Online conference HaRP (Hokkaido University)«Organization of trainings on joint Japanese-Russian
educational programs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic»

Remote Russian language studying
andshort-term internships:
Ural Federal University practice
Vysotskaia Iana - Head of the Department ofInternational Educational Projects UrFU
Ural Federal University
named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin
Ekaterinburg, Russia

1About Ural Federal University and Ekaterinburg
Ural University started in 1920.
Later, it was divided into two separate institutions: Ural State University(USU) and Ural State Technical University (USTU-UPI).
In 2011, both institutions were merged once again, becoming Ural
Federal University.
Since 2008, it bears the name of Boris Yeltsin, the first President ofRussia, who was the University’s graduate of 1955.
35 000 students
14 studying campuses
4519 scientific workers
4000 international students
from 84 countries around theglobe
400 Bachelor, Master and PhD
programs
72 research excellence centers

701 – 800+1001

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The Department of international educational programs

Summer andWinter University

Internships
From October 2019
Preparatory Department
for foreign students ispart of DIEP UrFU.

3Preparatory department for foreign studentsPrepare yourself for the higher education in Russia with us

1. FOUNDATION YEAR●●●●●For Engineering Students
For Students of Natural Science
For Students of Medicine
For Students of Humanities and Arts
For Students of Economics

2. RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

64 countries
500 foreign students
China, India, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Croatia, Egypt,Mongolia, Vietnam, great Britain, USA, Turkey, Italy, Iran, Japan,Iraq, Jordan, Algeria, Colombia,Yemen, Republic of Chad, Saudi Arabia,Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Morocco, Bangladesh, Thailand, Sri Lanka,Tajikistan, Zambia, Argentina, Indonesia, Mexico, Syria, Eritrea,Venezuela, Nigeria etc.

Watch the video with our foreign
student sharing their impressionsof studying at Preparatory
Department

A more general course with groups from 8-12 people
made up on the basis of their language level andfocus specifically on language training (without specialsubjects). This type of program is more flexible interms of start dates, and the tuition fees depend on
the number of academic hours student wants to take.
After the course you may takeinternationally recognized TestofRussian
as aForeignLanguage (TORFL)

Course duration - 1 academic year
4Studying options
1.

On-campus learning

Documents are processed remotely, studying process starts only afterarrival to Russia in order to get maximum language immersion
2.
100% distant learning

2020

All documents are processed remotely, studying takes 28-32 hours perweek
3.
Mixed learning
Start studying in a distance format before arrival to Russia - the mostpopular option because it allows you to take the most out of the course
For more information, please visit ourwebsite: https://rfl.urfu.ru/ru/

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Distant Pre-entry Department
Distant learning consists of at least 12 hours of online webinars per
week (6 webinars per week), 16 hours of independent remote work totally 28 hours of intensive Russian language study per week.

At the beginning of the studying, students have 16 hours of webinars per
week - 8 webinars per week. In the online classroom, teachers explain all
aspects of the language: vocabulary and grammar, writing, reading,listening and speaking.

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Distant Pre-entry Department
28 academic hours a week

Students individual work onthe platform exam2.urfu.ru

6-8 webinars a week
(10-12 people in the group)7

Distant Pre-entry Department

1.Download the tasks on the Moodle,sections formation within the coursestructure.

2. Creation of training videos (writing,grammar, speech situations) andsimulators.

3.Creation of supporting materials:
diagrams, tables, illustrations, lexiconpresentations.

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Short-term programs
Benefits of Short-term Schools:

For More Information, visit please
visit our website:
wintersummeruni.urfu.ru/en●

Academic and practical experience●

Scientific approach●

Project-based learning●Joint publications●

Competitive approach●

Work in the Labs and Industry Visits●

Variable culture program andorganized activities

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Short-term programs: INTERNSHIPS
2020

Internships
requestremote access anddistant learning
4 May - 4 August 2020, online InternshipWebinars:

Industry Partner:

Zoom

SVEL
Programming andProblems Solving:

Discord

2 articles in
SCOPUS journals
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Short-term programs: INTERNSHIPS

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Short-term programs: TECHNICAL WORKSHOPS

Dates
12-19 October 202030 students

19-23 October 2020
50 students

DirectionPartners●●Mechanical Engineering
CyberSecurity (CTF-format)

Siemens●Web Application
Development
Programming
Information technologies

Business intelligence
Institute (Russia),
EastWind (Russia),
TU Berlin,
Zalando (Germany),●●12Thank you for your attention!
Contact Information
Official website: urfu.ru/en
Admissions officers: admission@urfu.ru
Tel.: +7 (343) 389-94-08
Follow Preparatory Department UrFU

Personal Email:yana.aymasheva@gmail.com,
ajmasheva.yana@urfu.ru
Follow Short-term Programs of UrFU

https://rfl.urfu.ru/en/

https://wintersummeruni.urfu.ru/en/@russianasforeignlanguage@wintersummeruniversityurfu

DIEP UrFU

https://www.facebook.com/wintersummeruniversityurfu

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