Collaboration of MPEI with
educational institutions of the Czech Republic started in 1954 when the first
students of Czechoslovakia were admitted to MPEI.
Since then MPEI has trained 278 highly qualified Czech professionals. There is an
Alumni Association that carries out regular meetings.
On December 7 of 1976, in recognition of outstanding achievements in the field
of pedagogical research and innovation, MPEI was awarded the Jan Amos Comenius
Medal of Czechoslovakia.
Students from the Czech Republic come to MPEI on
academic mobility programs.
Together with the Czech
Universities MPEI participates in the Association of International Departments
of Higher Educational Institutions and Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency
Conference.
Annually, students and
postgraduates of MPEI become winners of the contests for scholarship of
President of the Ressuian Federation to study abroad. They often choose
admission to Czech University in Prague for their academic mobility programs.
The Czech Technical University
in Prague has been founded in 1707 and is the oldest technical university in
Central Europe and the oldest civil technical university in the world.
Employees of MPEI are active in taking part in
different events that are carried out at the Czech partner universities. Thus,
in 2018 the 45th International Conference on Plasma Physics of the
European Physics Society was organized. It was hosted by the Institute of
Plasma Physics of Czech Academy of Science.
Cooperation of MPEI with the Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP) of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, director Dr. Radomir Paneck), as well as with the Czech Technical University (with which MPEI has a long-term agreement of fruitful cooperation) in thermonuclear engineering and plasma physics.
IPP is conducting research on the COMPASS tokamak installation, which is to be modified in the coming years and to become one of Europe's 4 leading nuclear fusion research sites. The participation of Russian scientists and students in experiments at this facility corresponds to tasks of developing thermonuclear energy in the framework of National projects and maintaining competencies at a high level.
In 2015, the first awarded
trip of the winner group of the “Best study group” contest of MPEI was carried
out. In the framework of international academic exchange, invited students were
visiting different cities, Prague among them.
There are Czech among
Honorable Doctors and Professors of MPEI, such as:
Bzhetislav Benda, Academician of the Academy of
Sciences of Czechoslovakia, Rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague. Under his leadership, the basis and contents of a number of subjects were
rebuilt and new laboratory rooms were created at the Czech Technical
University and other universities.
Juraj Sedlak, professor at the Bratislava School of
Law. He has been reading lectures on "Thermokinetics" and
"Thermodynamics." His main field of scientific research has been the
development of issues of thermodynamic analysis of various processes occurring
in thermal power equipment.
Aldrich Benda, Academician of the Academy of Sciences
of Czechoslovakia, major scientist in the field of electrical engineering, the
author of more than 100 scientific papers in Theoretical Electrical
Engineering, Electrophysics, Electronics And Electrodynamics.
Jiri Klima, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of
Czechoslovakia. For 10 years, he had been heading one of the largest
universities in Czechoslovakia, stood at the origins of cooperation between the
Czech University of Technology and MPEI.
Prominent professors:
- Anton Blazhej, academician of the Czech Academy of
Sciences
- Gustav Stegman, professor at the University of Bratislava
- Ivan Taufer, professor at the Univeristy in
Pardubice
Partner universities