Today, on March 13, Julien Vercueil, vice-president for environmental protection, Gilles Forlot, vice-president for European and international affairs, of the French INALCO University of Linguistics and Civilization visited the National University of Uzbekistan.
They were welcomed by UzMU vice-rector for international relations Raima Shirinova, as well as professors and teachers of the faculty of Uzbek philology and foreign philology.
During the meeting, the representatives of INALCO gave a detailed introduction to the activities of the university, in particular, they acknowledged that, along with teaching more than 100 eastern languages, students also study in fields such as sociology and international economics. Mr. Gilles Forlot said that, taking into account the large number of students studying Turkish languages at INALCO and the high level of interest, the project of establishing an Uzbek language teaching center at the university is being developed, and of course, Uzbek philology from the National University of Uzbekistan will be involved in the activities of this center. emphasized that they are happy to attract their specialists and invited specialists and students of UzMU to the summer school organized within the framework of the program “Along the Silk Road”.
Also, during the meeting, students who study Turkish and Russian as part of academic mobility between the parties can study at UzMU for 1 semester.
At the same time, issues such as the implementation of cooperation between the two universities in other areas, the creation of Uzbek-French translation dictionaries, and the involvement of French language experts were discussed in detail.
At the end of the meeting, promising directions of cooperation between the two universities were determined.
