A New Prospect for Collaboration with Germany

16:07, May 10, 2012

The head of Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg visited UrFU

On May, 7, 2012 Viktor Koksharov, Rector of Ural University, met with Karl-Dieter Gruske, president of Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). UrFU Vice-Rector for International Relation Maxim Khomyakov and the organizers of joint school in physics and chemistry of nanomaterials (PCnano), Andreas Magerl (germany) and Anrey Rempel (Russia), also took part in the meeting.

The heads of two universities discussed the possibility of establishing of a joint center of competence, taking into account the similar educational programs in both universities. Microelectronics, optics, IT, energy technologies – these are priorities both for UrFU and for Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, as well as for their numerous partners, like world-famous German company, Siemens. A day before, Karl-Dieter visited the Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences,where he discussed the matters of collaboration with the Chairman of the Ural Branch, Valeriy Charushin.

In September, 2012, Ural University will hold a ‘Week of  Young Researchers’ together with DAAD and DFG. In turn, Ural Branch of RAS and Ural University will host the Ural Research Forum in October, 2012; the vent will be dedicated to the 80 anniversary of energy science in Ural. Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, one of Germany’s leading schools, was invited to participate in both events.

It is worth to remind that Ural University and Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg have signed the partnership agreement to frame the programs of academic exchange. This semester, 5 students took part in such a program, while another 5 have done so last autumn.

Dmitry Benemansky