Yanka Kupala
State University of Grodno
International exhibition of students and master students opened at the Faculty of Arts and Design Of Yanka Kupala State University
The opening of the exposition took place as part of the plein air “Grodno-Kalish-Olsztyn-2019”, which was held in Grodno as part of a cooperation agreement with the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan and the University of Warmia and Mazury.
As a result of the open air in the educational building at the faculty of art and design, an exhibition of student and master works by three universities was opened. During the open-air, students, undergraduates and leaders got acquainted with the educational process of the faculty of art and design, visited the Museum of the History of Development of the Yanka Kupala State University , the UNIVERSUM gallery, the gallery of professors, as well as the historical and archaeological museum of Grodno, galleries and an exhibition hall. In addition, the Tizengauz Gallery hosted solo exhibitions by the Deputy Dean Professor Matei Guznicka of the Faculty of Art and Pedagogical, Professor of the Warmian-Masurian University Violetta Yaskulskaya and the Head of the Development Department of the University of Warmia-Mazuria Ivona Maria Bologinskaya-Walendik. Also, as part of the plein air at the Department of Fine Arts, a scientific and creative seminar “Fine Art and Design in the Conditions of Modern Cultural Development” was held, during which the parties discussed the holding of joint events in scientific, creative and innovative activities.
Yanka Kupala State University and Tashkent Institute of Design, Construction and Maintenance of Automotive Roads expand the areas of cooperation
On October 11, Alimjon Riskulov, rector of the Tashkent Institute of Design, Construction and Maintenance of Automotive Roads, visited Yanka Kupala State University.
The visit of the Tashkent Institute of Design, Construction and Maintenance of Automotive Roads rector Alimjon Riskulov and the dean of the faculty jointly with the Belarusian National Technical University under the 2 + 2 program Luiza Vildanova to Kupalov University began with a meeting with the leadership of Yanka Kupala State University. Greeting the guests, the rector at the Yanka Kupala State University, Irina Kiturko, noted that the meeting would serve to establish closer cooperation between universities and to search for new aspects of interaction. In turn, the rector of the Tashkent Institute, Alimjon Riskulov, emphasized that a new impetus for the development of relations between universities of the two countries was the bilateral political dialogue, which is actively conducted by the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Uzbekistan. During the negotiations, the parties discussed possible areas of cooperation. In particular, the conversation was about the realization of joint academic and scientific projects, the implementation of research activities on the basis of two universities. The guests were interested in the possibilities and conditions for the training of highly qualified scientific personnel at the Yanka Kupala State University. Particularly the prospects for cooperation in the field of master's programs in technical, economic and IT specialties were noted, which Kupalovsky University successfully implements, including in English. Today, Yanka Kupala State University is also open to international cooperation on the development of distance education, training specialists taking into account digitalization trends and the needs of the real sector of the economy. For many years Summer and Winter schools in various fields have been successfully held at Kupalovsky University, representatives of Uzbekistan can also become participants in them, as Irina Kiturko emphasized. Based on the results of meeting between the Yanka Kupala State University and the Tashkent Institute of Design, Construction and Maintenance of Automative Roads an agreement was signed. After that, the parties exchanged souvenirs and took a traditional photo as a keepsake. The visit of the representatives of Uzbekistan ended with a meeting with students of the Yanka Kupala State University, during which Alimjon Akhmadzhanovich talked about the university he leads, and answered students' questions. The guys were interested in what specialties can they enroll in magistracy in Uzbekistan, is there a possibility of obtaining practical knowledge at the country's enterprises and what qualities should have a future specialist in the field of logistics. At the end of the meeting, Alimjon Riskulov thanked Kupalovsky University for the warm greet and expressed hope for productive cooperation and for a meeting in the near future.
Representatives of Yanka Kupala state University of Grodno took part in the II world Congress in real and virtual mode "West-East: intersections of cultures" in Japan
The Congress was held on October 2 – 6, 2019 at Kyoto-Sange University (Kyoto, Japan). It was attended by 270 scientists from 34 countries.
