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Yerbol Zhakenov and Anna Pluzyan, students of NVSU Faculty of Information Technology and Mathematics, have attended the seminar “Communication without borders” held on November 1-9, 2019 in Berlin (Germany). Seminar participants have studied visual communication tools and discussed the homework received at one of the seminar stages. Yerbol Zhakenov says, “The seminar was very bright and namable. It was very interesting to meet people from different countries like Greece, Macedonia, Georgia, Germany, Latvia and other. The participants introduced their countries and presented national dishes. It was a great opportunity to get to know a different culture.” NVSU students will take part in the third stage of the seminar which is to be held in Sochi in 2020.

Rostislav Nikulitsa, a student of NVSU Faculty of Arts and Design, has completed his studies in Finland and returned home. Rostislav spent an autumn semester at JAMK University of Applied Sciences in Jyväskylä studying the program of Musical Education. “The educational program depends solely on the students’ musical preferences and technical skills, with the main emphasis on practice. I think this a huge plus of studying at JAMK University of Applied Sciences,” said Rostislav.

Liepaja University Lecturer Patriks Morevs (Latvia) visited Nizhnevartovsk State University, a LiepU partner university. During his visit, Patriks Morevs was giving lectures on analytic geometric and mathematical analysis to NVSU bachelor students majoring in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Information Systems and Technologies, and Pedagogical Education. The students also learned about the benefits of the Erasmus+ program, the opportunities to study abroad, and about Liepaja University. A month earlier, Ramil Mammadli, a lecturer of the NVSU Faculty of Information Technologies and Mathematics, had given lectures on data bases and programming to students of the University of Liepaja majoring in Information Technologies. The visit of Patrick Morevs was the final event of the project on academic mobility of students and teachers between the Nizhnevartovsk State University and Liepaja University (Key Action 1: Learning mobility of individuals). During the visit, members of partner universities discussed further cooperation in education and research.

Ramil Mammadli, Associate Professor at the NVSU Department for Computer Science and Methods of Teaching Computer Science, has returned from Latvia, where he taught at the University of Liepaja (Liepaja, Latvia). The visit was financed by the EU Erasmus+ 2014-2020 program, as part of the project on academic mobility of students and teachers (Key Action 1: Learning mobility of individuals) between Nizhnevartovsk State University and the University of Liepaja. Ramil Mammadli gave a 12-hour course on Advanced Database Technologies to students majoring in Information Technology. The course included lectures on Transact-SQL programming, dynamic SQL, stored procedures and user-defined functions, triggers, cursors, XML, and spatial data.

On November 25, the Faculty of Ecology and Engineering, Nizhnevartovsk State University, held a scientific and methodical seminar “Environment, Health and Climate change: Facing the challenges and Adapting to Impacts: Experience of the European Union” joined by university professors, master and graduate students, as well as professionals in ecology, environmental management, and geoecology. The seminar participants discussed the issues of paleoclimatology, climate change, aquatic ecosystems, biological diversity, impact of climate change on public health, implementation of adaptation programs in EU countries, international agreements on climate change and adaptation to the effects of change and climate change indicators: EU research. The results of the seminar are to be published as e-version book of seminar proceedings uploaded on the platform elibrary.ru and included in the RSCI citation system. The seminar was part of Jean Monnet Module project “Environment, Health and Climate change: Facing the challenges and Adapting to Impacts: Experience of the European Union” (600178-EPP-1-2018-1-RU-EPPJMO-MODULE), financed by the European Commission. The seminar was organized by the NVSU Department for Ecology, Faculty of Ecology and Engineering. The Organizing Committee was represented by Denis Pogonyshev, First Vice-Rector, Vice-Rector for Research, and Irina Pogonysheva, Associate Professor of the Department for Ecology.

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.

On October 10-12, NVSU member Olga Shakhova, Associate Professor, Department for Humanities, Social Studies and Tourism, took part in the Accessibility Forum, organized by the China Disabled Persons’ Federation and Tsinghua University in Beijing (China). Olga Shakhova gave a presentation on “Tourist and recreational development of territory for organization of accessible tourism: RU experience”.

On September 18-20, 2019, the final conference to sum up the results of the Erasmus+ UNISON project (University-Enterprise Cooperation via Spin-Off Companies Network) was held in Yantai (China). The event was organized by the Chinese partners of the project: Yantai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ludong University and Yantai Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone. The conference was attended by representatives of 13 project partners: University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences (Germany), Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (Portugal), Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia), Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University (Georgia), Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (Russia), Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics (Russia), Perm State University (Russia).

On September 18, the Delegation of the European Union to Russia together with the National Erasmus+ Office in Russia held the conference “Implementation of the Jean Monnet Project in Russia: Examples of Best Practices”,  dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Jean Monnet Project, the conference was attended by representatives of higher education institutions in Russia and academic coordinators of Jean Monnet Projects, who have successfully completed the project proposals and implemented the projects funded by the European Commission. Markus Ederer, the EU Ambassador to Russia, and Boris Zhelezov, Deputy Director of the Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, welcomed conference participantsat the opening ceremony.

Nizhnevartovsk State University has signed a cooperation agreement with the Yantai Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone. The signing ceremony took part in Yantai (PRC) as part of the final conference, the participants of which summed up the implementation of the Erasmus+ UNISON project “University-enterprise cooperation via spin-off companies network””. The structure of the company Yantai Hi-Tech includes the Sino-Russian innovative technology park, the largest in China. Residents of the technology park are 1,100 Chinese enterprises and organizations that actively cooperate with Russian partners. In 2010, by order of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, this Hi-tech industrial park was awarded the status of a national business incubator. It was also recognized as the forward innovative technology centre in Shandong Province.