Strategic Partnership in Action

12:51, May 27, 2014

The speech of UrFU Rector at the Astana Economic Forum was highly appreciated by the experts

UrFU Rector, Victor Koksharov, told about new challenges for the internationalization of the universities-participants of the third forum of Asian universities.

Victor Koksharov also told about the experience of Russian higher education in enhancing global competitiveness, in particular, the program “5-100-2020”. The project is aimed to contribute to the entry of Russian universities in the list of the world leading scientific and educational centers.

The third forum of Asian universities was held on the first day of the Astana Economic Forum, which is held for the seventh time in the capital of Kazakhstan.

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.