The Educational and Scientific Institute of Sustainable Development named after Viacheslav Chornovil (ISRD) is the youngest of the institutes of Lviv Polytechnic National University. The institute received its name in June 2017 pursuant to the decision of the University Academic Council (No. 35 of June 20, 2017) and the Rector’s Order (No. 147-10 of June 22, 2017).
The educational institution first opened its doors in 1947 as the Lviv Electromechanical Technical College. In 1963, it was renamed the Lviv Technical College of Radio Electronics, known throughout Ukraine and the entire USSR. On the basis of the Radio Electronics Technical College, the “Western Ukrainian Collegium” College was established in 1994. Thanks to the development of human resources and scientific–technical capacity, in 2003 the institution became an institute—initially the Western Ukrainian Institute of Information Technologies and Management under the Donetsk State Academy of Management, and later the Lviv State Institute of Advanced Technologies and Management. The name of Hero of Ukraine Viacheslav Maksymovych Chornovil was conferred on the institute by an order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in 2005. This is because a page of the prominent Ukrainian statesman’s life is connected with our institution: when the dissident persecuted by the Soviet authorities could not find employment anywhere, he worked for a time as a stoker at the technical college. On the basis of the Cabinet of Ministers’ directive of November 17, 2010 No. 2109 “On the reorganization of the Lviv State Institute of Advanced Technologies and Management named after Viacheslav Chornovil” and the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine “On the reorganization of the Lviv State Institute of Advanced Technologies and Management named after Viacheslav Chornovil” (No. 1284 of December 24, 2010), from January 24, 2011 the institute became a structural unit of Lviv Polytechnic National University according to Lviv Polytechnic’s Order No. 9-10. After the Lviv State Institute of Advanced Technologies and Management named after Viacheslav Chornovil joined Lviv Polytechnic and underwent reorganization, two new educational and scientific institutes were created: the Institute of Psychology and Law (based on the Law Faculty of LSITAM and the Departments of Pedagogy, Psychology, and Law of the Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences) and the Institute of Advanced Technologies and Management named after V. Chornovil. On October 17, 2011, on the basis of the Rector’s Order of Lviv Polytechnic National University No. 157-10, the Educational and Scientific Institute of Ecology, Environmental Protection Activities, and Tourism named after Viacheslav Chornovil (IEPT) was established from the Institute of Advanced Technologies and Management named after V. Chornovil and the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies.
The reorganization also affected the institute’s departments. In May 2015, the Department of Civil Safety was established within the Institute of Ecology, Environmental Protection Activities, and Tourism named after V. Chornovil by reorganizing the Occupational Safety Department of the Institute of Power Engineering and Control Systems and the Life Safety Department of the Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies (decision of the Academic Council of Lviv Polytechnic National University No. 12 of March 30, 2015; Lviv Polytechnic Order No. 90-10 of May 18, 2015). In 2017, pursuant to Lviv Polytechnic Order No. 148-10 of June 23, 2017, the Department of General Ecology and Eco-Information Systems was reorganised by merging it into the Department of Environmental Safety and Environmental Protection Activities. Associate Professor Ivan Vasylovych Kostiuk, who later headed the Technological College within Lviv Polytechnic, served at this department as First Deputy Director of the Institute of Ecology, Environmental Protection Activities, and Tourism named after V. Chornovil.
Today, the institute has 5 departments: the Department of Environmental Safety and Environmental Protection Activities (EBPD); the Department of Ecology and Balanced Nature Management (EZP); the Department of Entrepreneurship, Trade, and Environmental Expertise of Goods (PEET); the Department of Tourism (TUR); and the Department of Civil Safety (CS). High-quality educational services are provided by a teaching staff of 77 academic employees, including 15 Doctors of Sciences/Professors and 57 Candidates of Sciences/Associate Professors (95% of academic staff hold academic degrees and titles). The high level of faculty expertise is confirmed by numerous awards from the President of Ukraine, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, and other ministries and agencies, as well as distinctions from Lviv Polytechnic.
The institute offers study programs in the following specialities:
Bachelor’s level: 076 “Entrepreneurship, Trade, and Exchange Activities”; 101 “Ecology”; 183 “Environmental Protection Technologies,” specialisation “Environmental Protection Information Systems”; 242 “Tourism”; 241 “Hotel and Restaurant Business”; 263 “Civil Safety,” specialisation “Occupational Safety.”
Master’s level: Entrepreneurship, Trade, and Exchange Activities; Ecology (educational–scientific program); Ecology and Environmental Protection; Environmental Control and Audit; Environmental Protection Technologies (educational–scientific program); Applied Ecology and Balanced Nature Management; Tourism; Industrial Safety and Occupational Safety.
Postgraduate and Doctoral studies: 076 “Entrepreneurship, Trade, and Exchange Activities”; 101 “Ecology”; 183 “Environmental Protection Technologies.”
Great attention is paid at the institute to research and to raising the scientific qualifications of staff. Faculty actively participate in international scientific and technical symposia and conferences, and publish research results in international and domestic professional journals, including those indexed in international scientometric databases. Since 2018, the institute has hosted the International Scientific Symposium “Sustainable Development—State and Prospects,” held every two years at the “Polytechnic-2” Educational and Recreational Camp in the Carpathians.
More than 550 students study at the institute. Our graduates can work at manufacturing and trade enterprises; in environmental protection authorities; in occupational safety and industrial safety departments; in environmental inspectorates; in departments for the design and operation of safety systems; in the tourism and recreation sector; in hotel and restaurant complexes; in consulting companies; on exchanges; in insurance companies; in banks; at customs; in government bodies and local self-government; in units of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine; and in research and educational institutions.
The institute actively cooperates with international partners, including Lublin University of Technology (Poland), Pomeranian University in Słupsk (Poland), the Higher School of Occupational Safety Management in Katowice (Poland), and Pennsylvania State University (USA).
Our students actively participate in international and national competitions of student research papers, theses, and olympiads, and take part in conferences. Over the past 6 years, students of the institute have earned 86 diplomas for prize-winning places.
Students and faculty of the institute are active participants not only in academic events but also in various contests, festivals, races, and competitions, where they win prizes. Our institute’s team has repeatedly won the “Autumn of Polytechnic” and “Spring of Polytechnic” festivals, the international competition “Taras Shevchenko United Nations,” the “Carpathian Rainbow” sport-tourism competition, the “Indian Summer” Ukrainian tourist song festival, and the University Games among faculty.
Students and faculty of the institute actively engage in various projects, festivals, campaigns, and educational events, including the “Restoration of the Cherry Grove Founded by Klymentiy Sheptytskyi” campaign; the educational event “Historical and Environmental Patrol”; the “Trees of Your City” project; the Children’s Forum—Children’s Reading Festival “Bookmania 2019”; the international project “City of Professions”; the virtual sports relay “SDG Relay 2021”; the Global Climate Strike for Future; participation in Lviv Open Lab; and summer camps: “Polytechnic Camp,” “IT Camp,” and “Future Entrepreneur.”
Building 38, where the Institute was located from 2011 to July 2020, 130 General Chuprynky St.
Building 1, where the Institute has been located since August 2020, 2/4 Karpinskyi St
In the summer of 2020, the Institute of Sustainable Development named after V. Chornovil moved from Building 38 to Building 1 of Lviv Polytechnic National University.