State Chemical Technology University of Ukraine

May, 15, 1930, Dnepropetrovsk Chemical-Technological Institute was founded on the basis of the Dnepropetrovsk mining institute. The initiators of its foundation were academician L.V. Pisarzhevskiy, Professors O.I. Brodskiy and P.Т. Rubin. P.Т.

   Storozhuk became the first director of the Institute. The Institute comprised 2 faculties: technological and main chemical industry faculties.

   The higher educational establishment under the industrialization conditions prepared specialists for chemical industry of South Ukraine. The first turn-out of specialists was in 1931.

Since 2007, the new name of the University was established by Ministry of Education and Science – State Higher Educational institution „Ukrainian State University of Chemical Engineering” (SHEI USUCE).

   Nowadays the University has 8 educational corps with audiences and laboratories, equipped with modern equipment, 5 dormitories for 2600 persons, a sports complex – one of the best in Ukraine, a sports and health camp «Oak Grove», a sanatorium-preventorium.

The University cooperates in science and education with foreign universities and institutions: 
   - Belarus State Technological University (Minsk, Belarus) 
   - Mendeleev Russian Chemical-Technological University  (Moscow, Russia) 
   - K. Pulaskyi Technical University ( Radom, Poland) 
   - Technical University (Chemnitz, Germany) 
   - University of Chemical Technology Beijing (Beijing, China) 
   - University of Washington (Seattle, USA) 
   - University after Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris, France) 
   - Grebenshchikov Institute of Silicate Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia) 
   - Warsaw Polytechnic (Warsaw, Poland) 
   - Zelinskyi Institute of Organic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences 
   - Department of Materials, University of Sheffield (UK) 
   - Institute of Applied Biotechnology "Radostim" (Germany) 
   - Martin-Luther University, the city of Halle (Germany) 
   - Clement Okhridskyi Sofia University (Sofia, Bulgaria) 
   - Viatka State University (Kirov, Russia) 
   - Public corporation "Elast-PU (Moscow, Russia) 
   - ENER Company (USA) 
   - Advance Research Chemicals Company   (USA) 
   - Corporation "BI Technologies Corporation" (Fulleron City, USA) 
  
   According to the agreements with foreign institutions our scientists exchange their experience in education, teaching work, joint research; raise  employees’ qualification, team work in publishing of articles, participate in international conferences and seminars. 

   The University  carries out the research work, financed by international funds and organizations: 
   • joint scientific research with Surface Research Technology Centre, Great Britain (supported by the British Royal Society ) 
   • Research Corporation, "BI Technologies Corporation" (Fulleron City, USA); 
   • STCU  project together with the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry ASRUz (Uzbekistan) and State Design Bureau "Yuzhnyi" (Ukraine) 

   The University maintains contacts with international funds of CRDF, NATO, INTAS, DAAD, American Councils, Fulbright, IREX, TACIS, informational and consulting centers,  educational and international centers and other organizations. 

   The staff and students of USUCT   participate in international conferences, symposia, seminars, joint research in the leading educational institutions and research centers in the U.S., UK, Russia, Moldova, Poland, Czechia, Germany, Israel, France, Hungary, Bulgaria, Belarus and others.