University news

Students of Ogarev Mordovia State University have a unique opportunity to participate in the FIFA Legacy Programme, which will allow them to join the HBS team, the main broadcaster of the FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia ™. Call for applications was announced on February 20, 2017.

On February 18-19 Ogarev Mordovia State University hosted a remarkable sports event – Dorm Olympics (Spartakiad) for international students, dedicated to the Day of Defender of the Fatherland. The event was organised by the Students’ Union of the University, the Union of international students, the students’ athletics club "Ogaryovets", International Relations Office, the regional branch of the National Interethnic Youth Association.

On January 26 Ogarev Mordovia State University accepted the guests from the Republic of Burundi - the seniour economic adviser to the second Vice-president of Burundi, Dr. Muaz Sagamba and the director of the “Capad” company - Sezibera Annik.

In the run-up to the FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia™, the Centre for Linguistic Training of Volunteers and Auxiliary Staff based at the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Ogarev Mordovia State University supported the Volunteer project "Together to the FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia™."

In the beginning of December (5-6) Moscow State National Research University of Civil Engineering held first coordination meeting of the Erasmus+ project «Modernisation of the Curricula in sphere of smart building engineering - Green Building (GREB)». One of the Consortium member - N.P.Ogarev Mordovia State National Research University was represented by Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Construction Engineering – Vladimir T. Erofeev and Head of International Relations Office – Natalia Sh. Vatolkina.

N.P.Ogarev Mordovia State National Research University became the winner of the contest that grants the University library a licensed access to international electronic resources. The competition was announced and administered by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

December the 5th opened a nation-wide conference with international participation "The integrated approach to English language teaching for non-linguistic specialties". During three days the Faculty of Foreign Languages was the venue for the instructors of Russian universities and teachers of Saransk secondary schools who packed master classes and workshops on modern teaching methodology.

In November, 21-25, the Master’s degree students in the field of "Management" with concentration on "Entrepreneurship for sustainable development" were crowding into lecture halls to attend classes on "International entrepreneuship and investment". The classes were offered by Doctor of economics, professor of Belgrade Banking Academy under Geographical Institute "Jovan Cvijic" of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the World Bank expert - Darko Vukovic. For two consecutive years Darko works within his fixed-term employment contract with the Faculty of Economics, Chair of Quality Management. This series of lectures is continuation of his contractual duties.

In November 24-25, Institute of Medicine of Mordovia State National research University hosted the international conference «Periodontics for practitioners». The conference objective was to raise professional level of knowledge among students specialising in «Dentistry» as well as practicing physicians with higher medical education.

During a week in November 6 - 13, the Dean of the Law faculty, head of Chair of International and European law Yulia N. Sushkova read a series of lectures to students and teachers of one of the oldest universities in Europe – University Babes-Bolyai (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) in the framework of the European programme of academic mobility Erasmus+. Professor Yulia Sushkova gave talks on the following topics: "Eurasianism: on the way to "Bigger Europe" from Lisbon to Vladivostok", "the legal status of Finno-Ugric people in the Russian Federation", "Leo Tolstoy’s ideas on legislation of a state and protection of religious rights."

During two days from November 14 to November 16 N.P. Ogarev Mordovia State National Research University was staging the final coordination meeting of the universities - participants of the international project MetaMath, implemented in the framework of the European TEMPUS programme.

The University brought together scholars and functionaries of European universities and research organisations such as German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (GRCAI – DFKI), Saarland University (Germany), Tampere University of Technology (Finland), Claude Bernard Lyon University (France); Russian universities were represented by (Kazan State National Research Technical University, N.I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, Tver State University. Contact person of the project – head of Chair of automated systems of information processing and management, Institute of Electronics and Lighting engineering Sergey A. Fedosin

The opening ceremony for the XV International scientific conference «Materials of nano-, micro-, optoelectronics and fiber optics: physical properties and appliance» took place at Mordovia State University on 11 October.

Chairman of the Organising Committee, Rector Sergey M. Vdovin, in his welcoming speech, stressed that this conference was held at a special time: the global scientific community celebrates the 100th anniversary of the outstanding physicist, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize - A. M. Prokhorov.

Students of the Institute of Electric and Lighting engineering took part in the First International Forum «Industrial Automation and Robotics» which was held on 5-8 October in Saratov as part of the National Science Festival.

ISU Junior Grand Prix is an international figure skating competition that was hosted in Saransk. The competition itself lasted 3 days during which young figure-skaters from Australia, the US, China, Austria, Italy, Cyprus, Croatia, Turkey, France, Finland, Poland, Bulgaria, Russia (32 countries in total) had been showing their skills. Volunteer Centre of FIFA World Cup 2018 Russia™ was a co-organizer of this event.

Galin Tikhanov gave lectures in the framework of Bakhtin days on 12-13 September. Mr. Tikhanov holds PhD from Oxford University, Head of the Chair of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, an honorary President of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), an honorary scientific consultant of the Academy of Social Sciences of China, a member of the executive committee of the Institute of World Literature at Harvard University, a member of the European Academy.