Yanka Kupala
State University of Grodno
Professor from Lomonosov Moscow State University has read lectures for students of law department of the Yanka Kupala State University.
Doctor of Psychology, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education, Professor of the Department of Psychology and Social Work of the Institute of Social and Humanitarian Technologies and Communication of the Baltic Federal University named after I. Kant Henryk Zalewski visited the Faculty of Psychology of the Grodno University within the framework of the "Visiting Professor" program.
The professor conducted a cycle of lectures and practical classes for students of the specialty "Practical Psychology".
- During the course, Henry Vladislavovich acquainted students with the results of his long-term scientific research, and also suggested that they jointly develop techniques of cognitive-behavioral therapy, which he uses to work with simple subject fears of clients,- the psychology department explained. - Within the framework of the master class for faculty members, the professor spoke about psychological science and education at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University.
Heinrich Vladislavovich's visit was completed with a speech at the plenary session of the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Actual Problems of the Psychology of Personal Development." The professor presented a report on spirituality in the context of the problems of personality psychology, in particular, considered a biopsychosociotic model.
It should be noted that Professor Henry Zalevsky before moving to Kaliningrad, for more than 30 years, worked at the Tomsk State Pedagogical University and still maintains close contacts with this higher educational institution, being the initiator of the publication and the editor-in-chief of the "Siberian Psychological Journal". During the visit the Yanka Kupala State University, the guest discussed with the staff of the Faculty of Psychology the possibilities for further cooperation in the field of science and education, both with the Baltic Federal University named after I. Kant and with the Tomsk State University.
Professor of the Bialystok technical university has told students and teachers of the Yanka Kupala State University about experience in international research projects.
Jan Pivnik was at faculty of innovative technologies of mechanical engineering of the Yanka Kupala State University for The Invited Professor program.
Within the visit the guest has given lecture and practical classes with undergraduates of specialty "Processing of Constructional Materials in Mechanical Engineering" in disciplines "Resource-saving technologies in mechanical engineering" and "Progressive processing of constructional materials".
– At lectures of professor Jan Pivnik undergraduates of faculty of innovative technologies of mechanical engineering have got acquainted with features of technological processes of casting under pressure and the extrusion-aluminum alloys, processing of metals pressure, microjet technology of processing of materials, – the dean of faculty Alexander Skaskevich has noted. – The invited expert has told about realization of progressive technologies of processing of materials at the western enterprises. Undergraduates had liked the practical training on which they under the leadership of professor chose necessary material for production of a concrete detail very much.
During the meetings with employees and students of faculty professor Jan Pivnik has shared personal experience within international research projects, the custom-made enterprises of Switzerland, Austria, Canada and other countries. As emphasize at faculty of innovative technologies of mechanical engineering, the invited professor was impressed by audience of listeners. Undergraduates have shown high interest and high debatable activity therefore professor Jan Pivnik has expressed desire and readiness to continue the work with them. The guest also has urged graduates to be interested in scientific achievements of world level and to continue training in a magistracy.
The visiting professors from Kazakhstan conducted lectures for students of Faculty of Economics and Management of YKSUG
Professors of the Euroasian national university of L.N. Gumilev have visited Faculty of Economics and Management within the Visiting Professor program and the contract on cooperation between the universities.
The Doctor of Economics, professor Diana Madiyarova gives lectures for students of faculty not for the first time. In this time students of the Yanka Kupala State University have learned about competitiveness as the result of reforming of economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and problems of deepening of the Euroasian integration and the economic interests of countries-members of EEU. The Doctor of Economics, professor Lyazzat Sembiyeva has told about innovative and industrial development of Kazakhstan.
We will note, that the Faculty of Economics and Management closely cooperates with economics department of ENU of L.N. Gumilev. A number of actions is realized within the signed contract. We will remind that in 2016 the training of undergraduates representatives of this university on the basis of the Yanka Kupala State University has successfully taken place there. Besides, scientists of two higher educational institutions have published articles on joint researches in magazines from the RINTs list.
Professor of the Gdansk university Zhanna Sladkevich has told students and teachers of the Janka Kupala State University how effectively teach Russian language as foreign language.
The visit of the Doctor of Philology, professor of the head of the department of pragmatics of communication and a linguodidactics of Institute of Russian philology and oriental studies of the Gdansk university Zhanna Sladkevich to the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno took place within The Visiting Professor program.
