YSU STUDETS TO PARTICIPATE IN MASTER’S PROGRAMS WORKED OUT WITH NORVEGIAN OSLOMET UNIVERSITY

YSU delegation involving the head of the Chair of English for Cross-cultural Communications Shushanik Paronyan, associate professors Lilit Bekaryan and Anush Ayunts took part in the seminar organized by the Center for International Cooperation of Norway foundation (SIU) in Oslo. The delegation was headed by the head of International Cooperation Department Alexander Margarov.

The program is provided for academic cooperation of the specialists of the fields of cross-communications, international relations, international economic relations, ethnography and psychology of Oslomet and three leading universities of South Caucasus including YSU to work out joint Master’s courses for students.

In the current period of globalization is has become more important for students to develop cross-cultural skills, knowledge in cultural awareness and working out and instillation of mechanisms of adaptation in various cultural events. In the conditions of unprecedentedly increasing migration it is vital to expand students’ legal consciousness, their knowledge of law and economics.
Having the aim to help the young people getting their education at the universities of South Caucasus and Norway to overcome mentioned-above challenges the international working group discussed and specified the three academic fields in which it is planned to work out and then implement Master’s courses.

They are: development of cross-cultural communication skills, manifestation of extremism in speech and public life, migration and human rights. The trainings in mentioned directions first will be organized and tested during the two-week summer school to be organized in Tbilisi and Oslo in the summer of 2019 (4 students from each country), then during the courses to be organized in the same cities in the summer of 2019 (2 students from each country).

It should be added that YSU students will participate in this program too. Grant program provides one-term study for one student from each South Caucasian universities in the academic year of 2020-2021.

Armenia has the problem to get integrated in the global economic, educational and political processes going on currently in the world, therefore, the courses will be included in various Master’s programs of YSU.

Thea activities implemented within the frames the grant program provided for three academic years will promote academic cooperation between South Caucasus countries and Norway, contribute to creation of common knowledge field and to increasing academic mobility of students and teachers, as well as will give the opportunity to get joint work experience and get acquainted with innovative and creative processes of foreign higher education establishments.