The delegation of YKSUG to go to the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students in Sochi

Festival of Youth and Students  will be held from 14 to 22 October and will bring together the most active and energetic representatives of youth from 180 countries.

The start of the large-scale forum will be given by the International Parade of Students on October 14 in Moscow, in which the student of YKSUG Veranika Kazhaneuskaya will take part. The main events will be held in the Olympic Park of Sochi from October 14 to 22. The participants will have a bright opening ceremony with the participation of the festival's producer, composer Igor Krutoy, a rich discussion, cultural, scientific, educational and sports program, involving dozens of interesting events.

The festival will gather the students who take an active part in the social, scientific and cultural life of their countries. Among the participants is a delegation from the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno. It consists of the Deputy Head of the International Cooperation Department of the Education Internationalization Centre Yauheny Shydlouski and students of – activists of student and volunteer movements of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, participants in international and republican scientific forums and conferences, actions, projects and competitions, holders of numerous letters of gratitude from public associations, letters of commendation and awards.

Among them – a 4^th year student of the Faculty of Pedagogy, specialty “Logopedics”, Veranika Kazhaneuskaya – winner of the university competition and the regional stage of the republican contest "Student of the Year - 2016", a diploma of the 2nd stage of the Republican contest "Student of the Year - 2016".

4^th year student of the Faculty of Pedagogy, specialty “Primary Education” Karyna Mlynouskaya – member of the Public Republican Council under the Minister of Education of the Republic of Belarus, participant of the republican contest "Leader of the Year" and a scholarship student of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.

Aliaksandr Lapatneu, 4^th year student of the Faculty of Philology, specialty “Modern Foreing Languages” – president of the Club of International Student Initiatives "SUNet", the initiator of the club's entry into the International Exchange Erasmus Student Network, a permanent volunteer of Summer and Winter Russian Language Schools.

Student of the 2^nd year of the Faculty of Economics and Management, specialty “Finance and Credit”, Alena Yanko – winner of the title of the first Vice-Miss at the national final of the XXVI International intercollegiateuniversity competition of grace and artistic mastery "Queen Spring-2017", Miss-Internet of the Universitet competition of grace and artistic mastery "Miss University-2017". In the 2017-2018 academic year, it was placed on the Honors Board "Pride of the University" for the high results in the academic, scientific, creative, public and sports activities of the university.

Anastasiya Hostik, 4^th year student of the Faculty of Philology, specialty “Modern Foreign Languages” – an active participant in volunteerism at the university and in Belarus: the commander of the volunteer detachment of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, the "Good Heart", a member of the Republican Council of Volunteers at BSYU. A second-degree diploma winner of the university competition "Student of the Year - 2016".

Katsiaryna Harhun, 4^th year student of the Faculty of Philology, specialty “Modern Foreign Languages” – active member of student and volunteer movements, member of the club "Goroden" of "Belarusian Association of UNESCO Clubs", Volunteer of the local section of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, and Belarus ESN-YKSUG of the International Student Exchange Network in the framework of the Erasmus program. Engaged in the theatrical studio of the philological faculty "Theaters" and in the vocal studio of the university "Uni-song".

In 2017 the festival movement celebrates the 70th anniversary of the first ever Festival in Prague in 1947. In 1957, a large-scale forum was held in Moscow, the capital of the USSR under the slogan "For Peace and Friendship" and had a great influence on the further development of culture and art and served as the ancestor of many innovative genres for these times in those areas.

The motto of this festival is "For peace, solidarity and social justice, we are fighting against imperialism - respecting our past, we are building the future!" The organizers of the forum are the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), which has consultative status with UNESCO, and the National Preparatory Committee of Russia.

Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno and American International Campus Private Limited in Sri Lanka will begin joint training of specialists in postgraduate programs

The parties signed the corresponding agreement for a period of five years on October 9.

