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The IV Open contest of students' start-up projects "InNaStart" is declared in Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

Everyone who has ideas for innovative start-up projects in various industries and spheres of activity is invited to participate.
The competition is held to support innovative business ideas of students and encourage young people to create innovations and offer original products, technologies, goods and services.
The competition "InNaStart" this year will be held in four stages. The first stage-preparatory training-will begin today, April 6, and will last until May 18. The arrangers will tell participants how to develop a project idea and business model of the project, select a team, present the work, as well as the topics of training will be project financing, marketing and possible risks.
During the second stage, participants will have to register their projects on the competition's web page until May 11.
During the third stage the jury will evaluate the registered projects for participation in the final stage of the competition. The project's innovation, relevance and importance, feasibility in practice and availability of a sound business model will be taken into account.
"InNaStart" will end with "the Start-up battle". Finalists will present their projects, participate in master classes, and consult with expert entrepreneurs.
The contest jury will select the best student projects in four categories according to priority directions of scientific researches and scientific-technical activity in the Republic of Belarus: "The Best start-up – TECHNOLOGY", "The best start-up project – PRODUCT", "The best start-up project – SERVICE", "The best start-up project-SOCIAL INNOVATION".
The winners and prize-winners of the IV Open competition of student start-up projects "InNaStart" will receive prizes, a certificate for free consulting in the Science and Technology Park of Yanka Kupala State University, and the opportunity to use its infrastructure and services.
Also, according to the organizers, the competition results can determine the best project for the Grand Prix in the form of a grant to create a start-up-resident of the Science and Technology Park with the volume and sources of funding determined on the basis of a reasonable business plan in accordance with the established procedure.
Additional information about the competition: +375 152 742975, +375 29 5873429 (Opekun Elena Vladimirovna).

"The Great Patriotic War in the lives of employees of  Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno": Irina Bogdanova

Irina Nikolaevna Bogdanova was born in 1912 in Poltava province. In 1940, she graduated from high school. Then Irina Bogdanova was sent to teacher training courses in Western Ukraine. Before the war, she worked as a primary school teacher in Vyshkov village in Vygotsky district of Stanislavsky region.
After the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Irina Nikolaevna Bogdanova was evacuated to Elista, The Kalmyk ASSR, worked as the head of the library at Kalmyk Pedagogical Institute. From may 1942 to 1945, she was conscripted into the Soviet Navy. She worked as a librarian at the Grodno pedagogical Institute until 1947.

From the book "The Great Patriotic War in the lives of employees of Yanka Kupala State University", author-compiler - Andrey Getsevich.

"The Great Patriotic War in the lives of employees of  Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno": Nikifor Bespamyatnikh

Nikifor Dmitrievich Bespamyatnykh was born on April 23, 1910 in Sarafanovo village, Irbitsky uyezd, Perm province. He studied at the Urals, first in Pokrovsk school, and then in Alapaevsk high school. At the same time, he worked at a metallurgical plant.
In 1933, Nikifor Bespamyatnykh graduated from Perm University and there became PhD student at the Department of mathematics. In 1936-1937, he taught at Blagoveshchensk Agricultural and Pedagogical Institute, and from 1938 to 1941- at Belarusian Polytechnic Institute.
During the Great Patriotic War, Nikifor Dmitrievich Bespamyatnykh participated in the battles for the liberation of Belarus, Poland, and fought in East Prussia. Awarded the medal "For military merit" (1945), the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class (1985).
After demobilization, Nikifor Bespamyatnykh was sent by the Ministry of Education of Belarus to Grodno Pedagogical Institute. Since 1945, he worked as a senior teacher of the Department of geometry and methods of teaching mathematics, the head of the Department of elementary mathematics. Nikifor Dmitrievich Bespamyatnykh - PhD in Education, author of more than 90 scientific and methodological works.
From the book "The Great Patriotic War in the lives of employees of Yanka Kupala State University", author-compiler - Andrey Getsevich.

