Free distance learning courses started

In November 2019, at 6 Belarusian universities (Belarusian State Academy of Agriculture, Brest State Technical University, Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov, Sukhoi State Technical University of Gomel, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Polotsk State University) started free distance learning courses for the population.

In the framework of the international CBHE project «Enhancement of Lifelong Learning in Belarus» (586278-EPP-1-2017-1-LV-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP),financed by EU, teams of six Belarussian regional universities have developed distance learning courses for the population.

All created courses are focused on the development of practical skills and competencies that are in demand in everyday life. The development used the experience of European universities in the United Kingdom, Spain, Latvia, Sweden.

Within four months, population of the regions will be able to undergo free training in English Language, Information Security, Basics of Legal Literacy, Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy, Energy and Resource Saving in Everyday Life.

Personal computer, laptop or smartphone with Internet access are necessary for training. Offline training is also provided.

At the end of the training course participants will receive a certificate of the international project of the European Union’s program ERASMUS +.

Detailed information on courses and training opportunities is presented in the «Study courses» section.

Seminar and Conference in Genoa, Italy

 9-13 December 2019, at the University of Genoa (Italy), within the framework of the UniTeLE project, a training seminar and training on active teaching methods for representatives of six Belarusian universities, members of the project consortium, as well as an international conference dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Bologna Declaration were held.

2 representatives of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno: Oleg Kolyago the Head of the Educational Innovation Laboratory and Alexei Abelevskij the senior lecturer of the Physical Education and Sports Chair took part in this project activity.

Andrea Frucco and project coordinators, professor, Dr. Guido F. Amoretti, professor Diana Spulber opened the international event. The project coordinators spoke in detail about the directions of the university’s work, noted that high-quality higher education brings about 30 million Euro to the university. The quality of modern education  was discussed at the seminar: from the historical and social approach to the quality of education, to ensuring quality through accreditation of courses and the development of university policy, academic development of teachers. Representatives of six Belarusian universities: GSTU, BSU, BrSTU, BSAA, PSU, YKSUG, as well as universities in Italy, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, actively participated in the discussion of the use of active teaching methods in the educational activities of universities.

The seminar participants discussed the active methods used at the universities of Genoa learning. The pedagogical techniques studied in theory and practice of active learning methods, motivating students to independent, proactive and creative development of educational material generate the interest of participants. Among them were methods such as: case study, problem based learning, simulation / role playing, project based learning. The use of the possibilities of using tools for creating presentations, organizing meetings, events and making the Mentimeter interactive was also considered. The main trend is the formation of programs taking into account the capabilities of the student and the requirements of the future profession. The introduction of new active pedagogical technologies, the dissemination of successful competent and scientific experience of European countries will improve the system of increasing the pedagogical skills of teachers in Belarus.

Kick-off meeting of the new project “University Teaching and Learning Enhancement” (UniTeLE)

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The representatives of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno took part in the first meeting in the framework of the project “University Teaching and Learning Enhancement” at Linneus Unoversity of Växjö. The Head of the International Projects Department of Education Internationalization  Center, Viktoriya Kerget and the Head of the Educational Department of the Eeducational-methodical Department  Anatol Bahdevich presented to the project partners Yanka Kupala State University results in the field of international project activities, the implementation of innovative educational technologies and a quality management system.

Within the framework of the first meeting participants developed a plan and stages for the implementation of the project and the distribution of responsibilities was also agreed. Implementation of the project results will allow Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno  to move on the way of innovative development, improving the organization of the educational process at the university in accordance with European standards for ensuring the quality of education.

As a result of the implementation of the UniTeLE project, it is planned to create a Center for Academic Development and Pedagogical Training at the University, to develop 
and introduce innovative educational methods. An important aspect of the project is the development of pedagogical interaction and pedagogical networks for employees 
of universities in Sweden, Italy, Germany, Turkey and Belarus.

The Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno organized training using information and communication technologies

More than 900 online lessons are taught daily by teachers at University.

Since the beginning of this week, the classrooms and corridors of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno have been unusually quiet: until May 8, the educational process to ensure a safe environment has been transferred to virtual space. Teachers say almost all students “attend” online classes regularly.

“The entire educational process, while maintaining its content and quality of training, has been transferred to the university’s educational portal and organized online,” said Marina Kolotsey, the head of the educational-methodical department of the Yanka Kupala State University. - In order to use widely this form of work in the organization of the educational process, our university has been ready long time ago. The fact is that the educational portal of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno has been functioning for more than 10 years. And today it is not only a repository of information, where all the educational and methodological complexes in each discipline are concentrated, but also a convenient platform for communication between teachers and students.

In addition to the educational portal, the university also uses other online platforms for virtual communication between teachers and students: WebEx, Zoom, Skype, as well as social networks. By the way, the schedule of academic disciplines remained unchanged, only some adjustments were made: now, in the schedule opposite each discipline, a virtual platform is indicated instead of the class number, and laboratory classes that require the use of special equipment have been postponed to a later time.

- The university has all the conditions for conducting remote classes. We have both an educational media complex and classrooms in the scientific library, which are convenient for teachers to work with, ”explained Marina Kolotsey. - In addition, if necessary, the university is ready to provide both technical and advisory assistance to those teachers who have difficulty in organizing the educational process in a new format. For all teachers, step-by-step instructions have been prepared, they are posted on the educational portal of the university. These instructions provide detailed instructions on how to give a lecture, practical, seminar or laboratory lesson, as well as how to conduct an online test. Thus, today we have provided technically and methodically all forms of training and knowledge control.

Since the second semester is the time of preparation for term papers and dissertations, the curriculum also provides for consultations both online and offline. At the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, they are sure that the quality of the educational process will not suffer.

“It’s customary for me to conduct lectures in the webinar format,” Natalya Valko, assistant professor of general physics, shares her opinion a few minutes before the start of the next online lecture. - My students are mainly future programmers, and it can be said that they are even more interested in working this way. Now we communicate with students almost continuously.

Student Mikhail, who was present at the lecture of the teacher Natalia Valko, in turn, noted that the content of the training did not change at all. All materials are available, feedback has been established with the teacher, which means that both students and university staff continue to work effectively. Moreover, everyone is trying to get the most out of the situation. So, university employees see a plus, first of all, in the fact that in the next two to three weeks they will be able to increase significantly their level of ownership of information and communication competencies.

Employees and students of Yanka Kupala State University provide assistance to Grodno doctors

One hundred protective screens for physicians, purchased at the expense of the trade union committees of workers and students of Yanka Kupala State University, were sent to medical institutions of the regional center.

The employees of the Emergency Hospital of Grodno, as well as the Grodno Regional Children's Clinical Hospital and the City Clinical Hospital No. 2 of Grodno, have already received protective screens from University. The City Clinical Hospital No. 3 of Grodno is ready to accept assistance from trade union activists of the university. The need in providing with the additional means of protecting from other medical institutions of the regional center is being studied.

“Now we are actively communicating with the representatives of the Grodno Healthcare Trade Union, who help us collect reliable information about which medical institutions lack remedies for physicians,” said Igor Kerget, chairman of the trade union committee of Yanka Kupala State University.

Together with the protective screens, trade union activists - employees and students of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno - will give dispensers for hand sanitization to medical institutions in the city of Grodno. As noted in the university trade union committee, Kupalists will continue to provide all possible assistance to physicians in this busy period.

Students from Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno are invited to participate in creative online contests in the social network Instagram

The organizers are waiting for talented students of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno to participate in contests of author’s song, choreography and standup comedy.

Creative online competitions are designed to support young, talented and ambitious university students. To take part in them, before May 1, you need to post your author’s creative number on video, post it on your profile in the social network Instagram, mark the account of creative center of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno @creation_grsu and set the hashtag of one of the contests.

