​​On March 15, Nizhny Novgorod will host a round table meeting on the exchange of experience in working with compatriots abroad at the level of regions of the Russian Federation.

The round table will be attended by representatives of Rossotrudnichestvo, the House of Russian Abroad, the Fund for Support and Protection of the Rights of Compatriots Abroad, as well as executive authorities and organizations from 11 constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Compatriots from Abkhazia, Belgium, Belarus, Spain, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Latvia, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Estonia and South Ossetia will join the discussion of topical issues of supporting compatriots in full-time and remote formats.

The organizers are the Department of External Economic and International Relations of Moscow and the Department of External Relations of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

The online broadcast starts on March 15 at 10:00 Moscow time.

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​​Representatives of the Consulate General of the Republic of Uzbekistan met with students of Lobachevsky University

On the 9th of March the meeting of the First Secretary of the Consulate General of the Republic of Uzbekistan Azizbek Razakov and the representative of the Agency for External Labour Migration under the Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Russian Federation Otabek Abdulgaziev as well as the Head of Nizhny Novgorod Community of natives of the Republic of Uzbekistan Anvar Baltayev with the students of Uzbekistan studying at the universities of Nizhny Novgorod took place.

On the Russian side, the meeting was attended by Vladimir Prelov, Acting Director of the External Relations Department of the Government of Nizhny Novgorod Region, and Alexander Bedny, Vice-Rector for International Affairs of Lobachevsky University. During the meeting, the participants exchanged views on issues related to the citizens of Uzbekistan receiving education in the Russian Federation. Lobachevsky University has good experience in cooperation with partner higher education institutions in Uzbekistan. The students who attended the meeting talked about their lives and studies and shared their plans for the future. The students thanked the representatives of the Consulate General and emphasized that the support of the Republic's leadership is very important for them. The students also thanked Lobachevsky University administration for their help and support in matters related to their studies and stay at the University.

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4 committees
6 languages

Moscow will host the annual Vitaly Churkin International Model UN!

🗓 When: 16-21 April
📍 Where: MGIMO, Moscow
👱🏻‍♀️🧑🏻Формат: In person

✅ If you are ready to act as an official representative of a UN member state and an international organisation, present a position and pass a resolution on an issue on the agenda, then do register and be selected!

⏰ Registration deadline is 10 April 2023.

🔗 See the official website for more information.

To the participants of the Olympiad Lobachevsky/RU!

The results of the first stage of the Olympiad have been summed up. To participate in the second stage of the Olympiad, the jury selected 101 works!!! List of participants who passed to the second stage⬇️
http://www.unn.ru/site/images/news/2023/03/13/olimp_ru_2023_2etap.pdf

Tomorrow we will publish the details of participation in the second stage! Congratulations to everyone!!!🎉🎊

Dear participants, congratulations! 👏👏
You have successfully passed the tests of the First Stage of the Lobachevsky/RU Olympiad.

‼️ March 17 (Friday) will be the second stage of the Olympiad.
⏳The connection time will be announced to you additionally on March 16 by e-mail specified during registration.
🥸The second stage involves an interview with the jury members (no more than 5 minutes), does not require special training and is aimed solely at clarifying your level of Russian language proficiency.
A link to the Zoom conference with instructions for participating in the Second Stage will be sent on March 16 (Thursday) to the email address provided during registration.

Good luck! 🌠For all questions, please contact the organizers of the Olympiad

​​The Gorchakov Fund, Rossotrudnichestvo and the Pushkin Institute have opened the call for applications for participation in the InteRussia scientific internship program for foreign Russian specialists.

The participants will get acquainted with the achievements of Russian scientists in the field of philology, take part in expert sessions, and work under the guidance of leading scientists from the Pushkin State Institute of the Russian Language.

Internships will be held in Moscow from May 22 to June 19, 2023.

Applications are accepted until April 7, 23:59 Moscow time. The results of the competition will be sent to the candidates by e-mail.

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​​Open Doors Results: The interest of foreign youth in research in Russia is growing

The results of the Global Universities Association International Olympiad for foreign undergraduate and postgraduate students Open Doors, supported by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and Rossotrudnichestvo, are summed up.

Key figures of the Olympiad 2022-2023:

21 host universities; 14 profiles; more than a third of the scientific thematic areas of the international science map are reflected in the Olympiad profiles; 750 people involved in the distributed project office;
196 countries; 78,000 participants; 1,700 winners and runners-up

Interest in research in Russia (postgraduate track):
28,000 participants in the postgraduate intellectual competition track; 300 winners and runners-up
1,700 foreign participants were winners and runners-up in the Olympiad. They will be granted the right to study in Russia for free in the field within the quota of the Government of the Russian Federation for foreign nationals.
The Olympiad is organised in 14 profiles. The most popular profiles among foreign participants of the Olympics are "Business and management", "Engineering and technology", "Computer and data science". The top 3 most popular subjects are Financial Management, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, International Relations.

