Students of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno are among the winners of the international competition
The results of the international project competition "Ocean Of Knowledge" (Društvo "Za Akademsku Aktivnost", Serbia) have been evaluated. The team of YKSUG was awarded a diploma of the first degree for their development.
The research work "Historical and architectural symbols of Grodno and their role in shaping the image of the city" was highly appreciated. The authors of the project are members of the scientific group "Public History: Historical Knowledge in the Modern world", students of the specialities "Journalism" and "History" of the Faculty of History, Communication and Tourism of Yanka Kupala State University – Polina Prokopenya, Dmitry Apon, Ksenia Kamenko. The project leaders – Associate Professor of the Department of Journalism Irina Gerasimchik and Associate Professor of the Department of General and Slavic History Natalia Uleychik were awarded a Diploma of the first degree.
The aim of the project competition is to identify and support the most active and gifted students, stimulate their research, project and innovation activities.
The competition is organized by the scientific "Laboratory of Legal Information" in cooperation with the Faculty of Law of the Moscow State Regional University.
In total, 23 reports were presented at the Symposium by students, undergraduates and postgraduates of the Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov, Moscow Region State University, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Pskov State University, RUDN University, the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, Brest State A.S.Pushkin University and the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Belarus.
Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno is included in the "UI GreenMetric" sustainable development rating for the first time
In 2021, the Yanka Kupala State State University approved the "Strategy of Advanced Development" for 2021-2025 and forward-looking until 2030, which identified five main directions of the university's development. One of the strategic directions is compliance with the Sustainable Development Goals, within the framework of which the University participated for the first time in the international rating "UI GreenMetric 2021" and took the 750th place.
The "UI GreenMetric 2021" rating evaluated the principles of environmental friendliness and sustainable development of higher education institutions from 74 countries, including countries of Europe, Asia, America, the Middle East, Oceania and Africa. The first place in the ranking was taken by Wageningen University and a Research Center in the Netherlands. The Republic of Belarus is represented in the ranking by Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (750th place) and the International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University (782nd place).
The UI GreenMetric rating is an annual international ranking of universities that assesses the efforts of participants in the field of reducing environmental impact, as well as the compliance of education and research with sustainable development goals.
Students of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno took part in the international project "Union League of Debates" in Moscow
Elina Vialesik, a student of the Faculty of Pedagogy, and Arseniy Sidorkevich, a student of the Faculty of History, Communication and Tourism, presented Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.
The project activities were held from December 13 to 17 at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. In total, 40 two-person teams from Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Russia participated in the project.
The Union League of Debates is a unique project, whose members not only explore the Union State, but also take part in the discussion of the vector of integration of the EAEU countries, establish working contacts.
The project "Union League of Debates" consisted of an absentee elimination round and an intellectual debate session. The participants of the debate were students, young entrepreneurs, journalists and others. Our students performed well on the project and demonstrated a high level of public speaking skills, the ability to argue and convey their position. Each participant passed a competitive selection, in which it was necessary to submit an essay and a video on one of the topics within the framework of the development of integration processes in the post-Soviet countries. The Union League of Debates contest is aimed at developing teamwork skills among Russian and Belarusian youth. It is designed to form the skills of finding joint solutions to complex issues that our countries face.
Students of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno took part in the International Student Olympic Forum
The International Student Olympic Forum "Olympic Movement, Student Sports, Communications and Education" was held for the fourth time. The event took place at the headquarters of the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus.
Students of the Faculty of Biology and Ecology Vadim Gunko and Ilya Zolotykh presented the topic "Eco-volunteering as a tool of public ecological monitoring of the environment".
Forum participants from Belarus, Russia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and China discussed the development of the Olympic movement in the modern world, ecology and sustainable development of the environment. The forum also raised issues of socio-cultural communication and the development of the Olympic movement in the context of globalization, Olympic education, culture and heritage, sports volunteering and other topics.
Rector of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno has a working visit to partner universities of the Republic of Uzbekistan
During the business trip Iryna Kiturka, Rector of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, and Yury Bialykh, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, will visit seven universities in Uzbekistan to form relationships and agree on priority areas of cooperation in the scientific, educational and cultural spheres.
The first day of Iryna Kiturka and Yury Bialykh's visit to Uzbekistan included negotiations at two universities: Tashkent State University of Economics and the National Institute of Art and Design named after Kamoliddin Behzod.
The meeting of the administration of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno and the Tashkent State University of Economics was held for the first time. During the negotiations, agreements on cooperation in educational and scientific spheres, academic exchange of the staff and students, in particular, on the "Visiting professor" program were reached. This will be reflected in the signing of a cooperation agreement between the two universities in the near future.
