BOLOGNA PROCESS OFFICIAL SEMINAR JOINT PROGRAMMES AND STUDENT MOBILITY Chelyabinsk Russia 16-17 March 2009 The Bologna Seminar on JOINT PROGRAMMES AND STUDENT MOBILITY will be held in Chelyabinsk, Russia, March 16 and 17, 2009. This seminar will be hosted by the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation and the National Training Foundation The main objective of Russian educational policy today is to integrate into world education and develop export of educational services. One of the mechanisms to meet this objective is launching joint programmes and projects together with foreign and international organizations. The preliminary themes to be discussed at the Bologna Seminar are: 1. Achievement of educational processes compatibility between universities. 2. European and Russian universities experience in developing and improving joint educational programmes. 3. Learning results recognition in universities-partners. 4. Creating conditions for extending mobility, including teachers language competence Further in this letter you will get information on: Registration Procedure Accommodation and arrival List of participants Programme 1
Registration Procedure We would like to enable as many participants to participate in the Bologna Process as possible. Therefore a specific procedure for registration is used. First of all, it is free of charge. The following criteria will be applied in the selection of participants: Ensuring a balanced participation of all interested countries, organisations and other parties. Up to 2 delegates per country or organisation will have guarantee of acceptance, on the condition of registering by March 10, 2009. If you wish to participate in the Bologna seminar, please send your registration form at safronova@susu.ac.ru. On receiving your e-mail you ll be sent confirmation of your participation immediately. If you do not receive confirmation in two days, please inform Conference Secretariat about it at safronova@susu.ac.ru. Indicate report title, time necessary to make a report, section name or plenary session. The participants will be given a brochure with reports as a result of the seminar. Accommodation and arrival You can get to the place of the seminar by any regular flight from Europe to Ekaterinburg. You can also fly first to Moscow, and then from Moscow to Chelyabinsk. We organize transfer both from Ekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk to the hotel. To be able to meet you, please, send information about your arrival at safronova@susu.ac.ru. As soon as you we get your reply, we will send you an email, confirming the fact of meeting you at the airport of arrival. We also organize transfer to the airport of departure. All speakers accommodation expenses are paid by the receiving part. However, all other participants are expected to meet their own travel and accommodation costs. We offer accommodation in 4* hotels, standard room. You can get information on accommodation at sites: 1. Hotel Park City, price: 85 euro a day. www.parkcityhotel.ru, www.easyhotels.ru/parkcity.shtml 2. Hotel Almaz, price: 50 70 euro a day. www.easyhotels.ru/almaz.shtml All universities are located 10 minutes walk from the University. The university covers meals expenses during the seminar. The participants delivery from the hotel to the University and back will be performed by buses. 2
List of participants The list of participants can be found at the seminar website: www.susu.ac.ru, www.fc.susu.ac.ru. In case your name, organization or other details are misspelt, please inform us about it. Programme The programme is incomplete and requires further details. As soon as we have more information, we ll send you a final complete program at the seminar website www.susu.ac.ru. www.fc.susu.ac.ru. PROGRAMME Monday, March 16, 2009 9:00 10:00 Participants registration 10:00 10:30 Conference opening: Alexander Shestakov, rector of South Ural State university (SUSU) Michael JORIS, Coordinator of the International Relation Office of the KH Limburg University College (Belgium) Rolf Peter, head of Section European Higher Education Reform, Rectors' Nelli Rozina, deputy director of State Policy and Legal Regulation department in field of education in Ministry of Education and Science, coordinator of working group in implementing Bologna principles in Russia. Viktor Chistokhvalov, member of the Bologna Follow-Up Group Plenary Meeting: First session The recognition and accreditation of joint educational programs 10:30 12:00 Host: Viktor Chistokhvalov, member of the Bologna Follow-Up Group The main reports: 12:00 12:30 Coffee break Michael JORIS, Coordinator of the International Relation Office of the KH Limburg University College (Belgium) Joint educational programs of Russian and European universities: their realization, recognition and accreditation. Nelly Rosina, the coordinator of Working group on realization the Bolonian principles in Russia. 3
Second session Host: Nelly Rozina, representative of the Ministry of education 12:30 14:00 "Academic mobility in the EHEA and the role of joint degree programmes" Rolf Peter, head of Section European Higher Education Reform, Rectors' The problems of realization of academic mobility in Russia (according to National Report and monitoring in 2008) Darya Suslova, National Training Foundation (Russia) 14:00 15:00 Lunch Plenary Meeting: 15:00 16:30 Third session Host: Michael JORIS, Coordinator of the International Relation Office of the KH Limburg University College (Belgium) The experience of cooperation of Peoples Friendship University of Russia with foreign partner universities on development of built in magistracy programs Viktor Chistokhvalov, member of the Bologna Follow-Up Group The expiriance of the organisation of joint educational programs and the realisation of student mobility in the South Ural State Univercity Alexader Shestakov, rector of SUSU 16:30 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 18:30 Host: Rolf Peter, head of Section European Higher Education Reform, Rectors' 19:00 20:30 Supper Tuesday, March 17, 2009 ROUND TABLE Joint educational programs Host: Viktor Chistokhvalov, member of the Bologna Follow-Up Group Participants: Svetlana Naumchuk, Head of "Professional training" Department 10:00 13:30 Accounting for labor practices in the development of joint Educational Programs Evgeniy Shevchenko, Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University 4
Representative of European Council Host: ROUND TABLE Student Mobility Participants: Representative of European Association of Students Ewa Annusewicz, expert Ministry of Science and Higher Education Poland Sergei Morozov, head of International Affairs department of SUSU Ludmila Rudova, Belarusian ENIC 13:30 14:30 Lunch 14:30-15:30 Preparing and approving recommendations Departure 5