The Academic Council is a collegial governing body of the Institute established for a five-year term. Its membership is approved by an order issued by the President of the Institute within five working days following the expiry of the term of office of the previous Academic Council.
The Academic Council of the Institute:
- Determines the strategy and long-term development priorities for the Institute's educational, research and innovation activities.
- Adopts resolutions on amendments and additions to the draft Charter of the Institute.
- Approves the Institute's financial plan and annual financial report.
- Defines the system and approves procedures for the internal quality assurance of higher education.
- Adopts resolutions on depositing the Institute's own-source revenues with territorial offices of the central executive authority responsible for treasury services for public funds or with banking institutions.
- Adopts resolutions on the establishment, reorganisation and dissolution of structural units.
- Approves educational programmes and curricula for each level of higher education and field of study.
- Adopts resolutions on matters relating to the organisation of the educational process and determines the duration of study at the relevant levels.
- Approves the templates and procedures for producing higher education documents, including joint and double degrees.
- Determines the main priorities for research and innovation activities.
- Evaluates the academic and research performance of the Institute's structural units.
- Confers the academic titles of Professor, Associate Professor and Senior Researcher, and submits the relevant decisions to the Attestation Board of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine for approval.
- Makes final decisions on the recognition of foreign higher education qualifications, academic degrees and academic titles when recruiting teaching, research, academic and teaching staff, and other employees, as well as when admitting applicants to study.
- Makes final decisions on the recognition of higher education qualifications awarded by higher spiritual education institutions whose statutes (regulations) have been registered in accordance with the procedure established by law, when admitting applicants to study.
- Considers other matters relating to the Institute's activities in accordance with its Charter.
- Composition of the Academic Council