UrFU Develops Cooperation with Leading Chinese Universities

17:31, May 14, 2019

The agreement opens opportunities for students of partner universities for mutually beneficial cooperation, internships and joint educational programs

On May 12, 2019, more than 400 representatives of universities of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Malaysia, New Zealand, Ukraine, Germany, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, South Korea, Azerbaijan, Australia, Belarus, Denmark, France, the Philippines, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, Italy, UK, Serbia and Sri Lanka came to Xi’an (China) to participate in the Silk Road Education Cooperation Expo.

The Sverdlovsk Region was represented by Ural Federal University. The university signed the cooperation agreements with Chang'an University (Xi'an) and Xi'an Shiyou (Petroleum) University (Xi'an) during the conference. The signing took place during the official visit of the delegation of the Ural Federal district to the people's Republic of China in the presence of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Ural Federal District Nikolai Tsukanov, Governor of the Sverdlovsk region Yevgeny Kuyvashev, Governor of Tyumen Region Alexander Moor and the leadership of the province of Shaanxi. It is planned to develop cooperation in the field of education, science, innovation and youth exchanges.

The details of cooperation were discussed during the visit of the UrFU’s Vice-Rector for International Relations Sergey Kurochkin to Chang'an University on May 13. The sides developed a plan for joint educational, scientific and student projects and discussed the prospects for the implementation of double degree programs and student exchanges. The Chinese side introduced its achievements in the field of modern information technologies, development of construction and transport infrastructure, technologies of road traffic automation. Being one of the leaders among the universities of China, Chang’an University has a developed scientific infrastructure, two large-scale test sites and experience in the implementation of research projects. The agreement opens opportunities for students of partner universities for mutually beneficial cooperation, internships and joint educational programs. The parties also agreed on the exchange of scientific and educational literature. As a first step, Sergey Kurochkin passed the scientific works of UrFU scientists to the library of Chang’an University.