A Happy New Year!

We hope for further effective cooperation!

The meeting was opened by E.S. Ivleva, Instructional Work Pro-Rector. She noted that SPbUME complies with obligatory parameters required by Bolognese process. The University introduced the system of continuing education – pre-institution (college) to higher education and then to post-institution education at a graduate school or institute of post-secondary education – and academic credits (ЕCTS), and certified the system of quality management. To implement plans for academic mobility of students, teaching and administrative staff, the search for reliable foreign partner institutions is continuously conducted. In 2011, SPbUME delegation visited over 20 educational institutions in Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, and USA.

Agreements on cooperation were signed with some universities. The educational process actively employs project training. Communication and language capacities are expanded. SPbUME keeps increasing the number of subjects taught in English. These lectures can be attended by any course student. The scientists of the world best universities are invited to participate in the training process. In November 2011, А.G.Aganbegian delivered a lecture on “Health Management”; in December W. Bergmann delivered a lecture on “Social Competence and Law”. In February 2012, a seminar will be held on “Nobel Prize Winners in Economics” with the participation in video conference mode of William Sharpe, Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford University (the winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences) and Oliver E. Williamson (the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics).

Saint Petersburg University of Management and Economics implements for the second year joint projects with Laurea University of Applied Sciences. At the beginning of this academic year 4 students of the department of management went to Finland for the whole semester.

Maksim Bukin, Kristina Bondarenko, Ruslan Dembitsky and Yana Chegogidze worked on joint projects with Finish students under P2P program. The work consisted of two parts – theoretical and practical. Each student worked on several projects with various groups, which included not only Finish students, but also representatives of other Russian educational institutions – Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Tver. A plan of operation was drawn up and duties were allocated for each project made to order of specific companies.

The project design was defended in several steps. Theoretical part of the work done was evaluated by Laurea University teachers, who provided their guidelines. For the practical part, students reported back to representatives of the customers. The project design was then defended in the presence of Laurea University supervisors and professors. In accordance with the International Credit System, students received some credits for the work on each project.

On December 19, 2011, SPbUME was visited by Professor Sam Blily, Director of the Institute of Management, Faculty of Economics, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), who had a meeting with E.S. Ivleva, Instructional Work Pro-Rector, and V.L. Marich, Development and International Relations Pro-Rector, on scientific cooperation and students’ academic mobility. He proposed to participate in trainings for students of SPbUME Institute of Post-secondary Education. After that Sam Blily visited the University museum, library, specialized lecture rooms, and computer classes.

In addition, W.Bergmann is vice-chairman of the board of Russian-German intergovernmental organization “Petersburg Dialog”, which convenes conferences on general political issues such as methodology and methods of sociology of law; sociology of law formation; social mechanism of law action; social aspects of the Russian justice.

At the beginning of his lecture, W.Bergmann handed over to SPbUME library the Russian version of his monograph “Fundamentals of International Law”. His hope was that this book would help SPbUME law department students in the study of this system of law.