NVSU has held an annual awareness raising seminar titled Academic Mobility: Advantages and Latest Issues.
The seminar participants were welcomed by Denis Pogonyshev, First Vice-Rector, Vice-Rector for Research, emphasizing that academic mobility was a priority area of the international activity at Nizhnevartovsk State University offering its students exceptional opportunities for a high quality education and research or internships abroad.
Oksana Moroz, Head of NVSU International Office, discussed academic mobility, its types and specifics, as well as on the advantages of participating in academic mobility programs and areas of Erasmus+, the leading European Union program.
A seminar guest Anastasiya Felde, a Chinese language teacher from Confucius Institute, Ural Federal University named after B.N. Yeltsin, spoke on language and culture teaching at Confucius Institute, possibilities of studying in China with financial support from the Chinese government, and students who took part in a summer school in China organized by the Confucius Institute. Confucius Institute is a network of international cultural and educational centers created by the State Chancellery of Chinese Language Abroad responsible for teaching of Chinese abroad, training and certifying teachers of Chinese, and holding educational events aimed at promoting Chinese culture and language.
Victoria Kondratyeva, Academic Mobility Coordinator from NVSU International Office, introduced the seminar participants to the relevant academic mobility programs implemented by Nizhnevartovsk State University together with foreign partner universities, including student exchange program, and Erasmus+ short-term mobility programs for students and graduate students. Victoria also spoke on the rector’s personal grant for students to support their studies abroad and the documents required for academic mobility programs.
NVSU students shared their experience of studying abroad. Angelina Ivanova and Arina Kashapova, 3rd year students of the Faculty of Humanities, studied at the University College of Southern Denmark in Aabenraa within Erasmus+ program; Polina Libanova and Valeria Nekrasova, students of the Faculty of Humanities, shared their learning experience received during English Philology course at the University of Barcelona within Erasmus + short-term mobility program; Marika Trubina, 4th year student at the Faculty of Information Technology and Mathematics, studied one semester at JAMK University of Applied Sciences in Jyväskylä, Finland, within Erasmus+ program.
NVSU students studying at partner universities presented a video message for the seminar participants. Anna Pluzyan and Erbol Zhakenov talked about Liepaja University, while Arina Safina and Irina Bezukladova shared their experience of studying in Germany and the Munich Institute of Foreign Languages and Translators.
