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National Agricultural University of Ukraine started its international activities in 1950, when a group of students from China, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Bulgaria came to study to the Kyiv Agricultural Institute. The first foreign student, who graduated NAUU in 1953, was Damian Leviu (Romania), now a Professor of the Bucharest University. Since that time more than 3000 foreign students from 89 countries all over the world have graduated from the University. More than 400 of them have got scientific degree of candidate of sciences, 100 graduates have defended doctor’s thesis. NAUU’s alumni are working as directors of agricultural companies, heads of units of research institutions, senior researchers, officers of the ministries and governmental agencies.
Many of NAUU alumni are not just at the high executive ladder, but also take an active part in public life of their home countries. Thus, Mr. Robert Wood, a graduate of the Faculty of Mechanization of Agriculture (1966), is a Vice-President of the Association of Friendship and Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Ghana. Mr. Abdul Emanuel, a graduate of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (1973) served as a Minister of Agriculture of Central African Republic.
The University has initiated development of higher agricultural education in Cambodia. Specifically, it has founded the Agricultural Institute in Pnompenh. Many of our faculty staff has been working in educational institutions of Guinea, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Algeria, Cambodia, Mali, Cuba and other countries. 
Foreign students study at NAUU. They came from Egypt, Germany, Israel, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Russia, Belarus, Syria, Tunis, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Yugoslavia.
In the 60’s the NAUU (UAA) started active international co-operation with the higher educational institutions of neighboring countries. The University has programs on cooperation with a number of Western European Universities. Among which are: Ghent University (Belgium), Humboldt University in Berlin, Anhalt and Weihenstephan Universities of Applied Sciences (Germany), Dresden Technical University, Warsaw Agricultural University (Poland), Czech Agricultural University in Prague, Agricultural University in Nitra (Slovakia). University also cooperates with US Universities: Iowa State University, Purdue State University, Louisiana State University, PennState University, DePaul University (Chicago) (USA) etc. 
The cooperation with Iowa State University, especially within the USIA-funded Linkage Project, has resulted into adaptation of NAUU curricula and syllabi and modification its administrative system. The most important outcome of the cooperation with ISU, as well as with Louisiana State University was signing memorandums of understanding, one of the main clauses of which was as recognizing comparability between the system of education and standards of Iowa and Louisiana State Universities and the National Agricultural University of Ukraine.
The many years’ collaboration with Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) and Ghent University (Belgium), specifically within the Joint EU TEMPUS/TACIS Project "Food quality: from soil to consumer", has also resulted into signing memorandums of understanding with the above-mentioned universities (2002).
In 2004 in Germany the representatives of partner-Universities and of the Ministries of Education of Ukraine and Germany accredited the international Master Course "Administrative Management" in which the NAUU students participate. The expert commission came to the decision about the possibility to the students to study in Ukraine and Germany and to give them the corresponding diplomas on this course.
The relations with Eastern countries are being developed. The agreements on Cooperation with the Department of Science and Engineering of Province Zhejiang, Zhejiang Forestry University, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (People’s Republic of China), Gorgan agricultural University (Iran), Tokyo Agricultural University (Japan) (in which NAUU students study) were signed.
NAUU collaborates by the following main international programs and projects: -
Project with FAO (UNO) on the Food Industry Development in Ukraine in the sphere of quality management, certification and standardization.
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Project on Technical aid with the Japan Government aimed at the development of the Lab of Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products.
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Management of agricultural chemicals remains and neutralization of useless pesticides in Cherkasy and Lviv regions.
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Project with Humboldt University "Influence of economic transformations and social changes on the degradation and protection of bog soils in Ukraine: need in institutional changes and political reform" (Germany).
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Student exchanges with higher educational institutions (Anhalt and Weihenstephan Universities of Applied Sciences (Germany) etc.
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Development of the Project with DePaul University (Chicago, USA) "Integration of distance probing and geographical informative systems for the determination and forecasting of water and agricultural resources pollution in Ukraine".
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International Master’s Program "ÌÂÀ in Agriculture" within DAAD Project "Export of German study programs and support for international cooperation of Bavaria" with Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences (Germany).
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Extending Agribusiness education in Ukraine with Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and University College Dublin (Ireland).
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Project "Reforming the system of central and regional administration in agricultural sector of Ukraine" with the Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (Germany).
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German and Ukrainian project of agricultural development and investments attraction in the frameworks of the Transform program.
NAUU has close links with such foreign agricultural companies such as "John Deer" (USA), "Valtra Valmet" (Finland), "M&P Farma" (Switzerland), AGCO (Danmark), "Alfa Laval’ Agri in Ukraine" (Sweden), and others.
Some exchange programs were sponsored by Ukrainian Diaspora in the U.S.A., namely by Woskobs, Dwojaks, Lehmans, Holovatys, Yatsyks families.
"Gold sponsors" of the NAUU — Mr. Olexij and Mrs. Galina Woskobs.
Sponsor of the NAUU — Mr. Stepan Dwojak.
Annually about 150 NAUU faculty members take part in international conferences, symposiums, seminars, and workshops. Some of them are invited to visit our partner-universities as guest-professors. We organize cultural exchange programs, e.g. to Belgium, Germany, Poland, Luxemburg and other countries. NAUU hosted more than 50 international conferences, seminars and workshops. About 80 NAUU students take study courses and training in the leading U.S. and Western European universities annually.
Official delegations from the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, China, Great Britain, Iran, Poland, Lithuania, Sweden visit NAUU. Representatives from the partner-institutions give lections for NAUU students.
One of the areas of international cooperation of the University is organizing internship/practical training programs for students. Today, NAUU maintains fruitful relations with such programs as G’s Marketing, Tanstead International Farm Camp, S&A Produce (Great Britain), Experience International, Global Outreach (USA), Landokonomisk Rejsebureau (Denmark), Association "Amatie sans frontieres" (France), German Farmer’s Union (Germany), Association of Agrarian Youth of Austria (Austria), Atlantis Youth Exchange Program (Norway), Bureau of Youth Exchange and Educational Programs of Holland, Programs of Productive Training of Ohio State University, Minnesota State University (USA) etc. Annually about 500 students take part in these programs.
100-year anniversary was an outstanding event for National Agricultural University of Ukraine. The International Conference "Globalizing Agricultural Higher education & Science: Meeting the Needs of 21st century" (1998). As the result of the Conference The Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research for Agriculture (http://www.gchera.iastate.edu), headed by Iowa State University (USA), National Agricultural University of Ukraine and Humboldt University, Germany, was set up.
Opening ceremony of the International Conference devoted to 100_year anniversary of the NAUU.
The mission of the Consortium is to develop a world system of higher education and research for agriculture on the basis of up-to-date achievements in fundamental and applied sciences and information technologies and adapt this system to the economic, national and religious peculiarities of the regions.
Emblem of the GCHERA. President of the Iowa State University (USA), Dr. Martin Jishke was elected to be the first President of the Consortium (now he is a President of Purdue University, Indiana, USA). In 2001, the responsibilities of GCHERA President were delegated to NAUU Rector, academician Dmytro O. Melnychuk, who was the head of this international non-governmental organization till October 2003. Now Dr. Jiaan Cheng, Vice-President of Zhejiang University (China) is the President of the Consortium.
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