Workgroup session for University of Shanghai Cooperation Organization

9 November, 2022, the autumn session of the University of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (USCO) was carried out remotely. From MPEI side, Alexander Tarasov, Vice-Rector on International Relations, Sergey Shirinskii, Head of International Administration attended the meeting. From Novosibirsk State Technical University, Vadim Nekrasov, Head of Department of International Cooperation, from South Ural State University, Tatiana Vasilyeva, Head of the Center for International Educational Programs were present as well as from Ural State University side, Sergey Kokin, Head of Department of Automated Electrical Systems, and Andrey Konyaev, Professor of Department of Electrical Engineering.

The meeting was dedicated to the development of issues in the field of organization and implementation of the mutual education programs of graduate and postgraduate studies in the framework of USCO. The emphasis was made on the MPEI project for Methodology for the accordance of undergraduate programs, containing a procedure for the interaction between the main USCO universities in the field of joint training of the bachelors and the actual procedure for the undergraduate programs. It was decided to take this project as a basis and supplement it within agreements on the joint undergraduate programs.

As a result of the meeting, working group participants reached an agreement to submit comments and proposals on the project in the near future, for it  to be presented to a wider circle of specialists for further discussion. Regarding joint postgraduate programs, it was decided to generalize the existing experience of Novosibirsk State Technical University and South Ural State University in this area, taking into account the changes currently taking place in Russia and postgraduate studies as the third part of higher education.