Yanka Kupala State University’s Professor Igor Martynenko participated in the 4th International Scientific-Practical Conference «Economic-Legal Problems Ensuring Economic Security»

At the scientific forum in Yekaterinburg, the representative of the Yanka Kupala State University presented tools for minimizing and eliminating economic threats.

At the 4th International Scientific and Practical Conference «Economic and Legal Problems Ensuring Economic Security» Head of the Department of Civil Law and the Process of the Faculty of Law Igor Martynenko made a plenary presentation «Legal System of Economic Security: The Experience of the Republic of Belarus». During the discussion, Igor Eduardovich shared his views on the challenges and threats to economic security and the legal tools to counter them.
The conference was attended by lawyers and economists from universities and scholars from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Russia. The Scientific Forum was held at the Ural State Economic University in Yekaterinburg with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

Applicants with high achievements in academic subjects, creativity or sports can count on an incentive supplement to the scholarship, as well as other benefits during training

Holders of diplomas of the I, II, III degree of international Olympiads in accordance with the list approved by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, as well as the Republican Olympiad in academic subjects, when enrolling in the 1st year, become participants of the loyalty program "At the top of Olympus – 50". The program also includes first-year students-winners of international and national creative competitions and festivals, Olympiads in the subjects of culture and art, winners of the International Championship "WorldSkills", the championships "WorldSkillsBelarus", "WorldSkillsRussia", "WorldSkillsAsia". Such applicants, when entering Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, can count on an incentive supplement to the scholarship in the amount of 50 percent during the first semester of the 2021/2022 academic year, on research and project activities under the guidance of leading teachers and researchers of the university, as well as on the preferential right to study for one (two) semesters in leading Belarusian and foreign institutions of higher education.
Winners of the third (regional) and second (district, city) stages of the republican Olympiad in academic subjects and the regional stages of the WorldSkillsBelarus championship, as well as holders of diplomas of the I, II, III degree of the regional stage of the Olympiad in the academic subject "Drawing" among students of institutions of general secondary, vocational and secondary special education, when enrolling in Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, are guaranteed an incentive supplement to the scholarship in the amount of 30 percent during the first semester of the 2021/2022 academic year, provided that, that they do not receive a higher incentive supplement to the scholarship under the loyalty program "At the top of Olympus-50".
First-year students from among the winners of the multidisciplinary Olympiad of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno "Yanka Kupala University Olympiad", held in 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 academic years, can count on an incentive supplement to the scholarship in the amount of 30 percent during the first semester of the 2021/2022 academic year within the framework of the program "Together to new Heights". In addition, they will be given a preferential right to study for one (two) semesters in leading Belarusian and foreign institutions of higher education.
Among other activities of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno Loyalty Program for applicants is an incentive supplement to the scholarship in the amount of 20 percent during the first semester of the 2021/2022 academic year for one first-year student of each of the pedagogical specialties who scored the highest number of points on two profile entrance tests. Such first-year students will be given the priority right to choose the base of pedagogical practice.
Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno is waiting for motivated, capable and gifted applicants who are focused on a high level of education and have the qualities of research and business activity and initiative. Realize your potential together with Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno!

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

Karina Sorgovitskaya and Miroslav Romanchuk - winners of the competition «Miss and Mister University - 2021»! The Spring Festival of Beauty, Youth and Artistic Prowess was held at Yanka Kupala State University on March 25

At the beginning of the competition, the leaders noted the symbolism of the holiday: «Miss and Mister University» takes place in 2021 in the 21st century and 21st time. This time it was special for students of YKSUG - last year the final part of the competition wasn’t held due to epidemiological situation. That is why this spring celebration of beauty, youth and artistic prowess took place under the motto «Reboot», giving all spectators of the contest the opportunity to enjoy truly beautiful and impressive show. Yanka Kupala State University’s Rector Irina Kiturko welcomed the participants, guests and jury.
– Today, there will be harmony, flourishing and the sincerest feelings, all of the 8 boys and 8 girls are wonderful. They have already achieved their first victory - victory over themselves - by coming to this stage.
Irina Kiturko noted that she was particularly pleased to see the first year students who had just became members of a YKSYG family and were not afraid to make a serious move by loudly declaring themselves on the university’s main stage.

