Erasmus Mundus, Triple I in development
Within the scope of the project Erasmus Mundus, Triple I Anatoly Zabrovsky, employee of the Regional Center for New Information Technologies of PetrSU presented his paper in the University of Leuven, Belgium.
Anatoly has offered a project and substantiated the idea of establishing a global quality network of education media flows. Belgian colleagues from Media and Learning Unit led by Professor Wim Van Petegem have agreed to keep on working together in this direction. It is supposed to create a structure and a model of coperation between the universities concerning means of transfer of qualitative media flows. Further plans assume involving other universities in this project, joint development and testing of software ensuring opportunities of the network. Anatoly Zabrovsky was offered to speak about this idea at the international conference to be held in Belgium in the summer of 2012.
In a week within the scope of the project Anatoly goes to the University of Riga, Latvia, to continue his research work.
PetrSU has been taking part in the Erasmus Mundus, Triple I project for 4 years.
The next session of the Selection Committee will be held in the end of February, and then new students and employees of PetrSU will have an opportunity to study or work on probation in European universities within this project.

PetrSU is a the winner of the competition Support of creation of the EU Centers in the Russian Federation II.
The project financed by the European Union unites five universities of the region - Petrozavodsk State University, Murmansk State University, Murmansk State Technological University, Syktyvkar State University and Northern Arctic Federal University - in a partner network
The goal of the project is to increase the level of knowledge of teachers, students, public agents, civil society institutions and the public in the Barents region of Russia about EU-related issues (structure, polics, economy, law, European integration, relations between Russia and EU, etc.).

The sixth TOEFL (iBT) session took place in PetrSU.
For four hours young people from the Republic of Karelia and Finland were proving their knowledge of English language on the following aspects: reading, listening comprehension, oral and written speech (in iBT format).
The official TOEFL center opened in PetrSU in July, 2010. Exams are held according to the schedule (www.toefl.org). More than 50 people from Petrozavodsk, the Republic of Karelia, St.-Petersburg, Murmansk and Finland were tested successfully in PetrSU.
Results of the exam will be ready by the end of December. We wish all participants ggod news and success in 2012!

On December 13-16 Petrozavodsk State University was a venue for a course of lectures on historiography of Finnish-Russian relations in the XXth century taught by Professor Vihavajnen of the University of Helsinki also honoured with a special degree of Doctor from PetrSU.
The target audience was undergraduate students and candidates for a Master's degree of the Chair of History of Nordic Countries, as well as foreign students studying in PetrSU within international exchange programs.

The Joint Working Group on Education and Research and Heads of Joint Working Groups of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council was held on December 7-8 in Oslo, Norway, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A joint report on the progress and further prospects of the Joint Working Group on Education and Research (JWGER) was presented by Liudmila Kulikovskaya, Head of Directorate for International Cooperation, M.Kalinina, Vice-Rector of the Northern Arctic Federal University (NARFU), and Britt-Vigdis Ekeli, Vice-Rector of the University of Tromsø.
In 2009 Petrozavodsk State University was adopted to act as a regional chair of the JWGER. Much work has been done in two years to renew activity of the group, initiate and implement joint project ideas, and develop academic cooperation in BEAR.
According to the established rotation, chairmanship for the next two years period is delegated to Northern Arctic Federal University and University of Tromsø. Representatives of NARFU and University of Tromsø formulated some objectives and goals actual to modern challenges and requirements that were discussed with members of the Working Group at the meeting in Murmansk on November 17, as well as further priorities and plans.
The Committee of Senior Officials BEAC and participants of the meeting appreciated activity of the JWGER and supported its further plans.

