MPEI takes part in Vice-rectors' discussion on international activities of Russian universities

​16 November, 2022, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) held a meeting for Vice-rectors on the international relations of Russian universities, named “Internationalization of Russian higher education, achievements and challenges”.

The speakers list included representatives of universities, the Ministry of Science and the Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Council of Federations of the Russian Federation. Delegates

discussed international cooperation, promotion of institutions to the international

platform, digitalization in the educational sphere and the development of academic

mobility in the pandemic period, and shared their experience with colleagues as well.

MPEI was represented by Alexander Tarasov, Vice-Rector on International Relations who reported on the topic “Graduate potential realization on the basis of rational use of existing mechanisms of state support, ideas and proposals”. He shared MPEI experience in specialist training for foreign countries and offered some ways of its optimization that were kindly considered.

During the event, the following questions were discussed:

- the procedure of the selection of foreign citizens for training within the education quota established by the government of the Russian Federation;

- the system of selection and admission of foreign citizens to study in Russian educational organizations: problems and solutions;

- providing scholarship support to talented foreign citizens;

- the features of the admission campaign in the context of geopolitical acuteness and post-covid situation;

- issues of entry of foreign citizens to study at Russian universities;

- optimization of the work of universities in the context of acute political and socio-economic situation;

- litigation concerning reception and observation of foreign citizens for universities of the Russian Federation.