The project "Health Marathon" has started at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (PHOTO REPORT)

The first event of the project was held on September 13,2016 at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno. The most active students, teachers and staff of our alma mater took part in sports competitions.

Vice-Rector for Educational Affairs has opened the marathon. Vasily Senko noted that YKSUG pays close attention to the development of sport and making priority of a healthy lifestyle. He also wished the participants of the marathon health, maintenance, gambling and fighting, good results, bright emotions and good impression.

The Chairman of the coordination student Council, the 3rd -year student of the faculty of Education, Jana Milyuk, adressed parting words to the participants.

Then the first competition has been started at University stadium. The participants competed in four kinds of sport: relay racing, kettlebell lifting, artistic cycling and playing mini-football.

Best in the mixed relay race 4x400 m were 3rd-year students of the Faculty of Physical culture: Alexander Khilmanovich, Alexey Senko, Andrey Ljubovic and Ian Sloma. The second and the third place also were taken by t students of Faculty of Physical culture, and the fourth place were taken by representatives of the Faculty of Law.

The competition in kettlebell lifting was held in three weight categories. The winners were 1 st-year student of the military faculty Andrey Yushchenko (weight category 75 kg), 1 st-year student of the Faculty of Physical culture Zahar Dmitrichenko (up to 90 kg) and 2nd -year student of the Faculty of Physical culture Arthur Veko (over 90 kg).

In the competition of artistic cycling the winners have been identified both among boys and among girls. They were 5th-year  student of the Military Faculty, Dmitry Tarasov, and the 3rd -year student of  the Faculty of Physical culture, Violetta Chuikova.

There were three teams in the game on mini-football. The best in the competition was the team of men students of the University called "Student club". Second place went to the team "Teachers of University" and the third went to the team called "Swallows of YKSUG , which consists of women students.

The competition ended with rewarding of winners and prize winners.

The next event of "Health Marathon" will be held in the City Day, on September 17. A score of representatives of our alma mater will take part in the orienteering, the "First start".

The project ""Health Marathon"" will last for five years and will end in 2020. During this period Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno is planning a number of events. Sporting competition, Sportlandia, walking tours and bike rides, trainings and master-classes, charity events, concerts and flash mobs are among them.

The project designed to develop sustainable values among students for promoting the ideas of healthy lifestyle and health care as an resource of  well-being and success.

Students and teachers of the Faculty of Philology met with the German writer Anna Kushnarova

The meeting organized by Goethe Institute together with Grodno regional library named after E.F. Karsky was held on September 9, 2016 in the children’s branch of the library.

Participants of the event were students of the first and the second courses of the Faculty of Philology, YKSUG, Associate Professor of department of Romance and Germanic Philology Svetlana Maslennikova and Senior Lecturer of department of Romance and Germanic Philology, lecturer DAAD Maximilian Dener.

During the meeting, the writer (Anna Kushnarova) told some about herself and more focused on her books – "Djihade Paradise" ("Paradise on the road to Allah") and "Junkgirl" ("Heroine"). Guest red out some of the most interesting passages and urged students to read her works entirely. Moreover, the writer raised one of the most pressing issues of our time - terrorism, and noted that many tragic events have served as a motive for writing some of her books.

During the event, students asked the guest questions in the native language of the writer, and at the end of the meeting, took pictures and got Anna Kushnerova’s autographs.

All the news of the Faculty of Philology can be found here.

Students from Jilin University (China) are going to improve their knowledge of Russian language for the next year at YKSUG.

Eight 3rd-year students from Jilin University arrived at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno within international cooperation agreement.

New listeners of the foreign citizens department of Pre-university Training Faculty during the next year will study Russian language and special philological disciplines within the curriculum for the citizens of China. One-year study of Chinese philological students at YKSUG has become a tradition already: students from China have come to the Preparatory Department for foreign citizens for the third time.

Employees of the Science Library of YKSUG obtained experience of information service at libraries of Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland.

Employees of the Science Library of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno have finished a two-weeks training at Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland. It has been organized in the context of international technical assistance “Library Network Support Services: modernising libraries in Armenia, Moldova and Belarus through library staff development and reforming libraries” by Erasmus+ programme.

During the training employees of the Science Library of YKSUG considered a number of issues, such as introduction into the marketing for librarians, management fundamentals for library staff, information competence and searching skills, innovation online services for the 21st century librarians, availability of the libraries and public services for the disabled students, development strategy of the library fund and English for particular purposes.

“We had run a SWOT-analysis of the Science Library of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno and presented the results of it. Together with our colleagues from libraries of higher education institutions of the Republic of Belarus, also participating in this project, we had presented marketing strategy for organizing National Day of Library Literacy in the Republic of Belarus”, told the employees of Science Library of our alma mater.

During the visit to Limerick, the representatives of the YKSUG met the experience of information service at libraries of the Limerick Institute of Technology and Limerick University. It’s worth mentioning, that libraries of the higher education institutions in Limerick use RFID systems for automatizing book issuing/return, RFID reader cards, RFID gates.

The training resulted in distributing modules for the further development of study programs. Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno was given a task to develop e-libraries.