International Cooperation
International Cooperation at the Faculty of Agriculture includes more than 30 universities and institutes from various countries such as Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Belgium, USA, Russia, France, Italy, Turkey, Greece, and others.
The Faculty of Agriculture cooperates with similar higher education institutions, such as the Institute of Physiology and Feeding in Yablona near Warsaw, the Agricultural Academy in Warsaw, the Institute of Small-Scale Animal Husbandry in Giodiolo (Hungary), the Institute of physiology in Koshitze, the Institute of Feeding and Hygiene in Gent (Belgium), State University in Colorado (USA), The University of Leipzig (Germany), the Agricultural Institute in Caposhavar (Hungary), the Timiriazev Agricultural Academy (Russia), the Kuibishev Agricultural Institute, the University in Camaguey – Cuba, and the Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies “K. I. Skriabin.”
Cooperation contracts and agreements have been signed with the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Padua (Italy), the FA and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Bursa (Turkey), and the Faculty of Animal Husbandry of the Athens Agricultural University in Greece.
International cooperation with Germany has seen more development recently, supported by a collective contract for long-term cooperation with the Institute of Agricultural Development in Middle and Eastern Europe in Hale, the Faculty of Agriculture at Martin-Luther University in Hale-Wittenberg, the Specialized High Institute Anhalt in Koeten-Bernburg, the Partnership for Agrarian-Cultural Fostering in East Europe in Hale, and the Agricultural Union in Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg, etc.
The Faculty of Agriculture works in cooperation with India – as part of the Indian program for scientific and technical cooperation with the Scientific Institute of Bangalor. Joint scientific projects have been performed as part of that program, in the field of utilizing spectroscopic methods of evaluating animal produce.
The Faculty maintains good relations with the University of Agriculture and Technologies in Tokyo, in the area of scientific exchange of students and instructors.
A contract for scientific exchange of students and instructors has been signed with the Graduate School of Agricultural Science in Kobe University, Japan.
Cooperation with the University of Iowa is very good in exchanging instructors and students, as well as broadening post-graduate tuition and qualification.
The Faculty of Agriculture has established a beneficial cooperation with the university in Oslo: Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), Norway, Box 5003, 1432 As, NORWAY, having developed a project on “Assessment, reduction and prevention of air, water and soil pollution in Stara Zagora region,” part of the Innovation Norway program.
As part of the Erasmus exchange program, the Faculty maintains good relations with various universities – Germany – Munich – Freising - Technishe Universitat Munchen; Czech Republic – Prague, Czech University of Life Science, Praha; Turkey, Canakkale, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University; Turkey – Isparta, Suleyman Demirel University; Turkey, Antakia/Hatay, Mustafa Kemal University.