The event was held as part of the international project "Creating a virtual scientific and educational space", organized by Kyoto Sangyo University (Japan, Kyoto), Middlebury College (USA, Vermont), Russian New University (Russia, Moscow), Linguistic University of Foreign Languages (China, Shanghai), Khachatur Abovyan Armenian State Pedagogical University (Armenia, Yerevan), Shota Rustaveli State University (Georgia, Batumi). The project aims are to consolidate the intellectual efforts of representatives of numerous cultures in various fields of science and education for the integration of scientific and pedagogical potential, identification and comprehensive analysis of current problems in the humanitarian sphere, as well as the creation of an innovative intercultural educational and scientific environment. The scientific forum discussed such issues as innovations in philological science, literary aspects of interaction between Western and Eastern cultures, problems of bilingual education, intercultural communication, theory and practice of translation, methods of teaching foreign languages, introduction of information technologies in the educational environment and others. Irina Banah, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Philology, made a presentation at the Congress "Elusive Japan: images of the Other in P. Weil's travel essay "Everything is in the garden". The speech Zoya Sidorovich, Aassociate Professor of the Department of Russian Philology, was devoted to theoretical and practical problems of development of electronic educational and methodical complex of discipline in higher school. By the way, the articles on the materials of the read reports are included in the scientific and practical collection, which is included in the information library base of Kyoto-Sange University, as well as the bases of JAIRO, NII, SCOPUS.
Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno invites you to participate in the creative lounge "Belarus is the Crossroads of National Cultures"
The event will be held for the third time on November 29 at Yanka Kupala State University.
Students and graduates of educational institutions and organizations of the Republic of Belarus and foreign countries will be the participants of the event. The program of the creative lounge "Belarus is the crossroads of national cultures" includes an interactive round table "Calendar of National Holidays", the participants of which will discuss the traditions of national holidays, their history, national dishes, clothes and traditional games. During the intellectual game “Brain Ring” participants will open the theme “Belarus is the wonderful world!”. University teams will answer questions on geography, culture, traditions, famous personalities of Belarus and other nationalities. The concert “Polyphony of National Cultures” will end the day. The program will include creative performances by foreign and Belarusian students studying at Belarusian universities. In addition, an essay contest “Love for the Motherland is in Each of Us” and the contest “Emblem of a Creative Lounge” will be held remotely. To be a participant in the activities of the creative lounge “Belarus is the Crossroads of National Cultures” you must register before November 7, 2019 via the link. The participants of the round table must attach the presentation materials (theses) and presentation to the application, the participants of the concert - video of creative numbers. Participants of remote competitions need to download the contest entries in the registration form at the above link. The organizing Committee reserves the right to pre-select the materials received. Voting in the social network Vkontakte will be open from 11 to 20 November 2019. The winner will be determined on the basis of the voting results. According to organizers, the event aim is to promote intercultural exchange of students, education of tolerant personality in polycultural environment of a university, increase the interest of foreigners to the Republic of Belarus, its history and culture. Contact information of organizing Committee: Education Internationalization Center of Yanka Kupala State University, Grodno, Ozheshko str., 22, office 216. Burlakina Elena Sergeevna, specialist of international projects and academic mobility Department; tel.: 8 (0152) 681244; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Sultanov Rovshen, Chairman of the Council of foreign students, tel.: +375 25 9300919.
Students of Yanka Kupala state University have visited Volkswagen plant in Kaluga
Students of the Faculty of Innovative Mechanic Engineering took part in the excursion to the Volkswagen Group Rus plant, which is located in the Grabtsevo Technopark in Kaluga.
Currently, Volkswagen and ŠKODA automobile production, as well as a gas engine production plant, are located on the territory of the enterprise. The automobile plant produces Volkswagen Tiguan, Volkswagen Polo and ŠKODA RAPID models. The maximum production capacity of the plant is 225 thousand cars per year. Alexander Kazmin, senior lecturer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technical Operation of Cars, told that the trip allowed to acquire unique knowledge on the subject "Technology of production and repair of cars". Students visited the car body production workshop, where the car body is assembled from stamped blanks by spot and semi-automatic welding. They learned about the methods of optimization and improving the comfort of employees, observed the process of painting individual parts and the body as a whole. The children were able to see the work of the assembly shop, where, unlike other workshops, manual labor predominates in order to improve and control the quality of products. The last point of the tour was a visit to the engine production workshop. Students learned about quality standards and product control, as well as methods of transporting parts received from partner manufacturers to the place of their installation, saw the parking of finished cars and a test track to check the quality of the assembly of the suspension and brake system. In addition, as part of the trip, students from Yanka Kupala State University visited the Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics. The students were especially interested in the full-size model of the Soyuz-1 space station, as well as the real capsules on which the astronauts returned from orbit to the earth.
Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno was approved as a permanent member of the Council of the International Belt-and-Road Alliance of Tropical Medicine (Haikou, China)
Kupala University became a permanent member of BRTMA at the invitation of the President of Hainan medical University in the framework of the II Forum on tropical medicine.