The agreement provides training for specialists in postgraduate programs at the Yanka Kupala Grodno State University on the basis of the AIC Campus in Colombo. At the end of the graduate school, each specialist will receive a diploma of a researcher of the Republic of Belarus and an opportunity to submit a thesis for defense.

It should be noted that the cooperation of the two institutions of higher education began in 2017. At the end of January, the universities signed an agreement on the training of students for the program of the YKSUG in the territory of Sri Lanka at American International Campus Private Limited. Within the framework of this agreement, in the last academic year, ten students of preparatory courses were trained at the AIC, who were examined in September by the dean of the Faculty of Pre-university Training Yury Ramanousky and Head of the Department of Technologies of Pre-University Education Iryna Karliukova. At the same time, the prospects of training specialists in postgraduate programs at the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno were discussed. The result of this was the current agreement.

It is planned that in the near future representatives of two universities will sign an agreement on training specialists at the first stage of higher education in the specialties "Preschool education" and "Psychology".

Representatives of the Chinese province of Gansu will study Russian at the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

For the first time the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno organizes the School of Russian language for the citizens of the PRC. The employees of the Government, the Corporation for the Development of Highways, Aviation and Tourism, the Department of Health and the Commerce Department of Gansu Province to learn the language for two weeks - from October 13 to 27.

Grodno oblast and Gansu province have a long history of cooperation, which is established in a wide range of sectors: economy, industry, tourism. Active interaction of the regions over the past few years has led to the need for training cadres for the Russian language for more effective cooperation. In September of this year, during the visit to Grodno of a delegation from Gansu province, an agreement was signed to support the organization of training between the Office of External Relations under the Government of the Gansu Province of China and the Economy Committee of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee.

The program of the School includes daily 6-hour interactive classes in the Russian language, many of them will be conducted in the form of business games, with the use of case studies and modern teaching methods. In their free time the participants of the School will visit enterprises of the Grodno region and get acquainted with the economy and culture of the oblast.

It is worth noting that the Yanka Kupala State University has more than 20 years of experience in teaching foreigners to the Russian language. In addition, since 2015 the University has successfully implemented the projects "Summer and Winter Russian Language School", the number of participants and geography of which is growing every year.

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The Gansu Province is located in the north-western part of the People's Republic of China. Its administrative center and the largest city is Lanzhou, whose population is more than 25.5 million people.

For centuries, Gansu was a vital corridor between China and Central Asia: through it passed a nearly 1600-kilometer stretch of the Great Silk Road. The province was considered a "golden segment" of this international tract. Evidence of this are numerous ancient monuments scattered along the entire Silk Road - temples, monasteries, pagodas, towers and ancient castles.

The province is considered a developed economic region of China. Much attention is paid to power engineering, extraction and processing of non-ferrous metals, engineering and petrochemicals.

The first lesson in the Russian language for representatives of the Chinese province of Gansu was held at the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

Representatives of the Chinese province of Gansu will study Russian at the YKSUG during two weeks.

The program includes daily 6-hour interactive classes in the Russian language, many of which will take the form of business games, with the use of case studies and modern teaching methods. The classes will be conducted by the Associate Professor of the Department of Language Training of Belarusian and Foreign Citizens, PhD (Philology) Natallia Muzychenka.

The training project organized by the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee in conjunction with the Yanka Kupala State University and the Office of External Relations of the Gansu Provincial Government is primarily aimed at developing business relations between the Grodno oblast and the Ganshu province.

– I came to Grodno for the second time, – said the employee of the Department of Commerce of Gansu Province Zhang Yaouha. – At the first visit, unfortunately, we did not manage to get acquainted with the city, but this time we were able to walk along Grodno and see the main sights. The project is a good chance for the province of Ganshu and Grodno oblast to establish trade and economic cooperation, as well as to exchange talented specialists, to find new partners.

The project involves not only teaching the Russian language, but also acquaintance of guests with the economy of the Grodno region, including a visit to the Free Economic Zone "Grodnoinvest", as well as enterprises of the Grodno region.