On October 16-21, 2017 within the framework of MOST project, funded by the EU, the head of Civil Law Department Vladimir A. Bogonenko visited the Catholic University of Lyon (France).
MOST (Mobility Scheme for Targeted People-to-People-Contacts) is one of the mobility programmes for making new contacts. The EU project is aimed at expansion of contacts between EU and Belarus nationals to share best practices and improving mutual understanding.
The most important spheres of MOST projects are culture, education, youth policy, science and technology, as well as economy and law.
The Catholic University of Lyon is one of the universities in France which carries out its activity in humanitarian directions. The university has five Faculties: 1) Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences; 2) Faculty of Language and Literature; 3) Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences; 4) Faculty of Theology. The university structure comprises vocational schools, 15 education and research units. The university cooperates with more than 150 universities from many countries and has 10000 students and auditors including 2100 international students.
The architecture of Catholic University of Lyon is very remarkable, because it combines the antiquity and modern style or, as they say in France, art-nouveau.
At the University there were very interesting meetings with teachers at the Faculty of Law where some issues concerning specific fields of law – civil law, energy law, economic law and others – were discussed. The university administration gave a possibility to work at the University library, to get acquainted with Faculty structure and the study process.
The prospects of cooperation between the Catholic University of Lyon and Polotsk State University at Faculty level was one of the main topics for discussion. Both sides also talked over the possible ways of the cooperation within the framework of the international projects, in particular, «Erasmus» project. The library at the Catholic University of Lyon got some scientific literature referring to the subject of research activities at the Faculty of Law at PSU. Our library at Polotsk State University also got scientific publications referring to different field of legal studies.