International activity of Samara State University of Economics (SSEU.ru)

The intensive development of the international activity has been one of the main indicators of quality of education and university success rate. University policy in the field of international cooperation development is global that shows readiness to establish and elaborate cross-border relations, which gives our students the opportunity to get acquainted with foreign educational systems, scientific-research schools and become familiar with foreign culture that in general, broadens professional, scientific and spiritual potential.

The principle of international contacts development is based on the reinforcement of scientific and educational contacts with foreign universities which are high-rated in the field of economic and juridical education. SSEU is striving to strike the lingua-geographical balance to help the students speaking different languages study in the universities of different countries.

In SSEU within the scope of international, educational and scientific research activity a range of different trends are actualized: exchange education in the host-university or on-the-job practical training at the enterprises, participation in the international research projects, conferences and seminars, publications in the electronic scientific journal and etc. The students are very interested in the international youth exchange programs which imply students’ language qualification upgrading and acquiring new cross-cultural experience.

In 2008 SSEU was honored with “European quality” award, in 2010 SSEU signed Magna Charta Universitat which gives the university more opportunities for taking part in international projects and further cross-cultural relations and also proves the recognition of quality of education that our university suggests.

Currently some double degree programs are implemented in our university.()

Now the opportunity to take part in exchange semester program in the host-universities (Germany, the USA, France, and Spain) appears to be very prestigious. The best students have the opportunity to take part in exchange semester program in the host-universities free of charge. Moreover, students can get governmental scholarship of the country where the selected university is located, that covers all the expenses connected with staying abroad. SSEU has these opportunities thanks to close cooperation with such authoritative governmental funds as German Academic Exchange Service, Campus France, Fulbright, IREX, Ford Fund and etc.

It’s also important for the university to provide students with the opportunities to have professional internships at the foreign enterprises. In terms of long-lasting cooperation our university is developing relations with such great international companies and organizations as Johnson Controls, Schneider Electrics, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), International Consulting Company RUSCOMERZ (Barcelona, Spain), Region-wide organization MEDEFF (French enterprise movement), hotel chain Capsis (Greece) and etc.

The most productive cooperation is implemented with trance-national company Johnson Controls (Burscheid, Germany). The projects at first aims the organization of the professional training for the students of SSEU and then their further employment in the management sector of the Johnson Controls company around the world.

Cooperation with the region-wide organization MEDEF (French enterprise movement, Champagne-Ardenne province) has been implemented since 2007. Annually a group of students of  SSEU take part in short –term internships “Visits to French enterprises”, which is followed by Russian-French student round-table discussions.

One more interesting project is the cooperation with Pietra  Barbara (Rome, Italy), which office is in Samara. This is the great logistical company Prime Shipping. Annually groups of students are invited to take part in introductory seminars which are held in Rome and supported by RF Embassy in Italy and with consuls’ participation.

Spanish company RUSCOMMERZ together with the Champagne-Ardenne province Barcelona also organize short-term internship, seminars and visiting administrative, industrial and social institutions of Spain.

The teachers of the university also have the opportunity to undertake the internships abroad on a competitive basis applying to the following programs: German Academic Exchange Service, Fulbright Fund, consortiums of the Europroject Erasmus Mundus.

At the university the opportunities for language improvement are implemented for the students and teachers. Everyone can have language courses in one of our language school partners.

To combine language courses and gain the experience in teaching economics and management basis students can take part in summer school activities of such universities as Justus Liebig University Giessen (Germany), Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester, Great Britain).

International cooperation of SSEU is not only limited by educational project development. Annually students from Justus Liebig University Giessen, Manchester Metropolitan University and Kazakh Economic University of Ryskulov take part in the international academic competition in mathematical statistics and theory of relativity.

On the basis of French university partners field conference is organized “Issues of French-Russian economic cooperation development”. The conferences are held under the aegis of  governmental representatives of Champagne-Ardenne province and Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Troyes (France). Next year we are planning to expand the area of our scientific cooperation and hold a conference in Shanghai (China) on the basis of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

Scientific research of teaching staff of SSEU is acknowledged by international boards. For example, the monograph of associate professors of the department “World economy” was recognized and published by the committee in the collection of articles of lead economists on the basis of Toronto University (Canada), which is included in the list “The best hundred universities”. The scientists of SSEU are annually invited for reading lectures in the leading universities.