So, in the framework of the vocal competition with the hashtag #пой_в_уни_song, musical compositions of various genres and styles are nominated for participation: ballad, rock music, pop song, bard song and others.

In the dance competition #танцуй_вместе_с_гргу, the organizers will appreciate the choreographic compositions of the participants in the style of modern dance: hip-hop, street jazz, jazz-funk, house, contemporary, dancehall, afro dance, popping, vogue, choreography, break dance. ⠀

For the stand up comedy contest #открытый_микрофон_гргу, participants are expected to present a humorous stand-up monologue video.

Read more about the conditions for participation in competitions here.

Creative online contests are organized by the Department of Cultural and Leisure Activities of the Department of Educational Work with Youth of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.

The international distance education marathon “Kupalovskyу Projects 2020” invites you to take part in testing network projects

Testing of the projects created as part of the marathon and will take place from April 27 to May 17.

International distance training “Spring session. April ”aims to conduct a public-professional examination of network projects created by the participants of the marathon, increase the ICT competence of teachers and master modern interdisciplinary technologies, including distance learning technologies. Registration of participants is available here from April 20 to 26. The results of the training will be announced on June 1.

The list of network projects created as part of the marathon includes the project “Oh, recursion!”, the author is Nina Makarova, associate professor of the Department of Modern Programming Technologies at Yanka Kupala State Universityof Grodno, and Alexey Tuchinsky's «Michelin Stars project», senior lecturer at the Department of Romance Languages, BSU Department of International Relations.

Teachers, methodologists, librarians, teachers of additional education, students of educational institutions of the CIS countries are invited to participate. All those who will become participants in the testing of network projects will receive an electronic certificate from the organizing committee.

The International Distance Learning Marathon “Kupalovskye Projects 2020” started at the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno on January 9 and will end on June 20, 2020. The marathon is aimed at teaching teachers the technology of creating educational network projects and is based on the rich experience in developing professional competencies of teachers obtained in the framework of the Kupalovsky Projects educational marathons in 2016-2019 and the distance course from Intel «Project Activity in the Information and Educational Environment in 21st century».

A competition for grants for the implementation of research and innovation projects has been announced at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

Grants will be allocated from the Innovation Development Fund, which was formed at the university last December.

The competition is open and takes place at the university for the first time. In the future, it is planned to be held annually. Participants can be both individual researchers and research teams from among the university’s full-time employees, including separate structural units, students, undergraduates, graduate students and doctoral students, as well as research associations of university students from among student research laboratories and student design bureaus. The materials and information provided for the competition of projects must be original, should not contain information that explicitly or indirectly violates any obligations of confidentiality of authors, intellectual property rights.

According to Yury Romanousky, Vice-Rector for Research, financial support from the funds of the Innovation Development Fund of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno can be provided on a competitive basis to employees and students of the university who are working on the implementation of innovative projects planned for inclusion in the State Program for Innovative Development of the Republic of Belarus, implementation of export-oriented innovative projects, as well as projects aimed at creating and organizing the activities of small innovational enterprises engaged in the commercialization of the results of the university research activities. Applicants, students, undergraduates, graduate students and doctoral students of the university can apply for grants if their scientific and innovative activities are aimed at carrying out research, development and experimental-technological work, ensuring the creation and production of new products, advanced technologies and new to our Republic and the global economy of services, as well as acceleration and implementation of innovative projects and developments that ensure the implementation of research results work in the production process of enterprises and organizations of the country.

The competition for grants will be held in 3 stages. The first stage starts from March 23 and will last till April 24. During this period participants must submit an application for the competition, a business project and its feasibility study, as well as the estimated financial costs of the project. Only one application is accepted from each participant. Participants in the competition may submit additional documents to the project, including reference materials related to the implementation of research, development and experimental and technological work, as well as work on the development and production of new types of goods and services. The subjects of the projects submitted to the competition must comply with the List of priority areas of scientific and technical activity.

