Focus on enhancing student morale

The curators, tutors, student activists of the university’s international student associations participated in the events. Specialists of BelSU Psychological Service conducted mindset training to develop stress resistance and individual meetings to answer the imminent questions of international students.

The event participants were explained the stress definition and its sources, stages of development, effects on a human body, ways of prevention and coping techniques in case of disturbing conditions. They also offered a set of exercises that help to cope with stress.

As part of the awareness-raising hour “Fakes. How to Recognize Them” Kristina Khabarova, the Director of the Centre for Intercultural Communication, told about the reasons that stand behind fake news and videos in the mass media, motivation of the fake authors, the consequences of destructive, unreliable and unverified facts in the society, and introduced the algorithm of recognition and verification of such information in social networks and the Internet in general.

Kristina urged to trust only verified news websites, state information agencies and official mass media.