The guest has given lectures on training in elements of nonverbal communication at lessons of a foreign language (on the example of the Russian and Polish gestures) and also on phraseological and conceptual transformations in Russian language. Also she has organized a master class "Hi, Professor: the academic electronic correspondence of students specialists in Russian philology in a standard discourse" and a scientific and methodical seminar with the international participation "How to teach Russian language?" with assistance of department of language training Belarusian and foreign citizens.
Classes of professor were attended by students of philological faculty – future experts in the field of teaching Russian language as foreign, students of faculty of pre-university preparation, teachers of Russian as foreign from YKSUG, Grodno State Medical University and teachers-trainees of the Gdansk university.
Associate Professor of the Department of Technology, Physiology and Food Hygiene of the Faculty of Biology and Ecology of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno Aksana Paulava took part in the Belarusian-Pakistan Forum of Young Scientists
The forum was organized on the basis of the Institute of Information Technologies with the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Pakistan Academy of Sciences in Islamabad.
From the Belarusian side young scientists from the United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Center for Materials Science, as well as the leading higher educational institutions of the country took a part in the event. Among the participants there is an associate professor of the Department of Technology, Physiology and Hygiene of the Food of the Faculty of Biology and Ecology of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno Aksana Paulava. According to the representative of our university, the forum made it possible to get acquainted with the latest achievements in the field of scientific research, exchange knowledge and experience in the field of training highly qualified personnel, discuss promising areas of cooperation in the field of nanobiotechnology, as well as academic mobility and postgraduate education programs.
- Within the framework of the forum, we learned about the innovative achievements of researchers of the Institute of Information Technologies in the field of computer technology, electrical engineering, biological sciences and physics, - Aksana Paulava shared. - In the section of biological sciences and physics I presented the report "The process of obtaining chitosan from micellar fungi of the species Aspergillus", and then presented the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, told colleagues about the university's academic activity and its scientific potential, invited them to cooperate.
One of the main venues of the forum was the XV International Conference "Information Technology Boundaries", during which the Belarusian delegates got acquainted with innovative developments in the field of information technologies and visited the exhibition of student scientific developments.
Significant was the visit of Belarusian delegates to the Institute of Information Technology, the leading institution of higher education in Pakistan.
- During the visit to the Institute, a meeting was held with the rector and heads of structural units, as well as a tour of the laboratories of the departments of computer science, electrical engineering, biological sciences, nanotechnology and physics. During the meeting with the representatives of the Faculty of Biological Sciences, it was possible to discuss the prospects for cooperation between our faculties in the field of biotechnology, " - Aksana Paulava said.
The main result of the Belarusian-Pakistan forum was an agreement between scientists of the two countries on holding the Second Belarusian-Pakistani agricultural forum. It is planned that the event will be held during the international exhibition "Belagro-2018" in June this year.
Tatsiana Cherkes, senior teacher of the Department of Language Training of Belarusian and Foreign Citizens of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, shared the experience of teaching Russian as a foreign language for colleagues from Gdansk University
In the framework of the agreement on international cooperation between the Department of Language Training of Belarusian and Foreign Citizens of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno and the Department of Communication Pragmatics and Linguodidactics of the Institute of Russian and Oriental Studies at Gdańsk University, Tatsiana Cherkes completed a two-month internship at Gdansk University.
Tatsiana Cherkes worked in the groups of students of the initial and advanced stages of teaching on the departments of Russian philology and oriental studies at the Polish University, where she shared her experience of teaching the Russian language. She also took part in the scientific and methodological seminar of the Department of Communication Pragmatics and Linguodidactics, perfomede with an analysis of the peculiarities in teaching Russian as a foreign language in Gdańsk and Grodno universities. During the conversation with the staff of the department Tatyana Cherkes told about the possibilities of the courses for teachers named "Innovations in teaching Russian as a foreign language", which for the first time were organized in YKSUG in August 2017.
At the meetings with the students of the University of Gdansk, Tatsiana Cherkes presented the opportunities of the winter and summer schools of the Russian language, initiated and organized by the Department of Language Training of Belarusian and Foreign Citizens for three years, and also answered questions from Polish students.
