November 20th through 21st, 2018 South Ural SCO Youth Model will be held in Chelyabinsk. The participants will be impersonating delegates representing one of the countries being SCO members, and will together be solving the agenda issue suggested by the organisers.

Students have become the initiators of holding a South Ural SCO Youth Model since they look at it as at a chance to boost the interest of youth to summits of 2020, as well as to improve political culture of young people.

The third day of the 2018 Global Smart Industry scientific forum ended up with the nine sections, which were devoted to the discussion of digital industry opportunities.

On November 7-10, the second Ufa International Education Fair took place in the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan. Innovations for Kids the South Ural company attended the event. This small innovations company, the co-founder of which is SUSU, is the Russian producer of interactive complexes for children.

On November 13-14, 2018, an exhibition “Digital Industry: Solutions and Technologies” took place on the base of South Ural State University and with the support of Governor and Government of the Chelyabinsk Region as well as Regional Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications.

Local’s guide on what to see and do

Dear Students!

There are tons of fun things you can do in Chelyabinsk. Below, we’ve picked some exciting events the city has to offer this weekend. It’s time to get some tickets and make those freedom evenings count! Don’t forget to leave your comment about the events on Vk and Facebook.

November 16, 18:00
The State Chamber Theatre
The Gamblers (Nikolai Gogol)
2-hour play

A 2018 Global Smart Industry scientific forum is being held at SUSU. During the second day of the international conference the speakers presented the advanced achievements in digital transformation of production, the developments of the leading universities and research-and-development centres of the world in the field of Industry 4.0, as well as the practices of implementing innovations at big transnational and national industrial companies.

On November 15, 2018, South Ural State University will hold an opening of Samsung IoT Academy on the base of School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The opening of the laboratory is the result of the work on the mutual agreement between SUSU and Samsung company, which was signed in June of the current year.

An important memorandum, preceded by fruitful cooperation, was signed at South Ural State University. The document on cooperation was signed by Rector of SUSU Aleksandr Shestakov, Director General of SMS Metallurgical Service LLC of the SMS Group Holding Wilbert Stoy, and First Deputy Director General of IRE-Polyus of the IPG Photonics Corporation international company group Andrey Ushakov.

October 30th through November 3rd the Youth Forum on Internationalization of Education – Best Practices of International Academic Mobility (supported by the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs grant) and the Programme of Advanced Training on Internationalization of Education – Organisation of Academic Mobility and Export of Educational Services were held at North-Caucasus Federal University (Stavropol) as part of the 2nd European Education Week.

The 11th International Conference of Eurasian Transport Universities and the 2nd China-Russia Forum of the Future Technological Innovations and Enterprises were held in Zhengzhou (China) on October 26th-28th.

Aleksandr Rulevskiy, Head of the Department of Automobiles and Automotive Servicing, took part in these conferences in China as a representative of South Ural State University.

On 7-10 November, NUST MISIS (Moscow) held the summit of the Times Higher Education ranking agency “Transformation towards world-class research in the natural sciences-2018”. The SUSU team was represented by the Vice-Rector for International Relations Olga Yaroshenko, head of the Academic Rankings Promotion Department Andrey Kocherov, and the analyst of the Academic Rankings Promotion Department Ksenia Danilova.

November 5th through 11th South Ural State University became a venue for a big-scale dance project — contemporary choreography Meteorite Dance Festival.

On November 5, a badminton tournament among female international students of South Ural State University took place.

Participants of the badminton tournament were about 40 female students from China, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and other countries.

President of the SUSU Association of International Students, Uvindu Wijeweera, told us about why it was decided to hold this tournament.

Be on the same wavelength of relevant changes in the academic field, open up new horizons, attain top positions in the QS World University Rankings by subjects – all of these are ingredients for success of the leading university in the South Ural.

As part of the project-based education implemented at SUSU in September 2018, a project aiming at creating a programme for the complex development of utilities infrastructure has been launched at the Department of Town Planning, Engineering Networks, and Systems.

The heads and members of the project team under М 8.1.3. “Implementing Advanced Language Training in the Bachelor’s Programme” 2.1.1 “Implementing the Best Practices of Language Training in Universities under Programme 5-100” took part in the 5th International Conference on ESP/EAP/EMI in the Context of Higher Education Internationalization.

On November 7, South Ural State University’s students from Asian countries celebrated India’s holiday called Diwali.

Diwali is the main India’s and Hindu holiday. Diwali Festival is the most significant holiday in Hinduism, as well as in Sikhism and Jainism, close to it by their spiritual content. Diwali is celebrated as a Festival of Lights and symbolises victory of the good over the evil. As a mark of this victory, candles and lanterns get light up everywhere.

Alexey Zakharov graduated from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Computer Science in 2009. In 2012, Alexey joined Lyft to build their first Android app and led the entire Android engineering team until his departure in 2018. Lyft is a transportation network company headquartered in San Francisco and is valued at $15.1 billion USD (June 2018). Alexey currently works at Instagram.

– What was it like working at Lyft?

Photography exhibition entitled “Heroes of the Russian Federation. Chelyabinsk region” opened at the Faculty of Military Education of South Ural State University.

Opening of the exhibition featured students and teaching staff of the Faculty of Military Education, and mothers and widows of deceased Heroes of Russia.

Annually in October, in accordance with the tradition, South Ural State University holds the Matriculation Ceremony for the first-year students of the Faculty of History. This year the event took place on October 24.

South Ural State University was visited by representatives of the Yellow River Conservancy Technical Institute.

The purpose of the meeting featuring representatives of South Ural State University and the Yellow River Conservancy Technical Institute was to discuss prospects of cooperation, namely the further development of joint double degree programmes and inclusive education.

On October 1- November 9, 2018, SUSU held the basic level of Young Leader School. The participants of the project master super-professional skills and discover new opportunities for their development.

Young Leader School (YLS) is one of the large-scale projects of South Ural State University. This year it is being implemented within the frames of the grant support of All-Russian Contest of the Youth’s projects.

The delegation of South Ural State University headed by its Rector Aleksandr Shestakov paid a visit to Zhejiang Ocean University. As part of their visit the SUSU representatives took part in the International Forum of Rectors, as well as congratulated the partnering university on its 60th anniversary.

A methodology master class by the Department of Russian and International History will be held at 16:00 on November 8th, 2018. Acelya Bakir, postgraduate student from the University of Düsseldorf (Germany) who is currently completing her internship at SUSU, will give a presentation.