EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM (2021)

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The purpose of the educational and scientific program

Preparing of highly qualified scientists and scientific-pedagogical staff in horticulture and viticulture through the implementation of scientific research and obtaining new and / or practical results, and also preparation and presentation of a diploma thesis.

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Characteristics of the educational and scientific program

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Field of study

Horticulture and viticulture in two specializations: horticulture, viticulture (20 Agricultural sciences and victuals). The objects of study and activities of applicants are research, pedagogical, organizational - technological, design-technological, organizational-managerial operation system of enterprises in fields of horticulture and viticulture, organizations and institutions of all forms of ownership.

Purpose of education - the formation of general and special competencies needed to handle with the complex tasks of horticulture and viticulture, which provides implementation of research and innovation activities and characterized by uncertainty of conditions and requirements.

Theoretical content of the subject area:

- theoretical- methodological and applied aspects of horticultural technologies;

-profound ideas about the structure, management and optimization of horticultural processes, design principles of orchards and the operation of horticultural enterprises;

-methodology of organization and control of appropriate - level of quality and safety of garden trees, environmental safety and technological resource conservation processes of its production; resource conservation processes of its production.

-scientific-methodological foundations of research -innovation activities;

- methodology of teaching activities;

-execution of project and scientific-research works, related to the exploration of technological processes, implementation of new and improvement of existing ones fruit production technologies.

-Methods, techniques and technologies (which must be mastered by higher education receivers for practical application): a set of organizational and technological, research, innovation and marketing methods, techniques and technologies to improve the efficiency of operation and strategic development of enterprises and organizations of the industry.

Tools and equipment (objects / devices, gadgets and appliances that the higher education student learns how to use and apply it): computer technology and information technology, modern laboratory and technical equipment.

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Focus of program:

general/

specia

The third (educational and scientific) level of higher education according to Law of Ukraine "On Higher Education", eighth qualification level of the National Qualifications Framework.

General:

- Deep knowledge of the basics of philosophy, political science, sociology, culturology, which contribute to the development of political cultures and active public position; mastering the principles innovative and scientific work that promotes the formation scientist; ability to use world information resources and conducting a patent search on their basis; fluency in one of the foreign languages for communication with the world's leading scientists schools; gaining planning skills and horticultural management; mastering the principles writing scientific articles, recommendations for production, monographs; psychological and pedagogical foundations of carrying out scientific conferences, debates, presentations, lectures.

Fundamental knowledge of biometrics and methods of research cases that are needed for planning research in the field of horticulture, their analysis results and formation of conclusions and production recommendations; knowledge in the field of informatics and modern information technology; basics of economic knowledge to account for costs for the implementation of technological techniques and calculation of their economic and bioenergy efficiency; knowledge of biophysics, biochemistry and basics of biotechnology for laboratory purposes and conducting biochemical analyzes and biophysical experiments.

Deep knowledge of the biological foundations of fruit growing;

technologies of cultivation, harvesting, storage and processing; organization and conduct of researches;

modern agricultural machinery for implementation of technologies in horticulture; pathogens and pests of fruit plants; use of agrochemicals, permitted for use in horticulture; varietal resources and cultivar investigation of fruit plants; foundations of genetics, breeding and seed production; organic gardening;

introduction of innovations in production; organization of growing fruits and seedlings in different farms type of ownership; principles of fruit marketing products in domestic and foreign markets: deep knowledge of ecology and providing garden trees safety;

calculation of economic and bioenergy efficiency.

 Special:

The study of economic and biological characteristics of fruit, berry and nut breeds.

Research of uterine plantations of different types and assignments.

Determination of the main varieties of fruit, berry and nut breeds common in industrial plantations.

Selection of breeds and varieties when laying the garden.

Justification of the importance of uncommon crops in berry development.

Determining the directions of selection work with fruit, berry and nut breeds.

Analysis of the existing range of fruit, berry and nut breeds, entered in the "State Register varieties of plants suitable for cultivation in Ukraine".

Formation of a register of the main donors of economic and biological traits in the selection of fruit, berry and nut breeds.

