RUDN Program in Latin America
The program «World systems of linguistic research and language teaching: methods and technologies» was elaborated in cooperation with L.Dunaeva and A.Bogomolov, leading scientists of Lomonosov Moscow State University to improve the competence of students in the field of innovations, linguodidactic testing and methods of teaching foreign languages.
During the visit, RUDN academics held negotiations on the possibility of cooperation with the leading universities in Latin America: the University of San Marcos, the Catholic University of Peru, the University of San Francisco de Quito, the University of Technology of Ecuador, the University of Sergio Arboleda, the Autonomous University of Colombia, the Javeriana Catholic University and ECCI University (Colombia) and took part in the Russian Language and Culture Festival and tested foreign citizens in the Russian language.
10 profile officers of the Korle Klottey Municipal Assembly from the city of Accra (Ghana) are being trained at the school "Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy" of the Institute of Environmental Engineering of RUDN University.
RUDN University is to train 100 specialists in Agronomy and Ecology for Ghana at the request of its industrial partner, the Jospong Group, which unites 60 companies. The number of trained personnel will amount to over 600 within 5 years. The fields of study which are of interest to the partner include Agronomy, Information Technology, Applied Nature Management, Ecology. The company is ready to pay for travel, accommodation and scholarships for these students. RUDN University will accept students within preferential rights.
The delegation of the Republic of The Gambia led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Mamadou Tangara visited the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. Members of the delegation met with Rector Oleg Yastrebov and the staff of the Agricultural and Technological Institute of RUDN University, went on a tour of biotechnological laboratories and a laboratory for studying soils chemical composition and properties.