The Open Doors competition is widely known throughout the world. In six years more than 325 000 people from 197 countries took part in intellectual competitions, about 90% of them live in Asian and African countries. 3,700 participants were granted the right to study at the best Russian universities free of charge. The interest in the Olympics has been stable over the last three years, irrespective of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions or the external political environment.

Regular polls show that participants of the Olympiad consider education and research in Russia along with education in Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Canada, China, USA, which traditionally are attractive for applicants.

Open Doors takes place on the undergraduate and postgraduate track, online, in Russian or English at the participant's choice.
The intellectual competition at the first stage includes the following elements: entrance test, preparation of motivation letter, filling in the portfolio of achievements. At the second stage the successful participants perform Olympiad tasks using proctoring technology. Participants of the postgraduate track are additionally interviewed by potential research supervisors representing the host universities of the Olympiad. Based on the results of the intellectual competition, winners and runners-up in the Master's and PhD track are determined.

The Olympiad team annually improves mechanisms for searching and selecting the most capable and motivated candidates to study at Russian universities. The programmes of the profiles reflect the thematic interest of the participants in the global market, the methodological materials for different profiles are implemented according to unified methodological principles.

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The Olympiad has been held since 2017/18 academic year by member universities of the Association, in 2018 it is included in the federal project "Export of Education" of the national project "Education", since 2021 it is implemented within the federal project "Human Capital Development for Regions, Industries and Research and Development Sector" of the national project "Science and Universities".

The Olympiad is organized by the Global Universities Association represented by the member universities of the Russian Higher Education Global Competitiveness Program: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University; Far Eastern Federal University; Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; Lobachevsky University, Moscow State University; MISIS National Research Technological University; National Research Tomsk State University; National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University; National Research University Higher School of Economics; National Research Nuclear University MEPHI; Novosibirsk National Research State University; Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University; Russian Peoples' Friendship University (RUDN).

The Olympiad is held in 14 profiles: "Business and Management, Biology and Biotechnology, Engineering and Technology, Clinical Medicine and Public Health, Cognitive Neurosciences and Psychology, Computer and Data Science, Linguistics and Literature, Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Earth Sciences, Education, Political Sciences, Physical Sciences, Chemistry and Materials Sciences, Economics and Econometrics.

Since the start of the Olympiad, interest in it has been constantly growing: compared to 2017, the number of participants has increased by 5.5 times, the number of countries represented by participants by 25%, and the number of portfolios filled in by participants by 10 times.

​​Russia ranked sixth in the world in terms of the number of students from abroad. The number of international students in Russian universities exceeds three hundred and fifty thousand people (351,127 students), which is six percent of all mobile students on the planet.

Currently, there is no decrease in the number of students and a decrease in interest in studying in Russia. According to the indicators, domestic education attracts young people from all over the world, Russia holds the lead in the near abroad.

The study showed that Russia lacks only more than ten thousand foreign students to enter the world's top 5, displacing Australia. Also within reach is France, in fourth place with nearly 365,000 students from abroad.

The data show that more than 395 thousand students entered Russia in 2021, and an active growth in the attractiveness of domestic education has been observed since 2012. Among the leaders among the countries whose citizens choose Russia for education are Kazakhstan, China, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.

In recent years, an increase in interest in Russian universities has been observed in India and Egypt. The increase in the number of foreign students is facilitated by the government's quota program, which allows young people to study for free.

The most popular educational areas traditionally include health care, engineering specialties, management, humanitarian subjects, and social sciences.

According to students from abroad, they choose Russian universities because of the high quality of education, job prospects in their country, and the opportunity to learn Russian.

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​​International students of Lobachevsky University held the Day of Syrian Culture at a boarding school

International students of Lobachevsky University, participants of the “Seeing with the Heart” project, organized and held the Day of Syrian Culture for pupils of the boarding school for blind and visually impaired children in Nizhny Novgorod. All participants were able to get to know the culture, traditions and cuisine of Syria. The riddles and sayings prepared by the organizers helped the schoolchildren to appreciate how close the cultural traditions of different countries can be, and people of different nationalities can be good and good friends. At the end of the event, the children thanked the organizers - foreign students of UNN and invited them to organize subsequent joint events.

In addition to Syrian students, students from Ethiopia, Algeria, Morocco, India and China took part in organizing the Day of Syrian Culture. All of them are the team of the Seeing with the Heart project, which aims to interact with people with disabilities. The main task of the project participants is to introduce children with disabilities to the diversity of the world and different cultures and traditions through direct contact and dialogue. Including children expand their knowledge in foreign languages.

The Seeing with the Heart project is part of the I care – I can! social initiative program. It is symbolic that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited Moscow on the day of the event.