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.

Voronezh State University is one of Russia’s leading public research universities whose history can be traced back to 1802.

VSU’s Mission is to generate scientific knowledge, to conduct interdisciplinary programmes aimed at training highly qualified professionals, as well as to implement innovative solutions, ensuring a high quality of life in accordance with the national interest and global market demands.

VSU sees itself as:

an achievement-oriented world-class center of research and education for the Sciences and Natural and Human Resource Management;
a center of interdisciplinary training of Russian and international students in academic programmes which are competitive at the international level;
an entrepreneurial university whose activities are focused on accelerating technology transfer and the adoption of innovative technologies in the hi-tech sector of the economy of the Central Black Earth Region and Russia as a whole;
a dedicated institutional leader in the Central Black Earth Region committed to pooling the intellectual and cultural resources of the higher education system in order to enhance the socio-economic prosperity and improve the people’s living standards.

Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University was founded in 1952 in the period of intensive industrial development when there was an increasing demand in highly qualified engineers, capable of managing production processes. On the date of its 60th anniversary it was named after the legendary small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov.
At present Kalashnikov ISTU is a leading higher educational institution in the region and one of the leading technical schools in Russia, a training center of engineers and academics.
Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University is a signatory of Magna Charta Universitatum in Bologna, Italy and a full member of European University Association (EUA). 6 bachelor and 1 master study programs of Kalashnikov ISTU have been accredited by Central Evaluation and Accreditation Agency ZEvA, Hannover, Germany with the possibility to issue internationally recognized diploma supplements.
Kalashnikov ISTU has 5 branches in towns of Udmurt Republic and neighboring regions, namely: Votkinsk, Sarapul, Glazov, Kambarka and Tchaikovsky.

Over 760 lecturers are involved in the teaching process, 114 of them are Doctors of Science and/or Professors, 379 – Candidates of Science (PhD) and/or Associate Professors.
Kalashnikov ISTU is entitled to provide educational services in 49 programs of bachelor studies, 38 programs of master studies, 8 specialties of higher professional education, 48 specialties of PhD and 18 specialties of Doctoral studies, 16 programs of secondary professional education, 1 program of primary professional education, as well as the programs of supplementary education (skill-update courses and professional retraining, additional qualification “Professional Translator”, courses for prospective students). Currently Kalashnikov ISTU educates over 20,000 students, among them more than 100 international students. The classes and research works are conducted in 8 buildings, the new one opened on 1 September 2009.
For over 60 years more than 65,000 engineers have been trained at Kalashnikov ISTU. There are 9 specialized Academic Councils for PhD and DSc degrees here.
Scientific schools have been organized in the field of strength, reliability, complex automation, CAD systems, computer science, chemical technology, testing of complex machinery. The university scientific schools direct their efforts to solve the basic problems of machine-building, instrument-making industries, computer science and ecology. Researchers of Kalashnikov ISTU successfully participate in grant and scholarship programs together with colleagues from partner universities both local and foreign.
The university has all modern facilities to assist students in their studies and research. Over 2,500 PCs and workstations of Kalashnikov ISTU are combined into over 80 LANs linked to Internet via the university Internet-portal.
In the frameworks of innovative activities the electronic library of Kalashnikov ISTU, that currently comprises over 500,000 entries, was implemented and successfully functions. In virtual laboratories of the university young specialists can do research, as well as exchange information with their colleagues all over the world via Internet.
Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University has been constantly developing its international relations. Academic mobility programs are implemented and promoted.