Aimed to assist the St. Petersburg State University in internationalizing its efforts, developing Internet resources for foreign audience, improving its ratings and integrating science schools in the RIAC program activities, the four-day program RIAC Days in St. Petersburg University is over.
The agenda included meetings the media, St. Petersburg Government figures, businessmen and potential partners, the chronology being as follows.
Aimed to assist the St. Petersburg State University in internationalizing its efforts, developing Internet resources for foreign audience, improving its ratings and integrating science schools in the RIAC program activities, the four-day program RIAC Days in St. Petersburg University is over.
The agenda included meetings the media, St. Petersburg Government figures, businessmen and potential partners, the chronology being as follows.
March 25, 2014
10 am. Working meeting with the representatives of St. Petersburg University publishing division to discuss advancement of books and periodicals on international issues through the RIAC website.
10.30 am. A series of video interviews held with scholars of the University’s Foreign Relations Department on the Arctic for RIAC’s educational video program The Strategy of Russia and Other Countries in the Arctic.
12.30 pm. RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev and University’s Foreign Relations Department Director Igor Gretsky present joint projects at a press conference in the Rosbalt News Agency.
4 pm. RIAC delegation goes to Smolny to see Sergey Markov, Deputy Head of the Foreign Relations Committee, and discuss future bilateral cooperation in 2014.
March 26, 2014
10 am. A+Standard two-days training is launched for the University personnel in view of advancing their Internet capabilities for foreign audiences. The 22-members group represents various University divisions in charge of the English-language website content.
12.30 pm. The A+Standard training focuses on analysis of the University website target audiences abroad to determine their basic requirements and proposals for optimization of the website structure.
2 pm. Participants analyze the cases and best practices of websites for foreign audiences of Russian and foreign universities.
6 pm. The training stage one is completed.
March 27, 2014
10 am. Day two of the A+Standard Program is open for participants to prepare proposals for the St. Petersburg English-Language Website Roadmap, including identification of key problems and bottlenecks, as well as the logics of the immediate and longer-term steps.
3 pm. Program Director Ivan Timofeev holds a workshop for the St. Petersburg Center for Enterprise Development and Support with the focus on advancement of the city’s exporters through the Internet. The sides outline promising areas for cooperation.
5 pm. The A+Standard training for the University personnel is completed.
6.30 pm. A roundtable is held on cooperation between RIAC and St. Petersburg National Research University for Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics.
March 28, 2014
11 am. Chairman of Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy Fyodor Lukyanov and RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev speak at the roundtable devoted to the 20th anniversary of the Foreign Relations Department at the St. Petersburg State University.
3 pm. Dr. Timofeev addresses the gala meeting held to celebrate the anniversary of the Foreign Relations Department.
4 pm. RIAC representatives meet director and staff of the University’s Sociology Department Resource Center to outline joint operations including employment of the Center’s technologies for interaction with the RIAC expert pool.
5 pm. RIAC Days in St. Petersburg University closed.
A+Standard two-days training
