The main purpose of academic mobility program is to provide opportunities for students, scientists, and teachers to receive quality training of educational, scientific, and pedagogical nature in major universities of the world. The academic mobility program allows foreign students to feel like a citizen of another country for their period of study. Taraz State Pedagogical University is a partner of Minin University (the cooperation agreement was signed last spring).
Maxim Gaase, a second-year student of Taraz state pedagogical University, studied at Minin University for a year as part of the academic mobility program in the profile "Foreign language (English) and Foreign language (German/French/Spanish)".
Maxim, could you share your impressions about the stay in Nizhny Novgorod and training in Mininskom University. What were you able to visit？ What Did you liked most？
This is my first time in Russia, and I can say that my stay here was wonderful! Nizhny is a very beautiful city. People at the University, as well as in the city itself, are very hospitable, kind, pleasant - always with a smile, with a sincere desire to talk, to ask about my homeland and about new impressions. I was able to take part in the International festival of national cultures "In this big world", and I am glad! This is a new experience, new acquaintances and just a good time among specialists and students from different universities of Russia. I also visited the international scientific-practical conference "Scientific discussion: questions of Philology and methods of teaching foreign languages".
I really like my new group and I like my teachers even more: all very creative people who are able to interest, but at the same time competent in their field and sometimes very demanding.
Studying at Minin is at the highest level. In the future, I will be very useful knowledge gained in the disciplines of "teaching Methods", "project Management", "Management". I will recommend Minin to my friends and classmates. I note that two more students of our University came to you for six months (the direction of "speech Therapy" and "pre-School education"), they, however, have already returned back, and were very pleased with the experience gained at the Minin University.
What are the advantages of participation in the academic mobility program you see？
I will highlight the main advantages:
- new friends (in group, hostel)
- new nature and climate
- ability to travel further (in cities)
- for some it is an opportunity to radically change their lives
- possibility to practice foreign languages with their native speakers
- exchange of experience between students and teachers
To sum up, I can say with confidence that this is a great opportunity to travel the world, which should be used by every student. And as you know, the journey cannot end with meeting new people.
Do you have any plans？
While I did not have time to go to Moscow and St. Petersburg, in the summer I will definitely go there on a trip. I will consider other options for visiting other universities in Russia. I would also like to develop my career in pedagogy. It’s like a family tradition: my mother and grandmother are teachers at school. I like to learn and teach others, to develop myself and learn something new.
