On March 9, 2023, the first Hub of Nature-based Solutions in Ukraine was launched. The Hub has been established within the framework of the Nature Network program thanks to the successfully implemented WWF-Ukraine InSuRE project. Within the framework of this project, the first Ukrainian portal of nature-based solutions https://nbs.wwf.ua was created.

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28 10 22 logoCenter for Development and Environment (CDE), Bern University (Switzerland) within the action research and implementation program in Boryslav (Lviv region) and in cooperation with the Boryslav City Council, Ukrainian National Forestry University (UNFU) and NGO “Forest initiatives and community” (NGO ForestCom) started the implementation of a project aimed at carrying out a Transformative Pilot Action (TPA) to increase the level of energy efficiency and sustainable use of bioenergy in Boryslav Gymnasium No. 9. On Thursday, October 20, a Kickoff meeting of project partners was held online.

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The meeting was chaired by the representative of CDE, Bern University, Switzerland, Dr. Heino Meessen, who expressed his support for Ukraine in these difficult days of the war and assured that this is not the last project that will be implemented for the bioenergy transition of Ukrainian small towns. This project will be realize in the cooperation triangle – innovative for further project cooperation: NGO – Local government – University – involving younger research generation and Boryslav staff for action research and implementation of TPA.

The Mayor of Boryslav City Council - Igor Yavorskyy took part in the meeting. At the moderator's request to describe the consequences of attacks on the energy system, Mayor reported on the energy supply situation in Boryslav after russian attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine.

“The problem is complex, after damage to critical infrastructure there are interruptions in the supply of electricity in the city. Repairs are underway to restore full power. The city introduced an energy-saving mode, in particular, the evening street lighting was turned off.” - Igor Yavorskyy.

Also, the Mayor emphasized the importance of supporting international partners in the development of bioenergy in the city.

“This cooperation means more than just getting a financial resource and improving the material base. In the time of war, we understand all the risks and threats that we have now. But you (Swiss - author's note) do it and help us, it means that you believe in our victory. When we have such partners who help us and believe in us, our country has no choice but to defeat the evil that is against peace and democracy around the world. Your trust and faith in us will return to you a hundredfold.” - Igor Yavorskyy.

The meeting was also attended by the head of the Center for Ecology, Tourism and Sustainable Development of the Boryslav City Council, scientist Myron Zeitler, who emphasized the critical problem of green waste management in the city of Boryslav (wood, branches, mowed grass, fallen leaves, garden waste, vegetables, fruits in large amount) and described two ways of solving it in the city: composting and shredding wood waste. For waste composting, a pilot site for composting waste has already been built near the Boryslav Center for Ecology, Tourism and Sustainable Development, where local residents can bring organic waste for the production and further use of biohumus. To implement the second approach, as experts of the city's communal services believe, the use of a wood waste chipper will help; the city is actively looking for financing sources for its purchase.

By chance, Mr. M. Zeitler demonstrated to the audience three monitoring stations that allow real-time monitoring of the state of atmospheric air in the city, in particular, the content of methane, carbon dioxide, formaldehyde, etc. This testifies to the real concern of the employees of the Boryslav City Council and its services for the lives and health of citizens.

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Project coordinator, PhD - Oksana Pelyukh gave a presentation with information about the NGO ForestCom and the humanitarian activities that the organization began to implement after the start of the war. In particular, Oksana shared the information about the humanitarian aid kits received by internally displaced persons living in the Boryslav community during the past months as part of the implementation of the project “Meet urgent humanitarian needs of IDPs aged 30+ with the support of the “United Voices in Action” program. Also, Oksana noted that the implementation of the current project with the aim to increase the level of energy efficiency and sustainable use of bioenergy in Boryslav Gymnasium No. 9 was preceded by a thorough theoretical study of the prospects for the implementation of measures for the development of bioenergy in the Boryslav city and practical steps for their implementation.

