are taken up with all key stakeholders. The university takes active part in fulfilling one of the main tasks of the association which is the creation of the European higher education space where students, teachers and scientists would be able to accomplish their own intentions and ideas on the basis of the established European educational norms. On 16 September 2005 Ternopil Ivan Puluj State Technical University joined the European Declaration of the higher educational institutions of the Magna Charta Universitatum comprising fundamental principles, rights and duties of the universities as the outposts of culture, knowledge and research and uniting 816 Universities from 86 Countries. In the same year under the guidance of Sc.D, Professor Yasniy P.V. the first regional academy CISCO and Institute of Entrepreneurship, that train specialists in the field of computer networks were created. After graduation graduates receive an internationally recognized certificate. In 2003, the largest in the region sports and health, and social and cultural center “Polytechnic” was put into operation. On March 16, 2007, Sc.D., Professor Merited Figure of Science and Technology of Ukraine Yasniy P.V. was elected the rector of the TSTU. The Strategy and Concept of University Development up to 2020 have been developed and implemented. One of the main tasks of the university development concept are integration into the European scientific and educational space through organizational and structural reform, improving the quality of education, developing university autonomy, mobility of university teachers, scholars, postgraduates and students. On December 11, 2009, with the decree of the President of Ukraine for a significant contribution to the development of national education and science, and taking into account the national and international recognition of the results of higher education, the university was granted a national status. In 2007 the Center for training of foreign students was opened, and later, in 2011, it developed into the Foreign Students Faculty. Today more than 250 foreigners study at the preparatory department and take bachelor's and master's degree in Ukrainian and English. In 2007-2008, joint faculties were established with Shobhit University (New Delhi, India), with the Technological University of Tajikistan (Dushanbe, Republic of Tajikistan). In 2011, the first in Tajikistan local center of distance education was opened in Dushanbe. In 2012, the local center of distance education was created at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Detroit, Michigan (USA), and in June 2014, the graduate, who undertook his program defended his bachelor's thesis.