BELARUSIAN DELEGATION VISITS ‘THIRD CAPITAL’ OF RUSSIA
The 45th WorldSkills Competition took place in Kazan from August 22 to 27, 2019.
Today Kazan is a city with a thousand-year history, a point of intersection of cultural traditions of the West and the East, an organizer of significant international events.
The Belarusian team took part in the competition in 33 competencies in such areas as ‘Construction Technologies’, ‘Production and Engineering Technologies’, ‘Information and Communication Technologies’, etc. The Belarusian delegation was composed of contestants, experts, heads of institutions of higher, secondary specialized and vocational education, representatives of industrial enterprises of Belarus. The delegation was headed by Belarus Education Minister Igor Vasilievich Karpenko. The Belarusian-Russian University was represented by Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs N.V. Vologina.
The Belarusian-Russian University was the platform for training the WorldSkills Belarus National Team in the Mechatronics competency.
During the competition, the representatives of the Belarusian delegation visited the largest university in the region - Kazan (Volga region) Federal University (KFU). During a meeting with the university administration, a Cooperation Agreement between the KFU and the Belarusian-Russian University was signed, which, we hope, is a good starting point for future fruitful cooperation.
On August 27, 2019, the closing ceremony of the WorldSkills Competition took place and the winners were announced. But the movement aimed to encourage development of professional skills is growing, and you, students of our university, can join it. Be part of the WorldSkills Belarus movement!
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