German for profession and career

The regional contest “German for profession and career” took place in IvSU on April, 16. It was supported by German cultural center named by Goethe and Regional education department. School, college and IvSU students participated in the contest. It was organized as a fair of study firms in the frames of the project which has been fulfilled in IvSU since 2018.

The event was opened by the Director of Institute for Humanities Dr. Svetlana Manik. She underlined that today we do understand how important such events are for communication and maintenance of motivation in foreign language studies.

IvSU honorary lecturer Rüdiger Schwulst joined the contest and sent his video message from Germany. He told what professions are relevant in Germany and what ones are especially important in pandemic conditions. Mr. Schwulst wished a lot of success to participants of the events and expressed his hope to meet them in autumn. Interpretation of his speech from German to Russian was made by third-year students of Philology program (Foreign Philology).

The first contest was unusual as it was conducted on the base of video sent by IvSU graduates. German language played an important role in development of their careers. Communication in German is an essential part of professional activity as in German-speaking countries as in Russia. We express our sincere gratitude to IvSU graduates: Lozina Olga (TDL-Textil, Ivanovo), Aygner Natalia (Eurotours, Austria), Mironova Ekaterina (CHT Germany GmbH, Ivanovo branch) and Shvaybovich Victoria (St. Josef Stift /Krankenhaus/, Germany) for wonderful videos and support of our contest. Participants listened about successful careers not of strange people but of real specialists – former IvSU students.

In the frames of the main contest participants presented their study firms and an innovative product or a service which can be relevant and viable in the modern market.

The team of Novye Gorki secondary school became the winner. They presented a touristic company offering an eco-tour to Novye Gorki – “Dorf-Tour” (supervised by teacher Tatiana Kostrikova).

Winners in the category of college teams were Yaroslavl industry college (VakzYPEC project; supervised by teacher Alyona Lapina) and Ivanovo polytechnical college (Putzteufel project; supervised by teacher Klementina Metel’kova).

On the university level Monsieur Haustier project presented by second-year IvSU students (Foreign Philology program) took the first place.

All other teams were winners in different nominations:

1) Märchenkatz study firm, secondary school 65, Ivanovo (teacher Maria Derbenyova) – the best team in nomination “For masterpiece in creating of presentations”;

2) EATN – IW study firm, Novo-Talitsy secondary school (teacher Marina Kashuro) – the best team in nomination “For the best original product”;

3) Nicht-offen study firm, secondary school 19, Ivanovo (teacher Elena Sadovskaya) – the best team in nomination “For the most useful product”;

4) TPE study firm, the team of third-year IvSU students (Foreign Philology program), German group is the best team in nomination “Masterpiece in German”;

5) Eco-Frauen study firm, the team of third-year IvSU students (Foreign Philology program), 1^st English group is the best team in nomination “Frauen-Power”.

Innovative ideas, artistry and knowledge of German were appraised by the highly professional jury consisted of teachers of Foreign Philology Department. All participants got certificates and prizes.