Consul General of Poland in Saint Petersburg Piotr Marciniak and Vice-Consul of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Saint Petersburg Olga Kacperczyk have visited Petrozavodsk State University.
During his visit Piotr Marciniak has met with Rector of PetrSU Anatoly Voroninym, Head of Directorate for International Cooperation Lyudmila Kulikovskaya, Dean of the Faculty of Philology Andrey Kunilsky and the teacher of Polish language from Jagiellonian University Martha Magdalena Stempkowska.
The main purpose of the meeting was strengthening the cooperation between PetrSU and universities of Poland.
"As a tradition we support very good relations with Poland, our long-standing partner. I am sure that the meeting will promote our countries' joint activity in the field of science and education," - Anatoly Voronin has emphasized.
For three years PetrSU and Jagiellonian University (Krakow) have been participating in the program of cultural and educational exchange. Within this period several groups of philology majors from PetrSU have visited Poland, and our university welcomed Polish students studying Russian, culture and history of Russia. For several years teams from Poland have been taking part in programming training camps for students. Cooperation is also supported under the auspices of Directorate for International Cooperation.
The Rector has also told about history of our university, its structure, participation in various competitions, success in the sphere of information technologies, programming and international relations, as well as about development prospects.
"Petrozavodsk State University is an interesting partner for Poland, - Piotr Marciniak said. - We are especially interested in projects in the sphere of scientific exchange of new technologies, as well as in the field of popularization of Polish and Russian of languages in Poland and in Russia, cultural and academic exchange programs."
Among some other proposals concerning development of partnership between PetrSU and universities of Poland there were organization of elective courses of Polish language for students of all faculties, establishing the library of Polish books and audio and video tutorials, open lectures of the leading Polish scientists and experts in various fields of science. Then the Consul General of Poland in Saint Petersburg has attended a Polish languge class at the Faculty of Philology taught by the teacher of Polish language Martha Magdalena Stempkowska who is teaching Polish language at PetrSU this year.

Representatives of Petrozavodsk State University take part in the Finland's Experience in Organization of Cooperation between Universities and Industrial Corporations at Financing and Implementation of the Innovating Development Program training program held in Finland since November, 27 to December, 3.
Among the training participants there are 43 trainees from Russia, including six representatives of PetrSU.
The training program includes visiting the most famous innovation centers of Finland. Among them there are Aalto University training experts for innovation activities, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland leading in the field of micro- and nanotechnologies, Technopolis technological park and some other institutions.

Within the famework of Erasmis Mundud, Triple I project employee of RCNIT of PetrSU Anatoly Zabrovsky has got training within the program of AudioVisual Learning Material - Management, Production and Activities (AVLM) which took place at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) in Media and Learning Unit.
PetrSU has been taking part in this project for 4 years. More than 30 students and teachers have served apprenticeship within its scope.
Within the program of AudioVisual Learning Material - Management, Production and Activities (AVLM) it was trained 14 people from the different countries. The training period has made two months.
The course includes the following disciplines: Policies of multimedia technologies use and management in education, development and support of multimedia technologies in education, approaches and platforms for creation of multimedia materials.
The training included lectures, practical sessions, individual and group tasks, as well as presentations. During the training the students has an opportunity to get acquainted with various multimedia technologies used at K.U.Leuven, and to talk to experts in this sphere. These technologies at K.U.Leuven are supported and developed by Media and Learning Unit directed by Prof. Wim Van Petegem.
Further Anatoly Zabrovsky will continue his scientific research at K.U.Leuven as a Doctorate student.

Open lectures of Professor Sergey Balandin, President of the Finnish-Russian University Cooperation in Telecommunications Association (FRUCT), took place in the assembly hall of Petrozavodsk State University.
Students of the Faculty of Mathematics and all comers were offered lectures on subjects of Professional development as the most favourable form to invest your time: on the opportunities rendered to students of PetrSU within the scope of Finnish-Russian cooperation by FRUCT laboratory in PetrSU and Masters' program NordSecMob of Aalto University in Helsinki and The great convergence in mobile industry and intellectual spaces (Smart Spaces): the review of modern condition of mobile communication technologies.

FRUCT Association and, in particular, PetrSU are engaged in research and development of such solutions which should appear in the near future in the new global market. In conditions of the described dynamical changes of the market and methods of product development, FRUCT and its participants have a very good chance to take the lead in such innovation niches as Internet of things, intellectual spaces and proactive services, mHealth (mobile health), cross-platform mobile applications and services.

Students of Petrozavodsk State University have taken part in the II International scout camp MediaCamp-2011.
Its purpose is popularization of ecological way of life in the North.

