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A training seminar for students on the project "Preservation of the ethnocultural heritage and the development of tourism in the historical region of traditional beekeeping" ENI-LLB-2-359

On 13 April, 2021, the training seminar for students on the project " Preservation of the ethnocultural heritage and the development of tourism in the historical region of traditional beekeeping" ENI -LLB-2-359 was held on the basis of the Faculty of Biology and Ecology at the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno. The seminar was attended by employees and students of the Faculty of Biology and Ecology, the Faculty of History, Communication and Tourism, the Faculty of Law and project partners – employees of the State environmental institution "Republican landscape reserve "Ozery".

New courses were designed and modernized at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno within the project “Modernisation of Master Curriculum in ICT for Enhancing Student Employability” (MaCICT)

1. Design of Experiment course
2. Enterprise Informatization Systems course
3. Database Design and Maintenance course
4. Information Architecture and Interface Prototyping course
5. Strategy and Management of IT Projects and Systems course
6. Rhetoric and Academic Writing course
7. Commercialization of Research Results course
8. Intercultural, business and personal communications course
9. IT Career Management course
10. Business Presentation Technologies course
ness and Management course

More information about the new courses designed by our partners within this project may be found via the link: http://macict.eu/index.php/en/courses

The first Infoday in this year was held at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno within the project “Modernisation of Master Curriculum in ICT for Enhancing Student Employability” (MaCICT)

On the Infoday the representatives of the project’s work group informed and updated 26 students and 7 teachers on the current state of the MaCICT-project, its benefits and impact on the future.

As part of dissemination, the MaCICT-project’s partners created leaflets about the project and work results. New leaflets created by YKSUG were presented to the invited students and teachers on the Infoday.

They may be found via the link: https://www.grsu.by/images/Documents/28079_1.pdf

MACICT special edition: The brightest events of the second year of implementation

«Our project has reached the last year and this is a good time to see the results. MACICT partners in Belarus have developed unique Master's Courses in IT that optimally prepare students for a career in this sector. Learning-by-Doing is an important part of the modernized courses. In this way we have implemented several international projects in which students have developed different software. With MACICT, we have prepared the perfect springboard for students to pursue successful careers after graduation. Becoming a Master with MACICT is worth it!», said Prof. Dr. Juho Mäkiö, project coordinator.

More information about the MACICT outcomes and outputs of the second year of implementation may be found via the link:
https://www.grsu.by/images/Documents/27347_1.pdf

A seminar was held at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics to disseminate the experience of participation and the results of the MACICT project

The information about MACICT current state and future work may be found via the link: https://www.grsu.by/images/Documents/28101_0.pdf
The information about development of the course «Design of Experiment» may be found via the link: https://www.grsu.by/images/Documents/28101_1.pdf

Students of the YKSUG and BrSTU united in the DIATOM team and took part in the course "Industrial Software Engineering" driven by our partner, IT-University of Copenhagen

DIATOM worked on The Seed project which is a digital tool that enables more efficient integration of refugees in the Danish labor market.

The team’s goal was to create a Job Center Dashboard to allow job center employees register newly unemployed people and follow their journey on their way of finding a job.
The team applied Scrum and practiced many modern technologies (NodeJS, ReactJS, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes).

MACICT project’s team at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno shared the experience of modernizing the master's curriculum in IT majors during a national online seminar, conducted by the National Erasmus+ Office

In order to widely disseminate and implement the results of international projects, as well as European teaching and learning practices in higher education institutions, the National Erasmus+ Office in Belarus conducted a national online seminar.

During the seminar, the YKSUG team shared the experience of modernizing the master's curriculum in IT majors, which was obtained during the implementation of the MaCICT project.

Lada Rudikova gave a presentation «Experience in modernizing master's curricula in IT majors»
Link to presentation (RU): https://www.facebook.com/ERASMUSBELARUS/posts/133588591704888?__tn__=K-R

Kick-off Meeting of the Project “Modernisation of master programmes for future judges, prosecutors, investigators with respect to European standard on human rights” (CRIMHUM) within ERASMUS+

Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz hospitably hosted the Kick-Off Meeting and Initial Conference of the CRIMHUM-project from 28 April to 2 May 2019.
This event was attended by representatives of the partner organizations: the University of Graz (project coordinator / Austria), the University of Potsdam (Germany), Aix-Marseille Université (France), the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka (Croatia), Vilnius University (Lithuania), Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus), Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (Belarus), Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko (Ukraine), Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Kharkiv, Ukraine), National University “Odesa Law Academy” (Ukraine), Belarusian Republican Union of Lawyers (NGO, Belarus).
The events were chaired by the project coordinator Professor Gabriele Schmölzer and the project managers Professor Thomas Krüssmann and Associate Professor Vadzim Samaryn.
During the Kick-off Meeting, the project and the participants were welcomed by the Vice-Rector for Studies and Teaching, Prof. Dr. Martin Polaschek and by the Dean of the Law Faculty, Prof. Dr. Johannes Zollner. The participants were greeted by H.E. Oleksandr Scherba, Ambassador of Ukraine to Austria, Mag. Andrei Yaroshkin on behalf of H.E. Alena Kupchyna, Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus to Austria, Abg.z.NR. Prof. Dr. Josef Smolle on behalf of Landeshauptmann Hermann Schützenhöfer.
The project coordinators presented the main idea and goals, forms of interaction of the project partners. Quality Manager Vadzim Samaryn delivered a detailed report on the main stages and content of the project implementation. Then Project Manager Thomas Krüssmann introduced the partner universities from the European Union (Programme Countries). The representatives of the universities from Belarus and Ukraine presented their institutions.
In the evening, the participants attended the reception on behalf of the mayor in the Town Hall, where they also heard information about Graz as the city of Human Rights (the Graz Human Rights Council, Mag. Daniela Grabovac).
The first part of the following day covered a wide range of issues, including discussion of the content and the financial part of the project, its methodology and principles; project managers and logo were adopted, working groups were built, as well as the planned activities for 2019 were discussed. The participants discussed prepared structures of the National Concepts of the new Master program and the questions for the questionnaire as well as the methodology its carrying out.
The preliminary content of the course books was presented by the national teams and discussed. The last part of the event was devoted to the discussion of the books and equipment to be purchased within the project.
The useful part of the conference were study visits: a visit to the management of the High Regional Court and the State Prosecutor’s Office of Styria (the project participants were explained about the system of training for judicial and prosecutorial staff in Austria), a visit to the Museum of Criminology at the Law School of the University of Graz, where the excursion was led by its director Priv.-Doz. MMag. DDr. Christian Bachhiesl.
The host university organized for the participants of the event a city tour with a “climbing” to the Schlossberg mountain.
Participants from Belarus and Ukraine also took the opportunity and attended Eggenberg Palace and the Park nearby.
Following the implementation of the work program of the events, all the planned issues were discussed and a solid foundation was laid for further fruitful and barrier-free work with the project coordinators and partner organizations.

Project monitoring during the visit of Mr. Ralf Rahders in Belarus (Minsk)

November 21, 2019 as part of Mr. Ralf Rahders, Head of the Unit Erasmus+: Higher Education - International Capacity Building of the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), visit to Belarus the monitoring of the project “Modernisation of master programmes for future judges, prosecutors, investigators with respect to European standard on human rights” (CRIMHUM) was held by the National Erasmus+ Office in Belarus. The event was attended by CRIMHUM project managers Aleh Maroz and Vadzim Samaryn, as well as representatives of project teams from the Belarusian State University (senior lecturer of the Department of Criminal Law, Master of Laws Kiryl Zakhilko) and Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics, Candidate of Legal Sciences Uladzimir Sorkin).
After greeting by the Head of the National Erasmus + Office, Alena Belanovich, the project itself and the level of its development were presented by the project quality manager Vadzim Samaryn.
The presentation ended with a discussion on the financial management of Erasmus + projects. Mr. Ralf Rahders asked questions about the feasibility of the project.
Kiryl Zakhilko presented the results of a survey of graduates, laid the foundation for the Concept of the master's program in criminal justice (version - Belarus).
In general, the development of the project was evaluated positively.

First CRIMHUM Evaluation Seminar in Kharkiv, Ukraine

December 18-19, 2019 at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Kharkiv, Ukraine) a two-day Evaluation seminar was held under the CRIMHUM project.
The seminar was attended by representatives of partner universities: Project managers prof. Thomas Krüssmann (Graz University, Austria), assoc. Vadzim Samaryn and assoc. Aleh Maroz (Belarusian State University, Belarus), as well as assoc. Ryhor Tratsiakou and assoc. Uladzimir Sorkin (Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Belarus), representative of the Ivan Franko Lviv National University as the national coordinator of the project assoc. Vasyl Lutsyk and Vice-Rector for International Relations of the National University of Odessa Law Academy prof. Vyacheslav Tulyakov. The Yaroslav the Mudryi National Law University was represented by members of the working group on the project prof. Bogdan Golovkin (team leader), prof. Dmitry Lukyanov, assoc. Elena Kharitonova, assoc. Alexander Chastnik and assoc. Alla Grinchak (project coordinator).
At the beginning of the meeting Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs prof. Yuri Barabash greeted the participants. During the meeting, issues on the status of the project were discussed, existing results were assessed, coordinating further actions for the successful development of the project.
The national Concepts of the master's program and the results of a survey of students and graduates in Belarus and Ukraine were discussed. The structure of the prepared course books was analyzed. Project Quality Manager Vadzim Samaryn made suggestions on the content of the course books, as well as on the implementation of a mechanism for assessing the quality of prepared books.
As part of the acquaintance with the university and the training of students within the seminar tours to the university’s art gallery, its extensive library with a collection of dissertations and rare books, as well as the forensic museum, were conducted.
You can also enjoy a video about our event via the link: https://www.facebook.com/crimhum/videos/813136489202996.