OREANDA-NEWS. ASTARTA initiates cooperation with the National university of food technologies. Management of the company is convinced that increase in production efficiency and improvement in global competitiveness of Group's key business segments: sugar and dairy production, soybean processing and biogas generation can be achieved by the involvement of highly-qualified personnel. It is very important to encourage young specialists to the working process to explore new technologies, organize technological and business-processes.

Key directions of cooperation between the Group and the University include staff training and professional development. Astarta's subsidiaries will implement special internship programs for the best students of the university. Key specialists of the company will initiate special training courses and workshops for the students of the university. This experience gives them an opportunity to discover best global and domestic practices of sugar production, soybean processing and dairy farming. Additionally, ASTARTA invites students and professors of the university to explore modern technological processes of the company.

More than 90 specialists of ASTARTA are among the graduates of the university that contributed to the Company's growth to the leading Ukrainian agricultural producer in 22 years of its operations.

National university of food technologies is one of the oldest and most powerful educational complex which trains highly qualified specialists for food industry of Ukraine. Recently it celebrated its 130-th anniversary. Remarkably, University's original specialization was sugar production.