The Black Sea Universities Network (BSUN) began in 1998 as part of the
Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation
The Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) is a regional international organization focusing on multilateral political and economic initiatives aimed at fostering cooperation, peace, stability and prosperity in the Black Sea ...
. The goal of this merger is the mutual exchange of experience in research and teaching and mutual recognition of qualifications, promotion of the mobility of teachers and students and the utilisation of international programmes to promote student exchanges. The organisation is based in
Constanța
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in
Romania
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(2018).
Pericles A. Mitkas
Pericles A. Mitkas (born 1962 in Florina, Greece) is a Greek university lecturer in electronic and computer engineering. He holds American as well as Greek nationality and is Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). He was elected ...
has been President of BSUN since 2018. A current goal is to increase cooperation with the
Balkan Universities Network
The Balkan Universities Network or Balkan Universities Association (BAUNAS) is an association of universities in Southeast Europe. In its present form the body was created after the breakup of the SFR Yugoslavia and the end of the Yugoslav Wars. ...
.
Presidents
Adrian Bavaru (
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...
; 1998–2000),
Suha Sevük (
Ankara
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; 2000–2002),
Abel Maharramov (
Baku
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; 2002–2004),
Ioan Bostan (
Chișinău
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; 2004–2006),
Stefan Barudov (
Varna
Varna may refer to:
Places Europe
*Varna, Bulgaria, a city
** Varna Province
** Varna Municipality
** Gulf of Varna
** Lake Varna
**Varna Necropolis
* Vahrn, or Varna, a municipality in Italy
* Varna (Šabac), a village in Serbia
Asia
* Var ...
; 2006–2008),
Mychailo Zgurovsky (
Ukraine
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; 2008–2010),
Dmitry Livanov (
Moscow
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; 2010–2012),
Jorgaq Kacani (
Tirana
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; 2012–2014),
Vladimir Bumbasirevic (
Belgrade
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; 2014–2016)
Giga Zedania
Giga Zedania is a Georgian philosopher and academic, and also used to be the Rector of Ilia State University. He has published extensively on philosophy and Georgian social and political developments. He ran Ilia State University from 2014 to 2022. ...
(
Tbilisi
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი, ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), ( ka, ტფილისი, tr ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia ( ...
; 2016–2018), Pericles A. Mitkas (
Thessaloniki
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; 2018–2020).
Presidents of BSUN
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Member Universities
Albania
* University of Tirana
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* Polytechnic University of Tirana
The Polytechnic University of Tirana (UPT) () is a public university located in Tirana, the capital of Albania. It offers degrees in engineering and related fields.
History
The Polytechnic University of Tirana is the oldest and the second larg ...
* Ismail Qemal Vlora Technological University
Armenia
* American University of Armenia
The American University of Armenia (AUA) (, ՀԱՀ; ''Hayastani amerikyan hamalsaran'', ''HAH'') is a private, independent university in Yerevan, Armenia that is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior College and Un ...
* National Polytechnic University of Armenia
The National Polytechnic University of Armenia () is a technical university located in Yerevan, Armenia. Established as the Karl Marx Institute of Polytechnic in 1933, it provides educational and research programs in various fields of technology ...
* Yerevan State Medical University
The Mkhitar Heratsi Yerevan State Medical University (YSMU, ), is an Armenian medical school, medical university located in Yerevan, Armenia.
History
On 31 January 1920, during the First Republic of Armenia, the Yerevan State University, People's ...
*
Azerbaijan
* Azerbaijan Medical University
Azerbaijan Medical University () is a public medical school located in Baku, Azerbaijan. Due to difficulties with translation, the school is sometimes called: Azerbaijan Medical University, Azerbaijan State Medical University, Azerbaijan State Me ...
* Azerbaijan State Academy Of Physical Education And Sport
Azerbaijan Sport Academy, founded in 1930, is a higher education institution in Azerbaijan.
History
USSR period (1930-1991)
* Transcaucasian State Institute of Physical Culture (1930–1936) - As the first sports high school of Transcaucasi ...
* Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University
Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University (''Azerbaijani language, Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Dövlət Pedaqoji Universiteti)'' or short ASPU - public university specializing in the training of pedagogical staff and professionals across a diverse ra ...
* Azerbaijan State Agricultural University
Azerbaijan State Agricultural University (, literally "Azerbaijan State Agricultural University"), also referred to as the Azerbaijan State Agricultural University (Az. AA), is a public university located in Ganja, Azerbaijan. The university has ...
* Azerbaidjan Institute of Technology
* Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University
Azerbaijan State Oil and Industrial University (formerly Azerbaijan State Oil Academy) () is a tertiary education institution in Baku, Azerbaijan.
History
The rise of what became ASOIU is tied to the rise of the petroleum industry in the Ba ...
* Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts
Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts (ASUCA; ) was founded in 1923 on the basis of the Baku Theatrical College. It is Azerbaijan's main state-funded institution of higher education in performing arts.
