Oksana Yakovishak, Project Manager at the NVSU International Office, has won a Fulbright grant 2015 for Russian International Education Administrators - RIEA. This program is open to Russian university administrators who work with international students at their universities. The goal of this program is to enhance and improve professional skills of university administrators who work with incoming international students and teachers from around the world and especially from the USA. It helps Russian international education professionals gain critical knowledge surrounding the needs of these students in the areas of academic placement, insurance and medical requirements, safety, cross-cultural challenges, and language training. Sharing best practices is an important component of the Fulbright program.

On October 18-25, 2015, following an official invitation, Larisa Novikova, Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Translation, and Daria Borisova, a first-year master student, joined the International Resident Advisor Symposium in Strasbourg, Karlsruhe. The trip was funded by Studentenwerk Karlsruhe and CNOUS. NVSU representatives made a report on the academic facilities and structures and support provided to students in NVSU. The audience was particularly interested to learn about the availability of the student residence hall, types and amount of university scholarships, and student life and events in NVSU.

On October 12-16, 2015, the Educational Institution of Trade Unions & Higher Professional Education in Moscow held the international research and practical workshop “Exploitation of best European practices in the cooperation between Russian HEIs and working-life organizations” organized within “Evaluation of Quality of Cooperation in Education Ecosystem as a Mechanism for Building Professional Competencies - E3M” Tempus Project. The workshop welcomed project representatives from Finland, Spain, Austria, Belgium, and Russia. NVSU was presented by Irina Istomina, Dean of the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, Gennady Malgin, Head of the Department of Power Engineering, Nadezhda Nemchinova, Head of the International Office, and Oksana Yakovishak, Project Manager of the International Office.

Tatiana Storchak, associate professor at the Department of Ecology, and Irina Ziyazova, lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and Translation, have been awarded an ERANET-PLUS shcolarship. ERANET-PLUS is an academic mobility program funded by the European Union. It is aimed at developing the cooperation between the European and Russian universities through new mobility opportunities for master, postgraduate and doctoral students.

In July 2015, bachelor and master students from the Faculty of Humanities and Svetlana Zykova, Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Translation Studies, took part in the International Summer School of the University of Barcelona. Within the Cooperation Agreement between two universities, the University of Barcelona provided 5 scholarships

On May 25-29, 2015, NVSU representatives took part in the second benchmarking visit within TEMPUS IV “E3M Evaluation of Quality of Cooperation in Education Ecosystem as a Mechanism for Building Professional Competencies”. The NVSU delegation included Tatiana Storchak, the Head of the Department of Ecology, Nadezhda Nemchinova, Head of International Office, and Victoria Lazareva and Maria Kalashnikova, students of the Faculty of Humanities. During the second week of the benchmarking visit, the Russian project partners were welcomed by the University of Girona, Faculty of Tourism.

NVSU students from the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Victoria Lazareva and Maria Kalashnikova, have recently returned from Southern Denmark, where they were studying at the University College of South Denmark under Erasmus academic mobility program. Here they are sharing their impressions of the visit.

On June 13, 2015, Nizhnevartovsk State University was officially admitted as a member of the University of the Arctic (UArctic). The 18th meeting of the Council of UArctic was held June 14-17, 2015 at the Buryat State University in Ulan Ude within the joint education and research conference “Arctic Dialogue in the Global World”. During the meeting, the Council held an open voting on including additional institutions and organizations as Council members. As a result, NVSU became a new UArctic member.

NVSU 3rd year students of the Faculty of Humanities, Regina Sagdatdinova and Anna Nikitina, have successfully passed the university selection and won the competition to study at the University College of South Denmark- UCSYD for the period of August-December 2015. The students will be enrolled for the course of Crossing Borders: Cultural Diversity in Early Years Education.

On May 17-20, 2015, Nadezhda Nemchinova, Head of NVSU International Office, higher education reform expert, took part in a study visit to the Technical University of Berlin (Germany). The study visit was organized by the University of Barcelona (UdB) and European University Association (EUA), which are part of the European Commission project consortium SPHERE (Support and Promotion for Higher Education Reform Experts).