Academic mobility of the SibFU teachers: new stage
Within the TEMPUS “ALLMEET” project on 19-25th April, 2015 a delegation of SibFU School of Education, Psychology and Sociology participated in the international conference «Culture, Language and Religion in Russia and Europe: Key Aspects in Education for Tolerance» at the University of Bologna (Italy).
The working team led by the School Director Prof Olga Smolyaninova presented the results of the research on multicultural interaction and development of tolerance in the Krasnoyarsk region. As a part of her report «The Krasnoyarsk Region as a Multicultural Society: The Development of Ethnic and Religious Tolerance» Prof Smolyaninova delivered the intermediate results of the study in the city and region and the prospects for further developing ethnic and religious tolerance in a multicultural society.
In order to share the experience with their European colleagues, the Russian participants visited a few municipal intercultural and social centres in the cities of Bologna, Modena, Florence, Arezzo and Novellara. The team attended an orthodox church, a mosque, a Sikh temple and a Hindu temple; they also had meetings with the heads of local religious denominations and ethnic communities, representatives of the centres for immigrants, cultural mediation services and complementary educational centres for teachers.