Top.Mail.Ru

Ƶ

The delegation of Ƶ represented the university at the International Design Week in Armenia
17 April

Once again a team of Ƶ teachers and students went to the International Design Week in Armenia to the National University of Architecture and Construction (NUACA).

The program of the week, coordinated between our universities, forms sustainable design ties, promotes the development of international academic mobility, is aimed at creating conditions for the exchange of experience, advanced training and development of professional competencies of students in the field of design and entrepreneurship.

This time, the team of the University of Industrial Technologies and Design includes professors and staff members interested in the development of Russian-Armenian cooperation, working with international students, as well as managing international projects and programs. Among the selected participants are active, creative and initiative students of Ƶ.

Within the framework of the cultural program all participants of the international week will visit the main sights of Yerevan, and in the educational part the students will get acquainted with the author's courses of the teachers of the Armenian university and the University of Industrial Technologies and Design.

Ksenia Kaisheva, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages in Professional Activities of Ƶ, Director of the University Center for International Youth Projects and Initiatives, presented a lecture and a workshop on human-centered design to the participants of the creative week, telling about the tools of design thinking, Jobs-to-be-Done methodology used in software development, as well as the principles of lean startup to help students formulate and test an idea and build a prototype.

Kristina Shirikova, Head of the International Projects Development Department of Ƶ, held a class with students on the principles of organizing work with the audience, the peculiarities of segmenting the target audience and choosing a promising segment.

Elizaveta Kraikina, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and Finance of Ƶ, told the participants of the international week about the methods used to evaluate startup projects, programs with key approaches to building a financial model of a startup and unit economics.

During the sessions with Anna Mokrousova, assistant of the Department of Foreign Languages in Professional Activities of Ƶ, the participants practiced skills of content structuring and effective communication.

Ƶ students, who are participating in this kind of international events for the first time, are overwhelmed with impressions and positive emotions. Here is how they talk about their participation in the project:

Artem Vasiliev (Institute of Business Communications, Management, Business Administration and Consulting, second year):

“I thank first of all the administration of the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia, as well as our university for the opportunity to work in an international team, learn a lot of new and incredibly useful things. It is a great honor for me to represent the delegation of the University of Industrial Technologies and Design in such a prestigious place in a team with students and professors. Thank you all!”

Nikolay Vasiliev (Institute of Economics and Social Technologies, Social Work, second year):

“I would like to express my gratitude to the administration of the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia for the warm welcome, I would also like to thank Ƶ for the opportunity to have such an incredible experience of international communication, valuable information and professional skills. Participating in the Design Week is incredibly interesting and informative!”

Natalia Drozdova (Institute of Economics and Social Technologies, International Business, second year):

“I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Ƶ and NUASA for the valuable opportunity of international cooperation. Working in a team with NUASA representatives was informative and opened new perspectives for me. It was an honor to represent PROMTECHDISIGN University, and the knowledge and skills gained will be an important basis for professional growth and development of key competencies. Thank you very much for this unique opportunity!”

Levon Melikyan (Institute of Information Technologies and Automation, Applied Informatics in Design, third year):

“I would like to express my great gratitude to NUASA and Ƶ for organizing this academic exchange program. As a student from Russia with Armenian roots, it was very pleasant and important for me to get the opportunity to participate in the Russian-Armenian cooperation project. This trip gave me experience and a great amount of professional knowledge, expanding my practical skills. I am very happy to be a representative of PROMTECHDESIGN University in my homeland, thank you for this opportunity!”

Daniil Yashkin (Institute of Business Communications, Management, Small Business Management, second year):

“I am very impressed by the international cooperation with NUASA University, it is infinitely pleasant, honorable and valuable to participate in the international week. I would like to thank both Ƶ and NUASA for the opportunity and the experience and skills gained. I think that the knowledge and skills acquired during the trip will be useful and will definitely be useful in life.”

The participants of the international week have a lot of interesting, useful and important things ahead of them, we wish them success, new impressions and friends. And we hope that such an interesting and promising project of international cooperation will develop, involving more and more students, teachers and staff of our universities, contributing to the popularization of higher education, the development of professional partnership and friendly relations between peoples.