1. Vitebsk State Technological University
Professor Dzmitry Ryklin
Head of Department of Textile Technology
Tatsiana Kanashonak
Head of International Affairs Department

2. VSTU LOCATION

3. VSTU HISTORY Vitebsk Technological Institute
of Light Industry was founded in June 24, 1965.
250 students began to study there in 5 specialties.
On April 20, 1995 it was transformed into
Vitebsk State Technological University.

4. EDUCATION
Currently, Vitebsk State Technological University is the leading high school of the Republic of Belarus in the textile industry profile.
But the range of specialties for which the training of specialists is being conducted is substantially expanded and includes not only technological, engineering and economic specialties for textile and garment industry enterprises.
Full-course students are studying at 4 faculties:
Manufacturing Technology Faculty
Information Technologies and Robotics Faculty
Economics and Business Management Faculty
Design Faculty

5. EDUCATION Specialties of Manufacturing Technology Faculty
Textile Manufacturing
Design and Technology of Garments
Leather Articles Technology and Design
Metrology, Standardization and Certification
Merchandising and Commodity Expertise

6. EDUCATION Specialties of Information Technologies and Robotics Faculty
Technological Process Automation and Production
Information Systems and Technologies
Machine Building Technology
3D Technology for Manufacturing
Computer Mechatronics
Energy Equipment Maintenance

7. EDUCATION Specialties of Design Faculty Garment and Fabrics Design
Graphic Design
Interior Design
Industrial Design

8. EDUCATION Specialties of Economics and Business Management Faculty
Economics and Managing at Enterprise
Economic and Production Engineering
Accounting, Analysis and Audit
Marketing
Management
Finance and Credit

9. EDUCATION MASTERS PROGRAMS Economics and Production Organization
(Master of Economics or Master of Science in Engineering) 
Economics and Management of the National Economy
(Master of Economics) 
Technology of Footwear and Leather Goods
(Master of Science in Technology) 
Machinery Manufacturing and Engineering Science
(Master of Sciences in Engineering) 
Technology and Preprocessing of Textiles and Raw Materials (Master of Science in Technology) 
Garments Technology (Master of Science in Technology) 
Social and Economic Systems Management
(Master of Economics and Management) 
Automation and Control of Technological Processes and Production (Master of Science in Engineering)
Machines, Aggregates and Processes of Light Industry
(Master of Science in Engineering)

10. EDUCATION
About 4500 students study at the university on full-time and correspondence courses. Academic personnel includes 263 persons. 16 professors and 120 associate professors lead the teaching and educational process.

11. STUDENT'S LEISURE
Conditions have been created at the University for the development of creative abilities of students.
The University has the amateur talent student club and its own Fashion House.
There are also clubs and hobby groups, sports units on mini-football, ping pong, basketball, swimming, volleyball.

12. INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
At present 205 international students from 11 countries (Egypt, Pakistan, Lithuania, Bangladesh, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, China and Azerbaijan) study at Vitebsk Technological University.
University offers training at the following specialties in English.
The first stage of higher education: "Marketing and management“
(qualification: Manager - Economist).
The second stage of higher education:
"Management in social and economic systems" (Master of Economic Sciences);
"Technology and preprocessing of textiles and raw materials"
(Master of Technical Sciences)
"Automation and control of technological processes and industries"

13. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Staff and students of the University actively participate in carrying out research work.
Among the directions of work carried out in the areas of textile production, are the following:
Technologies of flax processing
Technologies of composite materials manufacturing for different applications
Assortment of textiles on the basis of conductive yarns
Nanotechnology in functional textiles manufacturing
Biotechnology for textiles finishing
Technologies of textile wastes processing
New structures of woven fabrics
Knitted goods for medical application
Revival of ancient weaving techniques (Slutsk belts)
VSTU has 63 operating agreements on cooperation with foreign educational and scientific institutions.

14. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
The University is the founder of the scientific and technological park (Technopark). Technopark of VSTU is a platform for the development of innovative activities of enterprises creating new technologies and high-tech products. The training and production laboratory "Center for Prototyping" with equipment has been set up on the basis of Technopark. It provides services in the field of 3D technologies, engineering and reengineering, manufacturing of polymer products by molding into silicone molds.

15. PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
From 2012 to 2017 years the University staff took part in the implementation of 4 Tempus projects:
Leading and Managing Change in Higher Education (2012 – 2015)
University and Industry for the Modernization of Textile Manufacturing Sector in Belarus (2013 – 2016);
Ecological Education for Belarus, Russia and Ukraine (2013 – 2017)
Interrigeonal Network for Innovation Development of Ecosystem Technosphere Based on Micro- and Nanoobject Technologies (2013 – 2016)

16. Currently, university staff are participating in the Erasmus + project on Capacity Building in Higher Education
"Innovative Education in ICT for Socio-Economic Development” ( ).
Agreements on student and academic mobility are signed with the following universities:
Bialystok University of Technology (Poland)
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Poland)
International University College(Bulgaria)
Piraeus University of Applied Science (Greece)

17. Welcome to cooperation!