12.03.2016 Offsite meeting of Commission on International Affairs of the NovSU Academic Council
The offsite meeting of Commission on International Affairs of the University Academic Council took place in the conference hall of the School of Humanities on March 10.
The meeting began with a PhD diploma delivery
ceremony to associate professor of the Department of Bilingual Education
Ekaterina Egorova, who defended her Doctoral thesis at the University of
Hildesheim (Germany). Afterwards members of the commission listened to and
discussed the following reports:
Director of the School
of Humanities, Dr. Elena Toropova reported about international activity of the School in 2015 and creation
of the School’s International Affairs Centre. As Elena Toropova pointed out, international
activity of the School was very saturated and productive in 2015:
- A
meeting of Deputy Consul General of Germany (St. Petersburg) Katrin Werdermann
with faculty and students of the University and visit of professors Patrick
Bruno and Ivan Blo (France) took place in March.
- In
April, Professor Christoph Ehmann visited the School of Humanities; students of
the Philology Faculty took part in a two-week Russian-German workshop.
- Visit
of Executive Director of the Center for International Development in Ball
State University (Indiana, USA) Kenneth
M. Holland and internship
of associate professor of the Historical Faculty in St. Cyril and St. Methodius
University of Veliko Turnovo (Bulgaria) Anka Todorova Ignatova were held in
May.
- In
June, faculty and students of the School of Humanities of NovSU took part in organization
and holding Russian-German Forum “To Save the Old Bridges and Build New Ones”.
- In
September Ms. Brungild Hilf (the Board of Trustees Chairman from Bielefeld)
held a workshop “Partnership of Cities: Past, Present, Future” for students of
the Philology Faculty. Besides, a joint research workshop of students from the Historical
Faculty of NovSU and students from the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the
University of Latvia was held in the Center of Creative Intelligentsia named
after Vladimir Soroka. A meeting of students of the School of Humanities with
students of Rudolf Rempel Business School (Bielefeld, Germany).
- Internship
of 15 students and teachers from Opole (Poland) at the Department of Russian
History and Archival Science within the Student Exchange Program and also
internship of 11 students of School of Humanities of NovSU in University of
Opole. Click the link for chronicle of the visit http://opolenowogrod2015.blogspot.ru/.
- In
October, four students on the official NovSU delegation payed a visit to Vitebsk
State University, named after P.M. Masherov. Consul of Consulate General of
Sweden in St. Petersburg Louise Morsing met up with professors and officials of
the School of Humanities, and with students of Philology Faculty, who study
Swedish.
Summarizing her report Elena Toropova told
about prospects for cooperation with Korean Chonnam National University.
Dr. Elena Toropova
Dr. Irina Ushanova ( the Head of International
Academic Programs at Office for International Affairs) reported about work of International
Academic Programs Department in 2015/2016:
- Organization
of academic exchange programs;
- Participation
in creating and realization of networking projects on cooperation with international
partner-universities (including Dual-Diploma program);
- Informing
divisions about opportunities for participating in international academic
exchange programs financed by Russian and international programs and funds;
- Organization
and preparation work of academic exchange within “Dual-Diploma” program;
- Organization
and holding a joint workshop with professor of The University of Hildesheim;
- Preparing
requests to DAAD and ERASMUS+ for taking part in international projects.
Dr. Irina Ushanova
Dr. Natalya
Ilyashenko (the
Head of Information and Analysis Section at Office for International Affairs) told
about creating a joint online interdisciplinary course “Cross-cultural Behavior
of Leaders of Heterogenic Organizations” (NovSU, Appalachian State University
in the USA, and Institute of Information Technologies of Islamabad in Pakistan).
Find more information about this international project in February news
Dr. Natalya Ilyashenko
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