Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture is one of the largest engineering universities in Ukraine. It was founded on 1 January 1972 as the Makiivka Civil Engineering Institute. The Academy has been training engineers for over 60 years. Its history starts in 1947 with the establishment of the civil engineering department of the Donetsk Polytechnic Institute. It was established as an independent institution in 1972. It was renamed on 23 June 1993 as the Donbas Institute of Civil Engineering. In 1994, the institution was awarded the status of an Academy and renamed Donbas State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture. Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture is the only educational institution in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, together known as the Donbas, that trains architects, urban development specialists, and civil engineers.
The academy has trained more than 25,000 engineers and architects, including over 500 foreigners. The academy teaches more than 8,000 students from Ukraine, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The academic staff of the university academic staff consists of more than 400 highly qualified lecturers and specialists in the field of engineering. In 1997, the Academy conducted its educational activity toward European integration, as part of the Bologna Process. The Academy is accredited by the Britain-based Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the only such institution in Ukraine. The rector of the Academy, Professor Yevhen Horokhov, is the only specialist in Ukraine who has attained the highest level of professional certification with the ICE.
International Relations
Office of International Affairs at the Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture is the information-analytical center, focused on analytic activity that causes the development, expansion, and strengthening of international relations and credibility academy in the world community. It is a structural unit coordinating Academy, established to develop and implement a strategy of international activity, expansion, and deepening of international relations, to promote international cooperation in education and science. Main areas of international activities of the Academy:
- training specialists for foreign countries;
- collaboration with renowned foreign universities in improving the learning process according to the Bologna process;
- International scientific and technological cooperation;
- cooperation with international professional accreditation agencies in the field of accreditation and certification of specialties leading experts;
- participation in international scientific and engineering applications for grants;
- academic and scientific cooperation with foreign research organizations;
- installation and support relationships with the diplomatic missions of other countries;
- a job of teachers, scientists, and researchers from universities in other countries;
- coordination of faculties, departments, and other structural subdivisions of DonNABA to improve the efficiency of international contractual relationships with foreign partners;
- International cooperation in cultural and sports fields;
- preparation, processing, and collection of data on international programs, foundations, and donors;
- looking for foreign partner universities;
- reception of foreign delegations and specialists;
- participation in international university and student associations;
- providing the necessary organizational and methodological assistance to faculties and departments in the implementation of international programs and projects;
- organization of teachers of foreign delegations and partner universities during their stay at the university.