Сибирский федеральный университет

The course consists of three main blocks:

• Educational block;
• Project block;
• Cultural and leisure block.

Educational block includes:

1. Courses of additional education include the following 7 divisions:
   • Management
   • Engineering sciences: Metallurgy
   • Engineering sciences: energy, mechanical engineering, motor transport
   • IT technologies
   • Biomedicine
   • Philology
   • Tourism

   The format of the educational courses is interactive lectures with leading Russian top speakers, active entrepreneurs, representatives of Local Government and Regional Administration.

2. Workshops on the development of soft-skills and competencies of the future
   Special attention will be paid to the development of students’ competencies of the future – skills that are not related to a specific profession, but contribute to the effective solution of functional tasks, establishing contacts, successful career development, efficient business activity. Participants will have the opportunity to improve their skills in effective communication, the ability to work in team, present and defend their ideas. Trainings and master classes of this block will contribute to the development of participants’ emotional intelligence, systemic thinking, and cognitive flexibility.
   Workshops of this course include business games and trainings, case analysis. The main topics of workshops are:
   • Training “Successful communication techniques”;
   • Interactive seminar “Project Management”;
   • Training “IT competence”;
   • Team building simulation game;
   • Training “Emotional intelligence”;
   • Workshop “Mastery of presentations”;
   • Training “Time management”;
   • Training “Leaders of the new generation: situational leadership and emotional intelligence”.

Project block

The project block “Accelerator of Social Design” is made up of:

• a unified course of online-lectures on social design for all participants of the Summer University at SibFU;
• work in teams of 5-6 participants under the supervision of mentors in order to prepare social projects aimed at solving various social problems. Teams will create a passport of their social project and develop a plan for its further implementation. The best ideas will be presented in the final of the contest “Accelerator of social projects”.

The cultural and leisure block
“Summer University — 2023” is focused on both educational and cultural spheres. This project is rich in leisure programs that will help mutual cultural exchange of all participants. Cultural block for foreign guests will include sports and entertaining events, excursions.

Sports events:

• daily morning fitness: a quick workout for the body, necessary for absolutely everyone to strengthen muscles, prevent illnesses and improve well-being. (Фото 7)
• sports competition of international teams “Youth for a healthy lifestyle”, the purpose of which is to create positive atmosphere of friendship and collaboration. (Фото 8)

Entertaining events:

• city photo rally “Different Krasnoyarsk” is a tour of the historical district.
• public open-air event: watching the movie “The true cost”/ The True price, created to draw people’s attention to the problems of the textile industry and its impact on the ecology of the planet.
• bus city sightseeing tour: visiting the main attractions of the “Past, present and future”.
• the festival of National color where participants will be able to represent their national traditions and customs in songs, dances, national cuisine.

Weekend excursions:

• excursion: “Nature is a great sculptor” on the territory of the “Stolby State Nature Reserve”.
• excursion to the Krasnoyarsk Zoo “Roev Ruchey”.

Industrial excursions:

• “Krasnoyarsk Plant of non-ferrous metals and gold named after V. N. Gulidov”. The tour will allow participants to get acquainted with a modern company of great industrial and intellectual potential.
• The “Boiling Point” is the co-working center for interaction between entrepreneurs, professional communities, youth, scientists and government representatives. This is one of the federal development projects of the National Technology Initiative (NTI) implemented by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives.
• Krasnoyarsk Regional Innovation and Technology Business Incubator is one of the central elements of the regional innovation infrastructure whose purpose is to support startups.
• RUSAL Krasnoyarsk is one of the world’s largest aluminum producers. It is an example of industrial tourism. Foreign students will follow the main stages of the aluminum production and get information about the work of the plant and metallurgists, environmental projects and reducing the strains on the environment .

Leading foreign specialists, Russian experts in the field of business and the best academics from SibFU were invited to deliver lectures and practices:

• School of Business Management;
• School of Space and Information Technology;
• School of Physical Education, Sport and Tourism;
• School of Philology and Language Communication;
• School of Fundamental Biology and Biotechnology;
• School of Non-Ferrous Metals and Material Science;
• Polytechnic School.

