RussoMobil is the name of a joint Russo-German project created to arouse interest towards Russia and Russian culture in German schoolchildren and increase the number of pupils learning the Russian language (at the moment, this figure is less than 1 percent of all German schoolchildren).
This project appeared as the initiative of the West-East Federal Union of German Communities (Bundesverband Deutscher West-Ost-Gesellschaften V.) and the Ministry of Schools and Education of Northern Rhine-Westphalia. The project is being implemented under the patronage of the Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Germany, V.V. Koteniev and the Minister for Schools and Education of Northern Rhein-Westphalia, Mrs. Barbara Sommer.
The Russkiy Mir Foundation is the main sponsor of RussoMobil, with other partners being the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the German Federal Republic, the Russian House of Culture and Science in Berlin, the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Bonn, the Board for Education, Science and Research at the Berlin Senate, the Association of Russian Language Teachers in Germany as well as the Confederacy of ministers of culture and pedagogical exchange service.
RussoMobiles will be driven by young linguists, Russian lecturers and teachers of Russian, with the task to visit those school classes, where the choice of learning a new foreign language is being made. The RussoMobiles "trunks" are full of various information materials on Russia and its culture: maps of Russia, posters, placards, brief and fun Russian language courses (“Learn Russian in Half an Hour”), language and cross-cultural games etc.
Such visits are designed to arouse the interest of pupils for Russian culture and for learning the Russian language. All lessons will be given in the form of a game, according to the methodology developed in cooperation with representatives of the Ministry for Schools and Education of Northern Rhine-Westphalia and the Board for Education, Science and Research at the Berlin Senate, Linguistics Center of the Russian House of Culture and Science in Berlin, together with Russian Language Teachers Association during the first stage of the project.
For more information, visit our websites: www.russomobil.de, www.bdwo.de