In particular, Lyudmyla Maksymiv, PhD, associate professor and researcher of the Research Department of UNFU coordinated the work of the Swiss-Ukrainian project, which was carried out with the financial and organizational support of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Zurich, Switzerland “Identifying the opportunities of green energy in the Ukrainian Carpathians”. The project became a component of the WSL large-scale research program "Energy Change Impact" (2014-2020) and was carried out in close cooperation with the head of the program and project, Dr. Astrid Bjoernsen. As part of the project, a promotional video was created about the energy past, present and future of Boryslav, as well as the competition “Wood for energy: Competition of the best practices of using wood biomass for energy production” was held. The victory in the competition was won by the Boryslav Gymnasium No. 9, which received an innovation grant in the amount of 1,300 Swiss francs, which was used to build a fuel storage facility for the reconstructed boiler house.

Within the framework of the current project, it is planned to purchase the necessary goods and services for the implementation of measures to increase the energy efficiency of the Gymnasium, namely generator, an electric chainsaw, window and door blocks with subsequent installation, etc. Halyna Novytska, director of Boryslav Gymnasium No. 9, noted that the implementation of the project will help ensure and save energy resources. Therefore, to achieve compliance with regulatory requirements for the temperature regime in educational institutions in the winter period and to conduct the educational process during the current and next academic years in comfortable sanitary and hygienic conditions.

Words of support for the implementation of the project and hope for further fruitful cooperation regarding the development of bioenergy in the Ukrainian Carpathians were sent by Vasyl Lavnyy, Doctor of Science, Prof., Vice-Rector for Scientific Work of UNFU, and Dmytro Karabchuk, PhD, Executive Director of NGO ForestCom.

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The head of the Department of Forestry Machines, associate professor Oleg Styranivskyi and assistant of the Department of Forestry Machines Andriy Shchupak from October 10 to 14, 2022, participated in the academic exchange program Erasmus+ (KA1) at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia, Ljubljana). This exchange took place in accordance with the signed inter-university agreement between the Ukrainian National Forestry University and the University of Ljubljana. This is already the second internship of teachers in Ljubljana as part of the Erasmus+ program since 2018.

The teachers of the Department of Forestry Machines had the opportunity to get acquainted with the structure of the Faculty of Biotechnology, the programs of courses for the preparation of students of the first and second levels, to discuss the expansion of further cooperation, in particular, the internship programs of teachers and students with the deputy dean of the Faculty of Biotechnology, Professor Mateusz Mihelich, and the professor of the Department of Forest Technology and Economics Igor Potochnik. A working trip took place together with the forestry engineer of the State Forestry Service of Slovenia, Tina Mihelic, in the municipalities of Horiul and Žažar to get acquainted with the technologies and technical support of forestry enterprises.

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behta logobehtaDear educational community of the Ukrainian National Forestry University! We are pleased to inform you that at the end of the year, among the top 2% of the world's most cited scientists, 14 scientists from the Lviv region were included in the ranking of the most influential scientists, among which one of the first places belongs already for the second time in a row to a doctor of technical sciences, professor, Academician of the Forestry Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Head of the Department of Technologies of Wood Composite Materials, Celulose, and Paper Pavlo Antonovych Bekhta.

This is a traditional annual rating conducted by the publishing company Elsevier with the support of ICSR Lab (Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators) based on profiles of scientists on Scopus. A total of 108 Ukrainians from almost 190,000 scientists from all over the world got into this list.

We are proud of the achievements of our colleague in the world scientific space and sincerely congratulate Professor Pavlo Bekhta on his high achievements!

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According to the rector's order dated September 2, 2022. No. 155 the classes are held in classrooms from October 18, 2022. (Bachelor students of the 1st year; Master students of the 1st year).

Bachelor students of the 2nd-4th year and master students of the 2nd year study remotely.

IMG 0988The Day of Defenders of Ukraine is a national holiday of Ukraine, celebrated annually on October 14, together with the Feast of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God, the Day of the Ukrainian Cossacks, and the Day of the Creation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. This is a holiday for everyone who at different times gave their strength, knowledge, and professionalism to the defense of our state.