"The Great Patriotic War in the lives of employees of  Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno": Sergey Berkner

Sergey Samuilovich Berkner was born on May 16, 1923 in Bialystok. In 1942 he joined the underground anti-fascist organization in the Bialystok ghetto. In 1943, he joined the partisan group "Forward", was a spy for the staff of the Konstanty Kalinowski brigade. Sergey Berkner awarded the Order of Patriotic War 2nd class (1985), medals "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st class, "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945".
Since 1945, Sergey Samuilovich Berkner worked as a fitter at Grodno Pedagogical Institute. In 1949, he graduated from the English Department of the faculty of foreign languages of our University, and since 1951 worked as a teacher of the Department of English in Ulyanovsk. Since 1962, Sergey Berkner has been a Professor at the Department of English at Voronezh State Pedagogical University. Doctor of Philology, Professor, Sergey Berkner wrote a memoir-historical book "The Life and struggle of the Bialystok ghetto".
From the memoirs:
"At my father's insistence, I was smuggled over the ghetto fence to a partisan unit in the forest. Other prisoners saw this as madness and a deadly risk. Many then believed that somehow they would survive the ghetto, that the Germans sent people from here not to the furnaces, but "to work".
But my father already saw how it would end soon. So he didn't just give me life once-he gave me fate. The partisan resistance itself was a chance to survive. I survived. I met my future wife in the group. And my father died in a concentration camp, where all the inhabitants of the ghetto – children, old men, and women-were taken from the Bialystok freight station. But first he and other underground workers started an uprising in the ghetto. It was an act of dignified death. By the way, they were secretly helped by some of the Germans. We had a friend, the German social Democrat and anti-fascist Arthur Villa Sade. In Bialystok he was officially in charge of the textile mill. Before I left the ghetto for the partisans, I met with Sade. He gave me a Belgian carbine. Already being in the partisans, I appreciated the gift-we had weapons worth their weight in gold.
Before joining the Red Army, more than half of the detachment died. The rest lived in dugouts. Food for themselves was obtained in the villages or captured the German wagon train. Mainly engaged in sabotage in the German rear and helped Soviet prisoners of war.
Not far from our deployment was a small camp for Soviet prisoners of war. We killed the German guards and released 50 people. Exactly half of them went to us as partisans."
From the book "The Great Patriotic War in the lives of employees of Yanka Kupala State University", author-compiler - Andrey Getsevich.

Yanka Kupala State University published a publication about the fate of University employees during the Great Patriotic War

Andrey Gecevich, a PhD in History, Associate Professor is the author of the book, which is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Yanka Kupala State University and the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory.
As the author of the book "The Great Patriotic War in the lives of employees of Yanka Kupala State University" noted, the preparation of the anniversary edition is a tribute to the people who defended the independence of their native land 75 years ago. The book contains memoirs of employees and documentary evidence of participants in the war, who in peacetime were rectors, deans of faculties, heads of departments, teachers, employees of departments, library, economic divisions of the University, commandants of dormitories.
One publication contains information about more than 90 University employees who passed the hardships of the war years. They fought on the main fronts of the Patriotic War, partisanized, saved lives in the besieged Leningrad, and also took part in the war with Japan, Finland. Some lived in territories temporarily occupied by the enemy and joined the Кed Army during the last period of the war. There are also young prisoners of German concentration camps among the heroes of the book, who went through hard trials at a young age, found the strength for creative work in peacetime, became teachers and worked for many years in Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.
The author has done a lot of work with documentary sources. The book includes autobiographical data, information from award documents, as well as preserved memories of not only the characters themselves, but also their close relatives, colleagues, students, and coworkers. The anniversary scientific publication is addressed to a wide range of readers, first of all, pupils and students, all who are interested in the history of their native country and Yanka Kupala State University.
We plan to tell about the fate of employees of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno during the Great Patriotic War every day on the University's website. As part of a special section dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory, publications about the heroes of the book by Andrey Gecevich "the Great Patriotic War in the lives of employees of Yanka Kupala State University" will regularly appear.

Teachers of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno are actively mastering distance learning technologies

A program of professional development of teachers “University of Educational Innovations: Distance Learning Technologies” was launched at Kupala University.

