for Science and Education as an opportunity for enhanced university cooperation

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1 The EU-Russia Common Space for Science and Education as an opportunity for enhanced university cooperation Prof. Yuri Pokholkov, Ex-Rector of Tomsk Polytechnic University, President of Association for Engineering Education of Russia 1

2 EU-RU Common Spaces President of Russia Vladimir Putin, Chairman of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso and Head of Delegation of the European Commission office in Russia Marc Franco. The Road Maps were adopted during the 15 th EU-Russia Summit in Moscow on the 10 th of May

3 4 Road Maps (Common Spaces) 1. Road Map for the Common Economic Space 2. Road Map for the Common Space of Freedom, Security and Justice 3. Road Map for the Common Space of External Security 4. Road Map for the Common Space of Research and Education, including Cultural Aspects 3

4 Road Map for the Common Space of Research and Education, including Cultural Aspects 1. Research, Science and Technology 2. Education 3. Culture 4

5 Road Map for the Common Space of Research and Education, including Cultural Aspects Objectives: 1. Research, Science and Technology structuring a knowledge-based society in the EU and Russia; promoting a high rate of competitiveness and sustainable economic growth by modernization of the national economies and implementation of advanced scientific achievements; strengthening and optimizing the links between research and innovation; maintaining of small and medium size entrepreneurship in the field of research and innovation; addressing global challenges and reinforcing people-to-people contacts. 5

6 Road Map for the Common Space of Research and Education, including Cultural Aspects Progress: 1. Research, Science and Technology FP6: 280 projects (total budget about 2.8 billion) with RU participation; Russia s share about 120 million; Russia has expressed an interest to become an associated country to the FP; Russia s co-financing amounted to 20 million for the 6th FP; WP coordinated calls (in the areas of Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology as well as Energy); WP coordinated calls (in Health and in Nanotechnologies); Committees and Working Groups (Steering Committee of the Science and Technology Agreement; working groups on key thematic priorities such as health, food, agriculture & biotechnology, nanotechnologies, energy, aeronautics, mobility, space research, nuclear fission energy research and environment; Euratom-Russia Coordinating Committee). 6

7 Road Map for the Common Space of Research and Education, including Cultural Aspects 2. Education Objective Encourage integration and a closer co-operation within the framework of the new forming European Higher Education Area in accordance with the main provisions of the Bologna Process. 7

8 Road Map for the Common Space of Research and Education, including Cultural Aspects 2. Education university cooperation academic mobility promotion of multidisciplinary EU studies TEMPUS ERASMUS MUNDUS European Studies Institute Bologna process 8

9 Road Map for the Common Space of Research and Education, including Cultural Aspects 2. Education TEMPUS Russia has been participating in TEMPUS since 1994 with a budget of approximately 10 million per year; 300 projects ( /projects/russia.pdf); Tempus IV modernisation of curricula, ECTS, recognition of degrees, lifelong learning; 9

10 Road Map for the Common Space of Research and Education, including Cultural Aspects Erasmus Mundus 130 Russian students, 41 academics; ( : 50 students, 16 academic staff); Partnership between the master courses: about 15 Russian education institutions have been involved so far; Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window: 2. Education - ENPI 2007: partnership of 20 universities (8 EU and 12 Russian) led by the University of Hohenheim in Germany was awarded a project worth 5 million supporting the mobility of 262 Russian students to the EU and 48 students and teachers to Russia; - ENPI 2008: Russia s allocation amounted to million; selection of three partnerships; at least 435 scholarships and three new partnerships of EU-Russia universities. 10

11 Road Map for the Common Space of Research and Education, including Cultural Aspects 2. Education Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window EACEA 07/34 "Erasmus Mundus Consortium "Multidisciplinary capacitybuilding for an improved economic, political and university cooperation between the European Union and the Russian Federation 210 scholarships for mobility flows between the Russian Federation (RF) and the European Union (EU) in both directions 11

12 EU members Russian Federation members TU Dresden University of Wroclaw Ruhr-Universität Bochum Wroclaw University of Technology University of Rome La Sapienza Universidade Nova de Lisboa University of Trento Vienna University of Technology Irkutsk State Technical University Ufa State Aviation Technical University Tomsk State Pedagogical University Omsk State Transport University Northwest (Saint-Petersburg) Branch of Russian Law Academy of Ministry of Justice of Russian Federation Bauman Moscow State Technical University Ural State University of Economics Tomsk Polytechnic University State Technological University Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys Lipetsk State Technical University Moscow State University of Railway Engineering (MIIT) South Russia State Technical University 12

13 Road Map for the Common Space of Research and Education, including Cultural Aspects 2. Education European Studies Institute in Moscow: one-year postgraduate Master s programme in EU studies; developing a cadre of officials conversant in EU integration issues; young officials enrolled; were enrolled; 13

14 Projects Supporting the Russian participation in EU- RTD Programmes (RUSERA) FP6-INCO ; Participants: Russia, Austria; Siberia, Information Technologies and Europe (SITE) FP6-IST ; Participants: UK, Russia, Austria; Expanding ERA over Russia (RUSERA-EXE); INCO-FP , Participants: Russia, Austria, Greece 14

15 NETWORK Commission Central Contact Point (AEER) Regional Contact Points Regional Research Organisations Scientists European partners 15

16 Map of 37 RUSERA Regional Information Nodes 16

17 After 1,5 year of RUSERA Network activity (in 2006) we had: network of RINs was established in 37 Russian regions; 14 project proposals which were prepared and submitted with the assistance of RUSERA managers got financing from different EU Programmes (FP6-NMP, INTAS, TACIS, TEMPUS). 17

18 Perspectives of EU-RU university cooperation The existing RUSERA Network will provide support to a more effective use of the mechanisms available for EU-RU RTD and academic cooperation, enabling researchers and teachers to better exploit the opportunities available for setting up long lasting partnerships.

19 Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. Albert Einstein 19