From April 30 to May 18, an examination of the provided materials will be carried out. During the examination, the work will be evaluated according to criteria such as innovation, technological structure of the technologies being introduced and their origin, the planned volume of production of high-tech products, commercial and export development potential, the payback period of the project, the reality of the timing of the stages and work as a whole, and the reasonableness of the estimated costs. When selecting projects for financing from the funds of the University Innovation Development Fund, priority will be given to projects based on technologies of V and VI technological structures, as well as those that end with the release and sale of innovative products. The selection of projects and the summing up of the competition will be held from May 19 till May 29, 2020.

The competition for grants for research and innovation projects is aimed at creating conditions to support the commercialization of scientific results, stimulating research and innovation activities of the university employees and students, selecting promising research and innovation projects to further assist in their implementation and promotion, the formation of project activity skills among the participants of the competition, the creation of conditions for unlocking potential and whether the growth of participants in the competition and ensuring the implementation of the development priorities of the university.

Grants will be allocated from the funds of the Innovation Development Fund of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, which was formed at the end of the last year with the aim of financially supporting the innovative development of the university.

Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno is the second among universities of the Republic of Belarus according to the ARES international rating

In the updated ARES-2020 rating, Grodno State University of Yanka Kupala strengthened its position, rising from the fifth to the second place.

The ARES (Academic Ranking of World Universities-European Standard) rating is calculated by the European Chamber of Science and Industry. Data is processed automatically, completely eliminating the involvement of the human factor.

The goal of the ARES Higher Education Institutions Rating is to assess the ability of universities to provide students with the necessary knowledge, to participate in research and development, as well as the opportunity to actively communicate with future employers. The European Higher Education Standards are accepted as evaluation criteria, which were approved by the BFUG Bologna Coordination Group and approved by the EC Conference of Ministers of Higher Education. Important parameters of the rating are the international activities of the university and the role of the university in the social, economic and cultural development of the region.

The ARES rating assigns 4 categories of assessments for the level of teaching quality, scientific activity and the demand for graduates by employers: category A (High quality performance), category B (Good quality performance), category C (Sufficient quality performance), category D (Conditional failure).

According to the ARES-2020 International Rating of Higher Education Institutions, 29 higher education institutions of the Republic of Belarus were included in the rating. The Mogilev State University of Food and the Belarusian State Academy of Music participated in the ranking for the first time.

Grodno State University of Yanka Kupala has been participating in this rating since 2014 and is among the best universities in the Republic of Belarus. According to the results of ARES-2020, published in April 2020, Grodno State University of Yanka Kupala ranks second among Belarusian higher education institutions and is the first included in category A (High quality performance), which classifies it as a university with high quality teaching, research and the demand for graduates by employers.

The leaders among Belarusian institutions of higher education (holders of category A) are Belarusian State University, Grodno State University of Yanka Kupala, Belarusian State Medical University. Gomel State University of Francis Skorina is on the fourth place, Belarusian State University of Economics – on the fifth.

Read more about the positions of higher education institutions of the Republic of Belarus in the ARES-2020 rating (http://eurochambres.org/ares/ares-2020-belorus.php?clear_cache=Y).

More detailed information on the position of Grodno State University of Yanka Kupala in world rankings is available here (https://www.grsu.by/glavnaya/univer/universitet-v-mirovykh-rejtingakh.html).

Students and employees of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno are invited to read poems about the Great Patriotic War

The action "Dedicated to the Great Victory!" dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War was announced at the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.

To participate, you must choose a poem about the Great Patriotic War of any author or poems of your own composition and record a video reading of this poem. The clip can be shot on the camera of a mobile phone. Collective participation in the action is allowed.

You can send a video before April 24 by e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Videos will be posted on the university’s website from April 27.