The program of full-time distance courses includes classes during which teachers and faculty specialists will be shown successful and promising methods of distance learning, as well as projects for creating and using distance courses.
According to the head of the Educational and Methodological Department of the Yanka Kupala State University Marina Kolotsei, distance education technologies have become firmly established in the educational practice of preparing students in most of the University's specialties. Elements of the distance learning model have been most successfully tested by University teachers in mixed and heuristic learning. Very often, classes begin in the classroom and continue in a network form, or, conversely, the interaction of teachers and students begins in a virtual space and flows smoothly into live communication at lectures and practical classes. Classical forms of the educational process are flexibly transformed, modified, become more practice-oriented and in demand by students.
In the classroom, students learn and test options for organizing and conducting online lectures, ways to create interactive learning elements in the Moodle system, get acquainted with the author's methodology for organizing distance learning activities of students using Google services, get practical experience in creating interactive video tasks, learn to use the case method in working with students in remote form, master the technology of conducting heuristic Internet classes, develop sets of computer tests.
During the course, students will act as both teachers and students. Teachers will work on two different platforms — the teacher's and the student's. The new methodological technique will help students not only master their own digital space, but also evaluate the possibilities of students' digital space.
The course program is designed for eight classes, which will be held in March-April 2020 in organizational form. The result of the students' work will be electronic interactive educational and methodological complexes for students.
Among the moderators of the courses are Marina Kolotsey, head of the Educational and Methodical Department, Anatoly Bogdevich, head of the Educational Department at EMM, Svetlana Gonchar, head of the Foreign Languages Department, Lee Jeong-gu, head of the International Business and Marketing Department, Oleg Kolyago, head of the Educational Innovations laboratory, and director of the Grodno State Educational Institution “Lyceum No. 1”, Igor Maslov.

The Ministry of Education of Belarus has set the lower threshold of marks for CT-2020

The Ministry of Education has determined marks that are considered unsatisfactory based on the results of centralized testing, which is stipulated by the Ministry’s resolution No. 16 of March 3, 2020, published on the National Legal Internet Portal.

For Belarusian or Russian languages marks from 0 to 9 points (inclusive) will be considered unsatisfactory, for Philology specialties — from 0 to 24.
For the first subject of the profile test – mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology – marks from 0 to 19 points are equated to unsatisfactory (inclusive). The lower threshold value of marks in the history of Belarus, world history (recent times), social studies, geography, foreign languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese) is set at a level from 0 to 24 points (inclusive).
With regard to the second subject of a profile test, in mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology marks from 0 to 9 points (inclusive) will be considered unsatisfactory, in the history of Belarus, world history (modern times), geography, foreign languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese) — from 0 to 14 points (inclusive).
At the same time, marks from 0 to 6 points will be considered unsatisfactory when enrolling in security universities subordinate to the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Emergencies and the State Border Committee. Also, these thresholds will affect military faculties, specialties “production, storage and processing of crop products”, “livestock, fish farming, beekeeping”, “rural construction and land improvement”, “land reclamation and water management”, “agricultural engineering”. Also, these subjects include Belarusian or Russian languages, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, history of Belarus, world history (modern times), social studies, geography, foreign languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese). The lower threshold value of marks was the same for CT-2019.
According to BelTA

The winners of the Olympiad in the field of Logistics were awarded at the Yanka Kupala State University on March 18

The Olympiad was held in a remote format on the basis of the Department of Logistics and Management Methods. Its participants were students and graduates of institutions of secondary specialized and vocational education in Belarus.

Representatives of the Minsk College of Entrepreneurship, the Vitebsk State Industrial and Technological College, the Grodno College of Economics and Management, the Stolin State Agrarian and Economic College, and the Brest College, a branch of the Belarusian State University of Transport, tried their hand at intellectual competition.
The Olympiad was held in a remote format using information and communication technologies. The jury estimated not only theoretical knowledge in the field of logistics, but also the ability to put it into practice. To do this, at the first stage the participants had to pass a test, and at the second they had to solve problems arising in the practical activities of a logistician. The students carried out the tasks that required knowledge of logistics and economic terms and concepts, understanding of the basic laws of material flow and economic development of society, skills in analytical interpretation of information related to the movement of material flow, the ability to explain and justify their own point of view.
According to the number of points scored, the first place was shared by students of the Vitebsk State Industrial and Technological College Diana Bychenok and the Minsk College of Entrepreneurship Marina Demidenko. Ksenia Sadovnichaya from the Grodno College of Economics and Management and Anna Tereshko from the Minsk College of Entrepreneurship took the second place. The third place was taken by Alexandra Dashkevich, Kristina Comedko and Maria Babich from the Stolin State Agrarian and Economic College.
According to the organizers, the participants of the Olympiad showed a high level of theoretical knowledge and practical skills. The winners and prize-winners of the Olympiad were awarded diplomas and valuable gifts, each student received a certificate of participation.

