More Than 1000 International Students Joined Open Online Lectures at Ural Federal University

16:05, March 17, 2021

More than thousand international students joined «Digital Transformation of the Power Industry» Online Internship Program 2021

On 17, March 2021 the Open Online Lecture «Digital Transformation of the Power Industry» took place at Ural Federal University. It has already been the 3rd Open Online Lecture in front of international audience where the presenters Stanislav Eroshenko and Alexandra Khalyasmaa talked about the main trends in the modern power industry and shared information about Online Internships 2021. 

The Open Online Lectures were attended by an overall 1000 of students and academics from France, Vietnam, India and other countries. Among the participants there were students from ENSEA  graduate school (France) with which UrFU had successfully organized the first Online Internship “Machine Learning in Power Industry” in 2020. The participants showed outstanding results and received positive feedback from the Industry Partner SVEL Company Group, more about the experience and outcome of the Online Internship 2020 can be found here. 

This year the Department of International Educational Programs and Ural Power Engineering Institute of Ural Federal University are offering 3 tracks for Online Internship 2021: Machine Learning In Power Industry, Robotics In Power Industry and Intelligent Recognition Systems. The leaders of the tracks Stanislav Eroshenko and Alexandra Khalyasmaa from Ural Power Engineering Institute of UrFU say that all projects are designed based on the demand of the industries and challenges that they have to face. The duration of Machine Learning In Power Industry and Robotics In Power Industry is 3 months and they start on 1, May 2021. Intelligent Recognition Systems will continue for 1,5 months and start on the 14, June. All tracks include practical classes on Machine Learning and Python, working on the real industry cases of the real industrial company. Based on the results of the Online Internship participants are able to publish their results together with the project leaders. 

“Internship Program is a unique opportunity to gain practical experience. Within 6-years experience of our Department we have worked closely with Regional Companies and Institutes of UrFU, every year we enlarge a number of our partners who are interested to work with an international team of young experts. We stay in touch with our former participants and are happy to see how this program impacted their further studies and career, all of them did tremendous work during the Internship and received letters of recommendation from the industry partners. We can say that the Internship is one of our most successful projects which demonstrate academic and practical opportunities of Ural Federal University and Sverdlovsk region on the international level. Usually, the number of participants is limited and we require a CV and motivation letter to choose the most successful candidates,'' says the Head of the Department of International Educational Programs Iana Vysotskaia.

The Department of International Educational Programs has already received applications from France, Brazil and India, applications are open until April, 1 for 3-month Internships and until 1, May for 1,5-month Track.

More information and requirements can be found on the website of the Department. 

The project of the Online Internships is co-funded by Establishing Smart Energy System Curriculum at Russian and Vietnamese Universities (ESSENCE) is a curriculum development project initiated by the consortium of 10 universities from European Union, Russia and Vietnam funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, Key Action 2, Capacity Building in Higher Education.

This year a high interest towards the Online Internships was erased from Indian Partner University which joined the Open Online Lecture in big numbers. Students from Sanjivani College of Engineering, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya, Saraswati College of Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University and Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering (PCCOE) had an opportunity to ask questions directly in ZOOM and the others in the comment section of YouTube stream. Many of them are interested in the Practical Approach in their fields of studies and working closely with Russian Industries.