Definition of modern methods of selection in horticulture accelerated selection in the early stages of elite hybrid progeny.

Study of the adaptability of new domestic and introduced rootstocks of fruit species to soil and climatic conditions of the main fruit-growing zones of Ukraine.

Improving the method of reproduction by method with the use of green propagule and clonal rootstocks of stone fruit crops.

Study of the mechanisms of mineral nutrition of fruits and berry crops, development of scientific bases application of fertilizers, herbicides, growth stimulants of rootstock mother plants, nursery and orchard.

Study of environmental sustainability and productivity of varietal-rootstock combinations in different types of plantings.

Development of theoretical and methodological foundations of zoning of fruit and berry species. Justification of agro-ecological zones of horticulture in Ukraine.

Ways to increase the productivity of fruits and berries plantations.

Research of influence of various ways of formation and pruning for  the productivity of orchards and bush berry breeds.

Development of methodology and application of modern ways to create and use productively effective types of fruit and berry plantations.

Study of phyto virological condition of plantations fruit crops and their rootstocks in different regions of Ukraine in order to identify the original forms of varieties and rootstocks for creation of rootstock mother plants-propagule orchards and rootstock mother plants of clonal rootstocks.

Development and implementation of biotechnological methods diagnostics of fruit, berry and nut breeds in the system of production of virus-free planting material.

Improving the methods of rehabilitation of infected clones of fruit crops and their clonal rootstocks using chemotherapy, thermotherapy and in vitro culture.

Maintenance and updating of the collection of basic material of berry species and clonal rootstocks in vitro culture.

Substantiation of technologies of cultivation, mechanization, labor-intensive processes in horticulture and nursery and economic efficiency of creation and productive use of fruit and berry plantations.

Research of influence of abiotic and biotic factors on quality indicators of fruit crops, berry and nut breeds, in particular soil and climatic conditions and agrotechnical methods of cultivation.

Study of main features for the creation of raw materials plantations of fruit and berry crops. Development consumer characteristics of grain crops, stone fruit crops, berry and nut breeds. Research features of various crops cultivation intended for mechanized harvesting.

Establishment of terms of harvesting of fruits and berry breeds. Determining the direction of product use by degree of ripeness and content of organic matter.

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Program Orientation

Educational, research and applied. Scientific research with new, improved, practical directed and valuable theoretical and methodological results.

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Program Specifics

Educational component of the program. The program is implemented in small groups of researchers by two specializations: Horticulture and viticulture. The program provides differentiated approach to postgraduate students of full-time and correspondence course form of education and applicants.

The program provides 45 ECTS credits for compulsory subjects, of which 22 credits ECTS is a discipline of general training (philosophy, foreign language, high school pedagogy, computer information processing, mathematical modeling and experiment planning, research methodology and organization of dissertation preparation) that provide for the acquisition of postgraduate students of general science (philosophical) competencies, language competencies, universal skills of the researcher. Another 23 ECTS credits provided for the disciplines of professional training, pedagogical practice of which 15 ECTS credits – for elective disciplines within the mentioned specializations.

Pedagogical assistant practice not less than 50 hours.

Scientific component of the program. Scientific component educational and scientific program involves the implementation of their own research led by one or two supervisors with the appropriate design received results in the form of a dissertation. This component of the program does not measured by ECTS credits, and issued separately in in the form of an individual plan of scientific work of the postgraduate student and is an integral part of the curriculum.

A feature of the scientific component of educational and scientific preparing programs for doctors of philosophy in the specialty 203 - Horticulture and viticulture are separate components of their own research graduate students will be able to perform during practical classes in disciplines of professional preparation.

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Employment and continuing education

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Employment

Research and teaching activities in the field of horticulture and viticulture.

Administrative and managerial activities in the field of horticulture and viticulture

Positions according to the classifier of professions of Ukraine.

