MSAU has been accepted by the Observatory Council to become a member of the Magna Charta Universitatum

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University has been accepted by the Observatory Council to become a member of the Magna Charta Universitatum, one of the most influential international organizations of universities. 17th and 18th September 2009 will be dedicated to a conference and to the official ceremony of the signature of the Magna Charta Universitatum.

One of the most important ways of developments of higher education in the European area is the Bologna process. Bologna process is a process of European reforms, which aimed at creating a common European Higher Education Area by 2010. Bologna process officially began in 1999 with the signing of the Bologna Declaration. A prerequisite of its establishment was the signing of the Great Charter of European Universities (Magna Charta Universitatum).

The Magna Charta of the European Universities is the final result of the proposal addressed from the University of Bologna, in 1986, to the oldest European Universities. The idea of the Magna Charta was enthusiastically accepted.

During a meeting in Bologna (June 1987) the delegates of 80 European Universities elected an eight members board including: the President of the European Rectors Conference, the Rectors of the Universities of Bologna, Paris I, Leuven, Barcelona, prof. Giuseppe Caputo (University of Bologna), prof. Manuel Nunez Encabo (President of the sub-commission for Universities of the Parlamentary Assembly of the European Council).

The document, drafted in Barcelona in January 1988, was signed by all the Rectors who were in Bologna to celebrate the 900th Anniversary of the Alma Mater.

The aims of this document are to celebrate the deepest values of University traditions and to encourage bonds among European Universities.

It should be noted that the Bologna process envisages the creation of completely identical systems of education in different countries; it is intended only to strengthen relationships and improve understanding between different educational systems.

19 May 2005 at a conference in the Norwegian city of Bergen Ukraine formally joined the Bologna process. Join our countries to the Bologna process provides an opportunity to implement structural reforms of higher education system agreed criteria, standards and specifications that will allow Ukraine to become a recognized part of the European educational and scientific space.