Today, on the 233rd day of the war, we honor the Ukrainian heroes and heroines who defended and are currently defending Ukraine and its people from the full-scale invasion of Russia.

Sincere gratitude and a low bow to those who courageously and selflessly stand in line to preserve the independence of Ukraine and restore its territorial integrity by defeating the aggressor, the terrorist country. Among the staff of the Ukrainian National Forestry University, many heroes joined the defense of our state, in particular: Rostyslav Kupchik, Hryhoriy Noshchenko, Stepan Portakh, Vasyl Solonynka, Vasyl Taras, Bohdan Feshanych, Vasyl Khodzinsky, Viktor Sytnyk, Rostyslav Buzilo, Vasyl Gul, Roman Mydlyk, Mykola Volosko, Artur Semen.

We wish our defenders Cossack health, endurance, stability, success at the front, and victory, may the Mother of God protect everyone! We are proud of you and grateful to you and we are waiting for you at our native Forestry University!

We also commemorate the fallen heroes, we bow our heads in sorrow for those who gave their lives for the value ​​of freedom, deep respect for their immortal feat. The community of our University observes a minute of silence in honor of fallen heroes-forest engineers: Yuriy Dadak, Igor Izhik, Volodymyr-Vasyl Kulyan, Yuriy Onisyk, Sashka Kapinos, Igor Peron, Volodymyr Savchyn, Andriy Hankevich, and others. Heroes do not die…

The memory of the fallen compatriots will always be in our hearts.

Today, Ukrainian defenders represent the heroism and courage of soldiers of many generations, soldiers of different countries - all those who for centuries defended the ideals of freedom, defended statehood, and fought for independence.

Congratulations to everyone who holds the high title of defender of Ukraine! We thank the Armed Forces of Ukraine for their service and protection!

Thank you, DEFENDERS, for protecting Ukraine!

The 233rd day of the war...

311142067 537915681670374 2185579324610046325 nCreative links between museum workers and artists of Kharkiv and Lviv have a good history of relations. These are exhibition projects, Plein airs, scientific and practical conferences, exchange of art history literature. Among the most active creative "links" between our cities is Yuriy Yamash from Lviv, a participant in Plein-air exhibitions in the Kharkiv region, and the author of scientific and artistic studies about I. Trush, H. Semiradskyi, and others, well known in Kharkiv Art Museum, Professor Volodymyr Prusak, who currently works at the Design Department of UNFU. Experienced designers and digital artists, the graphic design teachers showed their professional performance and public attitude to the events taking place in Ukraine with their works, also involving their students in poster art as a powerful means of resistance to Russian aggression.

Nowadays, graphics, especially its computer version, is gaining popularity again, due to the events in Ukraine caused by Russian aggression. It returns the sharpness of the reaction, and the dynamics of the transmission of events, as a mobile and topical genre. The exhibition of the anti-war poster by Y. Yamash and the UNFU students is a kind of artistic diary of the war, starting in 2014, the annexation of Crimea and the occupation of part of Donbas.

The works are different in figurative and stylistic performance, compositional structure, and metaphorical, semantic, and symbolic content. The military component, embodied in the daily victorious work of our Armed Forces (and war, according to the words of one of the literary characters, is the most difficult work in the world), is combined with the lyrical-epic image of the Motherland, full of various emotional moods, where faith and hope for victory still prevail. The authors of the posters pay special attention to the state symbols of Ukraine, affirming the inviolability of its territorial integrity and borders. In some posters, the authors "include" telling pictorial quotations - the sculpture of David by Michelangelo holds a monolithic block with the outline of Ukraine, the Zaporozhian Cossacks mercilessly repulse the enemies, a shamrock breaks through the earth's crust as a symbol of an unconquered nation and its immortal people. The traditions of political satire and grotesque-caricature depiction of the enemy are embodied in many posters. "Russian peace" is insidious "matryoshka dolls" with a cruel filling, "potato beetles" that brazenly climb onto our fields and land, turning it into a desert, "Peacemaker" in a wreath, where instead of laurels there are bullets, and the expected bread and salt are replaced by"candy" grenades and other ammunition. The poster exhibition of the students and teachers testified not only the personal attitude to the war as the greatest crime against humanity, passed through the soul and heart, but also the creative assimilation of the traditions of national graphics, and its patriotic orientation.

