History of the department

Department of Information Systems was established in 1997. Since its foundation it has been headed by PhD in Economics, Honored Professor of NULES of Ukraine, Academician of the International Informatization Academy Mykhailo Z. Shvydenko. The department was established in 2010 by merging the Department of Information Systems and the Department of Distance Learning. Since its foundation, it has become a platform for implementing modern IT solutions in agricultural education, economics, and environmental management. The department actively cooperates with international organizations in digital transformation and has substantial experience creating electronic educational platforms.

Specialties and educational programs

The department provides training in the specialty:

• F6/126 – Information Systems and Technologies
  • OS "Bachelor" / "Master"
  • Educational program: Information Systems and Management Technologies

The department also teaches basic IT disciplines for other specialties (economics, agricultural management, veterinary medicine, etc.).

Discipline

• Information Systems in the Economy
• E-Governance Systems
• ERP systems (1C:Enterprise)
• Web Technologies and Web Programming
• Digital transformation of business
• IT Project Management
• Database and SQL Fundamentals
• Internet technologies
• Business Process Modeling

Laboratory

• E-Counseling Center (e Dorada.org)
  Platform for agro-consulting, support for farmers, and methodological developments
• Laboratory of Digital Educational Resources: Development of interactive courses, tutorials, and adaptive electronic environments
• Laboratory of 1C and ERP systems, Educational complexes for simulation of accounting and economic activities of enterprises

Scientific activity

Key areas:

• Information systems in agribusiness
• E-Counselling and Governance
• Development of cloud-based educational environments
• Decision support systems
• Economic Data Visualization and Analysis

Projects:

• DAAD DigitalAgroEdu-2
• Erasmus+ OH4EU (co-executors)
• eDorada.org is an innovative system of electronic counseling in Ukraine

Cooperation

• Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, and agricultural enterprises
• 1C: Enterprise / BAS – Educational and Methodological Complexes
• Microsoft Imagine Academy
• FAO, GIZ, NIRAS A/S (Norway) – advisory projects
• Institutes of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

International activity

• Participation in the DAAD (Germany) program  for the digitalization of agricultural education
• Partnership with Wroclaw University of Life Sciences (Poland)
• English-language online courses for international students
• Complicity in the Horizon Europe program (ECOTWINS) and Jean Monnet (OH4EU)

Student achievements

• Participation in All-Ukrainian competitions of student scientific works
• Victories in hackathons on e-governance and agricultural analytics
• Publications in Proceedings of International Conferences
• Active participation in ITETE, GRPI, and Digital Education conferences

Graduates

The department graduates are IT analysts, project managers, and ERP consultants in Luxoft, SAP Ukraine, BAS, Rozetka, Nova Poshta, and public authorities. Some graduates became teachers in the department.

Contact Information

 Address: m. Kyiv, st. Heroiv Oborony, 16a, educational building No. 15, room. 204
 Phone: (044) 527-83-52
 Email: [email protected]
 Page of the department on the website of NUBiP

The Teachers of department use the following information-communication technologies in educational process: multimedia presentations of educational material, electronic educational courses, electronic testing, organizing the students’ individual work using web recourses. 

The department conducts classes on the following subjects:

The lecturers of the department issued 3 manuals and 10 references certified by the MES, 2 monographs, 19 methodical manuals and 65 articles.

The Teachers of department take an active part in extension of the academic staff qualification of the university. According to the order of scientific-methodological center of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy the training of those responsible for the introduction of distant education in agrarian educational establishments is conducted as well as thematic training seminars.

Innovation activity of the department is based on the use of new information technologies. The lecturers of the department initiated the process of creating of general scientific educational environment of the university.

The academic staff of the department took part in the implementation of international projects and programs:

• TCP/UKR/3001 (A) “Formulation of the strategy and improvement of the service level of the National agro-information system”
• Creation of the joint Master’s programs with the De Poll University
• Adaptation of the IMARK module "Supervising of the electronic documents "
• The program of the World Bank "Equal access to the high-quality education"
• Charitable program of the Microsoft Corporation "Partnership in education "
• Educational program of the Intel® Corporation "Education for future"

The Department`s Staff fruitfully cooperate with foreign universities and organizations, especially De Poll University ( Chicago, the USA), University of Louisiana ( the USA) , FАО UN, the Embassy of France in Ukraine etc. With the participation of the department’s staff the strategy of development of the information providing of AIC and rural citizens of Ukraine was created. With the support of FAO the educational distance course “Information resources management” (IMARK) was made for use in CIS countries.

Associate professor Glazunova O.G. worked on probation at De Pole university with the aim to take part in joint project on Master’s training in computer sciences.