Development of International Collaboration
In Siberian Federal University much attention is devoted to development of international collaboration and integration into international research and educational space. The International Department has been established to collect and spread information about various scholarship programs and grants such as: The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), the American Councils for International Education (ACTR), Fulbright and others. For the present moment the University has close contacts with institutes and universities in countries such as: Great Britain, Germany, Spain, France, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Italy, Japan, the USA, the Peoples’ Republic of China, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Singapore, Mongolia and the Republic of Korea. Special attention is paid to the development of relationships with the CIS and SCO countries. In 2009, SibFU became one of the leading universities of the University of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the field of "ecology" (link to SibFU-the University of the SCO). With the support from the partner universities the field reception campaign is organized in the SCO countries. It is planned to establish representative offices of SibFU in the Peoples’ Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Republic and Mongolia. All this activities allow future development of the international research activities, academic exchanges of students, teachers and researchers. Several academic and research subdivisions have been established and function jointly at the University:
- regional research center of geodynamical service in cooperation with Potsdam Georesearch Centre (Germany) and La Societe Collecte Localisation Satellites (GLS-France);
- research and educational Russian-German Centre and the international “East-West information center” in cooperation with the “East-West science center” at Kassel University;
- UNESCO Department of "New Materials and Technology” for the training of elite specialists: masters, postgraduate and doctoral students.
The University has the Center for International Education which provides training courses and the state examination of Russian as a foreign language (Ist, IInd, IIIrd and IVth certificate levels), as well as the state Russian language testing to apply for Russian citizenship. In addition, the Center helps foreign citizens and stateless persons study Russian as a foreign language for the purpose of entering SibFU. At present, over 200 international students are studying at Siberian Federal University; foreign professors from China, Japan, Turkey and Italy are working at SibFU. Annually over 200 professors the leading national and foreign universities read lectures at our university.
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