• Evgenyia Ershova
  Deputy Director for international work,
  Candidate of philological science, Associate professor of Marketing Department,
  School of Business Management, SibFU
  e-mail: EErshova [at] sfu-kras [dot] ru
  Tel.: +7 904 897-59-10
• Mariya Starsheva
  Head of the Laboratory of the international communication,
  Candidate of philological science,
  Associate professor of Marketing Department,
  School of Business Management, SibFU
  Tel.: +7 909 523-65-60

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“Summer University — 2023” is becoming a tradition, as it is held at the School of Business Management of the Siberian Federal University for the third time.

In 2022

In 2022, 50 students from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Belarus became participants in the project at SibFU.

Within the direction “Management” at the School of Business Management, foreign students studied the current trends of global entrepreneurship in real and virtual space. Participants got acquainted with the agenda for the ESG transformation of the economy. The two-week program was eventful. Foreign students attended interactive lectures, business seminars, participated in simulation games, carried out social projects and had meetings with Russian and foreign top speakers, active entrepreneurs, as well as with representatives of the city and regional administration.

In addition, the participants visited the city-forming enterprises of Krasnoyarsk: Krastsvetmet and RUSAL. Both companies follow the principles of corporate social responsibility, introducing ESG practices in their production. So, students had a unique opportunity to get acquainted with new technologies and evaluate the implementation of ESG principles not only in theory, but also in practice.

“Summer University — 2022” resulted in signing the agreements on cooperation with the Tashkent University of Finance. And several foreign students were admitted to Master's program at the School of Business Management.

In 2021

The main events of the “Summer University-2021” in Krasnoyarsk were carried out by the representatives of the School of Business Management. However, they were actively assisted by representatives from other SibFU schools. Staff of the School of Physical Education, Sport and Tourism offered morning open air exercises for the participants and accompanied them on hikes. Furthermore, The participants enhanced their cooking skills related to local cuisine during the master-classes offered by The Institute of Gastronomy.

The main lectures and seminars, tutorials were held by leading experts of higher School of Economics, as well as the best academics, professors of the SibFU. They were supported by representatives of the Local Government and the Krasnoyarsk business community. The students had a great opportunity to gain hand-on experience and enriched their theoretical knowledge with practice.

The leisure program was also eventful and varied. The Belarusian students visited the iconic places of our city: the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station, Eco-park “Gremyachaya Griva” and the national park “Stolby Nature”. A trip on the ship “Kupriyan” along the Yenisei, the sightseeing bus tour of the city, “Photo Rally” and “Art Embankment” contributed to the closer acquaintance of the students with the city and its places.

The important results ofthe two-week educational project for the Belarusian representatives were new knowledge, invaluable scientific and cultural experience, as well as the establishment of contacts with the Russian student community. However, for the School of Business Management of SibFU, the event was also significant, since 48 foreign students entered our school and successfully completed the complementary education program. This international event can be called reciprocally advantageous. During the two-week educational project the Belarusian students gained new theoretical and practical knowledge, valuable scientific and cultural experience, established contacts with the Russian student community. The event was significant for the School of Business Management of SibFU as well, since 48 foreign students entered our school and completed one of the continuing education programs successfully. In addition, the School of Business Management of SibFU negotiated with Belarusian universities, and signed several cooperation agreements.

In 2020

Summer School 2020 was the fourth project organized by the Institute of Business Process Management and Economics at the Siberian Federal University.

That year, foreign students from partner universities of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan acceded to the participants from Russia.

Because of the difficulties caused by CV-pandemic foreigner participants could not attend the Summer School 2020, so organizers decided to hold the school on-line. Thus School 2020 became the pilot project in the implementation of distance learning.

However, this format of lectures and seminars had many advantages. The tutors used modern Internet platforms. So, the lectures were held in Zoom, which made it possible to vary and combine different forms of work with students. At the workshops the Miro platform was added, which contained all the necessary tools for creating co-project. The Telegram chat provided prompt communication and support to prevent participants from various difficulties.

