The Saint-Petersburg State Technological Institute (Technical University) was founded on November 28, 1828. D.I. Mendeleev, F. Beilstein and other well-known scientists worked

here. Many scientific schools, known all over the world, were developed in Technological Institute. Today, the SPSTI presents new cutting-edge materials for modern branches of science and technologie
s in the following fields: Fuel Industry, Materials Science, Functional Materials, Information Technology, Medicine, Healthcare, Environment, Optoelectronic and Nanomaterials. The main building of SPSTI is situated in historical center of the city.
Being one of the oldest and leading Russian technology universities, the SPSTI has a long history of international cooperation. From the very first years of existence, the institute invited outstanding foreign scientist. Many of them continued their research work within the institute and founded large scientific schools, made great discoveries. The institute maintains partnership with colleagues from Germany, France, Finland, Algeria, China, Japan etc. Extensive work within the terms of over 30 agreements on cooperation with foreign institutes and companies is being conducted.
There are the following directions of international cooperation:
– Students exchange on various educational programs;
– Double diploma;
– Professor exchange for lecturing;
– Realization of joint researches and scientific investigations;
– Establishment of commercial contracts with foreign companies on scientific research projects;
– Holding of international conferences, seminars and academic competitions;
– Participation in international scientific practical conferences and seminars, educational programs and projects, academic competitions and symposiums;
– Realization of collective publications, scientific, educational and methodological works.
Annually, outstanding scientists from various countries become honorable doctors of Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology.

Founded 1930 as Moscow Hydrometeorological Institute. Became High Military Hydrometeorological Institute of the Red Army in 1941 and evacuated to Leninabad in October. Returned from evacuation to Moscow in 1943, transferred to Leningrad in 1944 and became the Leningrad Hydrometeorological Institute in 1945. Following an Agreement between the government and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1995 the institution received the status of a regional meteorological educational centre of the WMO. Renamed Russian State Hydrometeorological University in 1998. Became a signatory of the Magna Charta Universitatum in 2006.

Russian State Hydrometeorological University (RSHU) offers courses at all levels of higher professional training leading to BA, MA, Specialist, Candidate (equivalent to PhD) and Doctor of Sciences degrees in the area of environmental studies.

RSHU has the status of the Regional Meteorological Training Center of World Meteorological Organization.

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
1. The university is an autonomous institution at the heart of societies differently organized because of geography and historical heritage; it produces, examines, appraises and hands down culture by research and teaching.

To meet the needs of the world around it, its research and teaching must be morally and intellectually independent of all political authority and intellectually independent of all political authority and economic power.

2. Teaching and research in universities must be inseparable if their tuition is not to lag behind changing needs, the demands of society, and advances in scientific knowledge.

3. Freedom in research and training is the fundamental principle of university life, and governments and universities, each as far as in them lies, must ensure respect for this fundamental requirement.

Rejecting intolerance and always open to dialogue, the university is an ideal meeting-ground for teachers capable of imparting their knowledge and well equipped to develop it by research and innovation and students entitled, able and willing to enrich their minds with that knowledge.

4. A university is the trustee of the European humanist tradition; its constant care is to attain universal knowledge; to fulfil its vocation it transcends geographical and political frontiers, and affirms the vital need for different cultures to know and influence each other.