Institute of Industrial and Business Technologies
Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies

"Promoting Internationalization of HEIs in Eastern Neighborhood Countries through Cultural and Structural Adaptations"

From 17 to June, 21 2014 in Leuven (Belgium), in a catholic university, within the framework Темпус of project "Promoting Internationalization of HEIs in Eastern Neighborhood Countries through Cultural and Structural Adaptations" passed the seminar and training, sent to internationalization of educational process in institutes partners of project.

                                                          
On a seminar and training the representatives of higher educational establishments of Armenia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Georgia, Belgium, Great Britain, Austria, Italy were present.

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     Concept of internationalization, certain Jane Knight in 2004, is the process of integration of the international, cross-cultural and global measuring and calls in an aim and function of higher education. Betty Leask adds this determination of internationalization plugging of the international and cross-cultural measuring in preparation, providing and producing of the programs of educating.
A question is put in a plan not only exchange by students and necessary language preparation of students. A question is put wider. Internationalization must provide professional preparation of students in accordance with international requirements, motivation of students to the receipt of knowledge, estimation of the place in world community, understanding what a student wants to get at the receipt of higher education, to teach a student to form aims and arrive at a necessary result.
      Training proceeded three days. On training posters of all institutes that allowed to the participants to become familiar with basic directions of activity of inctitutions of higher learning were presented.
      By the employees of Leuven of catholic university (Belgium) and university of Roehampton (Great Britain) reports were made, touching the processes of internationalization in their universities and general questions of internationalization in higher education. In lectures paid attention not only to the questions of language support, as means of intercourse to both communication and change of on-line tutorials, but also to the questions of cross-cultural commonunication of students, improvement of professional preparation of students, increase of their competence, to ability independently to make decision and go out the folded situations. It properties need to the students for their future professional activity.
     It was marked that in the epoch of globalization of economy and production it is necessary to think not of loss and acquisition of brains, and about circulation of brains in single outer economic space. And every graduating student of higher school must be ready to find the place in this process.
     A seminar passed in the apartments of catholic university, that is located in the ancient abbey of Park Abdij. An abbey is on the outskirts of city, among the fields and ponds.  Building of abbey are a monument architectures that is restored and supported on-condition.
     Leuven is the small city located in 15 minutes of ride from the capital of Belgium - Brussels. There is one of the eldest university centers of Belgium in him. The population of city makes about 100000. 30000 students, that study divinity, right, philosophy, economy and business, architecture, chemistry, biology, medicine, mathematics, engineering disciplines, study in a catholic university.
In Leuven there is a center of brewing the plants of that produce the known brand of beer Stella Artua. Except Stella Artua in Belgium is produced 250 sorts of beer of different brands suited to every fancy. Light, dark, sweet, bitter, cherry, chocolate and here all delicious.
      Except beer architecture of city building of that count not alone hundred years strikes in Leuven.

During the first and second world wars a city was so much destroyed, however building of city were recovered in accordance with ancient drafts in a practically primordial kind. The center of city, on that an old area, town hall and church of saint Peter, is located, is considered one of most beautiful in Belgium. Municipal town hall - one of sights of city, the facade of that is executed by architectural decorations and statues.
     Train station of Leuven is ancient beautiful building. Stela is located in the center of привокзальной area . On this area vegetable and fruit markets pass on Saturdays .
From train station a street on that sales pass near-by shops goes to the center of city, therefore on Saturday Leuven is a continuous shop outside, large mass of people, both locals and arrive tourists circulates in that.
     A movement on Leuven comes true by means of machines, busses, bicycles and on foot. A basic type of transport is bicycles that is located on streets anywhere that was not. On bicycles all ride: one by one, by pairs, families, youth, elderly. For a ride on bicycles bikeways that is distinguished by a color are equipped. Bicycles are most different and most widespread are the bicycles of type of our XVZ. For the night they are locked on a lock to the wall of house or simply abandon on streets.
     In spite of intensive enough motion of cars on a circuitous road, that is a wide avenue with flowering linden-trees, smells linden-trees but not petrol.
     In the evening the center of city grows into one large cafe, in that it is possible to have a drink beer, wine, coffee, to eat and look football. Prices relatively not high are a to 15-20 euro for an evening. A place has to all, people are tolerant to each other. For all the time of stay in Belgium a police was seen only on Saturday during a market day in Leuven, and in Brussels during the bicycle run of nudists in the center of city.
     So that dear students teach the English, French or Spanish languages and on the program of exchange within the framework of project of internationalization master Europe.

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