Andrey Shpakov, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and Methods of Physical Culture, presented at the forum the results of cooperation in a joint research work “Pathogenesis and epidemiology of chronic lung diseases in the temperate continental climate in Eastern Europe and tropical marine climate in East Asia”. The work was carried out by the research teams of Hainan University in Haikou and Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno with the support of the Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. It should be noted that the results of the two-year joint work are known in the scientific world, published in the leading rating scientific journals of Belarus and China, as well as presented at international scientific conferences. During the meetings and negotiations at the forum, they expressed confidence that international scientific cooperation within the framework of the Alliance will soon bring tangible results in the form of new grants for joint scientific research of the participating countries, conferences and exchange of scientists. Hainan Medical University initiated the creation of the Belt-and-Road Alliance of Tropical Medicine on the proposal of the World Health Organization for the prevention of respiratory diseases and tropical diseases, as well as within the strategy to expand cooperation in the field of medicine among countries and regions united by the concept of Belt and Road Initiative. The concept of Belt and Road Initiative put forward by Chinese President XI Jinping calls for strengthening cultural and scientific exchanges and ties between different countries, as well as promoting the sustainable development of the participating countries.
Professors and students of the law faculty of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno took part in the international forum in Germany
The scientific forum was held on October 18-19 in the German city of Nuremberg.
The annual conference “Nuremberg Principles Beyond the International Criminal Court: A Common Basis for Responsibility” was attended by Grigory Tretyakov, associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Law, Process and Criminalistics of the Law Faculty, Natalya Gabets, senior lecturer of the Department of International Law, Maria Solodovnik, Evgenia Romanyuk, Karolina Zakharenko, fourth-year students. The event was held in the historic hall of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. The forum provided a comprehensive overview of the situation in the activities of international criminal justice, analyzed the main theoretical views and practices in the field of international criminal law. Leading international experts and practitioners working in the field of internation;al criminal justice spoke at the conference. It was possible to attend the event due to the organizational and financial support of the Mobility Scheme for Targeted People-to-People-Contacts MOST.
Professor of the Department of Theory and Methods of Physical Culture Andrei Shpakov visited the University of Poland in Biala Podlaska
Professor of the Department of Theory and Methods of Physical Culture Andrei Shpakov visited the University of Poland in Biala Podlaska from 11 to 17 November 2019 within the framework of the academic mobility program for teachers "Erasmus+.
During the visit to the University of Poland in Biala Podlaska, associate Professor of the Department of Theory and Methods of Physical Culture Andrei Shpakov read a series of lectures on the current state of the theory and practice of rehabilitation in the subjects “Physioprophylaxis and promotion of health” and “Public health” to students of the faculty of Healthcare Sciences and the faculty of Social Sciences. He also met and negotiated with representatives of the Department of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Department of Health at the Patriarch of Rome John Paul II State Higher School to discuss prospects of cooperation with the faculty of Physical Culture of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, studied the experience of organization of educational and scientific work at the faculty of Healthcare Sciences and Social Sciences of the University in Poland. Associate Professor Andrei Shpakov discussed with Polish colleagues the experience of educational work and achievements in the field of cross-border scientific cooperation of the faculty of Physical Culture of Kupala University. After that, the Polish side presented proposals for the continuation of research on the joint scientific topic “Physioprophylaxis” with the use of forms of physical activity in the prevention of adverse health factors in the lifestyle and behavior of critical groups of the population. Cross-border research” in 2020. By the way, the possibilities of preparing joint work for publication in scientific journals included in the Scopus, Web of Science databases were also discussed in the course of the negotiations. The first joint work, reflecting the results of the research in 2019, has already been sent to the journal “Health Problems of Civilization”, published at the Patriarch of Rome John Paul II State Higher School.
Students of Yanka Kupala state University took part in the International Volunteer Forum in Sochi
The event brought together more than 6,500 volunteer participants from different countries to share experience in implementing successful volunteer initiatives and summarizing the results of the expiring year.
The international volunteer Forum takes place from December 2 to 5 at the main media center of the Olympic Park in Sochi, Russia. Representatives of Kupala University as a part of the Belarusian delegation are students-activists of the primary organization of NGO “Belarusian Republican Youth Union” Diana Abramenko, Vladislav Mandik, Alesya Popko and Olga Rusilko.
The Forum suggests the participants a large number of platforms in different areas for the sharing of experience and knowledge in various areas of volunteer activity, organizations networking.
The business program of the Forum is based on the theme “Partnership for common goals” in three directions. The direction of “Discussion” involves participants in discussion of key topics of development of volunteerism and possible variants of development of partnership relations, analysis of cases of interaction and implementation of projects. During the course of direction named “Practice”, participants share their experience in implementing projects and programs within the framework of volunteer activities. Within the framework of the direction “Workshops and master classes” for participants are given master classes and trainings aimed at developing leadership skills, team building, promotion and coverage of project activities.
