INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION AS PART OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AT MGIMO

Abstract

The success of international projects on student collaboration depends on such factors as correctly elected partners, efficiency in the interactions of the project supervisors – professors of two or more universities, the development of the program for student cooperation, technical equipment of the universities and its equal accessibility for holding video conferences and making presentations for the partners to freely discuss the questions of the project, and the ability of project supervisors to stimulate and encourage students in their active and productive collaboration. As the project “MGIMO-Hokkaido Musashi Junior Women’s College Exchange Program” realized in the period of October 2016 – January 2017 has showed, the quality of international collaboration mostly depends on the methods and approaches to international cooperation, reliance on cultural peculiarities and strength of the partners, especially when partners demonstrate different levels of linguistic competence, openness and experience in international communication.