Swiss Ambassador Delivers a Lecture in UrFU

14:32, July 12, 2018

Summer school dedicated to the specifics of doing business in Russia has started

On June 9, the Rector of Ural Federal University Victor Koksharov welcomed the delegation of Switzerland, led by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Russia Yves Rossier.

‘There are several fields in which we are open for scientific and educational collaboration with Switzerland: from research on climate and alternative energy sources to studies of economics and management’ noted Victor Koksharov.

International business in Russia is the subject of the GSEM summer school, which opened today in UrFU. Yves Rossier gave its participants a lecture after his meeting with the university rector.

‘What differs this year’s summer school is the concentration on ties with business,’ said the head of GSEM International Summer School, head of the Academic Department of International Economics and Management UrFU Liudmila Ruzhanskaya. ‘We show the participants the real cases of foreign and national companies doing business in Russia. A lot of the curriculum is devoted to visiting our business partners: UMMC (Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company), Ural Locomotives, SKB Kontur, Rusagro. Besides that, we focuse on Information Technology to show that Russia is not just a country rich in resources.’

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UrFU maintains academic ties with two Swiss universities – FHS St. Gallen and Montreux Business University.

UrFU scientists worked on 30 publications with 13 Swiss universities. For more than 10 years, the Department of Condensed Matter Physics works in collaboration with the Laboratory for Neutron Scattering in The Paul Scherrer Institute. UCSU “Modern Nanotechnologies” led by Vladimir Shur has strong ties with scientific institutions in Lausanne.

In 2015 the Nobel Prize laureate, Swiss scientist Rolf Zinkernagel accepted the invitation of UrFU rector ViKtor Koksharov to head the Key Center of Excellence “Experimental Immunophysiology and Immunochemistry” at UrFU. In 2017 the Centre for Global Urbanism was established in Ural Institute of Humanities at UrFU. It is co-managed by Lausanna university professor Martin Muller and UrFU professor Elena Trubina.