The negotiations with the administration of the National Institute of Art and Design named after Kamoliddin Behzod defined ways to develop the existing cooperation. This time, the Parties discussed issues of design and implementation of joint educational programs in the most popular bachelor and master programs. The Parties discussed joint scientific management of master and PhD students of foreign universities, participation of Uzbek students and colleagues in scientific and educational activities, specialized summer schools and trainings.
By the way, cooperation with the National Institute of Arts and Design named after Kamoliddin Behzod already has a history, albeit not very long. In March this year Yury Bialykh, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, had a working visit to Tashkent. The result was the signing of an agreement on international cooperation with the National Institute of Arts and Design named after Kamoliddin Bekhzod. Within the framework of the agreement, Serik Pirmatov, associate professor of the Applied Graphic Art Department at the National Institute of Arts and Design named after Kamoliddin Bekhzod, took part in the 10th international scientific conference "Actual problems of global artistic culture. In Memory of Professor U.D. Rosenfeld", as well as in the program "Visiting Professor” of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.
Students of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno are among the winners and awardees of the International Competition "Creativity and Intellect"
The competition was held on the All-Russia pedagogical portal of the federal state educational standards of Russia.
Students of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno took part in the International Competition for Children and Youth "Creativity and Intellect". According to its results, diplomas in the category "Project, project activity" were awarded to the works of Maria Kravchuk, Alena Halko and Marta Pavliuchik, who are studying in the 4th year and majoring in Mathematics (scientific and pedagogical activity). Maria Kravchuk and Alena Halko took first place by submitting their network projects "Life in Tables" and "Young Programmer Course" for the international competition. Marta Pavliuchyk took second place by presenting her network project "Horizon".
These network projects were created within the academic discipline "Project Activities in Education" under the supervision of Nina Makarova, associate professor of the Department of Modern Programming Technologies of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.
Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno received a delegation of employees and students of Smolensk State University
The visit took place from November 3 to November 6 within the framework of the agreement on international cooperation between two universities.
The delegation of employees and students of Smolensk State University was received by the Department of Russian Philology of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno. The delegation included Valentina Kovaleva, Dean, Ph.D. in Philology; Irina Romanova, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Literature and Journalism Department, Larisa Pavlova, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Eleonora Kotova, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Leonid Kayanidi, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Demyan Valuev, the leading specialist of the Literary Museum of Smolensk State University, PhD in History, Associate Professor, Yulia Morozova, a 4th year student of the Faculty of Philology, winner of the regional contest of youth projects and a cameraman Artemenko Denis.
The purpose of the visit of Smolensk State University representatives to Grodno was summarizing cooperation between the Parties in the field of cultural relations, educational and scientific activities, presenting the project "Smolensk Enlightened: Information and Education Portal", the project "Smolensk Land in Literature Monuments", the poetic video-almanac "Personal Poem", folklore materials of Smolensk Regional Studies Bureau, the funds of Smolensk Literary Museum and also informing about the School of young scientists “Quantitative Philology”.
The 3rd international contest of media projects "Student Youth in the Modern World" was opened
This year's competition is related to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which were adopted at the UN Assembly.
The purpose of the competition is realization of each participant's creative potential, as well as organization of international cooperation.
The opening event took place in two formats at once. The online session was joined by colleagues from the Belarusian State University and the Russian Federation.
We remind you that applications for the competition are accepted until December 1.
Alexey Alferov and Evgeny Karmilchik, students of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, are the winners of the World Boxing Championships
Belarusian boxers won two medals at the World Championships for the first time in 18 years.
Alexei Alferov, a third-year student of the Faculty of Physical Education, has won a silver medal at the World Championships in Belgrade (Serbia). It is the second award of the Belarusian national team at the world forum. Evgeny Karmilchik, also a third-year student of the Faculty of Physical Education, has earlier won a bronze medal.
Alexey Alferov, competing in the 80 kg category, lost in the decisive battle to his American rival Robbie Gonzalez by a separate decision of the judges. It is worth reminding that in the semi-finals Alexey Alferov did not leave a chance for the Russian athlete Savely Sadoma. In addition, he defeated the Croat Luka Plantic, Iranian Maysam Geshlagi and Irish Keylan Cassidy.
Earlier Evgeny Karmilchik, competing in the 48 kg category, lost in the semi-finals to Kazakhstan's Temirtas Zhusupov. Prior to that, the athlete had three victories over Sri Lanka, Kenya and Mongolia.
