UK-Russia Closed Nuclear Cities Partnership

  Study Tour to Great Britain
  Training Course at De Montfort University
  The course "Manager-professional"
  Oxford Study Tour
  Scotland Study Tour
  Water Jet Systems Training
  Workshop in Tomsk
  Workshop in Nizhny Novgorod

Training Course at De Montfort University

Title

English Language Training at DeMontfort University

Business Negotiation Training at DeMontfort University

Training Course at De Montfort University - "English Language Training for Business and Contract Negotiations"

Objectives

Help managers from the Closed Nuclear Cities communicate more effectively in English in order to facilitate their commercial activities in international business settings.
Enable more effective negotiations, as well as contract development and execution with international business partners

Summary

The four week training programme was designed by De Montfort University's Department of Modern Languages and involved staff from the Business School. The course was aimed at participants who already possessed English at an intermediate level and were employed in decision making roles in the weapons complex or SMEs in the Closed Nuclear Cities. The training drew from a wide range of teaching methods including group work, role playing, language laboratory activities, Internet research, self-study and student presentations. Some of the courses held during the four weeks included: commercial correspondence development, information analysis and presentations, role-playing and management strategies, building cross-cultural skills for meetings and negotiations, and marketing ethics. At the end of the course, each participant was awarded a Certificate accredited by De Montfort University.

Cost

The DTI funded the 2004 Study Tour for a total cost of £22,050.

Duration

26 January - 19 February 2004.

Beneficiary

Mining and Chemical Kombinat, Zheleznogorsk
All Russian Scientific and Research Institute for Technical Physics, Snezhinsk
Research and Production Enterprise Mayak, Ozersk
Federal Agency for Atomic Energy, Moscow
Siberian Chemical Kombinat, Moscow Office
All Russian Scientific and Research Institute for Experimental Physics, Moscow Office of Sarov based organization
All Russian Scientific and Research Institute for Experimental Physics, Sarov
ITEK Company, Sarov