"New Horizons of Transcarpathia"

NEW HORIZONS...A new and innovative Center for Linguistics and Eastern / Central European Studies, assisting people with:

1. LANGUAGE and CULTURE programs in Russian, Ukrainian, English, featuring a variety of excursions throughout the region, even for the more extreme adventurers.
2. STUDY-ABROAD programs are newly offered at Uzhgorod National University of Ukraine, Transcarpathia Oblast.
3. Translators and Interpretors for Russian, Ukrainian, English, Hungarian, Slovakian, German, French, Italian and more.
4. Business Consulting and startup services for entrepreneurs wishing to minimize costs and external interference (for domestic and foreign businesspeople).
5. Mini-Internet Cafe for students, academics, researchers, businesspeople and officials.  High speed, no kid's games. 

• For all matters pertaining to interests in TRANSLATION, LANGUAGUE TRAINING and understanding through cultural immersion and EXCURSIONS appropriate to your interests,
• For facilitation of STUDY-ABROAD programs at UZHGOROD NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF UKRAINE, intensive Winter-Sessions, Summer-Sessions, and regular Fall and Spring full semesters.
• For entrepreneurs' needs concerning small business creation/development and administrative/legal matters.

A unique and westward leaning oblast of Ukraine

Study abroad at the Uzhgorod National University of Ukraine

Winter and summer sessions are now offered: Arrive early during the week prior to classes and begin your adventure in learning.

• Instruction offered by the University professors, in cooperation with Uzhgorod National University of Ukraine's Center for Public Administration and Regional Development.
• Accepting applicants for SUMMER-session 2008 on rolling admission basis.
• Certificates of completion and performance (transcripts) are available.
• Homestay families and hotels available at affordable rates.
• Excursions to various ski resorts and mountain villages in winter.  In summer, excursions include mountain-biking and hiking, and extended tour adventures according to your interest.  Many interesting destinations are available year round!
• Students may combine the University courses with any level of New Horizons language programs.
• NO visa requirements for US or EU citizens. Must have a passport valid for six months through date of departure, for the sake of international travel by air.
  

• Translators for all classes and meetings are available if needed. Adventurous English speakers are welcomed!  Learn Russian or Ukrainian in Ukraine.
• Weekly discussions with professors in office hours.
• Official Transcripts avilable from Uzhgorod National University of Ukraine. Students should check with their home university advisors and registrars office about transferring credits.
• To take a leave of absence from your home university, be sure to satisfy all documentation needs of your home university. Then, you may transfer credits from Uzhgorod National University of Ukraine.  Suggestion: you might want to obtain all approvals in writing from home university offices... just to be sure.
• Rolling admissions, electronic application.
• Homestay with families or private lodging at hotels, available at affordable rates.
• Excursions throughout the mountains, all seasons.

• Many people would like to visit and travel in Ukraine, Russia, and other countries of the former Soviet Union.  To best understand the rich heritage of Transcarpathia, one may need to venture into into the areas that are most remote.  Many would-be visitors of our oblast and our post-Soviet states are intimidated by a lack of knowledge of the languages.  We can help.

• Many people that have an interest in Russian or Ukrainan languages could develop their skill by immersion into the slavic culture, and by actively practicing languages and growing to understand the culture(s).  Listening and speaking on an intensive basis, as much as time permits, can only enhance one's abilities.  You will see the modern aspects of society coexist with traditional life.   In some respects, Transcarpathia is really an open-air museum, a window into the past, and a door to Ukraine's future.  Learn what is not in your textbooks back home.  We can provide this opportunity for language development and an enlightened appreciation for various aspects of Ukrainian life in the Post-Soviet era.

• We offer a variety of programs intended to provide intensive language training, supplemented by extentive excursions to both urban centers of interest and the most remote and magnificent mountrain scenery that Ukraine possesses.  Whether you are a mountain oriented ski/snowboard fanatic that thrives on adventure and fresh powder, or a retired person more interested in the historical, cultural aspects such as arts, music, museums, castles and 500 year old wooden churches, we can help you experience what interests you.  Have a look at our programs, which vary according to your needs.  We will build around your schedule. For example:

1. Low on time?  Our 3 day crash course for "survival" and traveling in post-Soviet states might help to introduce you to the region.
2. We can tailor any program to your needs, such as a 1, 2, or 3  week intensive program, including extensive excursions throughout the oblast according to season and personal interest (and cities such as Kiev or Lviv for example, as desired).  These programs are available each month and are scheduled according to your needs and limitations. Conversational emphasis.
3. Our 6 week intensive summer session (offered twice per summer, with an advanced level for those staying for two sessions).  These include university level, credit and non-credit courses, from beginner level and up.  Intensive individual attention as needed.  Emphasis may be on conversational abilities, but committed to developing fundamentals of reading, writing, spelling and grammar emphasis.  Regular excursions each day and on weekends.  Homestay option.
4. Our 4 week January winter session, same as above but compacted into an even more intensive regime, given the 4 week session is shorter.  Regular excusions each day and on weekends.
5. Inquire as to your needs.  We will custom build language and cultural programs according to your needs.  Open to all individuals and organizations.  

All Winter and Summer programs include options of university-level study with attention to reading, writing and speaking, and also a mainly conversational approach. We will accommodate your interests.

• All programs that occur during the summer and winter months will be organized with the objective of making avaliable a number of very affordable daily and weekend trips.  In the winter, for example, ski-trips will be made...some nearby, some to remote and more primitive resorts, some to the largest ski development project currently being built (and operating), at "Bukavel".  Whether you are at a beginner or intermediate level, or whether you have your own iron, petex and wax for your skis, you will enjoy what adventures lay ahead.

 For ENTREPRENEURS...

• Foreign/international entrepreneurs are better able to engage in all matters of trade and business when they are able to minimize risk.  Finding qualified, reliable, and accurate translators/interpreters is essential to conducting business in Ukraine and Russia, as anywhere.  Professional and trustworthy knowledge of Ukraine's complicated laws and tax structures, as well as a keen understanding of the more "informal" aspects of doing buisness in Ukraine, is necessary in order to minimize risk and ensure the successful creation of new busisnesses and business relationships.  Our staff specialists, associated lawyers and competent notary public professionals are able to assist you to these ends as they may also expedite all required official permissions and approvals for many business activities and property transactions.   

• Ukrainian entrepreneurs and organizations are finding a need to develop some level of competency in English and German, among other languages, which are useful in doing business in Europe or the United States.  For the interested Ukrainian residents, our staff may act as a bridge to the west by assisting with translation, language training, and even grant writing and project management.

• Our staff and network of professional business associate's can help entreprener's by expediting the timely achievemement of business related objectives and tasks.  We can help to ease your frustration in the struggle against bureaucratic red-tape.  We can help you to develop legal, legitimate and reliable business arrangements in an effort to minimize your exposure to excessive payments of "extra money", or bribes.  If the informal economy concerns you, let us help you step out of the shadows!