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The agreement on international cooperation of the Department of Communication Pragmatics and Linguodidactics of the Institute of Russian and Oriental Studies at the University of Gdańsk and the Department of Language Training of Belarusian and Foreign Citizens of the Yanka Kupala State University were signed in 2015. Within the framework of the agreement, the representatives of the departments publish collective monographs and scientific articles. Employees of Gdansk and Grodno universities are taking part in scientific conferences in Belarus and Poland, and students of the Polish University since 2015 actively participate in the Summer School of the Russian Language. During the course of 2017, 6 teachers of the Institute of Russian and Oriental Studies from the University of Gdańsk were trained at the Department of Language Training of Belarusian and Foreign citizens, and four became listeners of the courses "Innovations in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language."
Foreign students from Turkmenistan took part in the study-educational tour "The system of higher education in Germany and France in the European educational space"
For the first time, the Center of Internationalization of Education at the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, together with the Center of International Relations of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, organized a study-educational tour "The System of Higher Education in Germany and France in the European Educational Space".
The delegation of YKSUG included 9 students and specialist of the International Students and Academic Mobility Office Geldi Bayrammyradov.
During the tour students visited the Berlin International University of Applied Sciences and the Academy of Paris, got acquainted with the history, work and functioning of educational institutions, listened to lectures, visited practical seminars, excursions and practice-oriented classes in factories, manufactories and museums. Besides educational events, a cultural-educational program was organized for the students in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and Prague.
As a result of the trip, all participants of the educational tour received certificates.
- It was a very important experience - to get acquainted with the education system and universities of European countries. I dreamed of visiting such cities as Berlin and Paris, and I am very glad that my dream have came true thanks to our university, - shared a 5th year student of the Faculty of Philology Jennet Mamedova.
To share the experience of organizing international scientific traineeships in the distance format among partner universities is planned at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Yanka Kupala State University
Modern information technologies and accumulated experience of conducting international scientific internships for teachers and masters from Kazakhstan and Lithuania gave possibility to the leadership of the Faculty of Economics and Management of Grodno University to offer Polish colleagues from the University of Bialystok an innovative approach to organizing scientific internships at the Department of International Business and Marketing
Representatives of the Faculty of Economics and Management of the partner university professor Urszula Golashewska-Kaczan and assistants Anna Buslowska, Agnieszka Zawlewska-Boczenko and Anna Gzes are on their traineeship in distance form.
At the full-time stage, the Polish colleagues studied the accumulated experience of scientific and methodical activity of the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, discussed issues of international cooperation in the preparation of joint project applications, identified prospects for joint research, and exchanged experience in the use of innovative educational technologies in the educational process.
Colleagues from Poland met with the head of the Educational and Methodological Department Marina Kalatsey and the dean of the faculty Marina Karpitskaya. During the talks, the parties discussed issues related to the possibility of expanding the academic mobility of students, the passage of scientific internships by masters and professors of the University in Białystok. Also, the guests were presented with the experience of the Coordination Council of the Faculty of Economics and Management in the field of practical student-centered instruction.
The next stage of the traineeship will take place in the correspondence format. It is planned to organize webinars and round tables, to start collecting and analyzing data for the preparation of joint publications, to conduct scientific consultations of professors of the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno. The probation will end with meetings and round tables, where colleagues will discuss the results of the work and present joint publications in university editions.
The faculty notes that such an experience of organization of international traineeships is going to be distributed among other partner universities.
YKSUG holds Russian Language Winter School for the 3rd time
8 visitors froma abroad are going to be improving the knowledge of the Russian Language since February 4 till February 17.
For the new knowledge and practice of the language, students from the Institute of Russian Studies of Gdansk University will come to Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno with whom long-standing contractual relations have been established at the Department of Language training of Belarusian and foreign citizens of the Faculty of pre-university training. Among the participants is a student from Germany and a graduate student from Italy who took part in the Summer School of the Russian Language in 2015. The second time, a student from Poland, who was also a participant of the Summer School of 2015, will come as a volunteer.
Foreign guests will attend lectures on the history and culture of Belarus, classes "Karaoke in Russian", culinary classes "Belarusian cuisine", excursions in Grodno with a visit to one of the enterprises of the city, a trip to the capital of Belarus, master classes and film schools. In addition, daily foreigners will be able to practice Russian with students of Grodno University.
Upon completion of the project, foreign students will receive a certificate of the participant of the Winter School of the Russian Language at the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.
