Collaboration with the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

A meeting of the President of the Organizing Committee of the XXXXIII International Apimondia Congress Tetyana Vasylkivska with the President of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Serhiy Kvit was held on July, 10.

The subject matter of the meeting was the issue of cooperation between the Organizing Committee and the university on the participation of the university scientists in the Scientific Program of the Apimondia Congress 2013. Ecologicaland environmental protectionissues are the current issues for scientists from various scientific and educational institutions. Discussions, seminars, conferences on the importance of conservation and environmental protection unite specialists from variuos fields and areas of scientific and educational activities.

The Memorandum of Intent on the cooperation between the Organizing Committee of the XXXXIII International Apimondia Congress and the National University National University of Kyiv — Mohyla Academy was signedduringthemeeting.

The Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is the first high school not only in Ukraine, but also in Eastern Europe. Throughout the history the Ukrainian people had no other institution that has had a greater impact on the development of its education, science and culture than Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

The Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’s history starts in October 1615 when HalshkaHulevychivna, a noblewoman of Kyiv, signed thefundush certificate, reading, "I the undersigned donate all this to St. Basil’s cloistered community and to a school for children of noble birth and from city residents’ families...;In October 1632, 370 years ago, the celebrated Metropolitan Petro Mohyla of Kyiv and Galicia [Halychyna] founded the Collegium of the Kyiv Brotherhood, incorporating the schools of the brotherhood and the Lavra Monastery of the Caves. In 1658, the Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium received the legal status of a higher educational establishment and the title of academy. The Academy during the whole time of its existence, before closing in 1817, when seminarywas opened on its territory, was the unique educational institution supportingthe whole Ukrainian society.

The nationalsciencehasitsorigin in this institution. The Kiev-Mohyla Academy formed its own philosophical, poetic, musical, architectural, historical, art school. It was also here that the first professional drama company in Ukraine appeared.Natural sciences such as astronomy, biology, mineralogy, zoology originated in the Academy.

The prominent teachers of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy were IovBoretskyi, InokentiyGizel, MiletiySmotrytskyi, KasianSakovych, FeofanProkopovych. Among its students were the prominent figures, such as HryhoriySkovoroda, MaksymBerezovsky and ArtemyVedel, Lazar Baranovych and Stefan Yavorsky, SamiyloVelychko and HryhoriyHrabyanka, MykolaBantysh-Kamensky and MaxymBerlynsky. KMA graduates founded schools, seminaries, printing houses and libraries,contributed to the development of art, literature, music, theater in Ukraine,in almost all major cities of Russia, Belarus and Serbia.

Among its graduates were prominent hetmans of Ukraine — Petro Doroshenko, Ivan Samoylovych, PylypOrlyk, DanyloApostol, PavloPolubotok and others. Church hierarchs recognized after the death as the Saints of the Orthodox Church, such as metropolitanDmytro (Tuptalo), metropolitan Ivan (Maksymovych), archbishopTheodosius Uglytsky, were the students of the theKiev-Mohyla Academy.

Outstanding beekeeper and inventor Petro Prokopovych studied at the Academy for 8 years.

Among the academy patrons and benefactors were historical figures such as Petro Mohyla, Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, BohdanKhmelnytsky, RafayilZaborovskyi and Ivan Mazepa. They believed that an educated mind produces a beneficial effect on the character and acts of a man, the fate of society.

In October 2001, it was 10 years since the establishing of the working committee on revival of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. On October 15, 2002, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” celebratedthe first decade of dedication to students who entered the restored Academy.

On June 30, 1994, the NaUKMA was licensedwith the highest fourth level of accreditationby the Republican Accreditation Commission.

On May 22-23, 1993, educational programs and plans of the NaUKMAwere approved at a special meeting of the UNESCO experts.

On July 7, 1998, the NaUKMA was licensedwith the highestIVlevel of accreditationby theState Accreditation Committee of Ukraine.