Core aspects of the department’s work are international cooperation development, students’ world-class preparation for professional activity. This international activity is aimed to ensure the integration into the international university community. Particular attention is paid to the experience of other foreign leading Universities in major subjects and electives; involving foreign specialists, native speakers, embassy, international funds and organizations employees in foreign language teaching.
Since 2011, department is actively engaged in the international project of EU and UN Development Programme «Local community-oriented development». Annual Ukrainian competition of student research papers concerning problems of local communities’ development is organized within the framework of the project as well as internship and scientific conferences.
In the international relations development context, considerable attention is paid to the organization of common international conferences, round tables and joint research.
For the implementation of student exchange program Department of Political Science and International Relations has established cooperation with foreign leading educational and scientific institutions, specializing in the training of international relations students, particularly, with Vilnius University, The East European State Higher School in Przemyśl (Poland) and others.