The University of Opole is starting cooperation with the Ukrainian Poltava State Agrarian University. The signed agreement provides for, among other things, joint research and exchange of students and lecturers.
‘We are on the eve of the official opening and launch of the International Research and Development Centre of the University of Opole for Agriculture and Agri-Food Industry, which will be a modern scientific base for our employees, but also for business’, says the rector of the UO, Prof. Marek Masnyk.
The Ukrainian university was founded in 1920 and has 9,500 students and around two hundred doctoral students. It operates six faculties and 28 faculties. It has an 8-hectare academic campus and several research laboratories. Since 1970, its scientists have been working, among other things, on the selection of winter wheat, peas, millet and other crops. So far they have registered, among other things, 24 new varieties of wheat. The university has signed 40 cooperation agreements with universities in 20 countries around the world.
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