INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY

In the context of development of the processes of international integration and Russia joining the world community, the KemSU successfully develops its partnership with 15 foreign institutions of higher education: the Koblenz-Landau University, the Ruhr-University (Germany), the Marie Haps Free Institute, the Lessius High School (Belgium), the University of Humanities (France), the Lock Haven University (USA), the Liaoning University and the Shanghai Electrotechnical University (CPR), the Academic Foundation "Ufuk" (Turkey), the Mongolian Society "Knowledge", etc.

In the frames of different projects (the Tempus-Tacis, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the National Training Foundation) the KemSU takes part in programs of students and lecturers exchange, Internet development, modernization of managing the University complex.

The important part of the process of integration into the world educational system is participation of KemSU professors, lecturers and postgraduates in individual grant projects. Scientists of the University yearly hold international conferences on actual problems of modern science.

Large works are carried out in the field of development of academic relationship and students and lecturers exchange. Particularly, close connections with the Lock Haven University (USA) yearly allows 6-8 KemSU students to go for included training on different specializations, and one KemSU specialist is sent to the LHU to teach Russian. The regular practice is invitation of French native-speakers from Belgium and France for the whole period of the academic year to teach students of the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology. The model of students exchange between the KemSU and institutes of translators of Belgium is efficiently working. prospects of interaction with Master's and post-graduate courses of educational institutions of Germany are also (and being) expanded.

At present students and postgraduates from China, Mongolia and Turkey study at the KemSU. In the spirit of good-neighbourliness the KemSU extends friendly relations with the Centers of International Exchange of the Liaoning Province and of Qingdao City in China, the foundation being laid there for joint educational institutions; the KemSU branch functions in the capital of Mongolia, with a structure having analogy to a center of continuing education; teaching Turkish at the University and the Municipal Classical Lyceum favours the development of further possible intercultural and business contacts with institutions of higher education in Turkey.

Yearly over 60 lecturers and students of the University go abroad on different kinds of academic and business trips (courses in foreign languages, participation in educational exhibitions, research study courses, business talks). In turn, the KemSU receives up to 50 foreign guests invited for studies at different faculties, lecturing, joint scientific research.

Photogalleries

	September, 2007. Visit of a delegation from the Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (Chongqing, China) to the KemSU
	27 September, 2007. Signing of the Cooperation Agreement in the field of academic and scientific activities between the Kemerovo State University and the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) State University
	25 October, 2007. Visit of Consul General of Germany Mr. Michael Kanzler to the KemSU
	From 18 to 25 November, 2007 nine students of the KemSU underwent a training course at the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) State University in Yerevan, Armenia
	March, 2008. Visit of a group of students and lecturers from the Lock Haven University, USA, to the KemSU
	9 April, 2008. Literary-musical evening on H. Heine's poetry with participation of one of world-known Heine reciters - Mr. Otto Steffl from Austria
	3 December, 2008. Visit of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the South African Republic in the Russian Federation, Dr. Bheki Winston Joshua Langa to the KemSU