It should be pointed out that such a training format allowed to attract more qualified trainers and experts from both Russia and abroad than in previous years.

The school covered issues on the Russian and foreign experience of business projects operating in accordance with the principles of socio-economic responsibility.

In the final task, the participants analyzed Russian enterprises for their compliance with the goals of sustainable development and social orientation. It resulted in working out an action plan for the development of companies in this direction.

In 2019

The International summer school-2019 “Global entrepreneurship in the real and virtual reality: challenges and opportunities for business” became the third large project of cooperation between the Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russia), the Krasnoyarsk regional public organization “INTERRA” (Krasnoyarsk, Russia) and the public association “Frischluft” (Berlin, Germany).

During classes participants of the Summer School-2019 got useful information, and then this necessary theoretical knowledge was enriched by the practice at enterprises under guidance of entrepreneurs. So representatives of socially-oriented entrepreneurship in Krasnoyarsk shared their successful business ideas. Proprietors of the firm “Svalka.me” told about collecting things that had become unnecessary in everyday life, making them marketable and further selling. As for severely damaged things the entrepreneurs recycled them.

The company “EcoDesign Hub” held master classes on making items from recycled materials, which could be safely used in the different interiors.

The representatives of the cooperative society “Kalina-Malina” (united farms of the Novosibirsk and Kemerovo regions, Krasnoyarsk and Altai territories) told about the difficulties which farmers faced making and selling their products, and how combining efforts helped to overcome these obstacles.

The students used the knowledge they received during trainings and in the process of communicating with Krasnoyarsk entrepreneurs in practice working out and presenting their own projects.

In 2018

The International Summer School “Smart technologies in social entrepreneurship” continued the project “Global entrepreneurship in real and virtual space” which took place in 2017. In both cases, the implementation of the idea was carried out in close cooperation with an indispensable German partner — the federal public association “Frischluft”. However, in contrast to previous summer school, which was held in Krasnoyarsk on the basis of SibFU, the International Summer School-2018 took place in Berlin. Thus, students of SibFU were trained by leading lecturers of FOM-University.

The main theme of the school was focused on Smart technologies. Russian students got acquainted with new approaches of integrating information technologies in social entrepreneurship (Square mobile application for managing private businesses; co-working; car-sharing; cloud storage; systems for ensuring the economic security of small businesses, etc.). The main feature of the project was the close interlacement of educational and cultural programs. The Russian students had a unique opportunity to visit the Central office of Microsoft in Germany and participate in a conversation with Thomas Fryberg (HR Manager), who knew almost everything about all the current innovations and trends of Smart technologies. In his lecture he told about such important aspects as the process of digitalization of modern society, the prospects for the development of artificial intelligence, forecasts in the field of professions, etc.

In addition, SibFU students visited the Reichstag, which was a unique combination of an architectural masterpiece and smart technologies that envelop the interior of the building.

Looking at exhibit items in the German Museum of technology Russian students could keep track of the evolution of “smart” technologies from the “devices” of the Stone Age to the modern smartphones.

In 2017

In August 2017, Krasnoyarsk hosted the international summer school “Global entrepreneurship in real and virtual space” – a joint project of the Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russia), the Krasnoyarsk regional public organization “INTERRA” (Krasnoyarsk, Russia) and the public Association “Frischluft” (Berlin, Germany) as part of the Program to improve international competitiveness (5-100).

Russian participants were joined by students from Germany, Italy and Britain. It should be pointed out that it was not the first project supported by the School of Business Management and Economics. Summer school 2017 continued the series of projects “Intertime”, where the organizers were “INTERRA” and School of Business Management and Economics. Starting in 2014 in Krasnoyarsk, the next two years there projects took place in Berlin on the basis of public association “Frischluft”. At the same time, the educational component was increasing each time, and in 2017 “Intertime” turned into a completely new form – the International summer school with a comprehensive combination of educational and cultural programs.

The international summer school “Global entrepreneurship in real and virtual space” began with showing the city and its most significant attractions to the foreigners. This allowed participants from different countries to get closer, finding common interests and common ground.

