University signs agreement with Ukraine
Posted on 15 April 1999
The Rector of the Ukrainian university, Professor Yuriy Tunytsya has been a visiting professor in the Environment department since January, to learn from York's experience in setting up a programme of research and training on the environment. The York department (now 6 years old) pioneered the combined teaching of economics, science and management of the environment.
The agreement between the two universities is expected to lead to collaborative work in the fields of environmental economics, science and management, biology, and the political aspects of environmental policy.
"This is an exciting time for the Ukraine to develop environmental policies, to meet the challenge of transition to a market economy," said Professor Charles Perrings head of York's Environment department. "We are delighted to have this association with the State University of Forestry and Wood Technology and look forward to many collaborations in both research and training."
"This visit has been very valuable and will help in the solving of the urgent ecological and economic problems in the Ukraine," said Professor Tunytsya.
Notes to editors:
- The agreement between the two universities will be signed at 7.30pm on Friday 16 April in Wentworth College, University of York. Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend.
- The Environment department at York teaches around 100 undergraduate and 75 postgraduate students. It currently has research grants totalling some £420,000 from the UK and from overseas.
- Professor Yuriy Tunytsya has been Rector of the Ukrainian State University of Forestry and Wood Technology since 1993. A forestry engineer and environmental economist, he is national coordinator of the Joint European Project 'Environment and Natural Resource Economics'.
- H E Professor Volodymyr Vassylenko has been Ambassador of Ukraine to the Court of St James's since March 1998. From 1995-1998 he was Ambassador-at-large in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and from 1993-1995 was Ukrainian Ambassador to Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the European Union and to the North Atlantic Co-operation Council. Professor Vassylenko lectured in International and Human Rights Law at Kyive State University and was legal advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine. He has written several textbooks and articles on international law and the constitutional protection of human rights.