Delegation of the Chair of Scandinavian languages of PetrSU has taken part in the Days of Swedish Language conference held at The Russian State University for the Humanities.
Days of Swedish Language is traditional annual conference where teachers, translators and researchers, expert in Scandinavian studies, discuss actual linguistic and pedagogical issues. Swedish language is popular in Russia, as well as in Belarus and Ukraine. This time in The Russian State University for the Humanities welcomed experts from Ekaterinburg, Nozhny Novgorod, Veliky Novgorod, Vologda, Ryazan, St.-Petersburg and Minsk.
Petrozavodsk was represented by teachers of Chair of Scandinavian languages I.Matashina and E.Semenova, and Swedish lecturer Arvid Nord who has told that next year Days of Swedish Language and Culture will take place in Petrozavodsk State University in April. Within the scope of this event a workshop conference devoted to creative work of August Strindberg will be held. The year 2012 is the centenary of death of the famous Swedish playwright. Researchers and admirers of Strindberg's talent will time many cultural and scientific events to this date.

In 2011/2012 academic year Petrozavodsk State University again receives a group of students from China.
Ten students have come to Petrozavodsk in the middle of September and will stay at the university for the rest of the academic year. The Chinese students have taken an introductory course of Russian as a foreign languahe in NEOU of PetrSU and now attend lectures at the Faculty of Philology.

Representatives of the Institute of Entrepreneurship of Finland have visited Petrozavodsk State University.
The delegation included the Teaching Entrepreneurship in Russia project director Lunnas Pirjo-Riitta, development director Rinta-Kanto Maire, coordinator of international relations Ulla Haukijärvi and a representative of lawyer office Legistum, partner of the Institute of Entrepreneurship of Finland Heikki Pihlajamäki .
The project goal is to give its participants modern knowledge of business for more effective foreign market entry. The project provides teaching to promote business ideas with risk assessment, marketing, regulation of economy, legal issues.

Informatization of Forestry: Topical Problems conference has been launched on the basis of Petrozavodsk State University.
Head of the Federal Forestry Agency Viktor Maslyakov, Head of Karelia Andrei Nelidov, deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russian Federation and Chairlady of the State Duma Committee for Problems of the North and the Far East Valentina Pivnenko, Deputy Head of the Republic of Karelia and Minister of Economic Development of the Republic of Karelia Valentin Luntsevich, Deputy Head of Federal Forestry Agency N.Krotov, Rector of PetrSU Anatoly Voronin, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science, President of the KarRC RAS Alexander Titov have taken part in the conference opening ceremony.

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Intellectuals from Petrozavodsk State University have shown their worth in the Cup of the Consul General of the Republic of Korea.
Alexey Lazarev, Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor of the Chair of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics of PetrSU, Grand Master of Russia, repeated champion of Europe and Russia has become the second best in the International Go Cup of the Consul General of the Republic of Korea. Altogether about 100 sportsmenhave taken part in the competition.
On results of the competition Alexey Lazarev has won the second place, having scored 5 points of 6 possible. Alexey has yielded the championship just one point to professional 3-dan player Alexander Dinershtein, repeated champion of Europe.
Members of the Go Fans Club of PetrSU have also taken part in the competition. Thus, on results of the competition Ivan Kulikovsky has become the 9th best, and Dmitry Kornev has become the 14th.

On September 11-23 PetrSU's scientists Alexander Meigal, Professor of the Chair of Human and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, and Daniel Paranichev, engineer of the Information Measuring Systems and Physical Electronics, Faculty of Physical Engineering, have made a trip to Washington, D.C., and Boston at the invitation of the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF).
Scientific projects of Professor A.Meigal and D.Paranichev, post-graduate student and researcher of Plasma Centre of Science and Education, have been awarded by $10,000 scholarships for the trip to the USA as a result of work at the Technology Commercialization Workshop held on the basis of the Saint Petersburg State Mining University in May.

The trip included plenty of trainings, reports, participation in conferences, round table discussions, meetings with investors, businessmen, lawyers. The purpose of the trip was to establish communication with American investors and business-community, and, if possible, to make a start-up, that is to start own business in the sphere of innovations.