The supportive environment at the training sessions contributed to fruitful communication and establishing contacts, discovering a lot of unusual and interesting things. Lectures and seminars were held by experienced trainers from Germany and Russia, as well as by the best teachers from School of Business Management and Economics of SibFU. In addition, the participants of the school got acquainted with amazing people of our city — representatives of regional business. So, the students communicated with businessman and politician Konstantin Senchenko, as well as with businessman Anatoly Sergeev and others. The discussion was focused on current topics on trends, strategies and priorities for the development of our region, as well as the global world as a whole. Communication with important Krasnoyarsk personalities was really useful for both Russian and European participants, as many theoretical facts were enriched by examples from personal business experience.
After finishing the International Summer School the participants got a greeting letter from Angela Merkel as she was a leader of Christian democratic Union of Germany which brunch was the public association “Frischluft”.

• Foreign PhD Professor Hamdamov Shavkat Komilovich (“Summer University-2022”): “Students took lectures well, actively participating in discussions. We discussed the main points together and compared the experience between our states. We wish this project to continue next year. We are extremely interested in this kind of events, as they help to maintain relations and develop cooperation in scientific and educational and methodological areas.”
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• Kazakh student Onisjon Aisin (“Summer University-2022”): “We were sure that the “Summer University” would broaden our horizons and improve professional competencies. Expectations were met. All the classes were interesting because they contained life examples. The format of delivering the material was unusual. One of the most necessary things was the lectures on Social design where we learnt how to implement this or that idea. We will need all this knowledge in a year or two when writing theses and creating our own projects.”
  (Фото 26)

• Belarusian student Mark Shiryaev (Summer School 2021): “Almost all of these 18 lectures were incredibly useful. They helped me to immerse into the fascinating world of business, business management and my life. Lecturers are not just teachers, but also experienced specialists who are passionate about their work and eager to share their experience. The atmosphere here is really incredible. And this atmosphere is in everything, absolutely in every little thing. These are the volunteers who help you at every step, these are the organizers who have thought through everything up to trifles.”
• Russian student Andrey Kuzmin (Summer School 2020): “On the one hand the on-line format provided a real chance for people from other cities and countries to participate, on the other hand, the offline communication is preferable for contact with people: nothing can replace live interaction, the ability to see real faces and emotions.”
• Project manager Armin Pialek: “One of the main tasks facing me as the coach was to unite the participants of the MLSH-2019. Since the team was very diverse it was necessary to develop students' skills of successful interaction in various conditions. This approach increases the level of trust between participants and increases their personal responsibility for the result of a joint project. To achieve this goal, Russian and foreign children spent all their leisure time together. Training sessions flowed smoothly into a dinner, where informal communication participants took place.”
• Kuwaiti student Aldeewly Mohammed: “The closeness of Krasnoyarsk to a nature reserve forms the identity of your city. It is great that residents can have rest in the nature, without leaving the city. I have always been skeptical about the stereotype that bears walk the streets in Russia, but in Krasnoyarsk I believed it. I have never been so close to nature. The views are striking in their uniqueness.”
• Kuwaiti student Sakeen Younis: “The most exciting moment in our school was working out own start-ups. We had to pass the information we received at training through creative thinking, use personal experience and come up with our own business idea. But the most difficult thing was to present your project to other participants, because our friends had certain questions and critical comments. I often had to defend my point of view. Although during discussions the participants often offered good advice.”
• German student Andrea Tedone: “When I was told about the “Summer school” in Siberia, I thought it was joke. Nevertheless, and perhaps against all my prejudices, I didn’t miss the chance. Now I know how warm and strong the Siberian summer can be. As for the environment in the working group, it was probably one of the most important tools that helped our coaches convey a rather different vision of the global world from what we are used to. By the end of the project, we were able to form our own “breeding ground” for the start of something new.”
• Representative of “Frischluft” Daniel Gerjets: “A big thanks and lots of hugs from all the Germans to all the wonderful people that made the summer school in Krasnoyarsk such a special, mind-blowing and unforgettable exchange project. We are looking forward to 2018!”