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Last week the delegation of Zaporizhzhya National University, headed by the Vice-Rector for Research Hennadiy Vasylchuk, visited Estonia. It was a return visit at the invitation of colleagues from Narva College of the University of Tartu as part of the project "Introducing of the multilingual education model and the methodology of simultaneous teaching subject and language (CLIL) at Zaporizhzhya National University and Zaporizhzhya Oblast". The event was held in the framework of the Concept of learning foreign languages which had been successfully implemented at ZNU for several years, at the initiative of the rector Mykola Frolov.

According to Hennadiy Vasylchuk, the program was pretty intense. During the meeting with Estonian colleagues, the delegates discussed issues concerning the implementation of the joint project of Narva College and Zaporizhzhya National University on the characteristic features of multilingual learning. The Ukrainian delegation also found out more about the Estonian educational system, ethno-cultural specific concepts of the Republic of Estonia, the guests visited the Estonian secondary and higher educational institutions, etc.

Halyna Moroshkina, talking about the development of Estonian international activities of the university, paid special attention to the stages of connection establishment with the representatives of the University of Tartu and the prospects of further cooperation of ZNU with this leading Estonian higher education institution: "For the first time our Estonian colleagues visited the University in January of this year at our invitation. The staff of the Faculty of Foreign Languages prepared for the guests of honour the fundamental presentations in all fields of activity: the professors described the learning process, told about the educational programmes and specializations of the University, its scientific and international activities, academic mobility, youth outreach, etc. Professor Saniya Yenikyeyeva prepared information about the scientific schools of the Faculty of Foreign Languages which are well-known not only in the national linguistic space, but also in the international academic circles.