Interregional Academy of Personnel Management

Since its inception, the Academy's international cooperation has been aimed at integrating into the European and global higher education space, identifying strategic partners and priority regions where there is a market demand for specialists with higher education with Ukrainian and international diplomas.

This integration consists of establishing partnerships with higher education institutions abroad, creating educational, scientific and cultural projects, international programmes in the field of higher education and science, as well as attracting foreign citizens and foreigners of Ukrainian origin to the Academy's student body with the aim of promoting Ukrainian higher education in the international community.

In the context of the strategic development of international educational activities, the Academy pays great attention to such a promising, relevant and popular form of learning as distance education. One of the priority areas in the field of distance education is the development of technological innovations. Telecommunications contribute to the expansion of the educational space, its globalisation, and the provision of educational services regardless of territorial and national borders. In turn, technological innovations contribute to the development of informal education, i.e. the provision of educational services by social institutions for which education is not the main goal.

This new model of education eventually became known as open education. The basis for the development of this system was and remains one of the main principles of a democratic society – the free development of the individual. Open education is characterised primarily by freedom of choice of place and open planning of study; freedom of choice of time and pace of study, access to all levels of education, and the movement of knowledge sources to the individual.

One of the most promising ways to implement the ideas of open education is to introduce a distance learning system using Internet technologies. It is a complex of educational services provided to a wide range of people in the country and abroad through a specialised educational information environment based on means of remote exchange of educational information (satellite television, radio, computer communications, etc.).

The Academy's international activities to establish foreign educational units began in 1999. Since mid-1999, the Academy has signed more than 40 agreements on cooperation in the field of open education with universities and educational institutions in Poland, Moldova, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Latvia, the Czech Republic, China, the United States and other countries. Throughout its illustrious history, the IAPM has trained qualified specialists from over 40 countries around the world. The largest number of students came from Latvia, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, China, Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Macedonia, Sweden, France, Israel, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Ecuador, Peru, and Tanzania.

A separate page in the history of MAUP's international activities in the period from 1999 to 2014 was the organisation of the successful work of many educational units abroad — in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Bulgaria, Spain, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. Over the years, more than 9,000 students have successfully obtained higher education in these departments. Every year, more than 1,500 new students join the Academy's foreign departments.

In the period leading up to 2020, the Academy reformed its international activities in line with the current challenges of the academic environment. The groundwork was laid for the development of new projects with foreign universities, foreign stakeholders, international organisations and projects. During the quarantine restrictions of 2020-2021, these developments made it possible to quickly transform the foundations of international cooperation using modern digital tools for international communication and means of implementing the educational process.

The Academy is a member of the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) and one of the signatories of the SDG Accord. Participation in these programmes allows the Academy to compare itself with its peers, learn and share best practices in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Academy is the only higher education institution in Ukraine to receive the Platinum Certificate of the FISU Healthy Campus Programme (FISU, French: Federation International du Sport Universitaire, English: International University Sports Federation). Currently, only 57 universities in the world have this level of certification. Based on 100 criteria developed by leading global experts, universities are assessed in seven areas: physical activity and sport; nutrition; disease prevention; mental and social health; risk behaviour; environment, sustainable development and social responsibility; healthy campus management.

It was a great honour for the entire Academy team to have our efforts recognised in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2024 and 2025, according to which the Academy ranks among the top 1,000 higher education institutions in the world and second among higher education institutions in Ukraine.

Latest news on international cooperation

• 21.03.2024 — MAUP expands cooperation with foreign diplomatic institutions (agreement with the Regional Centre for International Debates in Toruń; Erasmus+ internship at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland). (maup.com.ua)
• 04.03.2024 — International seminar ‘Media image of war. Russian aggression against Ukraine 2022–2024’ at partners in Toruń with the participation of MAUP students studying under the Erasmus+ programme. (maup.com.ua)
• 21.05.2024 — VI International Scientific and Practical Conference on the Day of Science of Ukraine at the MAUP Institute in Odesa (co-organisers — MANS in Łomża, State Institution ‘Institute of Economics and Management of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine’, State Institution ‘Odesa Institute of Technology and Economics’). (maup.com.ua)
• 23 May 2024 — IX International Conference ‘Development of Innovative Economy, Management and Education...’ (joined by partners from Łódź, Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Gdańsk and Kutaisi). (maup.com.ua)
• 12 July 2024 — MAUP entered the QS World University Rankings: Europe 2025 and was included in the top 10 Ukrainian higher education institutions in this ranking. (maup.com.ua)
• 13 June 2024 — THE Impact Rankings 2024: MAUP is among the top three Ukrainian universities; a total of 2,152 higher education institutions from 125 countries were ranked. (maup.com.ua)
• 13 July 2024 — Working meeting between MAUP Rector Kirill Muravyov and London Metropolitan University during QS Summit Europe 2024 (agreement reached on the start of cooperation and joint courses/double degrees). (maup.com.ua)
• 25 September 2024 — Lecturers from the MAUP Odessa Institute took part in the 10th International Conference ‘Paradigms in Management Sciences’ (Tykocin, Poland). (maup.com.ua)
• 11 December 2024 (news from 13 December) — International scientific and practical conference on Human Rights Day at the MAUP Institute in Khmelnytskyi with the participation of scientists from Great Britain, Spain, China, etc. (maup.com.ua)
• 12 December 2024 — UI GreenMetric 2024: MAUP in the global sustainability ranking (1112th place overall; 14th among higher education institutions in Ukraine). (maup.com.ua)
• 8 June 2023 — The Lviv Institute of the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management organised an international scientific and practical conference entitled ‘Social Transformations and Security: People, State, Society’ as part of its 25th anniversary. The conference proceedings highlight transformations in global and local dimensions, including migration and sociocultural aspects.
• 2023 — MAUP became the only Ukrainian higher education institution to receive the FISU Healthy Campus Platinum Certificate — an award given to only 68 universities worldwide. maup.com.ua
• At the end of 2023, MAUP rose 27 positions (from 76th to 49th place) in the ranking of higher education institutions in Ukraine according to Scopus metrics. maup.com.ua
• By 2023, MAUP had shown progress in the Webometrics ranking: from 72nd place (January 2022) to 65th place among Ukrainian universities (January 2024). maup.com.ua
• 24 October 2023 — At a meeting of the Academic Council of the Khmelnytsky Institute of MAUP, the preparation of a summary report on scientific and methodological activities, including international academic mobility, was discussed. km.maup.com.ua
• 22 July 2022 — Associate Professor of the Department of Law and Law Enforcement of the Khmelnytsky Institute of MAUP Larysa Zhdanikina completed training at the Academy of European Law (Germany), Cambridge Law Studio (England) and advanced training at the Centre for Continuing Education in Lodz (Poland) km.maup.com.ua.
• 6 July 2022 — MAUP topped the 2022 comprehensive ranking of private higher education institutions in Ukraine, compiled by the All-Ukrainian Association of Employers in Higher Education dnipro.maup.com.ua.
• 2 August 2022 — The Academy became No. 1 among private higher education institutions in the ‘TOP-200 Ukraine 2022’ ranking maup.com.ua.
• July 2022 (again) — for the third time in a row, it topped the ranking among private universities in the Scopus ranking of activities (scientific publications and citations) krm.maup.com.ua.
• 8 November 2022 — As part of Ukrainian Language Week, the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference ‘Ukrainian Language and Nation: Prospects for Development in the Period of Globalisation Processes’ was heldmaup.com.ua.
• 8 December 2022 — The Khmelnytsky Institute of the MAUP hosted the V All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference ‘Topical Issues of State Building and Protection of Rights...’ km.maup.com.ua.