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FY15 U.S.-Russia Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Program 2015-2016 Applicant Organization: National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU). Partner Organization: Colorado State University (CSU) Project Title: Territory Identity of Russia and America through the Eyes of Young Generations The purpose of the project is to involve younger generations into the spread of fundamental and universal values, such as respect among cultures and harmony among people, in order to develop and promote intercultural dialogue. The project is innovative and significant in multiple ways. First, finding out new and interesting things about your own surroundings and activities is an experience that widens the person’s individual knowledge of their own cultural background and deepens their understanding of how unique their culture is. Second, working collaboratively with peers from another country and sharing and constructing new knowledge together promotes cross-cultural analysis, tolerance and appreciation of other cultures as well as interest for learning about them. One other unique feature is that students from both countries/universities will be working in mixed groups, learning to understand each other to complete the task as well as learning from each other about their values, habits, and other “hidden” aspects of the “small” culture (i.e., from the emic perspective) that are often left unnoticed by anyone who does not belong to a specific cultural/ social group. Work Plan | MONTH | ACTIVITY and PRIMARY ORG/STAFF RESPONSIBLE | | October, 2015 | Describing contest requirements Preparing advertisement materials Developing the web page of the event at TPU and CSU (Tamara Petrashova, Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker) | | November 30, 2015 December 31, 2015 | Contest announcement Conducting open meetings with interested individuals to provide additional information Accepting submissions (Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker, Tamara Petrashova) | | January 15, 2016 – February, 2015 | Forming the Review Committee including faculty/staff members at each university (TPU and CSU) Selecting 20 best proposals by the Review Committee at each university (TPU and CSU) to send to the Partner University (Tamara Petrashova, Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker) | | March, 2016 | Selecting 6-10 best proposals by the Partner University to form the teams (Tamara Petrashova, Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker) | | April, 2016 | Developing a prototype of a Dictionary article Selecting the platform to host the project Team meetings to work on the features, layout, and functions of the articles via Skype and email (Tamara Petrashova, Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker) | | May, 2016 | Preparing the Workshop Program at CSU (Northern Colorado) Visa and travel arrangements for both teams (Tamara Petrashova, Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker) | | June 13-20, 2016 | A week-long workshop in Fort Collins, USA (TPU team – CSU team). Specific activities will include: - Welcoming meeting at CSU (including a university tour/ a tour of the College of Engineering)
- Fort Collins Tour (Old Town)
- Visit the following places in Northern Colorado to (potentially) feature in the dictionary articles: Estes Park/ Rocky Mountain National Park; Lory State Park; Poudre Canyon; Fort Collins; Loveland; Denver
- Writing Workshops (delivered by Dr. Amidon, Dr. Becker, and Dr. Cloud) on the rhetorical organization of dictionary articles, digital rhetoric and presentation formats, and Wikispaces/ Weebly/ Dreamweaver
- Project-based break-out sessions in groups to complete the content analysis of dictionary entries and create rough drafts of the articles.
- Presentations of the dictionary articles by the international teams at an open forum at CSU
- A farewell reception (Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker)
| | June 25 – July 15, 2016 | Team meetings to finalize the content and the features of the articles on Northern Colorado via Skype and email (Tamara Petrashova, Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker) | | June 15- August 3, 2016 | Preparing the Workshop Program at TPU (Tomsk Region) (Tamara Petrashova) | | August 4 -12, 2016 | A week-long workshop in Tomsk, Russia (TPU team – CSU team). Specific activities will include: - Welcoming meeting at TPU (including a university tour)
- Tomsk tour (The Center)
- Visit the following places in the Tomsk Region to feature in the dictionary articles: Coach Excursion around Tomsk with the visit of L. Usov’s studio; Coach Excursion to old fortress in Semiluzhki; Visit to the Puppet Theatre Show; Excursion to Tomsk Forest Museum; Excursion to the Local History Museum; Coach Excursion to Kolarovo, a nature place of interest; Coach Excursion to “Siberian stockaded town of the 17th Century”
- Workshops on the cultural specificity of the Region (delivered by TPU faculty, TBD)
- Project-based break-out sessions in groups to complete the content analysis of dictionary entries and create rough drafts of the articles.
- Presentations of the dictionary articles by the international teams at an open forum at TPU
A farewell reception (Tamara Petrashova) | | August 20-September 5, 2016 | Team meetings to finalize the content and the features of the articles on Tomsk region via Skype and email (Tamara Petrashova, Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker) | | September 5-30, 2016 | Uploading the dictionary content on the selected platform Beta testing the website Preparing the final report (Tamara Petrashova, Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker) |
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