The Francophone Division was founded at the Department of IER in March, 1994 as the result of the agreement on co-operation between the Enterprise Management University (Paris-1) and the BSEU. In 1998 an additional agreement was signed, stipulating the conferment of the University Paris-1 degree in International Business of the third cycle on the BSEU students.

Entrance Regulations.

Any person can enter the division provided he is a student or a professor of the BSEU, a graduate of a higher educational establishment, a student of another economic university, whose command of the French language is sufficient to study the subjects and to pass the exams in accordance with general requirements. The academic year starts on 1 September.

Degree.

The francophone division confers the Master's degree of the University Paris-1 on the students. The diploma (DESUP) testifies the higher economic education, the speciality "International Business", the specialisation - "Management and Enterprise Strategy".

Our partners.

The division has the co-operation agreements with the following educational establishments in France:

the Enterprise Management University (the University Paris-1 Pantheon Sorbonne)

the University Montpelier-1

the University Jean Moulin Leon-3

Educational Process.

The students of the francophone division get education equal to that given by the economic universities and the economic departments of the universities in France. 

In accordance with the agreement the students are provided with the education under the French curriculum; the Belarusian students and professors can work on probation doing fieldwork in France; several disciplines are taught by French professors; the students and the professors have access to the necessary special literature.

The francophone division students who pass the exams in the agreed subjects and economic courses successfully get certificates testifying it. Written tests are held and assessed by the French professors of the University Paris-1. The training provides gradual preparation for passing the final exams and receiving the DESUP diploma.

The francophone division students study two foreign languages (English and French), the humanities and economic disciplines are included into the curriculum. The BSEU lecturers deliver training of the disciplines in the Russian, the Belarusian and the French languages. Besides some French specialists working in Belarus give lectures and practical classes.

The fifth year students can enter the DESUP third level and get a student identity card of the University Paris-1 Pantheon Sorbonne.

On graduating from the BSEU the students get the state Belarusian diploma and the DESUP diploma.

Teaching Staff.

Some professors from the University Paris-1 come to the BSEU to examine the students and give lectures. Some of them are practicians and theorists at the same time.

During an academic year the experienced Belarusian lecturers who have done fieldwork in France and the BSEU graduates train their students to pass exams successfully.

Besides the division co-operates with some French universities' graduates who currently work at the European Humanitarian University and also with the professors from the University Montpelier-1 (the programme Tempus Tasis).

Fieldwork.

A few BSEU students can continue their education on a scholarship at the IAE. Having finished their fieldwork the students are to give lectures on one of the curriculum disciplines at the BSEU.

The administration.

The dean of the department of International Economic Relations M.V. Mishkevich runs the francophone division. The University lecturer A.P. Yanukevich is responsible for the training process. The Management Institute director J.-P. Elfer runs the French programme.

The university lecturer Pierre Cabagnols who runs the speciality Management and Enterprise Strategy co-ordinates the co-operation of both sides. The preliminary stages of the DESUP programme are directed by M. Rebuffat.

The head of the BSEU R. M. Karseko and the head of the University Paris-1 Michel Kaplan supervise the co-operation between the two Universities.

Scientific Information Resource Base.

The BSEU library and the foreign languages sub-faculty have received about 120 items of special economic literature, business French manuals and reference books. To make training more effective the French professors leave their written notes of the courses, the didactic materials on many subjects to their Belarusian colleagues. 

The Library is being constantly enriched and enlarged.

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