It should be noted that Belarusians haven't won two awards of the World Championships since 2003. That time silver went to Magomed Aripgadzhiev (81 kg). Victor Zuev (91 kg) took the bronze.
Students of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno won awards in an international essay contest
International student essay contest "My profession is a teacher" was held on November 10, 2021 by Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University in Almaty. Students from Kazakhstan, Poland, Belarus and Russia took part in the contest.
Students of the specialty "Elementary education" of the Faculty of Pedagogy Anelia Zamana, Julia Lyskovka and Margarita Maleeva took the first places in the International essay contest "My profession is a teacher".
The aim of the contest is to identify professional abilities and quality of students training, creating conditions for the disclosure of their talents, professional, pedagogical and creative potential, self-realization.
Yury Ramanouski, the First Vice-Rector of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, took part in a seminar on state accreditation
The seminar was held on the basis of Minsk State Linguistic University. It was held with the aim of implementing the Agreement between the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus and the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science on cooperation in the field of state accreditation of higher education institutions, and also in the context of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus on establishing the National Agency of Education Quality Assurance.
During the seminar the participants discussed such topics as transformation of the national education quality assurance system in the context of new approaches in education legislation, procedures for conducting accreditation expertise, testing applicants as experts, and many other issues.
Among the participants of the seminar there were representatives of the Education Quality Control Department of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, Federal State Budgetary Institution "National Accreditation Agency in the sphere of education", higher and additional adult education institutions of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation. Yury Ramanouski, the First Vice-Rector of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, also took part in the event in the face-to-face format, as well as the university staff and teachers online.
Students of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno have completed the Huawei program "Seeds for the Future 2021"
“Seeds for the Future” was first "planted" by Huawei in 2008. Since then, more than 30,000 people from 126 countries have completed the training program. Belarus joined the project in 2015.
Not everyone can become a trainee of the “Seeds for the Future” program. In order to achieve that, it is necessary to pass several qualifying stages, thus proving your motivation and desire to obtain new skills. The acceptance rate among applicants is high because students from 500 universities around the world apply for participation in the educational program.
This year the students of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno managed to get into the top 20. Among the lucky ones are Karina Burlakova, a second-year student of the Faculty of History, Communication and Tourism, Violetta Vasina, a third-year student of the Faculty of Physics and Technology, Valery Zakrevsky, a second-year student of the Faculty of Physics and Technology and Alexey Novik, a second-year student of the Faculty of Physics and Technology.
The program is aimed at attracting students to the ICT domain. Huawei is convinced that talented and dedicated professionals are one of the driving forces of sustainable development.
During eight training days the students studied the specifics of 5G, artificial intelligence, cloud technologies, took part in the group project "Tech4Good". At the end of the training program young people gained skills in one of two areas. Technical specialties (STEM): telecommunications, radiophysics, artificial intelligence, information technology, cloud computing, cybersecurity, energy (thermal energy, solar energy). And non-technical specialties with high learning outcomes and aspiration to work in the ICT domain.
At the final event the organizers and the finalists were welcomed online by Iryna Kiturka, Rector of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno. She expressed her hope for further fruitful cooperation with Huawei.
At the Faculty of Law there was an internship of representatives of Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University
The representatives of Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University had a scientific internship at the Faculty of Law of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno from October 25 to November 6, 2021. During these days teachers of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno held a series of seminars for foreign colleagues.
The internship was preceded by a meeting of its participants with the management of the Faculty of Law, which was held in early October. The participants discussed promising areas of cooperation and opportunities for international students to participate in scientific events held at the Faculty of Law.
During the internship the teaching staff of the Faculty of Law of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno conducted a number of scientific and methodological seminars for colleagues from Kazakhstan. The discussions covered labor legislation, constitutional issues, mediation and many other issues. Internship participants were actively involved in discussions and shared their experiences.
The main university building tour was organized for foreign guests. Tatiana Kalosha, head of Yanka Kupala State University Museum of History, told about the history of the university and the achievements of its graduates, the modern opportunities and directions of development. Equally informative Scientific and Technological Park of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno tour was held for guests from Kazakhstan by the director Alexander Vasilyevich.
Also, members of regional tourism study group "TourYur" of the Faculty of Law conducted a tour around the historical part of Grodno for guests from Kazakhstan.
Concluding the scientific internship, representatives of both parties identified the prospects of cooperation, considered the possibility of participation of representatives of Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University in the scientific activities carried out at the Faculty of Law. According to the results of scientific training, Svetlana Cheburanova, dean of the Faculty of Law, presented the guests with certificates.
Representatives of Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University noted that the internship was informative and left only pleasant impressions.