The Work of the Teaching Staff to Promote Students’ Integration Skills Development The teaching staff – students successful cooperation is an important precondition to favour students’ integration skills development. The role of the teaching staff to promote minority students’ learning motivation favouring their integration process in the society can be carried out by 1) popularization of diversity in study courses • promoting the cooperation and communication among students of different cultural belonging when using study methods, forms and means (for example, a cooperative group work, a pair work, discussions, games) promoting cooperation. • cooperating with students during the research work and encouraging students to participate in international scientific conferences and communicate with students of different cultural background, • involving students into the study practice at companies and institutions where students have to work in a multicultural environment, • analysing students’ cooperation process and intercultural communication problems, • popularizing and implementing into teachers’ own practice the “diversity” – there exist different points of view and experience in every issue, in any problem solving, therefore, issues concerning diversity are always connected with a “dialogue” and tolerance, • promoting students’ language skills development when working out the tasks to be accomplished by the use of different languages –Russian, English/German etc.; organizing lectures instructed in Russian, English/ German etc. by foreign lecturers, • including intercultural issues in the study courses, • working out the tasks the accomplishment of which requires visiting out of study activities – educational, cultural, sport, etc., events, both at a higher education institution and outside it to help students get introduced with a different cultural environment; 2) promotion of students’ communication and cooperation in informal environment when encouraging students to participate in out of study activities; organizing study excursions, furthering students to participate in summer camps, festivals, plenary etc. organized by a higher education institution.