The entire academic year 2017-2018 the students of the Minin University of the Faculty of Humanities (department of English language + Chinese language) were on the training program at Shandong Polytechnic University (China). Anastasia Koroleva, a third-year student of English and Chinese Department, shared her impressions about the University and studies in China.

Margarita Antonova received a scholarship to study at the Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church in Budapest, Hungary. The scholarship covers the costs of tuition and accommodation.

Students of Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University named after Kozma  Minin were the first to initiate organizing  tours around the city in English, the idea being shared by other organizations. In total, more than 200 foreign football fans from 14 countries of the world took part in the tours.

Based on the agreement with the Philology Department Olga Mironova performed lectures and practical lessons on the topics ‘Russian traditions and culture’, ‘Russian holidays’. The lectures were conducted from June 12th to June 14th.

Fulbright «English Teaching Assistant Program» gives an opportunity to help young graduates from American colleges and universities in teaching English in a number of regional Russian universities, as well as to advance their own knowledge concerning the Russian language and culture. The scope of responsibilities of those participating in the program includes teaching English language and American culture.

Denis Kulikov is a second-year student of the Humanities Faculty, majoring in ‘Foreign Language (English) and Foreign Language (Chinese)’. He shared with us the way he started learning Chinese, why he’d decided to submit an application as well as his plans for the future.

A series of events was held on May, 19-20th in the town of Wuhu (Anhui province, PRC) and was dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Anhui State Pedagogical University (ASPU, China). The forums were devoted to the questions concerning education, advancing partnership development in the sphere of higher education on the international arena. Minin University took on the role of a co-organiser together with Chinese partners from ASPU.

The aim of Minin University participation is to learn more about the work of universities with foreign students as well as represent Minin University and find partners both in Russia and abroad.

Minin University hosted a delegation from Shandong University of Technology with vice-president Yi Yuchen as a head of delegation. The memorandum between the universities was signed in June, 2017.

The forum took place on April 17-20 within the opening ceremony of hi-tech Russian-Chinese park "Silk Road" in Xian, PRC. Minin University was one of 18 Russian universities taking part in the event.

Minin University has signed a new strategic cooperation agreement with a renowned Indonesian higher education institution: Diponegoro University in Semarang. The cooperation will include the following areas: pursuing joint research, promoting academic mobility of faculty, undegraduate and graduate students as well as their joint scientific supervision.

Minin University placed 232nd in the overall rankings. In the urban universities division, Minin took 102nd place out of 313 universities and in the European universities competition, it ranked 94th out of 216 universities.

The Rector of Minin University, Alexander Fedorov, accompanied by advisors to the president Olga Kim and Eugene Zakablukovsky, and Chief Director of Pedagogy Elena Ilaldinova, visited The Education University of Hong Kong. The visit took place from February 27th to March 2nd.

Minin University student Natalia Voronina took 3rd place in the 5000 metres speed skating competition with a time of 6 minutes and 53.98 seconds

A group of Minin students majoring in teaching English and Chinese spent an autumn term in Chinese University. They share their emotions in the article.

On December 26th, Minin University held a concert entitled “The Christmas Spirit.” Students from the Department of Humanities performed numbers in the five different languages taught in their department: Russian, English, French, German and Chinese. The concert was the first of its kind at the university.

he ceremony was attended by the leadership of the Kozma Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University, the official delegation of the Anhui State Pedagogical University of China headed by director Gu Jiaoshan, the first deputy director of the Department of External Relations of the Government of the Nizhny Novgorod region Vladimir Prelov, the chairman of the Committee for External Economic and Interregional Relations of Nizhny Novgorod Administration Elena Mishina

The name of this report is "From the pedagogical university to the university of education: concept of transformation". The event will take place on December, 7.

This year students of the faculty have taken part in the program carried out within a partnership agreement with touristic agency "Antares" in co-operation with international company Kilit Global Tez Tour. The students spent 6 months in Turkey.