“AIS-party”, an event for international students, organized by the South Ural State University Association of International Students, took place on October 27th.

The event was held in order to introduce new international students to other students, and inform them about the Association of International Students activity. The concert program included art performances by students from all around the globe. Also, the students competed in various contests and lotteries, where they had a chance to win thermo mugs, t-shirts and flash drives with SUSU logo on them.

The 19th International Exhibition of Welding Materials, Equipment and Technologies Weldex/Rossvarka 2019 was held in Moscow. A postgraduate student of South Ural State University took first place in one of the engineering categories.

At present, the Weldex/Rossvarka 2019 exhibition is the biggest specialized welding exhibition in Russia, in the former Soviet Union (USSR) countries, as well as one of the biggest welding exhibitions in Europe and in the world.

Associate Professor of the Department of Theology, Culture, and Arts Evgeniya Konysheva represented South Ural State University at a Moscow&Detroit: Transnational Modernity in the Built Environment international scientific symposium in University of Michigan, which holds the 21st place in the world university ranking.

Samsung Electronics, the Korean company, held the interuniversity finals of the Internet of Things Project Contest in MIREA – Russian Technological University, in Moscow. 12 projects in the “Research” and “Business and Society” categories were presented. According to the results of the contest, two residents of Chelyabinsk became laureates: Sergey Аntonov , who won the 2-nd place in the “Business and Society” category, and а Samsung IoT Academy graduate Sergey Кuznetsov , who won the Grand Prix.

South Ural State University took part in the first industry forum called Information Technologies in Metallurgy and Metalworking. Liudmila Radionova, Head of the Department of Metal Forming of the SUSU Institute of Engineering and Technology, became the only representative of a higher school in Russia to address the leading metallurgical enterprises of our country.

South Ural State University actively supports international students both in their educational-scientific pursuits and in extracurricular activities. Students from 52 countries from around the world are constantly engaged in various fields of activity, and sports holds a special place among them. SUSU Rector Aleksandr Shestakov has awarded students from Iraq for winning a Mini Football Championship.

Gennady Makarov, a young scientist of South Ural State University, is researching a bacterial ribosome. The results will discover applications in creating a new antibiotic that can overcome the maternal systems of bacteria. The project is being implemented under a grant from the Russian Science Foundation.

The SUSU Institute of Engineering and Technology has started to fulfil a scientific project on High Entropy Alloys under the field of Materials Science. It is in this field that our university is represented within the work of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Centre for Advanced Industrial Technology, New Materials and Power Engineering (REC), which was created in 2019 in compliance with the federal project on Developing Scientific and Research-and-production Cooperation under the Science National Project.

The South Ural Association of International Students organizes a huge number of events for international students. In this new academic year, it has been decided to create an international volunteers program, where initiative international students were invited to help organize such events.

On October 24th through 26th, the twelfth meeting of the Russian Academic Excellence Council (the Council of Project 5-100) held among the world’s leading research and education centres took place in Moscow. In the course of the meeting, results of each university’s progress within programme 5-100 have been thoroughly analyzed. The key agenda of the Council meeting was the issues regarding the enhancement of global competitive ability of Russian higher education institutions in 2020 – 2024, and an extension of the validity of measures for government support.

South Ural State University, as a participant of Project 5-100, focuses on developing research studies, which integrate computer sciences and engineering, are related to actively implementing the Internet of Things into industry, and aim at meeting the global challenges jointly with leading companies of Big Urals. One of the university’s long-time partners is Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, who puts a bet on innovations and digitalization and is solving the tasks on switching to Industry 4.0 jointly with our university.

South Ural State University students have been to an electric power substation. An excursion for future power engineers was held within the framework of the All-Russian Brighter Together Festival.

The SUSU Laboratory of Functional Materials was established at the Nanotechnology Research and Education Centre in 2018. At present, the laboratory conducts research in the field of condensed matter physics, magnetism, metals and alloys, as well as studies new functional materials.

In Russia, much attention is paid to ensuring sustainable development of the engineering education thanks to big-scale governmental funding of the human resources potential, high-technology equipment and information infrastructure of professional education in the priority fields of developing science, engineering and technology.

Every year, young scientists of South Ural State University take part in the UMNIK (Smart Guy) programme which provides support to commercially oriented R&D projects. Winners of the programme receive grants in the amount of 500 000 rubles for bringing their projects to life.

The unique Emerson Competence Centre laboratory was opened in 2018 within the frameworks of the Global Smart Industry Conference, organized and held jointly with Emerson corporation, USA. The Centre features equipment, which allows to improve educational process in the field of automation technologies.

An International Congress on Neuropsychopharmacology was held in Athens. Among the participants was Director of the SUSU School of Medical Biology, Doctor of Sciences (Medicine), Professor Vadim Tseilikman. The report on the after-effects of stress by this scientist from Chelyabinsk captured interest of his foreign colleagues thanks to innovative approaches and the obtained results.

South Ural State University presented its research projects at the Russian Agricultural Exhibition “Golden Autumn 2019”. The university’s developments in angroindustrial technologies were highly evaluated, and an awards ceremony for the Geoinformation Systems Research and Education Centre staff, who won gold and silver medals at the exhibition, was held at the Ministry of Agriculture of the Chelyabinsk Region on October 18th.

Associate Professor of the SUSU Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Anna Krasavina, took part in another science-to-practice conference on Journalism in a Global Context arranged by the European Journalism Training Association (EJTA) and held at the Institute of Journalism of the Technical University Dortmund (Germany). The Conference in Dortmund had been arranged in cooperation with the Africa Institute for Media, Migration and Development (AIMMAD) and the African Media Initiative (AMI) Association under sponsorship of the Robert Bosch Foundation.