Saint Petersburg University of Management and Economics is glad to invite undergraduate students of foreign universities, consular and embassy officers, representatives of foreign business entities, international agencies, communities and national culture trusts of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Region to participate in Summer School of SPbUME «Business Russian (Russian for Professional Communication)» (May 21-25, 2012)

The education and social program of the Summer School of SPbUME 'Business Russian (Russian for Professional Communication)' includes:

• lectures with the use of multimedia tools, binary lections, lections in English, practicum;
• master-classes, communication roundtables;
• business role playing game;
• quizzes, testing;
• visiting Saint Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry;
• visiting the Museum of Brewing History.

The training session will take place at address: 44 Lermintovskiy pr., Saint Petersburg.

Providing the successful completion of the training course the participants will be ed with Certificates of the Summer School of SPbUME “Business Russian (Russian for Professional Communication)”. The cost of training course and lunches amounts to 2880 RUR (incl. VAT).

For non-resident participants we can offer our assistance in booking of single rooms in the Azimut Hotel: 43/1 Lermintovskiy pr. The cost of training course, lunches and accommodation in the hotel (bed & breakfast) amounts to 14380 RUR (incl. VAT).

The payment is to be effected via bank transfer after signing of the one of the variants of the Agreement (including or excluding the accommodation) by the participants.
Preliminary applications please forward to the e-mail address: n.egorova@spbume.ru or fiepp@spbume.ru (Registration form see attached)

Due date: May 16, 2012.

On-line registration of the participants of the Summer School is available below.

For further information, please call: +7 (812) 575 – 02 – 85

St. Petersburg University of Management and Economics with support of the Committee on science and higher school of the Government of St. Petersburg holds the International scientific and practical conference «Dialogue of Cultures — 2012: State of Cross-Cultural Communications under Conditions of Post-Crisis Economy» on April 18-19, 2012.

Within the framework of the conference there will be a plenary meeting, section meetings, round tables, and master classes devoted to the discussion of the following issues:

♦ Main tendencies of the development of intercultural communications in the conditions of post-crisis economy;
♦ Place and a role of legal culture in personnel policy of the Russian Federation;
♦ Main problems in creating a common information space of the CIS in the conditions of deepening integration processes;
♦ Role of intercultural communications in the development of small business and support of business activity;
♦ Assessment, prospects and priorities of social and economic development of the regions;
♦ Legislative support to forming general economic and welfare space of the CIS;
♦ Solutions of cultural problems in modern Europe;
♦ Elite and mass cultures in the conditions of the world crisis;
♦ Economic consequences of modern transformation of intercultural communications;
♦ Right. Culture. Economy: theory and practice of their unity, and interaction
♦ Intercultural communication and tourism.
♦ Theoretical and applied aspects of intercultural communications;
♦ Cultural and ethical problems of the dialogue of cultures;
♦ St. Petersburg as multy-cultural center of formation of modern humanitarian technologies; etc.

On March 15, 2012, a meeting was held between students of the President’s program for management retraining and Ben Greenwood, Assistant to Consul General of Great Britain. The meeting was attended by Management of the Saint Petersburg University of Management and Economics and Staff of the Institute of Retraining and Advanced Training. Words of welcome were said by Viktoriya Leonidovna Marich, Development and International Cooperation Pro-Rector, who emphasized efficiently developing partnership between Saint Petersburg University of Management and Economics and UK ambassadorial services.

Ben Greenwood’s address was primarily concentrated on development of relations between the two countries in economy and commerce, because in Consulate General he is responsible for this line.

According to Mr Greenwood, positive aspects of bilateral interaction between Russia and Great Britain are as follows: increase in commodity turnover, joint projects in business, power engineering, sports, projects for reconstruction and modernization of railway stations, and mutual consultations.

The lecture was given by Dr. Savvas Papangiannidis, Head of MA Programs in E-Business and Information Systems at Newcastle University (Great Britain).
Dr. Papangiannidis defined “electronic business” as follows: e-business is introduction of information technologies and Internet into a company’s internal and external business processes, which allows development of brand new and efficient interactive media.
The concept of electronic business is closely related to the following notions:

E-learning – electronic learning
E-commerce – electronic commerce (on-line sales, web-money, etc.)
E-government – electronic government (provision of information and rendering of services to population).

Today you can hardly find an area that has not been affected by Internet technologies. Most companies readily adapt to new conditions: introduce various on-line services and technologies, actively use social networks (emergence of Facebook, without any doubt, was an innovation in business) to promote their goods and services. Some firms and even industries (such as Kodak camera manufacturer who declared bankruptcy in January this year) withdraw the market.

The seminar was convened by Consulate General of Germany in Saint Petersburg, German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation, Graduate School of Journalism and Mass Communication and North West Branch of Russian Legal Academy, Ministry of Justice, Russia.

The seminar was conducted as part of the Week of Germany in Saint Petersburg, arousing great public interest. This event is topical because relations between Russia and Germany have become closer recently; trade now develops at high rates; Russia is one of the most important foreign trade partners of Germany.

Seminar participants made special mention of the report made by Michael Schiele, a liaison officer of border services, federal enforcement, Germany Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany (Moscow).

Seminar participants exd phone numbers and e-mail to continue communication and strengthen friendly international mutual relations. Information they have received will be intensively used in training and studies on Private International Law, Civil and Commercial Law in Foreign Countries, etc.