UrFU International
Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia with a 100-year history. Located in Yekaterinburg - the administrative center of the Ural Federal District and the capital of the World University Games 2023.
According to one of the most authoritative international university rankings, the QS World University Rankings, UrFU ranks 331 in the world. UrFU successfully applies the best educational practices, creates new internationally oriented programs based on strong research areas.
UrFU's famous alumni impact the development of Russia and their home countries.
Among the Honorary Doctors of UrFU:
One of Russia's leaders in science, UrFU initiated the creation of the world-class Ural Interregional Research and Education Center (UIREC) designed to provide solutions for the global innovations market and the tasks of the Russian national project "Science".
UrFU is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center (UIREC) 'Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials'.
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UrFU participates in international higher education networks:
One of the leading universities in Russia, Ural Federal University:
On July 9, 2019, the university hosted a meeting of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with students and graduate students. The President supported the idea of creating a world-class scientific and educational center in the Urals.
The Ural Interregional Research and Education Center (UIREC) — ‘Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials’ is designed to unite the efforts of educational and scientific organizations and organizations of the real sector of the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions in the field of applied scientific research and development of the world level, obtaining competitive technologies and products with the aim of their subsequent commercialization. In addition, on the basis of UIREC, professional personnel are trained to solve scientific and technological problems for breakthrough development in priority areas and increase the competitiveness of the economies of the subjects.
The Center unites the potentials of educational and scientific institutions and organizations of the real economy sector of the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions in conducting world level applied research and designs, obtaining competitive technologies and products and their subsequent commercialization, as well as training for solving scientific and technological problems pursuing a goal of breakthrough development in priority areas and increasing the competitiveness of the economies of the subjects in the perimeter of the center. REC is realized in a complex of projects of creation of world-class scientific centers on the basis of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Innovative Scientific and Technological Center 'Tatishchev'. More than 250 partners and enterprises concluded agreements on cooperation within the UIREC framework.
The project of the scientific and educational center is being implemented in conjunction with projects to create world-class scientific centers on the basis of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the innovative scientific and technological center "Tatishchev". The activities of the centers, together with the potential of the existing innovative infrastructure of the region, will allow combining the existing formats of cooperation and support measures for projects of all levels of technological readiness (from exploratory research to pilot production) and stimulate the development of new formats of scientific and technological cooperation.
The participants of the UIREC are working on solving scientific problems that contribute to the development of subjects within the perimeter of the Center, and can bring a significant economic effect in the future 5-10 years.
The German-Russian Summer School is a joint project of UrFU and the Berlin Technical University, as well as the Technical University of Dortmund.
Since 2015, the project is held under the auspice of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany F.-V. Steinmeier, Honorary Doctor of UrFU, and has been funded by Russian and German companies. For the first time, the Russian-German Summer Energy School was held in 2015 and became a traditional annual event. In 2016, at the Ural Federal University the then German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took part in the opening ceremony of the German-Russian school.
The partners of the project are PJSC Rosseti, Prosoft Systems LLC, Schneider-Electric, Siemens, WILO SE, EUREF AG, Uniper SE, Dieffenbacher GmbH, EnergyEurasia GmbH.
The project of the summer school of the Ural Federal University and the Technical University of Dortmund was awarded as the winner of the competition "Russia and Germany: scientific and educational bridges" (Russian-German Year of Scientific and Educational Exchange). The results were summed up at the closing ceremony of the Russian-German Year of Scientific and Educational Partnerships 2018–2020.
In 2021, the German-Russian Summer School "Environmental Protection and New Energy Partnership between Russia and Germany" (in the framework of the German Year of Science) will be held in Yekaterinburg.
UrFU has official relations with the UN. In 2018 and 2019, UrFU hosted two UN Under-Secretaries-General: A. Smeil - UN Under-Secretary General for Global Communication and M.M. Sharif - Executive Director of the UN-Habitat Programme, Head of UN Headquarters in Nairobi.
Created / Updated: 2 December 2013 / 5 February 2021
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