The main BOVA UN activities are related with the development of international study options for students from BOVA member institutions as well as for the visiting students from other countries. Thought BOVA activities you could obtain international high quality education in agriculture, forestry, veterinary and other related sciences.
The main emphasis within the BOVA UN frames are the development of Joint Master Education (both types – short intensive courses and joint master programmes) and the development of Doctoral courses and research training therefore the study opportunities are offered mainly for MSc and Doctoral students.
BOVA have started educational activities based on the cooperation with NOVA through the NOVABA programme in 1996 funded by NCM where short intensive master courses were given by experienced and enthusiastic Nordic (NOVA) teachers. Around 50 courses were arranged involving more than 900 students and about 200 NOVA and BOVA teachers in 6 years period from 1996 to 2001. The Nordic Council of Ministers was the key supporter of joint MSc courses as well as the Swedish VISBY programme. This programme gave a strong basis for further development of cooperation among BOVA universities and good practice of fulfillment of joint tasks.
Drawing from successful experience, the cooperation at master level is expanding since 2003. Teachers and students from agricultural universities in Neighbour countries (North-West Russia) are welcomed in forthcoming courses. The great impute in the development of these courses were made by leaders of Nordic-Baltic-North-West Russia academic networks and their teams. In total 18 joint master courses were arranged in 2003 and 2004 involving more than 200 students and 50 teachers. Financial supporter was in this period NCM Nordplus Neighbour programme.
At the same time BOVA UN has started the process of research, development and implementation of joint programmes on master level. One of academic networks has succeeded to develop a full 2-years master programme “Management of biodiversity and multifunctional landscapes” by joint efforts of BOVA UN under the leadership of the Estonian University of Life Sciences. [master level programms]
Since 2006, international BOVA master courses are sustaining on internal funding of students mobility from internal university funds. The scheme of these courses remains in general the same, the best teachers from BOVA member universities joint into one team and offering the best knowledge in specific fields to the students who are willing to learn the best and improve the English language skill by the same. [master level courses]
From 2008 BOVA UN has joined the NOVA Nordplus Network and now the NORDPLUS programme giving support for the development of NOVA/BOVA International intensive courses.
Starting from the year 2006, BOVA started to develop BOVA Intensive Doctoral courses basing on great experiences obtained from NOVA side. Although the number of Doctoral courses on BOVA side is quite small the development of such courses is on priority list within BOVA. [doctoral courses]
Besides BOVA Doctoral courses PhD students from BOVA member institutions have an opportunity to take part in NOVA PhD courses. NOVA has opened such opportunity to BOVA students since 2001 but at that time NordForsk financial support was available. Since 2008 this financial instrument of support is stopped but BOVA students still are welcome to the NOVA courses without participation fee but on own travel and living expenses [nova courses]
Application procedure for BOVA courses is very simple (links uz Application procedure). In cases when the application procedure differs from the general procedure it is described within the course information.