Assistant (2310.2), docent (2310.1), professor (2310.1), director (manager) of a small industrial enterprise (company) (1312), director (head) of the organization (research, design, project) (1210.1), director (head) of a professional educational institution (vocational training establishment, vocational school and etc.) (1210.1), director (chief, other manager) of enterprise (1210.1), director (rector, chief) of higher educational institution (technical school, college, institute, academy, university, etc.) (1210.1), director refresher courses (1210.1), director of the research institute (1210.1), director of the refresher center qualification (1229.4), head (сhief) of the department of colleges (research, design, project, etc.) (1237.2), head of the College Department (1229.4),head of the agricultural  industry(horticulture,viticulture),head of the laboratory (scientific-researchable preparing production) (1237.2), junior research worker (2213.1), research worker (2213.1).

Place of employment. Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, higher educational institutions of horticulture and viticultural direction, research institutes (stations, laboratories), regional management of agriculture, horticulture and viticulture enterprises, colleges.

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Continuation of education

Training for development and self-improvement in scientific and professional fields of activity, as well as other related fields of scientific knowledge:

- training at the 9th (postdoctoral) level of the NQF (National Qualification Framework) Ukraine in agriculture;

- training at the 8th (doctoral) level of the NQF of Ukraine in related fields of scientific knowledge;

- educational programs, research grants and scholarships (including abroad), containing additional educational components.

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Learning style and methods of education

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Approaches to teaching and preparing

The approach to teaching and learning involves:

- introduction of active teaching methods that provide a personality-oriented approach and development of thinking of postgraduate students (applicants);

- close cooperation of postgraduate students (applicants) with their own scientific supervisors;

- support and counseling of postgraduate students (applicants) by researchers of the IH NAAS of Ukraine and sectoral scientific- research institutes, including providing access to modern equipment;

- involvement of postgraduate students (applicants) in counseling ,recognized specialists-practitioners in production and science;

- information support for the participation of postgraduate students (applicants) in competitions for scientific scholarships,awards, grants (including international);

- providing opportunities for postgraduate students (applicants) to take part in the preparation of research projects for competitions of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine;

- direct participation in the implementation of budget and initiative scientific-research works.

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Evaluation System

Educational component of the program. Evaluation knowledge system in the disciplines of educational and scientific program consists of current and final control.

Current knowledge control of graduate students is carried out in oral form (survey on the results of the processed material).

Final control of knowledge in the form of exam / test conducted in writing form, followed by oral interview.

Within the disciplines that provide professional preparation, positive assessments of the current and final controls can be set automatically if postgraduate student prepared and published scientific articles in collections that are part of professional publications and / or publications that included in international scientometric databases. Number articles and their topics are agreed with the supervisor.

Scientific component of the program. Scientific evaluation activities of postgraduate students (applicants) is carried out on the basis of quantitative and qualitative indicators that characterize preparation of scientific papers, participation in conferences, preparation of individual parts of the dissertation in accordance with approved individual plans of scientific work of postgraduate students (applicant). Reports of graduate students (applicants), for the results of the individual plan, annually approved at the meeting of departments and the Academic Council institute with a recommendation to continue (or terminate) postgraduate studies.

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Control form of success in teaching of postgraduate student (applicant)

Educational component of the program. Final control the success of postgraduate study (applicant) is carried out in form:

- exam - based on the results of studying such compulsory disciplines of the educational program, such as philosophy and a foreign language for professional purposes, as well as comprehensive professional exam based on the results of the study disciplines of professional preparing;

- test - based on the results of the study of all others disciplines provided by the curriculum.

Scientific component of the program. The end result of postgraduate (applicant) preparing is appropriate designed, according to the results of scientific research, dissertation manuscript, its public defense and award he received a doctorate in philosophy 203 - Horticulture and viticulture.

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Program competencies

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General (universal) GC

GC 1. Ability to scientific and professional foreign language speech. Ability to use foreign language to present scientific results in oral and written form, to understand foreign languages scientific and professional texts for communication in foreign scientific and professional environments.

GC 2. Ability to fully present the main problems of philosophy at the level of objective, ideological unbiased modern vision.

GC 3. Ability to abstract thinking, analysis and synthesis.

GC 4. Complexity in the use of information and communication technologies.

GC 5. Complexity and systematic approach to conducting research at the doctor's level philosophy.

