The International Forum supported New Educational Initiatives of the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly

08/10/2021 11:55

On October 06 – 07, at the invitation of the Minister of Education of the Republic of Belarus Igor Vasilyevich Karpenko, the delegation of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly, headed by the General Secretary of the Assembly Andrei Yuryevich Belyaninov took part in the International Educational Forum for the Unity of Foreign Graduates of Belarusian (Soviet) Universities and Universities of CIS Countries in Minsk.

Speaking at the forum opening A.Yu. Belyaninov noted the need to develop a dialogue on ways to improve the efficiency of alumni associations to further strengthen friendship, exchange experience and develop scientific and educational cooperation, as well as more efficient use of the professional and human potential of foreign graduates to promote international public interaction. The forum participants warmly supported the thesis of the Secretary General that often foreign graduates show a highly patriotic position in relation to the country of education, considering it their second homeland.

Forum events aimed at establishing international business contacts in the sphere of education, science and business, presented the successful experience of the Assembly in this area. Representatives of graduates associations of Soviet and Russian universities, leading experts, journalists, political scientists, scientists and cultural figures, chairmen of friendship societies and other non-governmental organizations in the Eurasian space showed considerable interest in the developments and formats proposed by the Assembly. A.Yu. Belyaninov held a number of working meetings with the Secretary General of the Union of Arab Universities Amr Ezzet Salama, heads of associations of foreign alumni of Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and other countries. Following forum results, specific projects are planned; soon they will be fixed in a number of agreements.

On October 6, at the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, within the forum, the rectors of the leading Belarusian and Russian Universities met with the delegations of the Assembly and the Union of Arab Universities. A.Yu. Belyaninov acted as a key speaker of the forum. The participants unanimously supported the proposal of the Assembly on the formation of the Eurasian University Ranking.

The Assembly delegation, which also included Deputy Secretaries General S.A. Konovalenko and Yu.I. Petrova, Chief of Staff of the Secretary General A.V. Martynyuk, took an active part in the discussion of cooperation issues, the role of associations of foreign graduates in the development of business ties, the promotion of research and development in order to facilitate the development of new requirements for the quality of education, taking into account the needs of the global labor market.

The event was organized by the International Association of University Graduates in the Republic of Belarus with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus and the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, compatriots living abroad and international humanitarian cooperation and the World Association of Russian Alumni (Soviet) universities.

The Eurasian Peoples' Assembly expresses its gratitude to the member of the Assembly, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Union of Arab Graduates of Soviet and Russian Universities, Professor Yasser Allaham for active assistance in organizing the visit of the delegation.

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