To contribute to the development of the Ukrainian state and society, the South-Eastern region of Ukraine through the implementation of the following goals:

1) To form highly qualified, professionally competent and nationally conscious specialists in the field of hotel and restaurant business and catering, capable of solving complex research and innovation tasks, designing, developing and implementing modern business processes, products and services, ensuring the effective operation of hotel, restaurant business and catering entities, applying digital technologies, principles of sustainable development, social responsibility and innovation, contributing to the development of the Ukrainian state, society and the Zaporizhzhia region;

2) To integrate the results of scientific and applied research, innovation and entrepreneurship into the educational process in order to train specialists capable of analyzing global and local hotel and restaurant services markets, justifying management decisions, developing and implementing projects for the development of hospitality enterprises, introducing product, service, organizational, management and marketing innovations, ensuring the quality of education in accordance with European standards and principles of academic integrity;

3) Provide conditions for the comprehensive professional and personal development of higher education applicants by developing their research, creative, communicative and entrepreneurial activity, expanding academic mobility, forming the ability to work in international and interdisciplinary contexts, using modern distance and digital educational technologies, developing professional autonomy and forming individual educational trajectories.

Teaching and learning are based on the implementation of active methods that ensure a personally oriented approach, the development of critical thinking and professional autonomy of applicants. The educational process is built on the principles of student-centered, problem-oriented and interactive learning with extensive use of web technologies and self-study. The study of disciplines involves lectures, practical and laboratory classes, work in small groups, which forms horizontal connections between applicants, preparation and presentation of educational and research projects, participation in debates and professional discussions. Considerable attention is paid to individual work under the guidance of teachers in preparing for conferences, completing the master’s qualification work, presenting the results obtained at conferences. Master’s students are involved in independent research using the university’s resource base (library, computer classes), as well as the potential of partner institutions.

Education quality control involves control measures and analytical work to analyze their results. The applicant’s learning outcomes are assessed using control measures provided for by the educational program and programs of educational components on a 100-point scale or on a two-point scale (passed – not passed). The share of mandatory educational components that provide for a final assessment on a 100-point scale must be at least 70% of the total number of educational components.

Control measures include final control, and may also provide for input, current, intermediate and other forms of control, if they are determined by the programs of educational components. The forms of control measures, criteria, methods and assessment tools correspond to the learning objectives and expected learning outcomes of each educational component.

Official website of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University: https://zp.edu.ua. Basic information about the activities of the Department «Tourism, Hotel and Restaurant Business» is available at the link: https://zp.edu.ua/department/turystychnyj-hotelnyj-ta-restorannyj-biznes/. Access to educational and methodological materials is provided through the university-wide distance learning system moodle.zp.edu.ua, the university’s electronic library http://e-library.zp.edu.ua/, the institutional repository http://eir.zp.edu.ua/. Prompt information to applicants and employees, as well as other stakeholders about the activities of the university and the department, class schedules, educational and scientific events is provided through the official website and educational portal (http://portal.zp.edu.ua). In addition, the educational portal provides an opportunity to familiarize yourself with curricula and form an individual educational trajectory for higher education applicants.

National academic mobility is carried out on the basis of agreements concluded between NU «Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic» and higher education institutions of Ukraine:

–                National Technical University «Dnipropetrovsk Polytechnic» (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/nmu.org.ua/Memorandum_pro_spilnu_diyalnist.pdf);

–                  Kharkiv National University of Economics named after Semyon Kuznets (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/hneu.edu.ua/Uhoda_pro_spivrobitnytstvo.pdf);

– Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/ztu.edu.ua/Dohovir_pro_spivpratsiu.pdf);

–                Kamianets-Podilskyi National University named after Ivan Ohienko (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/kpnu.edu.ua/Dohovir_pro_spivpratsiu.pdf);

–                Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/knukim.edu.ua/Dohovir_pro_spivpratsiu.pdf);

–                 Classical Private University (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/zhu.edu.ua/Dohovir_pro_spivpratsiu.pdf).

–                 Lviv University of Trade and Economics (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/lute.lviv.ua/Dohovir_pro_spivpratsiu.pdf).

The possibility of studying in several specialties or in several HEIs simultaneously is determined by the legislation of Ukraine.

Regulated by the Regulations on the procedure for exercising the right to academic mobility of participants in the educational process of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/pubdocs/2022/NakazN210vid28.06.22.pdf), as well as on the basis of bilateral agreements between the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University and foreign higher education institutions, foreign organizations and enterprises:

– Urgench State University (Uzbekistan) (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/urdu.uz/Cooperation_Agreement.pdf);

– Mariia Curie-Sklodowska University (Poland) (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/umcs.pl/Academic_Agreement_of_Cooperation.pdf);

– Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/kuleuven.be/Student_Exchange_Agreement.pdf);

– Transylvania University of Brasov (Romania) (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/unitbv.ro/Inter-institutional_agreement.pdf)

– Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki w Bydgoszczy (Poland) (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/wsg.byd.pl/Dohovir_pro_spivpratsiu.pdf);

– Gdansk University (Gdansk, Poland) (https://zp.edu.ua/uploads/partnery/ug.edu.pl/Memorandum_of_Understanding.pdf).

Within the framework of the EU Erasmus+ program on the basis of bilateral agreements between Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University and higher education institutions of partner countries.