The Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy (the Academy) has a strategy of long-term cooperation with partners from the business and academia. The Academy takes all the necessary measures to ensure that its graduates have the required knowledge and skills in variety of engineering, managerial and maritime areas, and will also be able to implement their skills in the work place. This is the trade-mark of the Academy, and its entire academic and administrative staff is strongly devoted to it.

Our partners are selected on the basis of common professional fields (of maritime business, education and management), and the abilities to establish mutual fruitful cooperation based on mutual trust and transparency of activities and quality, as well as common goals in academic and business proficiency.

Most of our partners are from the European region, following the strong support of EU in the inter-institutional cooperation at a European level. In addition to that, the Academy is a member of the International Association of Maritime Universities, which includes maritime universities and academies from around the world. This allows us to have close contacts with partners in Asia, USA, Canada, Australia and the Middle East. The Black Sea region is also a focal point for us, having in mind our geographical location.

Our mobility activities are aimed at students during their time of studies, as well as at academic staff in either stage of career development. Most of the students who take advantage of those practices are ones in their bachelor studies, although there are also Master students. The Academy is active in developing modern curricula in highly attractive areas, keeping active industry and academic links and timely informing students of the possibilities to diversity their studies and to visit other academic institutions abroad.

The participation in the ERASMUS+ program has a strong impact on the quality of education and professional competence at the Academy. Through these programmes, our students are in the position to go ahead, acquire valuable experience in their area of studies, and eventually ensure their career development after graduation. Lectures are in the position to exchange good practices in the area of teaching, improve their abilities to work in an inter–cultural environment, improve their language proficiency and meet other academics from their research area.