On November 27th, the ceremony of awarding the winners and medallists of the Sporty SUSU project was held as part of the All-Russian Youth Projects Contest of the Rosmolodezh Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.
Rosmolodezh is a federal executive body, whose activities are entirely focused on creating equal conditions for the self-fulfilment of the younger generation.
Today, the goal of Rosmolodezh is to create as many opportunities as possible for young people’s self-development and, as a result, the effective fulfilment of the innovative potential of the youth.
A project and analysis session, which was being held at South Ural State University November 29th through December 1st, closed with the signing by the Head of the City of Chelyabinsk Natalya Kotova and SUSU Rector Aleksandr Shestakov of a Memorandum on creating a system of managing a Smart City project.
South Ural State University researchers are developing new dyes for solar cells. The improved structure of dyes helps to obtain 10% more energy than it is obtained at present.
The fourth Contemporary Science Film Festival (FANK), where films about science will be screened, is to be held at SUSU December 2nd through December 6th. The event is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and aims at promoting scientific-research activity among students.
The Student Union Movement in Russia celebrates its centenary. On December 2, at 5:00 p.m. the Festival of 100 Istorii Uspekha (100 Success Stories) Primary Student Union Organisations of the Ural Federal District universities will be held in Chelyabinsk at the Malachite Congress Hotel as part of the celebration of the Year of the Student Union Movement.
The Tenth International Natural Sciences Tournament was held in Saint Petersburg. It is a team competition between students from European universities solving scientific problems in physics, chemistry and biology, which are usually published beforehand.
International students from South Ural State University won several awards at the Burevestnik Fight Team, Chelyabinsk Open Cup in Grappling, which is a type of martial arts combining the techniques of all wrestling disciplines.
Grappling is a combined wrestling, which includes all advantages of the separate wrestling disciplines to set the most effective and useful combat rules without striking. Grappling has more permissible techniques than other types of wrestling. The competition was organized by Burevestnik Fight Team.
Students of South Ural State University have an excellent opportunity to gain professional experience abroad, studying under exchange programs. And some of them have decided to share their impressions about it.
The Governor of our region Alexey Texler held an extended session of the Coordination Council for ecological issues on November 22. The representatives of the SUSU Institute of Law took part in this event.
Environmental experts, manufactures and representatives of regional authorities considered the problem of ecological standard development for the region and discussed the project of technical requirements in details.
On November 22nd, the Continuing Education international forum was held at South Ural State University. The event was organized by the SUSU Institute of Open and Distance Education.
This forum, dedicated to continuing education in Russia and around the world, brought together staff and researchers from universities in Russia, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, and China.
A seminar and strategic sessions on the discussion of promotion of the university research in the global space and improvement of its position on ranking lists were held at South Ural State University during the visit of Jacques de Champchesnel, QS Company (Quacquarelli Symonds) consultant.
The Department of Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations of the Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities of SUSU jointly with UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), are to publish a Russian edition textbook on Journalism, “Fake News” and Disinformation for academic and professional training of journalists within the frameworks of the Fact-Checking and Verification course.
The applications from students of South Ural State University for studying in Hungary under the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme are currently being accepted.
On November 26, an Environmental Monitoring Conference was held at the Emerson site, which was attended by employees of South Ural State University. As part of the Clean Air project, the parties signed an agreement on collaboration in the field of environmental monitoring.
The fifth airplay of Zolotoe Sechenie (Golden Section) author’s program on SUSU-TV is dedicated to a genius scientist Norbert Wiener. Igor Klebanov, Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow of the Department of System Programming of the SUSU School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Candidate of Sciences (Physics and Mathematics) opened a new section within the framework of Zolotoe Sechenie program: Anniversaries of Great Minds and Great Ideas.
The Club of International Communications was opened at South Ural State University on November 21. The Department of Management of the SUSU School of Economics and Management founded the club.
South Ural State University has been participating in Program 5-100 on improving the competitiveness of the leading Russian universities for several years now. Within this program a large number of foreign students come to study at the university.
On November 21st and 22nd, the 2nd All-Russian Student Olympiad in Economic Safety was held at the Department of Economic Security of the School of Economics and Management of South Ural State University.
18 teams from 15 different Russian universities participated – not just from the Ural Region, but also from Barnaul, Volgograd, Irkutsk, Moscow, and Perm.
An IELTS Teacher Training Workshop has been held at SUSU. The workshop was organized by Star Travel/ Star Academy Group of Companies, official partner of the IELTS BKC International House testing centre, jointly with the British Council.
For the academic staff of the Institute of Linguistics and International Communications, November has been a moth of intensive professional self-improvement. Elaboration of a system of continuous professional development for teachers is one of the tasks under М 8.1.3. “Implementing Advanced Language Training in Bachelor’s Programmes”.
A delegation from Xuchang University, China, visited South Ural State University November 18th through November 21st in order to discuss the development of international cooperation and joint educational projects on the Russian language and specialized fields for students and academic staff.
“Transformation of Electoral Behaviour in Russia in the Face of Digital Revolution” open lecture will be held in the main building of South Ural State University. The speaker of the lecture is Nikita Tregubov, Associate Professor of the Department of International Relations, Politology and Regional Studies of the Institute of Linguistics and International Communications.
On November 19, the presentation of electric bolide, a new racing car created by university students as part of project-based learning, was held at South Ural State University.
The event was attended by the heads of departments of the SUSU Institute of Engineering and Technology, employees of Rezonans Research and Development Enterprise, as well as managers, developers and other project participants.
Project manager, Professor Aleksandr Gritsenko told about the characteristics of the new car.
Scientists of South Ural State University conducted a wide study of the problem of integrating new technologies into the process of teaching a foreign language, and developed a new online course for studying English at the university, which was implemented on the Moodle platform.
The First Russia-UK University Rectors Forum was held at Lomonosov Moscow State University. About 100 rectors and representatives of British and Russian universities took part in it, and South Ural State University was represented by Оlga Yaroshenko, the Vice-Rector for International Relations.
Intellectual games, bowling competitions, and new acquaintances: students from South Ural State University took part in an informative and entertaining event organized by the Consulate General of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Yekaterinburg. The meeting was dedicated to the Day of the Adoption of the State Flag of Uzbekistan.
