... humanitarian contacts, inter-parliamentary interaction, promotion of the expert-level dialogue, the role of universities in improvement of the humanitarian angle in Russia's foreign policy, development of Russian-language training programs, and advancement of Russian education abroad.
Russia has now officially entered into its first overseas war, since its former days of the Soviet Union and its foray into Afghanistan in December 1979 to February 1989.
Insurgent groups ("the Mujahedeen") who received aid from several Western ...
... to staff, but the specialists that we do so far have will also leave, because of a lack of interactions and communication. The task of HR managers is not just to train and hire a certain number of applicants, but to make sure that they stay here, in Russia. Our first educational initiative is aimed at the most advanced training programs. The most striking example is the Yandex School of Data Analysis, the purpose of which is to support online mathematics in Russia in general, and in Yandex in particular. If this dies ...
On July 6, 2015, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov accompanied with Program Coordinator Tatiana Bagdasarova held talks with Sergio Bortalani, Pro-Rector of Universita degli studi di Torino, on cooperation in the education area.
The first stage of engagement implies participation of the University of Turin in Russian-Italian Project "Globalization 2.0: New Approaches to Research and Teaching".
The parties agreed on incorporating the university's curriculums and courses on globalization and globalization issues in the world politics of today in the ...
... discussing the prospect of opening entrance to the Russian citizens on national passports.
The opportunities available to Russian-Turkish inter-university cooperation are of particular interest. Today, Turkey enjoys a significant growth of university education, and the share of private universities that provide it is constantly increasing. The Russian-Turkish public forum held on November 13, 2014 in Antalya showed that the role of universities can take on additional dimensions in the current international situation. Contacts among scientists, lecturers and students allow for an escape from ...
On May 26–28, 2015,
the Second
Seminar
on the Exchange of Experience between Russian and Italian Experts on the Issues of Globalization in Education and Conducting Researchwas held at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad.
The seminar was attended by representatives of eight federal and national research universities of Russia, project participants and RIAC corporate members....
On May 27-28, 2015, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, hosted the second Russian-Italian seminar "Globalization 2.0: New Approaches to Research and Teaching" with participation of eight Russian federal and national universities holding RIAC corporate membership and five Italian universities, among them V
enice International ...
The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) partnered with the International Institute for the Development of Science Cooperation (
MIRNaS
) to hold a round table discussion on 9 April 2015 entitled “Cooperation in research and education between Russia and Turkey: a resource for developing and internationalising the two countries’ universities”. Those taking part in the event included representatives of government bodies and of leading Russian and Turkish universities, and experts ...
... devoted to the discussion of ideas for the 2015 projects on top issues of Russian-Italian cooperation.
Mr. Margelov and Dr. Timofeev briefed the attendees on RIAC’s proposals for advancing the bilateral dialogue,
Globalization 2.0 project
and educational program "
Building Greater Europe
". In October 2014, RIAC and ISPI met in Rome to hold a Vnesheconombank-sponsored roundtable “
Resumption of Russian-European Dialogue: from Damage Minimization to New Cooperation Format
” on Russia-EU political and economic interaction.
... with new Italian participants.
Dr. Kortunov stressed that the "Globalization 2.0" project makes a major part of RIAC's portfolio, representing the think tank's attitude to topical issues of Russian-Italian cooperation in the realm of higher education at the bilateral forum Russian-Italian Civil Society Dialogue.
Dr. Melville briefed the gathering on the research performed by the Russian side on the bachelor and master levels at the ca Foscari University, University of Torino, the VIU and University of Padua to survey the ...