Our health is in our hands

Dear Kupalovtsy! Pay more attention to your health and the health of others.

Nowadays, a healthy lifestyle is not only a fashionable trend, but also the need to protect yourself and resist the disease during the spread of seasonal colds. To do this, you need to follow simple rules: it is important to engage in physical education and play sports, harden your body, do exercises, get enough sleep, eat enough high-quality food, and to include vitamins, fresh fruits and vegetables in the diet. A mandatory recommendation is to follow the rules of personal hygiene: cover your mouth and nose with a handkerchief when sneezing and coughing, use detergents and water to treat surfaces and household items that are often touched, regularly wash your hands with soap for 20 seconds, avoid touching your eyes, nose, mouth with unwashed hands. For prevention purposes, you should limit close contacts with other people, drink more liquids and constantly ventilate the premises.
Please note that Kupala University has adopted a set of measures aimed to protect and maintain the health of employees and students: unauthorized persons are restricted from visiting the university’s dormitories and educational buildings, dispensers with antiseptic agents are installed in public places, and sports and cultural events have been postponed to a later date.
Temporary changes were made to the schedule of the educational process. Lectures for groups of more than 50 people are conducted using distance learning technologies or are postponed to a later period. The university’s digital services allow remote interaction between teachers and students. When organizing the educational process, controled independent work is used as much as possible.
From Monday, March 23, the start time of classes at the university will be changed: students will start classes at 10:05.
We bring to your attention the video of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus, which tells how to protect yourself and your loved ones.
Specialists of the Yanka Kupala State University health center are ready to answer your questions regarding the prevention of viral infections and the provision of medical care. You can call the health center by phone 48-70-06 from Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 19:00. Information on the provision of medical care at any time of the day can be obtained from the specialists of the Grodno Regional Infectious Diseases Hospital by phone number 43-52-09.

Yanka Kupala State University has completed the advanced training courses for teachers “University of educational innovations: project method of final certification”

From January to March, course participants studied various aspects of the project method of final certification.
In the format of an open dialogue, the participants and organizers of the courses summed up the results of their work. The final event was attended by Vice-rector for academic affairs Gennady Gachko, head of the educational department of the educational- methodological management Anatoly Bogdevich, as well as course moderators.
It is worth noting that during the training, teachers have mastered five training modules. As part of the event, the moderators presented the most effective examples and suggested effective solutions implemented during the final certification at individual faculties of the university. According to the organizers, this allowed to form a holistic view of the essence and ways of organizing project activities in the educational process and during the final certification of graduates.
According to the audience, each of the modules was useful, interesting, and valuable in its content. In reflection, teachers note: “the courses showed the need to use popular technologies of final certification, convenient and interesting for students”, “the proposed methods and forms really work and everything depends on us, on our initiative and enthusiasm”, “society should always rely on people with advanced thinking to achieve full success and significant results”.
The courses were moderated by Daria Shpak, head of the educational and methodological department for quality management of education, Galina Yukhnevich, head of the department of ecology, Oleg Kolyago, head of the laboratory of educational innovations in educational- methodological management, Elena Razova, Associate Professor of the department of system programming and computer security, Li Chong Ku, head of the department of international business and marketing, Igor Maslov, principal of the Lyceum No. 1 in Grodno.
A total of 15 persons, including 2 heads of departments, have improved their qualifications during the course. Participants of the courses work in 10 faculties and 13 departments of the Yanka Kupala State University.
The courses will continue in March 2020. The teachers of three faculties have already initiated the development of distance learning technologies.