PetrSU has become one of the universities involving the world-famous leading scientists to Russian institutes of higher education within the competition held according to the Order of the Government of the Russian Federation.
517 leading Russian and international scientists and 176 universities of Russia have taken part in the competition. Expert groups included more than 1200 international experts. Winners were identified in strict correspondence to the international standards.
On September 21, 2011 the Council for Grants of the Government of the Russian Federation has announced names of 39 winners. Among the winners there was the PetrSU's application in the area of biology to invite professor Alexander Poltorak (USA) to conduct scientific work in the field of cancer; apoptosis (the process of "programmed" cell death), inborn immunity research, etc.
Now the total financing of 125 million roubles will be transferred to PetrSU to conduct research and develop the corresponding research infrastructure.

Students from one of the largest institutes of higher education of Poland - Jagiellonian University - have come to Petrozavodsk State University to study Russian.
Students of PetrSU and everyone interested are invited to study Polish language with teacher Martha Magdalena Stempkowska throughout the year.

The 10th international conference of Centres of Science and Education founded within the scope of the program Fundamental Research in Higher Education financed by the American Foundation for Civil Research and Development and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation was held in Irkutsk on September, 21-23.
Petrozavodsk State University was represented at the conference by the delegation of Plasma Centre of Science and Education led by its Director Prof.Genrikh Stefanovich, Head of the Chair of Information Measuring Systems and Physical Electronics.

The group of friendship with Russia of the Parliament of Finland has visited Petrozavodsk State University. Deputy of the Parliament and chairman of the group of friendship with Russia of the Parliament of Finland Jouko Skinnari has headed the foreign delegation.
The delegation was presented by various parties, as well as the consul of Finland in Petrozavodsk Anna-Kaisa Heikinen. The main goal of the meeting was to discuss prospects of further development of cooperation in the various spheres, including educational, international activity. In particular, in the field of studying Russian in Finland and Finnish – in Karelia.

The fifth TOEFL (iBT) session took place in PetrSU.
Students and graduates of universities of Petrozavodsk and the Republic of Karelia have shown their knowledge of English language. Results of the exam will be ready by the beginning of October.

Artyom Novichonok, post-graduate student of the Faculty of Ecology and Biology of PetrSU and the founder of Asterion astroclub, has discovered a new comet!
The previous comet was discovered from the territory of Russia in 1989.
On September 7 during the survey and exploration program at the TAU station of the Ka-Dar Observatory (located near Nizhniy Arkhyz, Russia) he has discovered an object a little brighter than 19 stellar magnitude and with an obvious tail 0'.6 long.
According to the verification, with high probability the object is a new previously unknown comet. On September, 9 after several acknowledgements from different amateur and professional observatories of the world the new comet has been designated P/2011 R3 (NOVICHONOK-GERKE).

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Summing up the results and awarding the winners of the XIV summer student collegiate programming training camp took place in Petrozavodsk State University.
President of PetrSU Victor Vasilev, director of RCNIT Natalia Ruzanova and director of the the Club of Creativity of Programmers of PetrSU Vladimir Kuznetsov have congratulated teams and coaches on completion of their work.
Victor Vasilev has pointed out that every year the number of teams of participants grows, geography extends, that indicates prestige of the training camp held in PetrSU.
The team of Kharkiv United (Dzhulgakov, Sovolev brothers) with 183.91 points topped the overall standings, the second best was the team of Moscow SU ST (Feodorov, Kaluzhin, Rogulenko) with 177.45 points, and the last of the three leaders was the team of SPbSU ITMO 1 (Kapun, Kever, Nigmatullin) with 177.08 points.
Within the scope of the training camp another competition was held by Yandex, a long standing partner of the programming training camp on the basis of PetrSU. By its results the first place went to Alexey Kuzmin, the second – to Rodion Permin (both representing the Lomonosov Moscow State University), Dmitry Matov from Saratov State University was the third best. The winnes were awarded with computer accessories gift certificates.
Many of the teams will come back to PetrSU to take part in the winter camp to prepare for the ACM programming world championship, as well as to compete for the Cup of the Head of the Republic of Karelia.

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