CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES IN ERASMUS MUNDUS ACTION 2 : NOVGOROD STATE UNIVERSITY Elvira Kaminskaya, Head of International Academic Programmes St.Petersburg, 3 February 2011

YAROSLAV-THE-WISE NOVGOROD STATE UNIVERSITY largest classical university in the region students,900 academic staff 8 institutes, 4 colleges, 20 faculties 19 bachelor & 11 master programmes 335 international students from 41 country

EMECW/EMA2: How did we get there?  Establish a systemic, institutionalized approach to internationalization  Focus on regional networking  Strengthen existing and develop new partnerships  Encourage international project activities  Enhance your visibility by all means  Never stop trying!

Belarus China Estonia Finland France Germany Great Britain Latvia Norway Poland Serbia Sweden Ukraine USA

Outgoing mobility NovSU

EMA2: Marketing activities  Program presentations for students and academic staff  Round tables on partnership issues  Interviews with grantees  Articles in university press & local papers  Webpage developed and updated  s and phone calls to university graduates  Poster sessions & flyer dissemination

EMECW mobility statistics Mobility type EU/RU NovSU-EU 2008 EU-NovSU 2008 NovSU-EU 2009 EU-NovSU 2009 Undergraduate students Master students Doctorates Post-Docs Academic Staff Total:

Opportunities Institutions:  Contribute to home campus internationalization  Enhanced mobility flows  Raise the university’s international profile  Expand, complement and enrich educational content  Tool for improving mobility organization

Opportunities Individuals:  Gain perspective and insight that will increase their capacity to function in a globalized society  Global engagement: cultural intelligence  Improved language proficiency  Personal growth and development

Dual degree program  Novgorod State University – Pultusk Academy for the Humanities  Master Program in History/Political Science  Center for Russian- Polish Business Cooperation

Challenges  Incompatibility of curricular, recognition of study periods, credit transfer  Inequalities in higher education  Outdated stereotypes  Few courses taught in English, no course catalogues in English, low faculty incentives  Language assessment tests  TG2 recruitment

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