About Siberian Federal University

One can hardly find a place in Russia with such an impressive number of implemented national projects as in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Our most focused “development points” have been determined in industry, power engineering and energy, research and education. Siberian Federal University, as a response to regional developmental challenges, was established in 2006 to train highly qualified specialists capable of working in any region of our country, including severe conditions of the Northern areas.

The University was founded by merging 5 major Krasnoyarsk institutions of higher education. Among the members of the University Board of Trustees there are representatives of large companies, politicians and scientists. The Chairman of the Board is Dmitry Medvedev, the Prime Minister of Russia.

Mission Statement

The mission of the University is to create an advanced education, research and innovation infrastructure and to promote new knowledge and technologies to meet the challenges of social and economic development of the Siberian Federal District, as well as to form the human resources potential — competitive experts in the priority areas of the Siberian and Russian Federation development, corresponding to the modern intellectual requirements and meeting international standards.

Vision

Siberian Federal University is dedicated to establish itself as a world-class, competitive university that undertakes to make a research and contribution to the international distinction for Siberia’s benefit. Siberian Federal University is committed to create many thousands of skilled and qualified workers for a range of industries and public services. Its primary purpose is to enable leading industries in Russia and Siberia to compete internationally and to strengthen the Russian contribution to the economic development of the Asian-Pacific region. Siberian Federal University has aligned all its vision and activities to improve the development of local industry — a great return for the university’s many stakeholders. In addition to these economic benefits and the increased recognition and opportunities for Siberian Federal District and Krasnoyarsk on the international stage, the mission of SibFU is to produce teaching and learning benefits and strengthen public services in Siberia by the development of professional skills.

Our Mission

To contribute to major national economic projects (located in Eastern Siberia, Russia’s Far East) as well as to the economic development of the Asian-Pacific region; to create a skilled labour force;
To raise the university’s international profile in terms of teaching and research;
To integrate university research into Russian economic development, to create new hi-tech industries in the region;
To work together with businesses and local government to prepare a flexible workforce capable of adapting to changing labour markets;
To make investment to enhance staff career opportunities and improve academic buildings, libraries, equipment and IT infrastructure.

The North-Caucasus Federal University was founded based on Decree by President of Russian Federation № 958 (July 18, 2011) and Order by Government of Russian Federation № 226-р (February 22, 2012), as the result of a merge of the three universities located in the Stavropol Region – the North-Caucasus State Technical University; the Stavropol State University, and the Pyatigorsk Humanities-Technological University.

This institution is not only rated as one of the largest educational institutions of the region yet it also is a unique site for numerous scientific and innovation projects, the leading arena for intercultural dialogue both within the region and beyond, and is a leading force contributing to the sustainable regional development through educational, cultural, and scientific links both within the NCFD and with the neighboring countries.

By the year 2021 the NCFU shall become the largest academic institution for higher education in the North-Caucasus Federal District.

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.

Russian State Social University, a place in Russia where Social Studies flourish

Russian State Social University (RSSU), the biggest provider of social education in Russia and the former Soviet Union.

What is Social Education?

Usually the social education is defined as a specific category of study and research, that is crucial for the development of society. At RSSU we understand social education in a broader sense as the combination of degree programs for managers, state civil servants, social workers, sociologists, anthropologists, etcetera, id est all those degree programs the graduates of which work for the improvement of society and for the needs of each individual. In other words – social workers.

It is our view that such a discipline of higher education, one that touches all areas of personal and social life, and helps to create better living conditions for everybody, could be the basis for the development of higher education as a whole, giving it the dual dimensions of social responsibility and humanity.

Moscow State University was established in 1755
More than 40 000 students (graduate and postgraduate) and about 7 000 undergraduates study at the university, and over 5 000 specialists do the refresher course here. More than 6 000 professors and lecturers, and about 5 000 researchers work for the faculties and research institutes.
Every year Moscow University enrolls about 4 000 international students and postgraduates from all over the world.
Moscow University campus is an extremely complex system, with its 1 000 000 m2 floor area in 1 000 buildings and structures, with its 8 dormitories housing over 12 000 students and 300 km of utility lines.
MSU library system is one of the largest in Russia, with its 9,000,000 books, 2,000,000 of them in foreign languages, and the average number of readers 55,000, using 5,500,000 books a year.

Nowadays, as it has done throughout its history, the University retains its role of a major center of learning and research as well as an important cultural center. Its academics and students follow the long-standing traditions of the highest academic standards and democratic ideals.

In March 2007 the Conference of academic councils of Moscow University approved the revised version of the Charter which aligned the document with the latest legal acts. Confirming all the rights of Moscow University proclaimed in the 1998 Charter, the updated version, approved by the Government of RF in March 2008, states the University is chartered as a federal entity, its Founder being the Russian Federation represented by the Government of RF, as originally a special status of the University was ensured by the supreme authority of its Founder, Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. The 2007 Charter stresses the leading role Moscow University has played in the development of learning, research and Russian culture, and its significance as part of the national heritage. The approval of the 2007 Charter by a special Decree of the Government is seen as a mark of recognition of the University’s outstanding achievement and merit.

History
The University was founded on 5th February, 1960 by the USSR Government. On 22nd February, 1961, the RUDN University was named after Patrice Lumumba — one of the symbols of the African peoples’ fight for independence. Students and academics could be free to pursue their learning, teaching, and research activities at , without being subject to political context, but firmly directed to the grand principles of friendship and mutual support.On February 5, 1992, by the decision of the Government of Russia, the University was renamed to Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia.

Mission
Uniting people of different cultures by knowledge RUDN University creates leaders to make the World better