On October 28 the first business game was held for the participants of «School for Foreign Affairs Newbie» («School for FAN»)
As part of the business game, the participants of «School for FAN» acted as managers of international projects, which they prepared as homework based on the knowledge gained during previous lectures from invited speakers.
The students tried their hand at conducting negotiations and speaking at debates.
During the event, the teams presented their concepts of international projects. Students of the organization branch of the IPACS InterClub prepared several topics: «Ideal international organization» and «Ideal international union». During the presentation, the participants of «School for FAN» was speaking about the main theses of the work of organizations, unions, their goals and objectives, about the management structure. They also commented on the prospects for the development of their projects.
Then the teams were asked to analyze several specialized international cases from the position of the selected states. The cases were aimed at developing communicative competencies, the ability to solve flexibly an international problem and defend interests. The result of one of the cases was signing an international agreement with a detailed description of the obligations and conditions of each participant.
After the event, the teams expressed their gratitude to the organizers, they also pointed out their interest in such events in an expanded format with students of other structural divisions of the RANEPA.
Student reviews.
Anna Petrovskaya, 1st year student of «State and municipal administration» of the Faculty of international regional studies and regional management:
«The theme of our project was: «International organization for the prevention of terrorism in educational institutions». The main goal of the organization is to prevent terrorist acts in educational institutions around the world. Together with the team, we wrote the tasks of the organization, its charter and a list of countries providing resources for the organization’s activities. This task was interesting, during its accomplishment we learned a lot of new things and deepened our knowledge in the topic of politics. In the second part of the event, the organizers prepared cases that we had to solve within our teams. Personally, I really liked it! The cases are interesting, they develop, let’s say, critical thinking».
Victoria Torun, 1st year student of «State and municipal administration» of the Faculty of international regional studies and regional management:
«PP night was quite entertaining. Having previously divided into small groups, we prepared presentations on the topic of our own international unions and organizations. The work was very interesting, we enthusiastically created the logo of our organization, came up with its participants and design in general. All the groups successfully shared their ideas. We also had time to discuss various topics and sign an agreement on the creation of the union. It was the first time I participated in something like this, so I really liked this meeting».