top 200 Ukraine", "Scopus" and "ZNO on contract", each of which uses different evaluation criteria.

 Another academic semester of the Ukraine - Norway project has ended. Participants - soldiers who have been released into the reserve and their family members - having completed the courseload, were awarded certificates of retraining during a joyous ceremony.

First Vice-Rector of TNEU Mykola Shynkaryk, Vice-Rector for Scientific and Pedagogical Work (International Cooperation and Innovative Development) Oksana Desyatnyuk, Defense Attaché at Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ukraine and Georgia Boye Garder Lillerud, President of the International Foundation for Social Adaptation Volodymyr Rubtsov congratulated the project participants.

 Within the framework of cooperation between Ternopil National Economic University and the University of Applied Sciences Inholland (Kingdom of the Netherlands), a competitive selection of teachers to teach the international management and international marketing disciplines for a week is announced in accordance with the agreed programmes in the second semester of 2019-2020. The competition is part of the ERASMUS + academic mobility project.

 The University of Nord (Norway) offers TNEU postgraduate internships for the period from March to May 2020. During the internship, postgraduate students will be able to work on the topic of their dissertation using the bibliographic resources available in the library, as well as choose PhD courses according to their topic of work.

 Yesterday a Cooperation Agreement was signed between Ternopil National Economic University and STAFFORENT (Varna, Bulgaria) to jointly organize production practices and internships for students of the Department of International Tourism and Hospitality Management of the B. Havrylyshyn Research and Education Institute of International Economic Relations in hotel and restaurant complexes in Bulgaria.

 TNEU has risen from 440 to 423 in the GreenMetric World University Rankings, which considers 780 universities of the world. Our higher education institution ranks 5th among Ukrainian universities!

The rating measures the environmental impact of an institution in terms of six sets of criteria: creation of a favorable eco-landscape environment, energy saving, savings of water resources, waste management, the use of ZeroEmission vehicles , conducting educational activities and research in the field of sustainable development.

The rating is based on the conceptual framework of the environment, economy and justice.

 A delegation from the People's Republic of China visited the Ternopil National Economic University recently. Vice-rector for Academic Affairs and Research Oksana Desyatnyuk greeted the guests. The purpose of the visit was to communicate with students from the PRC studying at the university and to discuss further ways of expanding cooperation.

The World Transparent Ranking of Repositories of institutional repositories of universities and other academic institutions is published on the Webometrics website ( https://repositories.webometrics.info/en/transparent ).

According to the rating, the repository of the TNEU L. Kanishchenko library was at the 177th place. The rating is based on the number of scientific papers placed in the repository and indexed by the Google Scholar database. This year, Webeomtrics's automated rating algorithm has identified 1,000 top repositories of which more than 30 are repositories of Ukrainian universities.

We congratulate the TNEU University community on their remarkable achievement. International recognition and a leading position in a global ranking is a result of teamwork of the teaching staff and students.

According to the results of this year's (June 2018, version 6.0, beta!) global evaluation of the quality of universities’ scientific activity, Ternopil National Economic University was in 8th place among 118 Ukrainian universities included in the world ranking and 2297 place in the global rating, which has 5808 educational institutions.

The evaluation was conducted by Webometrics ( https://webometrics.info/en/transparent ) through analysis of the citation of scientists in the Google Scholar database. Our university has once again confirmed its excellence as a European-style higher education institution! We are proud of the hard work of TNEU scientists and look forward to new achievements.

According to the evaluation results of the quality of the world universities’ scientific activity in July 2018 conducted by Webometrics (https://webometrics.info/en/transparent), Ternopil National Economic University ranked first among 326 Ukrainian universities included in the ranking and 760^th in the global ranking of 12,000 educational institutions. Our university has again confirmed the excellence of its staff and educational facilities!

We congratulate the academic community of the University on a remarkable achievement. It is your scientific achievements and hard work that have shaped the University as a modern educational centre, which is a leader among Ukrainian higher education institutions and well-known abroad.

 Viva professors! Viva University!