24/05/2025
The International Student Festival InterFest "Bridges of Cultures 2025" was held at KSUAE
The International Student Festival InterFest "Bridges of Cultures 2025" was held at KSUAE, which gathered and united creative and talented students from 18 countries: Russia, Benin, Morocco, Mozambique, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Senegal, Egypt, Mauritania, India, Ghana, Haiti, Uzbekistan, Turkey and Angola. Foreign students from other Kazan universities took an active part in the Festival. The organizers of the Festival were the International Relations Department and the Association of Foreign Students of KSUAE.
The goal of the Festival is to demonstrate, recognize and encourage the creative achievements of foreign students, social, cultural and everyday self-realization of foreign students in an atmosphere of interethnic cooperation and tolerance, identify the most promising students, familiarize with the culture, history and traditions of different peoples of the world living in the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan. Such events contribute to the friendly consolidation of foreign and Russian students, as well as the formation of a tolerant multicultural environment in general.
In the first part of the Festival, international students of KSUAE presented the most typical national sweets of their countries: kaak, mahalabiya, hama, puff-puff, cinnamon rolls and others. Teachers, students and guests of the event had the opportunity to taste and evaluate the culinary skills in a welcoming atmosphere, as well as vote for the best cook.
In the second part of the festive evening, foreign students showed their talents: vocal numbers in Russian, Arabic, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese; students from Turkey expressively recited a poem by G. Tukay in Russian and Tatar; students from India, Latin America and Benin showed the bright colors of national dances; girls from 6 countries demonstrated a colorful fashion show in dresses and suits.
The Festival included several award ceremonies to encourage the achievements of KSUAE foreign students: based on the results of the culinary competition, the photo competition "KSUAE through the eyes of a foreign student", and the competition "Foreign student of KSUAE 2025". The evening was held in a relaxed atmosphere, thanks to the wonderful hosts - foreign students of KSUAE: Daruisch Youssef (Morocco) and Maya Vargas (Ecuador).
All the performances found a lively response from the audience, who saw off each participant with thunderous applause. Among the guests of the Festival were foreign students from various Kazan universities, as well as teachers and students of KSUAE, who also actively participated in the program, answering questions from the quiz "Who knows KSUAE better".
At the end of the event, there was a ceremonial presentation of diplomas to the participants of the Festival, and all the participants and spectators sang together in Russian, Arabic, French, Spanish, English the symbolic song "We wish you happiness", dedicated to all the teachers, students and employees of KSUAE on the eve of the significant 95th anniversary of the university.
The participants and spectators shared enthusiastic reviews of the Festival, noted the high level of organization and preparation of all creative numbers, that the evening was held in a joyful, friendly atmosphere, expressed sincere gratitude to its organizers and wished that such a wonderful holiday would be repeated again and again.
We express our gratitude to the management of KSUAE for their support and all the departments of the university that contributed to the organization of the Festival.
Photo and video gallery of the 2025 Festival
Here you can see the International Student Festival of KSUAE 2024.
The News is submitted by International Relations Dept of the University.