Let it be reminded that for the first time the Russian Language Winter School was held in 2016. The project is a continuation of the Russian Language Summer School, which was first organized in 2015. Currently, the Summer and Winter Schools are successfully operating at the Kupala University and annually gather dozens of foreigners wishing to learn Russian and get acquainted with the unique culture, traditions, nature and architecture of Belarus. The initiator and organizer of the project is the Department of Language training of Belarusian and foreign citizens of the Faculty of pre-university training.
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Students of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno have fulfilled the New Year wishes of the pupils of the Vasilishkivsky care home
Within the framework of the republican charity event "Our Children", a New Year's party at the boarding school was visited by the leadership and students of GRSU.
Congratulating everyone on the upcoming holidays, Rector Irina Kyturko noted that the representatives of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno traditionally come to the Vasilishki boarding school for disabled children with special physical and psychological development on the eve of the New Year and Christmas to congratulate the children. Irina Kyturko wished the pupils and the administration of the institution of happiness, goodness and fulfillment of desires in 2018. As a New Year gift from the Grodno State University, the rector bought a certificate to strengthen the material and technical base of the institution, as well as a number of other pleasant prizes.
The representatives of the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Biology and Ecology presented themselves as real fairy magicians. The students of Grodno State University red all the letters (there were more than a hundred), which were addressed by the children of the institution to Santa, and also they prepared the coveted gifts for the children. In addition, students and teachers of the faculties of pre-university training, mathematics and computer science, history, communication and tourism, the Faculty of Psychology and the Faculty of Education received sweet prizes for the charity Christmas and New Year gatherings.
The administration of the care home for handicapped children with special psychophysical development thanked the representatives of Grodno University for their cooperation, sensitivity and ability to empathize, the ability and desire to support those who need help.
Andrei Lobovich, the first Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus, Alina Voroniuk, the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee - Head of the Pension and Benefit Administration, as well as representatives of local authorities, public organizations and NGOs came to congratulate the students on the New Year. Givinging the presents, the adults together with the children danced in a round sang New Year's songs and exchanged wishes of good and luck in the new 2018 year.
Christmas meetings took place at the Faculty of Philology of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
The pre-holiday events, which are traditionally held by the Department of Polish Philology of the Philological Faculty, was visited by , Yaroslav Ksenez, the Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Grodno.
Students, participants of the civil-patriotic project "Living History", prepared a program in which everyone could demonstrate the skill of mastering an artistic word. GRSU students connected live music with a literary and historical excursion "Journey on the eve of Christmas", recitation of poems and singing of Christmas songs, which, incidentally, was performed not only by the students themselves, but also by students of language courses for people of retirement age at the Center for Social Services of the Population of Oktyabrsky District Grodno. By the way, for many years the course of the Polish language for elderly Grodno students is conducted by Elena Antonevich, the student of the philological faculty.
- Christmas holidays carry an unusually powerful life-affirming beginning, when people's hearts are filled with kindness. Christmas – as the great day of the whole Christian world - has long been accompanied by colorful folk customs. This is one of the main family holidays. Within the prefeast and afterfeast, the holiday of the Nativity of Christ lasts for twelve days and, undoubtedly, is filled with our kind wishes, charitable actions, attentive attitude to children and people of advanced age, - Olga Pan'kova, assistant professor, the head of the civil-patriotic project "Live History", noted.
At the meeting, the participants of this project recalled the charity work of Eliza Ozheshko: a participant of the civil and patriotic project "Living History" in the image of an outstanding writer of the Prinemansky Part held a quiz "Traditions and Symbols of the Christmas Eve".
Yaroslav Ksenez , Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Grodno drew the attention of all participants to the unique atmosphere of the Christmas holidays, forcing people to become kinder and lighter.
"In the world of everyday worries, Christmas Eve unites us together and allows us to look at each other more closely, because it is impossible to express wishes in haste, without looking closely at dear people's eyes,"- the head of the Polish diplomatic corps in Grodno stressed.
Inna Lisovskaya, the Dean of the Faculty of Philology, noted the special importance of the profession of teachers, tutors, educators, who work with young people, and also expressed gratitude to the students who prepared an interesting, rich program.
Symbolically, on the eve of the great Christian holiday, Father Viktor Bokhan, priest of the parish of the Most Holy Redeemer and archpriest Vladimir Borisevich, clergyman of the Holy Protection Cathedral, attended the meeting. Priests of both faiths pointed to the spiritual essence of the Nativity of Christ and the significance of genuine, enduring values, moral guidelines in the life of modern man.