GC 6. Competence in mastering methods mathematical and algorithmic modeling at analysis of research issues.

GC 7. Ability to search, process and analyze information from various scientific sources. Ability to work with different sources of information, analyze and synthesize it, identify previously unsolved tasks (problems) or parts of them, formulate scientific hypotheses.

GC 8. Complexity in the organization of creative activity and the research process. Ability to organize creative activities and the process of scientific research.

GC 9. Ability to evaluate and ensure high quality of  performed  work.

GC 10. Ability to be critical and self-critical.

Ability to critically perceive and analyze other people's thoughts and ideas, look for own ways to solve the problem, review scientific publications and auto abstracts, and carry out critical analysis of own materials.

GC 11. Ability to generate new scientific – theoretical and practically oriented ideas (creativity).

GC 12. Complexity in the adoption of reasonable decisions.

GC 13. Complexity in development and implementation of research projects and programs. Ability to develop and implement research projects and programs in the fields of horticulture and viticulture.

GC 14. Complexity in pedagogical activity in order to organization and implementation of the educational process, studying ,education, development and preparing of students to a certain type of professionally-oriented activity.

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Professional (special)

PC Complexity in conducting research in the field horticulture and viticulture.

PC 1 Ability to retrospective scientific analysis completion in the direction of research of horticultural and grape agrobiogeocenoses.

PC 2 Complexity in the possession of information on current state and trends in world and domestic development of sciences in horticulture and viticulture.

PC 3 Ability to plan and manage time preparation of dissertation research.

PC 4 Complexity in conducting critical analysis of various information sources, author's methods, specific educational, scientific and professional texts in a field of  horticulture and viticulture.

PC 5 Complexity in detection, staging and solving scientific problems and problems in the field of horticulture and viticulture.

PC 6 Complexity in the structure formation of the dissertation work and rubrication of its content filling.

PC 7 Ability to create new knowledge through original research, the quality of which can be recognized on national and international levels.

PC 8 Complexity in public representation and defense of the results of dissertation research.

PC 9 Ability to engage in critical dialogue.

Ability to participate in scientific discussions at international level, to defend  own position.

PC 10 Ability to entrepreneurship and manifestation initiatives to implement the results of dissertation research.

PC 11 Complexity in the acquisition and understanding of the significant amount of modern scientific- theoretical knowledge in the field horticulture and viticulture.

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Integral competence

Ability to solve the tasks and problems of different level of complexity: scientific, technical and pedagogical nature in the learning process, scientific-research, education activities and production conditions of enterprises in the industry that involves the application of basic theoretical knowledge, developed system of logical thinking, a set of theories and methods of basic and applied sciences.

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Program Learning Outcomes (PLO)

PLO 1 Knowledge and understanding of a foreign language, skills and abilities to use it to present scientific results in oral and written forms, understanding of foreign scientific and professional texts, skills and abilities of communication in foreign scientific and professional environments, the ability to work with researchers from other countries.

PLO 2 Knowledge and understanding of the theory and methodology of systems analysis, knowledge and understanding of the stages of implementation of a systems approach in research processes and phenomena in horticultural and grape agrobiocenoses, skills and abilities to use the methodology of systems analysis in horticulture and viticultural science.

PLO 3 Knowledge and understanding of basic theoretical concepts in the field of information technology and information systems. Knowledge of methods and algorithms of processing large data sets using information technologies. Ability and skills to use modern information and communication technology, apply information technology to processing and analysis of experimental research results and their representation.

PLO 4 Knowledge of basic concepts of mathematical statistics and mathematical methods of modeling. Skills and abilities to apply methods of mathematical processing of experimental data and evaluation of their accuracy and credibility.

PLO 5 Knowledge and understanding of research methods, abilities and skills to use them at the level of a doctor of philosophy.

PLO 6 Ability to work with different sources, to seek, to process, analyze and systematize the received information. Understanding scientific articles in the field of the chosen specialty. Ability to work with modern bibliographic and abstract databases as well scientometric platforms such as Web of Science, Scopus, etc.