– I wish tonight would give us a wonderful emotion - a creative one. And it brings us love and spring, said Irina Fedorovna. - Also, I sincerely wish success and good luck to our students, who will be showing us their talents and beauty and to the audience - the pleasure of tonight!
For two and a half hours, the students surprised the guests in competitive defiles and incredible choreographic numbers, and revealed their special talents in a creative contest. There were all kinds of dances at the stage: with notes of the east and elements of the contempt, sensual slow and enthusiastically dynamic. The contestants also recited poetry and demonstrated excellent vocal abilities. To get to know each participant, to learn about the passions and interests of the children, the jury and the audience could use video cards, and to appreciate a sense of humor, charisma and intelligence - in video frames blitz-poll from the leading contestants. The contest of beauty, grace and artistic prowess by the competition «Spring Breath» in evening-cocktail outfits has ended. In the framework of the holiday show participants and winners of the contest «Miss and Mister University» of past years, congratulated the contestants of this year and delighted with their creative numbers, which once impressed spectators of the competition.
The main intrigue of the contest was resolved by opening envelopes with names of winners by the assistant of the President of the Republic of Belarus - inspector of the Grodno region Yuri Karaev and the Rector of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno —Irina Kiturko.
The holder of the title «Miss University - 2021» became a student of the 3rd course of the Law Faculty Karin Sorgovitskaya. She received a handmade tiara from the winner of the 2019 contest, Gleb Kodentsova. The title «Mister University - 2021» was won by 1-year student of the faculty of physical culture Miroslav Romanchuk. The symbol of the contest - the velvet cylinder - was presented to him by the holder of the title Miss University - 2019» Tatiana Scherbach. Winners were awarded with monetary certificates from the university for the sum of 500 rubles, as well as the possibility of free education in the driving school «Autoelite».
The winners of the competition were determined and in separate nominations - the children received gifts from partners and monetary certificates from Yanka Kupala State University. By the way, some participants of the contest «Miss and Mister University - 2021» became holders of several titles at once. Thus, in the nomination «Mister Photo» the winner was the 1st year student of the Faculty of Physical Culture Nikita Lukashov. Also the young man became the holder of the title «Mister Internet» on the results of the Internet-voting, and was recognized as the best on the results of the viewer vote in the nomination «Mister Audience Sympathies». «Miss photo» was recognized as a law student Karin Sorgovitskaya. Maria Kaminskaya, 3rd year student of the Faculty of Innovative Technologies of Mechanical Engineering, was awarded the titles «Miss Internet» and «Miss Audience Sympathies», becoming the best on the results of voting online and in the auditorium.
«Miss friendship» according to the version of the contestant of the contest was a student of the 1st course of the philological faculty Ekaterina Matyukevich, and participants named the holder of the title «Mister leader» - it became a student of the faculty of physical culture Miroslav Romanchuk. The jury nominated «The most creative performance» The performance of the third-year student of the philological faculty Gosha Sahedov and the second-year student of the faculty of arts and design Karina Bovzhik were nominated with the title «The most creative performance». The title «The Studentship Queen» and the opportunity to represent the Yanka Kupala State University at the regional stage of the competition «The Studentship Queen» was received by the student of the 3rd course of the Law Faculty Alyona Salvonchik.

Representatives of the Yanka Kupala State University and the Lipetsk State Technical University discussed prospects for cooperation

The visit of the delegation from the Russian Federation to the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno took place on the 29th of March.
Head of the Department of Pressure Metal Processing Igor Mazur and Head of the Department of International Relations Anna Pozdniakova represented the Lipetsk State Technical University. Head of the International Center of Education Elena Belokoz, Dean of Engineering and Construction Faculty Alla Volik, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Innovative Technologies of Mechanical Engineering Victor Voropaev, Professor of Materials Science and Resource Saving Technologies Gennady Kostyukovich and Chief Metallurgist of JSC «Belkard» Nikolay Deshuk represented the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno. Igor Mazur, Head of the Department of Pressure Metal Processing, noted the recent increase in interaction between Russian and Belarussian universities in the field of education and science, with an emphasis on the involvement of the regions of both countries. Head of the International Center of Education, Yelena Belokoz stressed that Yanka Kupala State University was actively developing international cooperation and constantly searches for new directions and proposals for joint programmes and that it has more than 200 cooperation agreements—most of them with Russian universities.
During the negotiations, representatives of the Lipetsk State Technical University discussed with colleagues from the Yanka Kupala State University the implementation of the «Visiting Professor» program, the implementation of individual education for foreign students on the educational standards of Belarus. Separately, the parties referred to the post-college or post-college education process - what benefits are provided to students and what programs they continue to receive. The representatives of the Lipetsk State Technical University expressed particular interest in the mobility of students of intermediate and higher education institutions, with the possibility of internships in local enterprises.