The Federal State Budget
Educational Institution of Higher Education «Belgorod State Technological University
named after V.G. Shukhov»

On June 14, completing their stay at Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov, a delegation of the Association of Teachers of Iraq visited the university. During the two-week business trip the guests visited a number of educational institutions in the region, got familiarized with school programs, and also met with the leadership of local department of education, culture and youth policy.

On the eighth of June BSTU named after V.G Shukhov saw mini-soccer "Friendship Cup" games. Four teams, including BSTU students team, students, citizens of Arabic states studying at BSTU, a soccer team from Belgorod State Institute of Culture and team from Iraq. Assistance and support in the match arrangements was provided by the Department of Physical Education, and Preparatory Faculty for Foreign Students. At the award giving ceremony Dr. V.S Lesovik handed crystal "Friendship Cup" to Dmitry Nosachev, BSTU soccer team captain.

The “French Club” members went out to “Coffee Bin” café. Having a cup of coffee the French language lovers discussed the latest news, met the new club members.

On June 1 BSTU hosted an international workshop on "Career self-determination of young people in education in different countries on an example the city of Belgorod and Baghdad. " The organizers of an international workshop were BSTU, Educational Department of Belgorod local government and "Belgorod regional expertise and assessment centre. " At an international workshop was attended by school principals and head teachers from Belgorod, representatives of regional offices of the Association of Teachers of Iraq, as well as faculty staff of our university.

On May 31, 20 students of Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov came on a memorial estate dedicated to Kursk battle heroes to give a tribute to Turkmenistan citizens, who died in the battle during World War II. They attended a opening ceremony of the memorial to Turkmen soldiers. Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan in the Russian Federation Halnazar Agakhanov and Belgorod oblast governor Evgeny Savchenko took part in the ceremony.

On May 30 Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G Shukhov received a delegation from Iraq, which included 30 representatives of Teachers Association of Iraq. The delegation is interested in the work experience in the field of education in Russia, and particularly, in Belgorod. The visit to Belgorodia will last till June 21 and will include: international education workshop, meeting with the Department of Education, Culture and Youth Policy of the Belgorod oblast, and school principals in Belgorod, the discussion of issues of professional self-determination of young people, visiting urban and rural schools , universities in Belgorod oblast.

On May 26, Mrs. Ruth Da Conceicao Da Silva, the Head of the Students Department of the Embassy of the Republic of Angola came on a visit to BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov. The aim of her visit was strengthening the cooperation with our university, training over 40 students from Angola. Today, the government of Angola, being aware of high level specialists training at BSTU plans to extend the number of their students as Angola experiences an urgent need for engineers.

The workshop took place at the department of cement and composite materials technology with the participation of the delegation representing KHD Humboldt Wedag, a German company. Among the participants of the workshop were representatives of 12 major enterprises working in cement and mining industry from Belgorod oblast, Sybirea and Moscow oblast. In the course of the above a two-days workshop at BSTU, the participants regarded the issues of maintenance and putting into operation of “Roller-press” a new grinding unit.

On May 20 Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov received a delegation from the town of Vyshgorod (Ukraine), who came to our university for sharing experience. The representatives were Y.V. Senyuk, academician of the Ukrainian Academy of science and V.N. Fedosenko, director of “Technoporoject” (research and production facility). The visitors marked high level of our university and shared their experience in innovations area

The closing ceremony of the festival, which included giving out awards and a concert became the culminating point of the festival “The Earth is our home”. The festival has become a wonderful unforgettable holiday of friendship between the peoples. Events like this contribute to the development of mutual understanding between the nations.