By the way, the participants of the International Forum are also involved in providing real volunteer assistance to charitable foundations, non-profit organizations and government agencies on twenty different platforms.
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About 100 participants gathered Festival of Chinese culture in Yanka Kupla State University of Grodno
Students of Yanka Kupla State University of Grodno, schoolchildren and volunteers from Minsk, attended the event.
The festival of Chinese culture lasted for two days. As part of the festival, students with linguistic degree held a quiz about the history and culture of China, prepared a presentation about finger-painting and traditional trades, held a competition to decode Chinese phraseological units and held a phonetic battle. The melodious Chinese songs and recited poems, including Pushkin's poem "I loved You" translated into Chinese, were featuring on the festival.
Numerous master classes in Chinese calligraphy and artistic paper cutting were also included in the program of the festival. Everyone was able to take part in the ceremony of Chinese tea and tasting Chinese cuisine, which was prepared by volunteers and students. The most active students in the events of the holiday were the freshmen and sophomores of the specialty "Linguistic support of intercultural communications", who study Chinese as the first foreign language. Volunteers from Minsk actively helped them to prepare a various and interesting program of the festival. They presented several concert performances, including an artistic reading of Chinese poetry, a performance of modern Chinese songs and a piece of music on a Chinese flute.
Everyone interested in Chinese culture could take part in the festival. There were students of different faculties of Kupala University, as well as students and authorities of secondary school No. 38 of Grodno, on the basis of which a branch of the Department of translation and intercultural communication of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno was established. The purpose of the festival of Chinese culture, which was held on the initiative of the academic and methodical cabinet “Cabinet of Confucius” and the Department of translation and intercultural communication of the faculty of history, communication and tourism, is to push the motivation of students and schoolchildren to study Chinese language and culture, to push the development of their communicative, intercultural and professional competencies.
Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno actively implements the Erasmus + program
Within the framework of the academic mobility program, teachers of Grodno State University visit foreign universities, exchange experience and give lectures for students.
During the visits, representatives of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno present the scientific and educational potential of the university, tell students about Summer schools, learning opportunities in the first and second stages of higher education, as well as the possibility of participating in mobility for students within the framework of the Erasmus + program in Yanka Kupala State University.
Thus, in the framework of the academic mobility program, Irena Kirvel, Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law and Process, visited the Sv. Maria Assunta in Palermo, Associate Professor of the Department of International Law Andrei Bogustov - University of Bialystok, and Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics Gregory Tretyakov visited the University of Matei Bela. In addition, Alexander Grin, Head of the Department of Mathematical Analysis, Differential Equations and Algebra, and Andrei Pronevich, Associate Professor of Mathematical and Information Support for Economic Systems lectured on the course "Differential Equations" at the University of Maribor.
In turn, Darya Ivinskaya, Senior Lecturer at the Department of International Law, visited Yasi University. A.I. Kuzy, where she demonstrated the work of forensic laboratories. The Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics Tatiana Vankova to the Technical University of Lodz (Republic of Poland) met with representatives of the International Engineering Faculty (IFE), who presented the international activities of the university, told about the features of teaching students at IFE.
Yanka Kupala State University and St. Maria Assunta LUMSA in Italy expands cooperation
Within the framework of the Erasmus + program, the Specialist of the International Projects and Academic Mobility Department of Education Internationalization Centre , Elena Nazaruk met with representatives of the St. Maria Assunta LUMSA in the offices of Palermo and Rome.
While visiting the Erasmus + office in the Palermo branch, a meeting was held with the Erasmus + program coordinator. The features of the organization of academic mobility in the Free Research University named after St. Maria Assunta - LUMSA, the issues of the development of academic mobility between educational institutions, the possibility of prolongation of the inter-university cooperation agreement in the framework of the Erasmus + program were discussed.
There was also a presentation of the educational and scientific potential Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno,the Education Internationalization Centre . Elena Nazaruk told colleagues from Italy about the possibilities for foreign students to study at Kupala University, as well as about the Summer Schools of the Yanka Kupala State University.
During a visit to the International Cooperation Department of the Free Research University named after St. Maria Assunta - LUMSA in the branch in Rome met with the head of the office to discuss issues related to the features of the educational process. The organization of academic mobility, the development of academic mobility between educational institutions was discussed.
The parties discussed features of the education system, the organization of the educational process and the internationalization of education, and also agreed on further participation in academic mobility projects within the framework of the Erasmus + program.
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