Ability to follow the latest achievements in forestry science and find scientific sources relevant to the field of science interests of the postgraduate student (applicant). Knowledge, understanding, skills and abilities of using citation rules and references to used sources, rules of drawing up of the bibliographic list. Knowledge and understanding of the content and the procedure of settlements of  main quantitative scientometric indicators of efficiency of scientific activity (citation index, Hirsch index (h-index), impact factor. Skills and ability to analyze information sources, identify contradictions and not solved problems or parts of it, formulate working hypotheses.

PLO 7 Abilities and skills to organize the creative activity and process of conducting researches

PLO 8 Ability and skills to evaluate and ensure quality of performed works.

PLO 9 Ability and skills critically perceive and analyze other's thoughts and ideas,look for own ways of solving a problem and carry out critical analysis of own materials

PLO 10 Ability to generate own ideas and accept reasonable decisions.

PLO 11 Knowledge, skills and abilities to develop and implement scientific projects and programs in horticulture and viticulture.

PLO 12 Knowledge and understanding of the structure of higher education in Ukraine. Knowledge and the ability to use legislative and regulatory providing higher education. Knowledge of the specifics of scientific and pedagogical activities of a high school teacher. Knowledge and ability to use modern means and technologies of the organization for the implementation of the educational process.

Knowledge and ability to use various aspects of educational work with students and innovative teaching methods.

PLO 13 Ability and skills to organize creative activities, work on scientific articles and reports. Ability and skills to perform appropriate, original and suitable for publication in the field of horticulture and berry growing and related fields of natural sciences. Skills and skills to organize self-verification of dissertation research compliance materials established in order to requirements.

PLO 14 Ability to perform retrospective analysis of scientific achievements in the field of horticulture and viticulture.

PLO 15 Knowledge and understanding of the genesis development of scientific thought in the field of horticulture and viticulture. Skills and abilities to use statistical methods of analysis to identify trends and dynamics processes in horticultural and grape agrobiocenoses

PLO 16 Ability to plan and manage dissertation research preparing time.

PLO 17 Ability and skills to critically analyze various information sources, specific educational, scientific and professional texts in the field of horticulture and viticulture.

PLO 18 Ability to identify and solve scientific problems and problems in the field of horticulture and viticulture. Skills and abilities to formulate the purpose, tasks, object and subject of research.

PLO 19 Ability and skills  to form the structure of the dissertation research and rubrication of its content, as well as to present  own results to colleagues.

PLO 20 Ability to create new knowledge through the original research, the quality of which can be recognized at nationally and international levels. Ability and skills to participate in scientific discussions at the international level, to defend own position at conferences, seminars and forums.

PLO 21 Ability and skills to present and defend results of dissertation research in public, negotiate them and discuss with the scientific and professional community. Skills and abilities to use modern tools for visual presentation of dissertation research results.

PLO 22 Know the conceptual, theoretical and methodological foundations of fruit and berry nurseries.

Be able to apply in practice the technology of horticultural production.

Know the directions of breeding work with fruit, berry and nut breeds.

Know the theoretical and practical adaptability foundations  of new domestic and introduced rootstocks of fruit сrops to soil and climatic conditions of main fruit-growing zones of Ukraine.

Know the mineral nutrition mechanisms of fruit and berry crops, scientific bases of application of fertilizers, herbicides, growth stimulants in rootstock mother plants, nursery and garden

Be able to grow high-quality planting material of fruit crops in open and closed ground conditions.

Know the phyto virological state of fruit plantations and their rootstocks in different regions of Ukraine in order to identify the original forms of varieties and rootstocks to create cuttings and rootstock mother plants of clonal rootstocks.

Development and implementation of biotechnological methods for diagnosing viruses of fruit, berry and nut breeds in the production system of virus-free planting material.

Be able to determine the economic efficiency of creation and productive use of fruit and berry plantations.

Be able to form and cut fruit and bush plantings

Know the influence of abiotic and biotic factors of fruit, berry and nut breeds quality indicators, in particular soil-climatic conditions and agronomic methods of cultivation.

Be able to determine the timing of harvest of fruits and berries and direction of product use by degree of ripeness and organic content substances