“Practice Day” was held at the Department of Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations of the Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities. Teachers and students discussed the results of summer practical training at the event. At the first stage within the framework of Research-to-Practice Conference “Students’ Practical Training in the System of Professional Coordinates”, students of all years of study made scientific reports and shared their personal experience on practical training.

A New Vision-4 Interuniversity Student Science-to-practice Conference was held at the Department of International Relations, Politology, and Regional Studies of the Institute of Linguistics and International Communications on December 3rd.

During the conference, the participants discussed the most critical issues of international relations, political science, international regional studies, and political linguistics. The work of the research forum was organized into three sections, in which places were determined:

The School of Economics and Management of South Ural State University has held a Miracles Are All Around Us photo contest, in which 1st-year to 4th-year students took part.

A makeshift photo gallery opened on the fifth floor of the SUSU academic building No.2. The participants submitted 38 photo works for the jury’s evaluation: all they had to do was to choose categories, give titles for their works, and submit their pictures in А4 photographic paper.

South Ural State University hosted the 1st round of the 3d All-Russian Historical Dance Competition. “Gattaca” vintage interest club was the organizer of the event.

A great number of participants from different Russian cities are engaged in the event annually. This year the competitions are held in a new format: 2 more preliminary rounds, where the participants should demonstrate their skills, will be held before the finals in May.

An Autumn Job Fair: Employees for a High-tech Russia, organized by the Institute of Engineering and Technology, was held at South Ural State University. Leading companies from the technical and industrial sectors of Chelyabinsk and the Chelyabinsk Region took part in this event alongside students of the institute, school pupils, and vocational schools graduates.

SUSU students took an active part in the all-Russian event, Nationwide Dictation Quiz in English among students of higher education organisations and general educational organisations of the Russian Federation on November 29, 2019.

“Transformation of Electoral Behaviour in Russia in the Face of Digital Revolution” open lecture was held at South Ural State University on November 29.

The objective of the project was to analyse the impact on the electoral behaviour of the Russian voters at the federal elections in 2003, 2007 and 2011.

Acute respiratory viral infections (ARVI) are the most widely spread type of infections. ARVI-causing viruses are not endemic to any certain region or country and are spread all over the world. Most often, those provoke diseases in winter; however, outbreaks are registered in spring and autumn as well.

Professor Omar Fahmi, Associate Professor of Future University, Egypt, senior research fellow of the SUSU Department of Electronic Computing Machines, has been delivering lectures at the SUSU School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science this week.

On November 27th, the ceremony of awarding the winners and medallists of the Sporty SUSU project was held as part of the All-Russian Youth Projects Contest of the Rosmolodezh Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.

Rosmolodezh is a federal executive body, whose activities are entirely focused on creating equal conditions for the self-fulfilment of the younger generation.

Today, the goal of Rosmolodezh is to create as many opportunities as possible for young people’s self-development and, as a result, the effective fulfilment of the innovative potential of the youth.

South Ural State University researchers are developing new dyes for solar cells. The improved structure of dyes helps to obtain 10% more energy than it is obtained at present.

The fourth Contemporary Science Film Festival (FANK), where films about science will be screened, is to be held at SUSU December 2nd through December 6th. The event is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation  and aims at promoting scientific-research activity among students.

The Tenth International Natural Sciences Tournament was held in Saint Petersburg. It is a team competition between students from European universities solving scientific problems in physics, chemistry and biology, which are usually published beforehand.

International students from South Ural State University won several awards at the Burevestnik Fight Team, Chelyabinsk Open Cup in Grappling, which is a type of martial arts combining the techniques of all wrestling disciplines.

Grappling is a combined wrestling, which includes all advantages of the separate wrestling disciplines to set the most effective and useful combat rules without striking. Grappling has more permissible techniques than other types of wrestling. The competition was organized by Burevestnik Fight Team.

Students of South Ural State University have an excellent opportunity to gain professional experience abroad, studying under exchange programs. And some of them have decided to share their impressions about it.

The 13th International Youth Cooking Festival has been held at South Ural State University.

The Governor of our region Alexey Texler held an extended session of the Coordination Council for ecological issues on November 22. The representatives of the SUSU Institute of Law took part in this event.

Environmental experts, manufactures and representatives of regional authorities considered the problem of ecological standard development for the region and discussed the project of technical requirements in details.

On November 22nd, the Continuing Education international forum was held at South Ural State University. The event was organized by the SUSU Institute of Open and Distance Education.

This forum, dedicated to continuing education in Russia and around the world, brought together staff and researchers from universities in Russia, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, and China.

Two events were held within this forum:

A seminar and strategic sessions on the discussion of promotion of the university research in the global space and improvement of its position on ranking lists were held at South Ural State University during the visit of Jacques de Champchesnel, QS Company (Quacquarelli Symonds) consultant.

The Department of Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations of the Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities of SUSU jointly with UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), are to publish a Russian edition textbook on Journalism, “Fake News” and Disinformation for academic and professional training of journalists within the frameworks of the Fact-Checking and Verification course.

On November 26, an Environmental Monitoring Conference was held at the Emerson site, which was attended by employees of South Ural State University. As part of the Clean Air project, the parties signed an agreement on collaboration in the field of environmental monitoring.

The fifth airplay of Zolotoe Sechenie (Golden Section) author’s program on SUSU-TV is dedicated to a genius scientist Norbert Wiener. Igor Klebanov, Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow of the Department of System Programming of the SUSU School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Candidate of Sciences (Physics and Mathematics) opened a new section within the framework of Zolotoe Sechenie program: Anniversaries of Great Minds and Great Ideas.

The Club of International Communications was opened at South Ural State University on November 21. The Department of Management of the SUSU School of Economics and Management founded the club.

South Ural State University has been participating in Program 5-100 on improving the competitiveness of the leading Russian universities for several years now. Within this program a large number of foreign students come to study at the university.

On November 21st and 22nd, the 2nd All-Russian Student Olympiad in Economic Safety was held at the Department of Economic Security of the School of Economics and Management of South Ural State University.

18 teams from 15 different Russian universities participated – not just from the Ural Region, but also from Barnaul, Volgograd, Irkutsk, Moscow, and Perm.

An IELTS Teacher Training Workshop has been held at SUSU. The workshop was organized by Star Travel/ Star Academy Group of Companies, official partner of the IELTS BKC International House testing centre, jointly with the British Council.

For the academic staff of the Institute of Linguistics and International Communications, November has been a moth of intensive professional self-improvement. Elaboration of a system of continuous professional development for teachers is one of the tasks under М 8.1.3. “Implementing Advanced Language Training in Bachelor’s Programmes”.