English-language poster titles and appeals introduce these works into the world's political context and contribute to their distribution and popularization. Allusions to the Hutsul martial dance "Arkan", similar to the Zaporizhzhia "Hopak", are evoked by the poster with the image of a fraternal circle of our fighters, armed not only with automatic weapons but also with friendly support and mutual assistance.

IMG 0757 logoIMG 0757As part of a working visit to the Lviv region on October 6, a delegation of the Union of the Ukrainians in Romania visited the Ukrainian National Forestry University.

Rector of the University, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Professor Volodymyr Zagorsky, together with First Vice-Rector for Scientific and Pedagogical Work, Professor Oleksandr Sushinskyi, Vice-Rector for Educational Work and International Relations, Associate Professor Mykola Borys, Vice-Rector for Scientific Work, IMG 0840Professor Vasyl Lavniy, Head of the Department of Environmental Economics and Business, Professor Ion Dubovich and Head of the Department of International Relations Khrystyna Vasylyshyn had the honor to talk with the guests and express their gratitude to the President of the Union of the Ukrainians of Romania, a member of the Parliament of Romania, the Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Parliament of Romania on the issue of Culture, Art and Mass media Nicolae Miroslav Petrețchi for the initiated cooperation, provision of humanitarian aid and other assistance to citizens of Ukraine, in particular to the Lviv region.

Members of the delegation talked about their activities to create all the conditions to ensure the right of Ukrainians in Romania to receive education in their native language and to maintain traditions and cultural values because the Ukrainian community ranks third among the national minorities of Romania.

As the President of the Union of the Ukrainians in Romania, Nicolae Miroslav Petrețchi noted, there is a lack of scientific and pedagogical workers for the implementation of educational programs who will be able to provide high-quality teaching of disciplines in the Ukrainian language, and he also expressed interest in holding work meetings, conferences, seminars, consultations and providing practical assistance. To establish cooperation, representatives of the foreign delegation and the University discussed opportunities for joint projects in the field of educational and scientific activities as well as planned further steps for strategic partnership and academic mobility.

At the end of the meeting, the Rector of the University Volodymyr Zagorsky thanked the guests and presented the Honorary Certificate of the Ukrainian National Forestry University to the President of the Union of the Ukrainians in Romania for his personal contribution to the organization of humanitarian aid to Ukrainians and the establishment of educational and scientific cooperation.

The Rectorate of the Ukrainian National Forestry University sincerely congratulates the staff of the Scientific and Technical Library of UNFU on the All-Ukrainian Library Day!

Your work deserves a lot of gratitude and respect! We wish your creativity, good health, inspiration, indomitable vital energy, daily positivity, the realization of all ideas and the most daring projects.

Let life be full of interesting events and pleasant moments, joy and love, faithful friends and reliable colleagues will always be by your side!

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Dear colleagues, I sincerely congratulate you on the happy day of education workers!

Traditionally, on the first Sunday of October, we celebrate the holiday of people who chose a profession according to the vocation, those to whom we are especially grateful for wisdom and knowledge, for care, for the ability to open the world of knowledge to young people, to teach them to live according to the principles of goodness and conscience, for the desire to help find their place in life.

Dear educational community of the Ukrainian National Forestry University, I am grateful to you for your daily painstaking work, I am sure that it is thanks to your efforts that the University, with its enormous potential, will be able to show itself worthily in the near future! I wish you professional success and talented students, may luck accompany you in all your affairs, and may there be many good events in your personal life!

I wish each of us this one long-awaited victory, which every Ukrainian dreams of, and many small life victories for the realization of all ideas and plans!

Best regards, rector of the Ukrainian National Forestry University, Corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Professor Volodymyr ZAGORSKY

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