Head of the Department
Larysa Sharan
Candidate of Engineering Sciences, Associate Professor
(created in 2007)
The department of hotel and restaurant business is a member of the Association of Culinary Workers of Ukraine, the academic stuff is the member of the Association of the Hospitality Industry of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Restaurant Association.
The department trains bachelors and masters according to the educational programs of specialty 241 "Hotel and restaurant business", the partners of which are leading domestic and international enterprises of the hotel and restaurant business.
Modern pedagogical technologies and training methods make it possible to prepare highly qualified and competitive specialists on the national and international labor markets who are able to quickly adapt to dynamic changes in the hospitality industry and are ready for challenges of modernity
Training in specialty 241 “Hotel and restaurant business” is a thorough theoretical preparation with an enhanced practical component; on-site classes in the best hotels and restaurants in Kyiv; competitions to demonstrate professional potential, creative search and motivation for development; intensive study of a foreign language to develop professional linguistic and communicative competence, as well as the opportunity to choose the second one (English, French, German); the opportunity to combine training with internships at top enterprises in the hospitality industry.
The educational process takes place in innovatively equipped classrooms: at a laboratory for the organization of restaurant services (a laboratory-restaurant), a laboratory for the technology of restaurant products, at a theoretical foundations of the technology of restaurant products laboratory, a bar business lab, a mini-brewery, similar to which is not found in any of the institutions of higher education in Kiev and Ukraine, computer classes with modern software products for hotel and restaurant business management.
Practical training is organized in the best hotel and restaurant enterprises of the capital and other cities of Ukraine, in particular, "Hilton Kyiv", "InterContinental", "President Hotel", "Hyatt Regency Kyiv", "Fairmont Grand Hotel Kyiv", "Holiday Inn Kyiv", "Reikartz Hotel Group", "Opera", "Ramada Encore Kyiv". Since 2018, practical training of bachelor's degree students has been carried out on the basis of Bulgarian hotels and restaurants.
The department actively interacts with stakeholders of the hotel and restaurant industry, organizing lectures, master classes, meetings for networking and career coaching from practicing professionals, business representatives, experts and scientists, opinion leaders and our successful graduates.
During the educational process, the cognitive activity of higher education students is encouraged and stimulated by participation in international and all-Ukrainian competitions, olympiads, scientific and practical conferences and forums dedicated to the development of the hospitality industry.
Students have the opportunity to work in scientific groups to solve current problems in the development of innovative technologies for hotel and restaurant enterprises.
The department is actively working on expanding opportunities for international academic mobility of the educational process participants. Scientific and pedagogical staff were trained in higher education institutions in Switzerland, Poland, and Bulgaria. In March 2020, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the Swiss Education Group (SEG), Switzerland. Bachelor's studies have been started in English, which allows students to obtain a modern European level education for professional activities both in Ukraine and abroad.
The scientific and teaching staff of the department focuses on new teaching methods and expands connections with hotel and restaurant business enterprises that can provide a practical orientation of education, creating conditions for the professional, creative and personal growth of students.
