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Young leaders found solutions to unemployment and "brain drain" issues
…ow life expectancy in developing countries. Experts and young professionals managed to find a solution: mass creation of the vocational training centers where students could obtain a set of skills needed to perform a specific job. The representatives of Australia, South Africa, Denmark and other countries have noted that graduates have a shortage of practic…
07.05.2015
Science communication: promoting science to masses
…nowledge and their further cooperation. Also, the dissemination of information about research increases the chances of the laboratory for the successful additional financing obtaining. "Now the main objective of the scientific communication experts in Russia is the infrastructure creation which could combine the scientific community representatives, the media…
07.05.2015
Promising partnership: Russia continues cooperation with Brazil
… (UNESP). Thought this university is relatively young (it was founded in 1976), it has already entered the QS and QS BRICS world universities ranking. Today, the university contains 33 faculties and institutes, two hospitals and three veterinary clinics. The delegation also managed to visit Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), the largest federal university i…
30.04.2015
Russian and American universities implement joint projects in sustainable development frameworks
…ransboundary Cooperation in St. Petersburg and the University of Kansas Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies in Lawrence launched the Eco-Reps: Peer-to-Peer Sustainability Outreach program to promote the principles of circular economy and stable development. Only four Russian projects from Petrozavodsk, Omsk and St. Petersburg out of 45 sub…
30.04.2015
BRICS countries universities will prepare professionals together
… of May 2015. According to Irina Kim, the head of the ITMO University Center for Asian cooperation, a consortium of the BRICS countries universities will help to maintain a balanced joint personnel training in priority fields. However, the current collaboration with Chinese universities is not limited to academic students’ exchange. In the Nanjing Universit…
23.04.2015
What universities will face on second step of 5-100 Project realization
…-100 Project, each of which moves along its own path of development. "In the 5-100 Project participants' road maps there will be a lot of intersections. There is no certain information yet, but I think that all the universities during the second step will continue their initiatives connected with the expansion of the international research network, activatio…
17.04.2015
Moscow International Education Fair launch
…f the education system. Here, in fact, new ideas are born. At the last Fair the possibility of new education system in the field of medicine was discussed, which would meet certain requirements, and today we have it already presented," Olga Golodets says, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. At the MIEF, within the business program, conferences …
16.04.2015
Saint Petersburg development strategies will be discussed at the Harmony of Versatility Forum
…the implementation of the Strategy for economic and social development of St. Petersburg for the period up to 2030 that was accepted in Smolny, it is needed to develop some certain tools. Strategy 2030 provides for the implementation of 17 government programs, but for the dynamic evolution the city should consider much more factors - architectural and cultural featur…
15.04.2015
Universities’ subject rankings were discussed at the Project 5/100 seminar
…in their methodology. Now we are more deeply immersed in the comparison of different ranking systems. The subjects’ rankings are the best opportunity to compare yourself in certain areas, to show strengths," Mikhail Antonov says, the director of the Project 5/100 Management office. During the substantive session, Waldemar Sivinsky, the president of the Perspekt…
14.04.2015
Scientists learnt to make objects invisible without metamaterial cloaking
…analog of a classical problem of scattering from a homogeneous sphere (Mie scattering), the solution to which is known for almost a century. However, this classical problem contains unusual physics that manifests itself when materials with high values of refractive index are involved. In the study, the scientists used ordinary water whose refractive index can be regu…
13.04.2015