Managed by the Department of Literature of Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University, an international educational project called Winter Philological School. Russian Literature within a context of European culture ran from January 16-24, 2016 at the NMSTU. The university welcomed four students from the University of Milan.
An international educational program for workers of the Antillano de Acero metallurgical factory (Havana, Cuba) was inaugurated on February 2, 2016 at Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University. The program is one of the largest and long-term projects with foreign partners of late. Started under the Russian-Cuban agreement, the project is driven by plans of the Cuban metallurgists on upgrading of their factory.
Library No. 2 held the first «BRAVO!» French theatrical performance festival. The Municipal Department of Education and the Department of Romano-Germanic Philology and Translation of the NMSTU Institute of History, Philology and Foreign Languages helped to arrange the festival. «BRAVO!» festival featured poems, fables, and fairy-tails in French. About 100 school and university students performed skits in French. A Grand Prix winner will go to Yekaterinburg.
The English Language Department of the NMSTU Institute of History, Philology and Foreign Languages held a roundtable discussion “World without Frontiers: International Educational Programs” on the 30th of November 2015. Teachers, students, upper-form students from local schools and others participated in the discussion. Student and faculty academic mobility and international cooperation were under discussion. Former participants of international educational programs took an active part in the discussion and shared their impressions and experience.
Head of the NMSTU Literature Department, D.Sc. in Philology T.E. Abramzon gave lectures on Russian Literature at the University of Milan under the Visiting Professor academic mobility programme from October, 11-18.
I am in a programme
When I learnt about the International School on IT and GRID technologies for young researchers, I submitted my report for a contest. The report was based on my graduation paper on computer technologies applied to the analysis of energy efficiency of power station performance. But it focused on new options enabled by GRID technologies and supercomputers. Finally, my report was selected.
Under the “Tempus” trans-European cooperation programme in the field of higher education, Ksenia Lesovaya and Eugenia Ionova, the second-year students in the Master’s programme in Design of the Institute of Construction, Architecture and Art of the NMSTU, will take three-month courses at the Universidade Aberta (Lisbon, Portugal) starting from November 2015.
Assistant Professor of General History, Candidate of Historical Sciences Andrey Viktorovitch Bezrukov has published a monograph “Trade and Economic Contacts Between the Volga and Kama Rivers Region and the Classical World” in English in Oxford.
