The Ural University is the regional leader in the field of international cooperation. The high level of research conducted at the University is the basis for numerous projects implemented in close cooperation with foreign partners. Research schools in organic chemistry, nuclear physics, mathematics, material science, and communications technologies in UrFU enjoy international recognition.
Since 1991 the University has taken part in 17 Tempus Projects. In 2010 UrFU was one of the first in Russia to join the EU Seventh Framework Programme (project “Towards a Topography of Tolerance and Equal Respect. A comparative study of policies for the distribution of public spaces in culturally diverse societies”).
UrFU has partnership agreements with over 130 universities and research institutes from all continents of the world. Every year these agreements enable more than a hundred UrFU students to study abroad. The UrFU Higher School of Economics runs joint Master’s degree programmes with the universities from Germany and France.
In their turn, students from different countries come to study at UrFU. There are more than a thousand foreign students studying at UrFU today.