Being a structural subdivision of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, European and Euro-Atlantic Policy Department commenced its work on 1 September 2006 according to the structural development advance schedule of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine and the necessity to keep providing an effective training process.

Head of Department – Professor  Grygoriy Perepelytsia, PhD (Politics.) 

The Department is provided with the necessary personnel, educational assistance and research support. The training courses concentrated at the Department are of an applicative kind along with being practically directed towards training personnel to work in the foreign relations sphere.

Such top-qualified lecturers as Professor G. Perepelytsia, Professor M. Kirsenko, Professor L. Leschenko, Professor L. Chekalenko, Professor O. Arefyeva, Associate Professor O. Poltoratsky, Associate Professor I. Babyn, Associate Professor B. Moroz work at the European and Euro-Atlantic Policy Department.

The Department’s activity is described with the following quantity and merit figures – the total of 10 lecturers take part in the training process:

The professors of the Department work substantially on elaborating and implementing to the training process the new lecture courses and lecture delivering methods considering the necessity for the trainees to form a methodical and systematic knowledge base.

Significant attention is paid to preparing the practical tasks and examination tests, creating a relevant base of information sources, providing the trainees with the relevant scientific and learning assistance literature.

The Department’s lecturers developed the training programmes for the following basic and special courses.

·        Political Conflict Studies and Contemporary International Conflicts (Professor G.Perepelytsia);

·        European Integration and Ukraine’s Foreign Policy (Professor L.Chekalenko);

·        Western Europe and North America (Professor L. Leschenko);

·        Philosophy of Politics (Associate Professor B. Moroz);

·        South and Central Europe (Professor M. Kirsenko);

·        Higher Education and Bologna Process (Associate Professor I. Babyn).

List of special courses:

·        Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Policy (Associate Professor G. Perepelytsia);

·        Security Dimension of European Integration (Professor L.Chekalenko);

·        OSCE in Common European Security System (Professor L.Chekalenko);

·        Formation of the European Civilization (Professor M. Kirsenko);

·        Foreign Policy and Diplomacy of the EU (Associate Professor O.Poltoratsky);

·        The EU Extension and Integration Issues (Associate Professor O.Poltoratsky);

·        The European Union Law (Senior Lecturer K. Smirnova);

·        NATO in Contemporary Euroatlantic Relations (Associate Professor O.Poltoratsky);

·        Contemporary Foreign Policy and Diplomacy of the US and Canada (Senior Lecturer P. Zhovnirenko);

·        The EU’s Economic Policy (Professor O. Arefyeva.)

The training process of both years is held in accordance with the branch standard developed for the specialization 8.000006 – Foreign Policy.

The first year trainees learn basic profession-oriented subjects. Hereafter, the specialization is stipulated by a training programme.

During the second year the training is conducted according to the trainees’ specialization, which is European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Policy. The special courses on foreign policy and diplomacy of world’s leading countries and some regions, the EU’s foreign policy, functioning of NATO, law of the EU etc are implemented within the specialization content frame.

In 2007 a certain number of articles were published by the Department’s lecturers in magazines and research bulletins: Politics and Time, Strategies, Foreign Affairs, Research Bulletin of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine, Personnel, PR-Manager, the Capitalist.

G. Perepelytsia, sections 1 and 2 of Ukraine’s Foreign Policy in 2006: Evaluations and Priorities [Text]: year-book, in Ukrainian = Зовнішня політика України 2006: оцінки та пріоритети [Текст]: щорічник укр. мовою // Foreign Policy Research Institute ; edited by G. Perepelytsia – 2007. – 272 p.;

G. Perepelytsia, The Policy of Ukraine towards the BSEC and the Black Sea Region. / Unfolding the Black Sea Economic Cooperation: view from region. – Athens. – ICBSS, Xenophon Paper Series, №2. – 2007. – P.141-157.

G. Perepelytsia, P. 32-43, 103-133, 155-185 in Foreign Policy of Ukraine - 2006: Strategic Assessments, Forecasts and Priorities [Text]: annual strategic review, in English // Foreign Policy Research Institute ; edited by G. Perepelytsia. – 2007.

L.Chekalenko, Diplomacy. Ukraine in the System of International Relations [Text]: reference dictionary: manual = Дипломатія. Україна в системі міжнародних відносин [Текст]: Словник-довідник: Навч. посібник / Чекаленко Л.Д. – Kyiv: MAUP, 2007. – 176 p.

In the course of 2007 the Department’s lecturers took an active part in organizing and conducting the international scientific conferences, congresses, seminars, round-tables dedicated to the issues of Ukraine’s international relations with other countries of the World, security, and programmes of raising public awareness of Ukraine’s European integration issues, functioning of NATO as well as the issues of higher education in Ukraine.

Despite that the issues of European and Euro-Atlantic Policy which the Department is dealing with are indisputably urgent, they remain to be insufficiently presented in the educational process of Ukraine’s higher educational institutions. Taking the aforementioned into account the Department may be considered a ground-breaker in developing the training programmes and course schedules, being therefore an important source of information and experience for the colleagues from other higher education institutions. According to that, whilst developing the course schedules for the Department it was set that those should contain different aspects of the EU’s policy and NATO’s activity: historic, legal, political, economic, military and security.

At the same time regular discussions of the issues of European policy, the EU and the NATO along with instructional research seminars with invitations being sent to academics, journalists etc are planned to be held at the Department.

To create the relevant conditions for the trainees to effectively organize their self-guided studying process through providing a complete learning assistance set for every course, information assistance for the self-guided studying, developing a self-guided studying methodology for the trainees as well as an individual training approach, improving the trainees’ knowledge quality control system which has to serve for overcoming the subjective elements whilst knowledge evaluation along with raising the trainees’ motivation for active and systematic learning in the course of a semester and an academic year, reorienting their aims from being marked positively towards forming a systematic knowledge and skills base remains to be one of the main activity lines of the Department during the current year.