Taras Shevchenko Luhansk National University State Institution

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Taras Shevchenko National University of Luhansk was founded in 1921. The educational process of the institution covers more than 300 specialties and professions.

The University’s training areas are as follows: culture and arts; history, international relations, and socio-political sciences; pedagogy and psychology; Ukrainian philology and social communication, economics and business; natural sciences; trade, service technology, and tourism; foreign languages, etc.

The doctoral and postgraduate research programmes, which have been functioning in Taras Shevchenko National University since 1965, are aimed at training the highly-qualified academic staff.

Main areas of research activities:

• Problematics of physical, mathematical, and technical sciences
• Fundamental challenges of life sciences
• Fundamental research on topical issues of social sciences and humanities
• Promising technologies of agro-industrial complex and processing industry
• Methodology of pedagogical science
• Main issues of training specialists in tourism, hotel and catering business
• Theory and history of culture, art history, audiovisual arts, and production
• Implementation of the mechanism for ensuring innovative development of the labor market
• Studying the aspects of national business cultures
• Rationale for European integration strategy of Ukrainian regions
• Efficiency analysis of alternative energy enterprises
• East-West: theory and history of civilizational relations