Webinar on the problems of intercultural communication

First pro-rector of Brest State A.S. Pushkin University, PhD, Professor A.Sender and first pro-rector of SmolSU, PhD, Professor N. Senchenkov have welcomed the participants of the conference with an opening speech.

The topic of the webinar was “Migration policy of Belarus, Russia and Germany”. The students discussed the relevance of this problem in the new environment of mixed migration flows and trends of international migration; the students also raised the questions concerning the tolerant attitude towards the other cultures. The interest was aroused by the report of the assistant of the German Academic Exchange Service Steffen Smidt, who spoke not only about the measures of regulating migration flows taken in Germany at the governmental level, but also on the attitude towards the issue of the ordinary citizens.

German language was chosen as the working language of the webinar that allowed students to turn a traditional event into the exciting, useful and informative chat with the peers as well as with the native speakers. The very process of communicating in a foreign language for students in the on-line mode – it's not just the exchange of information, but also an opportunity to estimate their linguistic and communicative competence.

Faculty of Foreign Languages