Arrival and check-in at the hotel "Severnaya"

Arrival and check-in at the hotel "Severnaya"

13:30 - 14:00

Participants' registration and coffee (room 207).

14:00 - 17:00

Plenary Session (PetrSU assembly hall, 33, Lenin Av.)

14:00 - 15:15

Opening of the conference (Presidium nomination and welcome speeches)

• Sergei Katanandov, The Head of the Republic of Karelia;
• Nikolai Levin, Chairman of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia;
• Evgeni Butko, Head of the Department of International Education and Cooperation, Federal Agency of Education of RF;
• Alexander Sverchkov, Deputy Head of the Second European Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of RF.

Plenary reports (up to 15 min.)

• "Educational network partnership development in the Barents Euro-Arctic regional cooperation" Anatoli Voronin, Rector of Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU);
• "EU-Russia Cooperation in higher education" - Nicola Scaramuzzo, Project Manager, the Delegation of European Commission to Russia;
• "Cooperation of Nordic Council of Minister and Northwest Russia in the field of education. Past, present and future" - Yana Bocharova Personnel manager, Coordinator on education & research, cross-regional cooperation, Information office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in St. Petersburg;
• "Norwegian Barents Secretariat and Russian-Norwegian educational projects" - Aleksey Filin, Director, Norwegian Barents Secretariat, Murmansk office.

15:15 - 15:45

Coffee-break  (at the dining hall)

15:45 - 17:30

• "Cooperation of Murmansk Universities in the framework of BEAR"  - Ruvin Tripolski, Rector of Murmansk State Pedagogical University;
• "International cooperation policies and practice an the light of Bologna principles: Arkhangelsk-Northern Norway experience" - Marina Kalinina Director, Norwegian-Pomor University Centre, Pomor State University
• "Utilization of distance learning technologies in the universities network of Barents Euro-Arctic Region" - Boris Petrov, Director, Distance Education Institute, Murmansk State Technological University.
• Plenary discussion

17:30 - 18:30

Concert for the participants (PetrSU assembly-hall)

19:00

Dinner at the restaurant "Fregat" (Karl Marks Av., 1a)

19 November 2008, Wednesday

10:00 - 18:00

Thematic sections

10:00 - 11:30

Section 1: BEAC and EU initiatives in development of international educational projects and programmes (PetrSU assembly hall, 33 Lenin av., second floor).
Moderators:  Victor Vasiljev, PetrSU President, Valentina Maksimova, Dean of Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Sergei Verigin, Dean of the Historical Faculty. General topics for discussion:
1. Rules, procedures, past experience, and future development of educational programmes and projects (Tempus, Erasmus Mundus, NCM, ENPI, Russian Presidential scholarship programme, FIRST, CIMO, etc.)
Speech duration - up to 20 min.

• "EU funded academic mobility programmes Erasmus Mundus and it's External Cooperation Window" - Nicola Scaramuzzo, Project Manager, Delegation of EC to Russia.
• "Peculiarities of Tempus IV programme. Results of 2008 competition" - Anna Muravjeva, Deputy Head, Tempus Office-Russia.
• "Opportunities of the Russian Presidential scholarship programme for education abroad" - Sergei Bogomolov, Leading expert, Department of International Education and Cooperation, Federal Agency of Education of RF;
• "Forty years of cooperation between PetrSU and CIMO in training of specialists" - Tamara Starshova, Assoc. Professor, Dean, Faculty of Baltic-Finnish Philology and Culture, PetrSU.

11:30 - 12:00

Coffee-break  (at the dining hall)

11:00 -13:00

Meeting of rectors of Higher Education Instyitutions of Northwest of Russia (PetrSU rector's office)

12:00 - 13:15

• "Current status and prospect of the research and education partnership development of Murmansk State Technological University with foreign companies with support of Norwegian Barents Secretariat" - Artur Iljasov, Head of International Cooperation Department of MSTU.
• "Experience of University of Joensuu in participating in educational projects and programmes joint with the PetrSU" - Jukka Korpela, Professor, Dean, Department of History, Joensuu University;
• "International activities strategy of Karelian State Pedagogical University" - Alexander Fedorov, Pro-rector for scientific work, KSPU.
• "Distance education and educational excellence - The Oulu model and practical examples" - Gottfried Effe, Project manager, Learning and research Services (LRS), Oulu University.

13:15 - 14:30

Lunch (at the dining hall)

14:30 - 16:00

• "Cooperation of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of PetrSU in the field of education and science within Tempus projects" -Valentina Maksimova, Professor, Dean, Faculty of P&SS, PetrSU;
• Experience in joint Master programme development - example of international relations programme within Finnish-Russain CBU" - Dmitry Lanko, Assoc. Professor, Saint-Petersburg State University;
•  "CBU project experience in development of joint Master programme in History sciences" - Sergei Verigin, Assoc. Professor, Dean, Faculty of History, PetrSU; Irina Chernyakova, Vice-Dean for Scientific Work and International Cooperation;
• "Mobility and quality assurance in joint study programmes" - Jaana Gluschkoff, CBU project coordinator, Helsinki University.

