25.10.2011 - 26.10.2011 | Moscow, Russia

International Conference "International Cooperation in Education and Science"

The National Research University "Higher School of Economics" held a two-days International Conference on "International Cooperation in Education and Science", with a workshop on "Russia-EU Cooperation in Academic Mobility" and a round table discussion on "Academic Mobility in Russian Universities". Presentations are now available.

The event was supported by the BILAT-RUS project, which is funded under the EU 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, and was organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

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A workshop on “Russia-EU Cooperation in Academic Mobility” was held on the first day of the Conference on 25 October 2011.
The aim of the workshop was to discuss and analyse the present state of activities, problems and prospects of cooperation in the field of academic exchange, and make suggestions for a potential joint EU-Russian agenda for enhancing scientific mobility.

The meeting began with opening remarks from Sergey Ivanets, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and Leonid Gokhberg, Vice-Rector, Director of the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economic of Knowledge, National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (HSE).

The key presentations of the workshop were the following:

• Manuel Hallen, Minister Counsellor Science & Technology, Delegation of the European Union to the Russian Federation:
  EU-Russia Science & Technology Cooperation: State-of-the-Art and Opportunities 
  Marie Curie Actions: Mobility and Training for International Research Collaboration beyond 2013
• Anna Pikalova, Director of the Centre for International Projects, Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Co-Chair of EU-Russia Working Group on Researcher Mobility:
  Instruments to Coordinate Russia-EU Researcher Mobility: State-of-the-Art and Prospects

EU Programmes, Instruments and Foundations: State-of-the-Art, Results, Barriers and Prospects to Cooperate with Russia:

• Alexander Mazurin, Senior Researcher, HSE, Russian National Contact Point “Mobility”; FP7 Ideas (European Research Council) and
  Yuriy Zaitsev, Researcher, HSE, Russian National Contact Point “INCO”.
  Marie Curie Actions, EURAXESS
• Irina Kouklina, Director, Analytical Centre for International Science and Education Programmes:
  Access by EU Researchers to Russian R&D and Innovation Programmes
• Nicola Scaramuzzo, Education Programmes, EU-Russia Cooperation Section, Delegation of the European Union to the Russian Federation:
  Study in Europe with Erasmus Mundus and Tempus

The second day of the Conference was devoted to exchange of experience of Russian universities (National Research Universities and Federal Universities) on practical realisation of instruments existing in Russia to support international academic mobility (Mega-grants, etc.) through a Round Table Discussion “Academic Mobility in Russian Universities” on 26 October 2011.

The round table discussion“National EU Member States & Russia Initiatives to support Academic Mobility” was moderated by Igor Morozov, Deputy Head of the Federal Agency on Commonwealth Independent States Affairs, Compatriots - Abroad Residents and International Humanitarian Co-operation (Rossotrudnichestvo).  

• Rossotrudnichestvo Presentation (in Russian language)

Round Table Speakers:

• Petr Stefanovich, Head of the Humboldt – Foundation Office, Moscow:  
  The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• Michel Tararine, Head of the Moscow Office of National Research Centre, CNRS France:  
  CNRS S&T cooperation with Russia
• Alexander Sharov, Head of the Directorate for International Relations of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
• Mikhail Ugrumov, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Counsellor of Vice-President RAS on International Scientific Activities

69 representatives of the universities, research organizations, Ministry for Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the European Commission, Joint EU-Russia Researcher Mobility Working Group, funding institutions and industrial entities participated in the Conference.

Further information is available on the HSE webiste in English and in Russian.

Source: HSE