Evgeny Pankov, associate Professor, Head of the Department of Polish Philology, in the final word-congratulation wished goods and joy to colleagues, students and their relatives.
The conference of the labor collective took place in the Yanka Kupala Grodno State University
The issues of the implementation of the Collective Agreement at the Yanka Kupala State University in Grodno following the results of 2017, changes and additions to the Collective Agreement and its annexes for 2018, as well as issues related to the activities of the university, were considered during the labor collective conference on December, 18.
"The most important thing in the organization is its executive and initiative employees, on which the success of the university as a whole depends," Irina Kuturko, the rector of the University, said greeting the audience. - In the early 90's we were among the first who had a Collective Agreement. Initially, it was a three-page document. Today it is a solid, powerful document. Our collective agreement was repeatedly noted by external organizations as one of the best in Belarus. And it means that we are on the right way.
Speaking to the audience, Vasyl Senko, the pro-rector for educational work, and Igor Kerget, the chairman of the trade union of university employees, stressed that the Collective Agreement is based on social partnership, equality of the parties, compliance with legislative norms, the power to make commitments and take into account the real possibilities of material, production and financial provision of duties. At the meeting, Vasily Vasilievich and Igor Leonidovich presented the additions to the Collective Agreement in 2017 and told about the material and other support of the university staff, their encouragement and assistance in sanatorium treatment in the outgoing year.
Galina Sakomskaya, the Head of the Center for Personnel and Legal Work, presented the changes and additions of the Collective Agreement for 2018 to the conference participants. At the same time, her attention was focused on the fact that the basis of the draft Collective Agreement is the preservation of the basic conditions and provisions of the current Collective Agreement, additional social benefits and payments to employees, in excess of those stipulated by the legislation of the Republic of Belarus. Galina Stepanovna also answered the questions of employees and teachers of the Yanka Kupala State university.
During the conference, there were created commission to monitor the implementation of the Collective Agreement, also new commission on labor disputes, and the conciliation commission. Also, changes were made to the composition of the housing commission, the commission for sanitation and sanatorium treatment and the public commission on housing issues.
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Collective agreement of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno was developed and signed in 1990. GRSU became the second institution of higher education in the country after BSU, where this document appeared.
In 2011 the Collective Agreement of Grodno University became the winner of the demonstration-contest of collective agreements of educational institutions of the Grodno region. In 2012, at the Republican demonstration-contest of Collective Agreements of Educational Establishments of the Belarusian Professional Union of Workers of Education and Science, the document was awarded a diploma for the second place. In 2013, GRSU became a finalist of the contest of the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus for the award for a significant contribution to the development of social partnership. In 2017, the Yanka Kupala State University became the finalists of this republican contest again.
The studio of the young journalist "Media STARt" started its work at the Faculty of History, Communication and Tourism of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
The first studio’s classes, which included the preparation of the entrants to enter the specialty "Journalism" for the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, started on December, 16.
"Media-STARt" is a unique creative laboratory of television, radio, press, theater and cinema, advertising and PR-technologies, which allows entrants to fully prepare for the introduction into the future profession.
- Classes in "Media-STARt" are some kind of mix 3в1- this is a lecture, a practical lesson, a master class. Classes are conducted by teachers and students of specialties "Journalism" and "Information and Communication", and journalists practicing of Grodno and the Grodno region. The task of the studio is to establish communication with the entrants, also prepare them for entrance examinations in the specialty "Journalism", - Kira Bludova-Goy, the head of the studio "Media-STARt", said.
This time the studio united pupils from schools, lyceums, gymnasiums of the Grodno city, and also pupils from Student Media Center of Grodno and Brest regions. Kira Bludova-Goy introduced the students to the teachers and students of the journalism department, she told them about the studio and the plan of it work in this academic year.
Then the entrants tried themselves in the role of TV journalists dring the master class "I'm on and behind the camera" and listened to the lecture given by Irina Pivovarchik, the assistant professor of journalism. Seminar "Shot, the grond, camera angle - the secrets of successful film and video shooting" was organized by Inna Minchuk, the acting director and the Head of the Department of Journalism, who spoke in detail about the creation of the news story and shared the nuances of this process.
It should be noted that classes in the studio of the young journalist "Media STARt" are held every Saturday from 12.00 to 15.00 on the Ozheshko, 22 street, aud. 333. The next meeting will be held on December, 23.
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