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee-break  (at the dining hall)

16:30 - 18:00

• "Higher education as a tool for to deepen partnership and mutual understanding - cases of the Northern Research Forum and the International Summer School of Karelia - Lassi Heininen, Assoc. Professor, University of Lapland;
• "International student camps experience" - Svetlana Filon, Senior Lecturer, English Language Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages, KSPU;
• "International education and international projects activities of Karelian State Pedagogical University" - Denis Pyzhikov, Manager of International Cooperation Department, and Inna Kalabina, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Preschool and Social Pedagogic and Psychology, KSPU.
•  "Experience of Faculty of Forest Engineering of PetrSU in joint research and training of specialists with HEIs of Finland" - Vadim Kostyukevich, Assoc. Professor, Deputy Dean for international cooperation, Faculty of Forestry, PetrSU;
• "Joint Master programmes development in the field of ICT within two CBU projects" - Yuri Bogoyavlenski, Assoc. Professor, Head of computer Science Department, Faculty of Mathematics, PetrSU
• "Creation of Master programme on Social work within Barents CBU" - Olga Zvyagina, Assoc. Professor, Head of Social Work Department, Faculty of P&SS, PetrSU;

10:00 - 18:00

10:00-11:30

Section 2: Use of the distance learning technologies in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region (BEAR) university network (PetrSU, room N 221, second floor) Moderators: Natalya Ruzanova, Assoc. Professor, Vice-rector for Informatization, PetrSU
General topics for discussion:

• Distance learning systems of higher education institutions as the basis for the inter-university educational process.
• Analysis of the efficiency of the use of distance educational technologies in higher education institutions.
• Methods of forming of common content of distance programs in BEAR university network.

• "Utilisation of technologies of e-Learning if the Republic of Karelia: problems and prospects" - Natalya Ruzanova, Assoc. Professor, Pro-rector for Informatization, PetrSU;
• "Concept of distance learning and experience of laboratory, created under the direction of Е. Polat" - Maria Tatarinova, Татаринова М., Head of Laboratory of distance learning, Institute of Content and Methods of Education, Russian Academy of Education;
• "Development and realization of distance learning in the Leningrad Region educational system" - Tatyana Boronenko, Professor, Director of the Institute of Information Science, A. Pushkin Leningrad Regional State University.

11:30 - 12:00

Coffee-break  (at the dining hall)

12:00 - 13:15

• "Use of distance learning technologies in Legal Sciences - Sergei Chernov, Professor, Dean, Faculty of Law, PetrSU;
• "Distance courses on History for international Master programmes: principles, approaches and experience" - Irina Takala, Head of Head of the Department of Northern European Countries History; Ilja Solomesch, Assoc. Professor; Alexei Golubev, Senior Lecturer.

13:15 - 14:30

Lunch (at the dining hall)

14:30 - 16:00

• "Testing technologies and quality of distance learning" - Tatyana Kabanova, Assoc. Professor, Head of the Department of the Specialist Training Quality Centre, State University of Management, Moscow;
• "Shaping of professional competences of the distance educational process participants in the field of ICT" - Alla Koryakina, Head of the Laboratory of Open and Distance Education , Republican Centre for New Information Technologies (RCNIT), PetrSU;
• "Results of introduction of the Network education system based of Sakai Platform - case of Saint-Petersburg State University" - Filipp Fedchin, Vice-Dean for Information Resources and Institutional Development, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Saint-Petersburg State University.

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee-break  (at the dining hall)

16:30 - 18:00

• "Legal regulation of relations between authors and customers of educational programmes" -  Denis Savelyev, Senior Programmer, Laboratory of Legal Databases, RCNIT PetrSU;
• "Practices of distance learning forms utilization in the process of education" - Gennady Gienko, Assoc. Professor, Vice-Dean, Head of the Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, PetrSU;
• "Creation of modular objectively-oriented learning environment in Hydrometeorology" - Marina Trubila, Head of the Data-Computing Centre, Russian State Hydro-meteorological University;
• "System of Distance Learning - instrument for improvement of education quality in the field of foreign languages learning" - Evgenia Sokolova, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages for the Technical Faculties, PetrSU.

18:00

Dinner (at the dining hall)

20 November 2008 , Thursday

10:00 - 11:30

Round Tables - Discussion on joint proposals for international cooperation development: creation and strengthening of consortiums and joint working groups, elaboration of new project ideas, etc.; drafting the conference resolution

Round tables topics:

• Joint international educational and research projects (assembly hall of PetrSU, second floor) Moderators: Valentina Maksimova., Professor, Dean, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of PetrSU;Lydmila Kulikovskaya, Head of Directorate for International Cooperation of PetrSU;  Alexander Berdino, Deputy Head of Directorate for International Cooperation of PetrSU.

• E-learning pedagogic, organisation and introduction strategy of distance technologies, (room № 223, second floor) Moderators: Natalya Ruzanova, Assoc. Professor, Vice-rector for Informatization of PetrSU;Alla Koryakina, Head of the Laboratory of Open and Distance Education , Republican Centre for New Information Technologies (RCNIT) of PetrSU.

Educational programmes on BEAR and European North of Russia issues, (room № 221), Moderators: Sergei Verigin, Assoc. Professor, Dean, Faculty of History of PetrSU, Alexander Golubev, Leading researcher, Head of Centre for History of Russian Culture; Anatoli Ivanov, Leading research officer, Institute of Russian History of RAS; Avenir Korelin, Professor, Senior researcher, Head of Centre "History of Russia in XIX century", Institute of Russian History of RAS; Sergei Sekirinski, Professor, Head of the Department of Modern History of "Russian History" magazine;  Vadim Roginski, Leading researcher, Institute of Universal History of RAS; Alexei Komarov, Head of the Scientific Centre "Northern Europe: Archive and Research Projects", Institute of Universal History of RAS.

11.30 - 12.00

Coffee-break  (at the dining hall)

12:00 - 13:00

Closing session. Assessment of the conference results, adoption of resolution. (Speeches of Moderators of Sections and Round tables)

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch (at the dining hall)

14:30 - 16:30

Cultural programme (tour around the city of Petrozavodsk)

19:00 - 23:00

Departure ofthe participants

21 November 2008, Friday

9:00 -19:00

Departure ofthe participants