Background
Azerbaijan State Univers ...
* Baku State University
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* Baku Engineering University
Baku Engineering University () is a higher education institution which functions as a public legal entity under the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan Republic. Baku Engineering University's mission is "to prepare Engineer, engineers ...
* Baku Academy of Music
The Hajibeyli Baku Academy of Music (Azeri: ''Hacıbəyli adına Bakı Musiqi Akademiyası'') is a music school in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was established in 1920 in Baku and was previously known as the Hajibeyli Azerbaijan State Conservatoire.
H ...
* Baku Higher Oil School
Baku Higher Oil School ( is an institution of higher education in Baku, Azerbaijan.
History
The Baku Higher Oil School (BHOS) was established as a subsidiary of SOCAR by the decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, ...
* Baku Academy of Music
The Hajibeyli Baku Academy of Music (Azeri: ''Hacıbəyli adına Bakı Musiqi Akademiyası'') is a music school in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was established in 1920 in Baku and was previously known as the Hajibeyli Azerbaijan State Conservatoire.
H ...
* Baku Eurasian University
* Nakhchivan State University
Nakhchivan State University (NSU) (Azerbaijani language, Azerbaijani: Naxçıvan Dövlət Universiteti) is a public university located in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan. Founded in 1967 as a part of the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute, ...
* Western Caspian University
* Qafqaz University
Qafqaz University (in Azerbaijani: Qafqaz Universiteti) was a private university located in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was founded in 1993 and was the first and the only foreign private university in the country. On 16 January 2017, it was decided by m ...
Bulgaria
* Assen-Slatarow-University Burgas
* Varna Free University
* Shumen University
The Constantine of Preslav University of Shumen ( Bulgarian: Шуменски университет „Епископ Константин Преславски“, ''Shumenski universitet „Episkop Konstantin Preslavski“'') in Bulgaria is nam ...
* Medical University of Varna
The Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria, Varna (MU-Varna) is a Bulgarian state school for higher education dedicated to training specialists in the fields of medicine and healthcare who graduate with the educational and qualification degrees of ...
* Technical University of Varna
The Technical University of Varna (, often abbreviated as ТУ – Варна, TU – Varna) is a state university in Varna, Bulgaria, Varna, Bulgaria, founded in 1962.
History
Technical faculty
In the early 1940s, the State University in V ...
* University of National and World Economy
The University of National and World Economy () is a public research university in Sofia
Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot o ...
* Sofia University
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Founded on 1 October 1888, the edifice of the university was constr ...
* Veliko Tarnovo University
The St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo ( Bulgarian ''Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“'') is a Bulgarian university based in Veliko Tarnovo.
History
...
Georgia
* Gori State Teaching University
* Tbilisi State University
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, tr; often shorten ...
* Georgian Technical University
Georgian Technical University (GTU, formerly V.I. Lenin Georgian Polytechnical Institute) is the main and largest technical university of Georgia. It is located in the capital city of Tbilisi.
History
Georgian Technical University was foun ...
* Ilia-Tschawtschawadse State Universität
* Tbilisi Public University Metekhi
Greece
* Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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* National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; , ''Ethnikó kai Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the University of Athens (UoA), is a public university in Athens, Greece, with various campuses alo ...
* Athens University of Economics and Business
Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB; , ''Oikonomiko Panepistimio Athinon'', abbrev. ΟΠΑ, OPA) is a public university based in Athens, Greece, specializing in the fields of Economics, Business Administration, and Information Tech ...
* University of Macedonia
The University of Macedonia (UoM; , ΠΑΜΑΚ, ''Panepistímio Makedonías'', PAMAK) is a public university in Thessaloniki, Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, Greece.
Founded as School of Higher Industrial Studies of Thessaloniki (in Greek Langua ...
* University of Ioannina
The University of Ioannina (UoI; Greek: Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων, ''Panepistimio Ioanninon'') is a public university located in Ioannina, Greece. The university was founded in 1964, as a charter of the Aristotle University of ...
* Democritus University of Thrace
The Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH; , ΔΠΘ), established in July 1973, is based in Komotini, Greece and has campuses in cities of Xanthi, Komotini, Alexandroupoli, Orestiada, Didymoteicho, Drama, Greece, Drama and Kavala."''The relation b ...
* University of Thessaly
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* University of Patras
The University of Patras (UPatras; , ''Panepistímio Patrón'', ΠΠ) is a public university in Patras, Greece. It is the third-largest university in Greece with respect to the size of the student body, the staff, and the number of department ...
Moldova
* Comrat State University
Comrat State University (KDU; ) is a public university in Comrat, Moldova. It is the successor of the ''Gagauz National University'', founded on 11 February 1991, by the decision of the Russian Education Foundation and the executive committee of ...
* Technical University Moldova
* Moldova Akademy of Economics
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Romania
* Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași
The Gheorghe Asachi Technical University (; acronym: TUIASI) is a public university located in Iași, Iași County, Western Moldavia, Romania. Classified by the Ministry of Education as an ''advanced research and education university'', it has t ...
* Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
The Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romanian language, Romanian: ''Universitatea "Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu'') is a public university in Sibiu, Romania. It is named after the philosopher, poet, and playwright, Lucian Blaga. It was founded in 19 ...
* Ovidius University
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* University of Bacău
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* Andrei Saguna University
* Mircea cel Bătrân Naval Academy
The Mircea cel Bătrân Naval Academy () is a higher education institution based in the Black Sea port of Constanța that educates future officers for the Romanian Naval Forces, as well as maritime officers and engineers for the merchant marine. ...
* Maritime University
* University of Galați
* Oil & Gas University of Ploiești
* Politehnica University of Bucharest
Politehnica University of Bucharest () is a technical university in Bucharest, Romania founded in 1818.[Spiru Haret University
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* Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
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*
Russia
* Kuban State University
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* Kuban State Technological University
Kuban State Technological University (Russian: Кубанский государственный технологический университет), also referred to as the Kuban State University of Technology, is a Russian public technical un ...
* National University of Science and Technology MISiS (Russia)
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* South Russian State Polytechnical Institute
* Saratov State University
Saratov Chernyshevsky State University (, СГУ, transcribed as SGU) is a higher education and research institution in Russia. In 2023 it was ranked #1,156 in the world by ''US News & World Report''.
Named for Nikolay Chernyshevsky, the univer ...
* Southern Federal University
Southern Federal University (), abbreviated as SFedU () and formerly known as Rostov State University (1957–2006), is a public university in Rostov Oblast, Russia with campuses in Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog. In 2023 ''US News & World Repor ...
* Astrakhan State University
Astrakhan State University (formerly Astrakhan State Pedagogical University) is a university located in Astrakhan, Russian Federation. It was founded in 1932.
The traditional functions of Astrakhan State University include training specialist ...
* Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
The Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Russian language, Russian: Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы), also known as RUDN University and until 1 ...
Serbia
* University of Belgrade
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Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me ...
Turkey
* Trakya University
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* Dokuz Eylül University
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* Galatasaray University
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* Istanbul University
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* Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University
* Fırat University
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* Süleyman Demirel University
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* Atatürk University
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* Yozgat Bozok University
* Kırklareli University
* Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
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Ukraine
* Alfred Nobel University
Alfred Nobel University, Ukraine () is a private higher educational institution in the city of Dnipro. It has the IV level of accreditation.
History
Alfred Nobel University was founded in 1993 as a private higher education institution with a focus ...
* Cherkasy National University
The Cherkasy National University (named after Bohdan Khmelnytsky, official full title Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy) is a state-sponsored university located in Cherkasy (Central Ukraine). It is one of the leading universiti ...
* Dnipro National University of Rail Transport
* Odesa National Academy of Food Technologies
* Odesa Maritime Academy
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* K. D. Ushynsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University
* Poltava National Technical University
The National University "Poltava Polytechnic" (named after Yuri Kondratyuk, ) is a Ukrainian public university in Poltava (previously known as Poltava National Technical Yuri Kondratyuk University, PoltNTU).
History
Source: Early history
Th ...
* Central Ukrainian Volodymyr Vynnychenko State Pedagogical University
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* Ukrainian Academy of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine
Ukrainian Academy of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine is a state-owned higher educational institution within the system of the National Bank of Ukraine of the IVth level of accreditation. It is located in the city of Sumy, in the north-ea ...
* National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
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* Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics
State University of Trade and Economics (SUTE, ; prev.: Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, KNUTE, ) is a Ukrainian university in the capital, Kyiv.
Post address: 19 Kyoto St., Kyiv, Ukraine, 02156.
* Vinnytsia State Agrarian University
* Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University
The Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University () is a Ukrainian state-sponsored university in Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine.
History
Russian Empire
Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University started in 1900 as a seven-year mechanical techni ...
* Zhytomyr State Technological University
* Dnipro State University of Internal Affairs
The Dnipro State University of Internal Affairs (; DDUVS/DSUIA) is a university of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, located in the city of Dnipro. It is a Higher educational institution of the fourth accreditation level.
History
"Dn ...
* Dnipro Polytechnic
The Dnipro University of Technology (, NTU DP, ) is a Public university, state-sponsored polytechnic in Dnipro, Ukraine.
The polytechnic was founded in 1899 as the ''Yekaterinoslav Higher Mining School''.
* Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design
Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design (KNUTD) ( is a university in Kyiv, Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Rus ...
* National University of Food Technologies
The National University of Food Technologies is a Ukrainian university located in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Campus
The campus includes eight buildings. Building "A" hosts the University administration section, Assembly Hall, Academic Council Hall, Dean o ...
References
External links
Offizielle Website of BSUN
(englisch; russisch)
Officielle Website of BSEC
College and university associations and consortia in Europe
International college and university associations and consortia