The delegation which included representatives of the Government and the business industry of Chelyabinsk region made a working visit to Iran. The purpose of the visit was to expand business partnerships and to build cooperation with the Islamic Republic. The delegation was headed by the Governor of Chelyabinsk region, Boris Dubrovsky, including representatives of South Urals; Vice-Rector for International Relations of SUSU, Victor Katochkov, took part in the trip.
South Ural State University has signed a cooperation agreement with Joanneum University of Applied Sciences (Graz, Austria).
Joanneum University is one of the oldest and largest Austria’s universities of applied sciences. Its main campus is situated in the popular student city of Graz. The other two campuses are located in Kapfenberg and Bad Gleichenberg.
The Office of International Activities would like to inform you that they are accepting information from people to be featured in a special column, “Best Achievements in the Field of International Relations”.
Representatives of the SUSU Managing Committee for the 5-100 program, chaired by rector Aleksandr Shestakov, is actively preparing to defend the program for increased competetiveness of South Ural University (“Road Map”) for 2016-2020.
Today in Moscow, university program presentations are being analyzed, wording and details of the presentation are being clarified, and strategic prospects for future scientific and industrial cooperation with international experts are being discussed.
The Chelyabinsk branch of the Association of International Students, along with the SUSU Office of International Activities invite all students and employees of the university to celebrate Nowruz – New Year’s for the Iranian and Turkish peoples.
The event is being held on March 21st in the SUSU conference hall. Guests off this event will be immersed in the holiday atmosphere and learn many new things about our neighbors’ traditions.
As part of All-Russian Festival of Science, “Student Science Days” are being held at South-Ural State University from March 21st through March 23rd (2016). This event is being held for the third time in SUSU.
This year, the main goal of the “Science Days” is to introduce students to the various faculties and institutes engaged in the university’s main scientific research projects, which are:
The SUSU Faculty of Civil Law and Procedure has become an academic platform, upon which an international group of research was formed. This group was brought together in an effort to establish a modern scientific concept, “Principles of Civil Law and Its Realization.”
The IV Students’ International Championship on Corporate Finance “Growth Driver – 2016” was held the last days of February in Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov.
Applications for participation were received from 120 teams from Russia and near-abroad countries. 24 teams came through to the final, including the team of students representing the Department of Economics and Finance of SUSU.
At the end of February at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) and Tajikistan University of Technology (Dushanbe, Tajikistan) held the first meeting of experts of the Eurasian Club of Intellectual Ideas. The Foundation for Socio-Economic Development ‘Eurasian Community’ (Chelyabinsk, Russia) was the main organizer of the event.
On the 29th of February the SUSU Academic Board meeting was held. The key issues brought up for discussions were the issues on the development of economic and juridical education in SUSU.
In the photo: SUSU Rector Alexander Shestakov (on the left) and Director General of Asha Metallurgical Plant Vladimir Myzgin (on the right)
SUSU Rector Alexander Shestakov and the Director General of Asha Metallurgical Plant Vladimir Myzgin have signed the contract on establishing a department in the plant. This will give students an opportunity to put the obtained knowledge into practice. The training will be carried out on the shop floors: steelmaking and rolling production.
In 2016 the journal “Bulletin of SUSU. Series: Mathematical Modeling and Programming” has been included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index database of the unique collection of Web of Science (Web of Science Core Collection). Based on the decision made by Thomson Reuters, all papers published in this journal starting from 2015 will be indexed in Web of Science.
Emerging Sources Citation Index is a new database which is a part of Web of Science.
At the end of February SUSU students sent a call signal to the International Space Station. From the orbit the flight engineer of the ISS-46 crew Sergey Volkov answered the students’ questions.
The duration of a communication session depends on the crew location in the radio coverage zone. This year the spaceship has made one orbit around the Earth, therefore the call duration was 20 minutes.
On February 26 in the Art hall the Mufti of Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions Rinat-khazrat Raev met students of South Ural State University. The rector of SUSU Alexander Shestakov, the head of the Administration of Regional Spiritual Directorate of the Muslims Marat Sabirov and the head of the National Policy Directorate of the Ministry of Culture of Chelyabinsk region Ilya Anosov were present at this meeting.
A team of biotechnical researchers from South Ural State University under the leadership of a professor from India announced an innovative development – anti-stress bread and yogurt. The public needs these and other products as an element of the complex correction of illnesses tied to chronic stress and a bad environment. The research results will be published in a month.
On February 28, 2016 at 11:00 the final stage of Multidisciplinary Engineering Olympiad ‘Star’ will be held. The event will take place at two locations: in the lobby of the Assembly Hall of the main building of SUSU (Lenin Ave., 76) and on the 2nd floor of the 2d building of the university (Lenin Ave., 85).
On February 16-20 SUSU delegation which included Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Construction Dmitry Ulrikh and the head of the International Programs and Funds Department Yulia Balakina visited the University of Genoa (Italy). The three-day meeting was focused on implementation of a joint project designed to development of competence in the sphere of higher education “Erasmus+ MARUEEB Project “Master Degree in Innovative Technologies in Energy Efficient Buildings for Russian & Armenian Universities and Stakeholders”
On the 20th of February two workshop sessions on the problems of business modeling were passed in the MBA Center of SUSU.
The masters of the workshop sessions were:
- Irina Sufiiarova, expert in the field of staff management and motivation, instructor of Human Resource Management at the Presidential program of MBA Center in the Ural Business School;
- Konstantin Terentev, instructor of MBA Center of SUSU with five-year work experience as a financial director and consultant on the finance management.
From 18th to 21th of February the Russian Kickboxing Championship among the students of higher educational institutions (section K-1, full-contact, light-contact) was held. Over 150 sportsmen from 27 universities of the Russian Federation took part in this event.
The excursion for students of the Institute of International Education of SUSU, who study Russian and attend preparatory courses, was held on February 18 in the framework of the Forum “Science of SUSU”.
On the whole, about 60 applicants and students from China, Iraq, Iran and other states, which universities cooperate with SUSU in the framework of the academic mobility programs, took part in the excursions.
February 17, 2016 anyone could feel the Chinese culture and celebrate the start of the New Year again at SUSU. In China it is common to celebrate the arrival of the New Year with the same broad scale as in the whole world but it is celebrated according to the lunar calendar, hence, it is sometimes called the Lunar New Year. For us the New Year is the winter holiday but for the Chinese it is the spring festival which symbolizes the awakening of nature and the beginning of a new life cycle.
