A meeting of the co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Russian-Ethiopian Commission on Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation and Trade, headed by the head of the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use of the Russian Federation Evgeny Petrov and the Minister of Innovation and Technology of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Belete Mollem, who head the commissions from Russia and Ethiopia, is taking place in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
The Ministry of Education of Russia is represented at the event by the Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Public Relations, Usman Rassukhanov. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Ethiopia Yevgeny Terekhin is also taking part in the meeting. The meeting of the heads of the commission includes discussions on humanitarian cooperation, including initiatives to promote the Russian language in Ethiopia.
During the meeting, representatives of the Ethiopian side said that the Ethiopian Government is systematically working to support the promotion of the Russian language. Special attention is paid to the support of the Russian Center for Culture and Science, which implements programs of cultural and linguistic cooperation.
At the meeting of the co-chairs of the commission, Usman Rassukhanov said that the first joint projects in the field of education are already being implemented. Five teachers of the Russian Teacher Abroad project are teaching in Ethiopia, and in one of the Moscow schools, with the support of the Institute of Asian and African Countries of Moscow State University, teaching of the Amharic language, the official language of Ethiopia, has begun. Russian Russian Ministry of Education instructed Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University to establish a Center for Open Education in Russian and Russian Language Teaching in Ethiopia in early October this year.
In addition, Usman Rassukhanov met with Russian teachers working at the Military Engineering College at the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of Ethiopia at the Center for Open Education of the Ministry of Education of Russia, and participated in a Russian language lesson for Ethiopian schoolchildren. The meeting was held at the site of the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Addis Ababa. The teachers shared their impressions and told how the educational process is structured, how the classrooms are equipped and what results have already been achieved.
Also on the sidelines of the meeting of the Co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Russian-Ethiopian Commission on Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation and Trade, the Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Public Relations of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation held talks with the Minister of Education of Ethiopia Berhanu Nega. Usman Rassukhanov noted a number of opportunities for expanding cooperation between the two countries. Among them are professional development and professional retraining of teachers; exchange of experience in the field of vocational education and early career guidance for schoolchildren; admission of gifted children from Ethiopia to study at All-Russian children’s centers; exchange of experience in organizing inclusive education and working with children with disabilities.
Usman Rassukhanov presented Russian developments in the field of digital education, and also offered assistance in the participation of Ethiopian students in international competitions such as the Professionals Championship and the High-Tech Championship, the National Championship for Professional Skills among the Disabled and people with disabilities “Abilimpix” and the ArtMasters Creative Competencies Championship.
“We consider Russia a strategic partner and see prospects for expanding cooperation in the economy, we believe that we need to educate specialists who know the Russian language and culture of Russia,” the Ethiopian Minister of Education stressed at the end of the meeting.
A source: edu.gov.ru
