On June 9, 2014 in Moscow, RIAC and Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research (RFFR) signed a cooperation agreement.
Assistance to Russian structures in international science and technology cooperation is a task shared by both organizations, the accords will serve the mutual interests and promote joint projects for advancement of Russia's interests and image as a global scientific power. Such efforts will include joint ...
On May 16, RIAC President Igor Ivanov and RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met Academician
Vladislav Panchenko
, President of Russian Foundation for Basic Research (
RFBR
) and Head of its Foreign Relations Department
Alexander Sharov
to discuss potential areas of cooperation and outline its short-term priorities.
Besides, the parties agreed to interact for expanding and raising efficiency of international scientific cooperation within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the BRICS, as...
Eighteen
Russian universities
have been included in the
British QS ranking
of the best universities of the world, among them RIAC corporate members – St. Petersburg State University, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Urals State University and Nizhniy Novgorod State University, as well as RIAC partners – Higher School of Economics and the Far East Federal University.
By 2020, 15 Russian universities should join the top 200, with five of them the top 100 of one of the...
This article analyses the current situation in the humanitarian cooperation between the EU and Russia. At present the main program blocks of this type of partnership comprise education, science and technology networks and culture. It has been recognized that each of the above areas of cooperation has its own specifics, different scope of coverage and significant potential for growth.
Education
To-date the education has turned out to ...
... project for improving competiveness of Russian universities.
The program covers 15 institutions of higher learning, among them Far Eastern Federal University, Kazan State University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, National University of Science and Technology MISiS, Higher School of Economics, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Novosibirsk State University, Samara State Aerospace University, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University,...
On July 4th, 2013 RIAC Director General Andrei Kortunov spoke at the opening of the inter-regional research-to-practice conference “Preparation and Creation of a Regional Innovation Cluster.” He focused on developing international ties of Russian innovative regions and universities, adopting foreign practices in creation of regional innovation clusters and optimizing mechanisms of international scientific, technological and innovation cooperation.
The conference was attended by representatives of...
Science - a Century from Now
What will happen to science in one hundred years? What problems will it address? Who will be more in demand: physicists, biologists, economists or psychologists? Which science will prevail: fundamental or applied? We do ...
... are an attempt at an intra-scholarly or rather intra-disciplinary reflection. At that, the topic area is limited by the socio-cultural and institutional styles and methods of the professional activities inherent to the part of the Russian political science community engaged in foreign policy studies. Naturally, many points specific to Russian foreign policy scholars simultaneously affect historians, economists, lawyers and other experts studying international relations. Meanwhile, apart from features ...
.... The issues at hand have remained unchanged for several decades, raising difficult questions with no easy answers. What are some possible ways out of this vicious circle of problems, and what are the priorities for the future development of Russian science – two questions posed to Mikhail Mikhailovich Butusov, Doctor of physics and mathematics, Director of research and technologies at Activil Corporation and an expert in scientific research commercialization and the restructuring of science ...
... International Projects of the RSUH, stressed the significance of teaching academic writing since it is the sine qua non condition of integrating Russian universities in the global process of knowledge sharing. The issue of increasing representation of Russian science on the international level is highly relevant and has been
outlined on the ministerial level
.
Natalie Reid who is also the trainer of the RIAC educational program titled “
Global science
”, gave an account of both the general principles ...
