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中文 Question: I write from Barcelona (Spain) where I am attending my last year courses in a postgraduate on Humanities. The matter is that next year I will be enrolled in a doctorate program at Pompeu Fabra University, where I'm carrying out research on 1920s russian writers, and I am applying for a grant to attend the first year of my doctorate program at the University of Saint Petersburg.
I have been asked to present an invitation letter from this institution and I do not know how to obtain it. My supervisor did write to you but she did not receive any answer and that is why I am writing to you. I would like to know, if possible, what procedure I should follow to obtain this invitation letter.
I look forward to hearing from you.
The answer of Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs Ekaterina Babelyuk:
I assume you are interested in one year of exchange studies at SPSU within your PHDstudies at your home University. Foreign students can study in SPbU within student exchange programme if there is an agreement between SPbU and home organization (university, research organization etc.) or an assignment letter issued by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. In such cases there is no tuition fee forexchange study and the study itself is conducted according to the individual study plan.
At the moment there is no agreement between SPbU and Pompeu Fabra University. In this case you can come to SPbU only on a fee-paying basis. Tuition fee can be paid from the grant. For more information concerning exchange studies in SPbU including formalities with letters of invitation you can contact acting Head of SPbU Academic Mobility department Anna Porodina (e-mail: a.porodina@spbu.ru, tel.: +7 (812) 3287562).