VFU "CHERNORIZETS HRABER" AND THE PORTUGUESE INSTITUTE "CAMOES" SIGNED A NEW 3-YEAR COOPERATION CONTRACT
13 December 2022
A new 3-year cooperation contract was signed by Varna Free University and the Portuguese Institute for Cooperation and Language "Camões". The document was validated with the signatures of the ambassador of Portugal in Bulgaria, Her Excellency Ana Maria Ribeiro da Silva and the president of VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar", Assoc. Prof. Dr. Krasimir Nedyalkov. This happened during the diplomat's visit to the university. "We are willing to continue the relationship and have the Portuguese language as part of the language portfolio of VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar", to increase students' interest in our language and culture," said Ambassador Da Silva. She was accompanied by the director of the Camões Institute, Analiza Gordino, and the Portuguese language teacher and PhD student at the university, Rumyana Staneva.
Ambassador Da Silva was awarded a golden plaque with the face of Chernorizets Hrabar by the president Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nedyalkov for the successful cooperation and support of the Embassy of Portugal.
Varna Free University is an established partner of the Portuguese Institute for Cooperation and Language "Camoes". The beginning of the joint work was set in 2019. In recent years, more than 70 students and teachers have appreciated the beauty of the language of Luís Vaz de Camões. The university received Portuguese textbooks for the people who study the language. They were donated by the Camões Institute. The higher school works actively with Portuguese universities on the Erasmus+ student and teacher mobility programmes. Three lecturers from the Faculty of Law at VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar" are about to visit the University of Lisbon and deliver lectures there. The student in Law - Laura Levicharova is preparing for a student mobility, which will also take place at the University of Lisbon. Varna Free University has an agreement under the Erasmus+ programme with the Polytechnic Institute of Santarem, where a teacher from the university has already been a visiting lecturer. The partnership with the University of Porto is also a long-standing one.
During the visit of Her Excellency Ana Maria Ribeiro da Silva, issues of expanding cooperation were discussed, and the idea of creating a Portuguese center or methodological office at the university, the participation of Portuguese students in summer schools at VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar" and the conduct of language internships of our students in Portugal were commented on.
Ambassador Da Silva and her entourage toured the university and familiarized themselves with the opportunities that the campus provides.
The Portuguese language is part of the rich language portfolio offered to the students of the Department of Foreign Language Teaching and Postgraduate Qualification at Varna Free University, along with the study of English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Italian and Bulgarian for foreign students, as well and Japanese language.
