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On 3-4 May, 2011, the University of Salamanca \u2013 the oldest in Spain \u2013 hosted the first conference of the universities that signed with the United Nations a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in preparing candidates for the UN competitive language examinations. Presently, there are 19 such universities, and Herzen University was the fourth to sign\u00a0an\u00a0MoU\u00a0on August 24, 2008. Besides official delegations from the universities, the conference was attended by leading experts in the field of interpreting and translation from the United Nations, the MFA of Russia, the European Commission and the European Parliament. At the conference, a network of the MoU universities had been\u00a0officially established\u00a0and initial steps to strengthen\u00a0cross-links among the universities, the UN and other international organizations\u00a0outlined. To\u00a0commemorate the creation of the network, or the so-called\u00a0Consortium, each member-university\u00a0had been\u00a0issued a memorable symbol\u00a0to signify\u00a0this alliance under the UN umbrella. Mr Shaaban M. Shaaban, Under Secretary General for General Assembly and Conference Management, addressed the plenary stressing\u00a0the\u00a0progress of the St Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation in implementing the MoU and emphasized its\u00a0successes in training\u00a0 interpreters and translators for the UN and other international organizations. Vice Rector Sergey Shilov and SpbS Director Irina Alexeeva represented Herzen University.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 3-4 May, 2011, the University of Salamanca \u2013 the oldest in Spain \u2013 hosted the first conference of the universities that signed with the United Nations a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in preparing candidates for the UN competitive language examinations. Presently, there are 19 such universities, and Herzen University was the fourth to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}