The Russian Academy of Sciences is one of the major strategic partners of the University. Research is conducted in constant collaboration with the RAS institutions – VSU has joint research laboratories with 14 research institutes of the RAS.
VSU has partnership agreements with 109 universities and many research and development centres:
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev Joint research projects;
- Belarusian State University Joint research projects;
- Berlin Electron Storage Ring Society for Synchrotron Radiation BESSY II, Berlin (Germany)
Joint research projects, papers, post-graduate school (physics);
- Synchrotron Radiation Centre at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (USA)
Joint research projects, publications, post-graduate school;
- The National Scientific Centre Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology;
- The Institute of Physics (IOP) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
- The Argonne National Laboratory (USA);
- The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA);
- The Laboratory of Nuclear Physics (Grenoble, France);
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (Germany);
- Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany);
- L.V. Pisarzhevskii Institute of physical chemistry of NAS of Ukraine (Kiev);
- G.V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics of the N.A.S. of Ukraine (Kiev);
- The Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine);
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR);
- University P & M Curie Paris VI (Paris, France);
- The University of Nebraska (Lincoln, USA);
- University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, USA);
- University of Palermo (Palermo, Italy);
- Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel);
- Osaka University (Japan);
- FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences (Graz, Austria);
- The Kiev National Economic University, named after Vadym Hetman (Ukraine);
- The Institute of Entrepreneurial Activity (Minsk, Belarus);
- Russian-Tajik Slavonic University;
- The National Centre of Legislation and Legal Research of the Republic of Belarus;
- Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius, Lithuania);
- The University of Keele (Germany) and the Keele University School of Law (Germany);
- German University of Administrative Sciences (Speyer, Germany);
- The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany);
- German Judicial Academy (Wustrau, Germany);
- Mie University (Japan);
- The Mariupol State University (Mariupol, Ukraine);
- Tashkent State University (Tashkent, Uzbekistan);
- Tashkent State Unviersity of Law (Tashkent, Uzbekistan);
- The University named after D.A. Kunaev (Almaty, Kazakhstan);
- The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Among the University's strategic partners are the leading industrial enterprises of the region. The joint projects include 10 research and industrial innovation centres, such as an educational, research and industrial centre of space and rocket technology in collaboration with OAO Chemical Automatics Design Bureau, and an educational, research and industrial centre of radio engineering and electronics jointly with OAO Concern Sozvezdie. Other industrial partners of VSU include OAO Voronezhselmash, OAO Voronezh semiconductor plant OAO "VZPP - S", OAO Vodmashoborudovanie, OAO Efko, etc.
The University's strategic partners also includes the leading universities of the country such as Moscow State University, the National Research University of Electronic Technology, Saint Petersburg State University, and Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod.