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From 20 October till 5 November, Perm State University (PSU) hosts for 10 open online lectures by Professor Adriano Fiorucci from the Polytechnic University of Turin (Politecnico di Torin). The Lectures are held in English.

Professor Adriano Fiorucci will talk about the results of interaction with Perm scientists as a part of the international research group (IRG) on development of a nature-like technology for the formation of concentrations of useful components inside man-made dumps. The research group is headed by Professor Vladimir Naumov, PSU.

The researchers are trying to assess the formation of concentrations of gold and silver inside man-made dumps by controlling the processes of technogeogenesis with minimal impact on the environment.

“It has long been clear that we are moving from an age of abundant mineral resources to an era of increasing scarcity. At the same time, a new type of geological objects (potential deposits) – technogenic-mineral formations – appears on a huge scale. Our approaches allow to develop new nature-like technologies. Based on them, valuable components, such as gold, can be extracted, even from rather scarce deposits,” comments Vladimir Naumov, Director of the Natural Sciences Institute, PSU.

The lectures by Professor Fiorucci cover the following topics (in local Perm and UTC time schedule):
• 20 October (Tuesday), 9:45am (4:45 UTC)- “Basic information”;
• 22 October (Thursday), 1:30pm (8:30 UTC) – “Gas-water solution. Carbon dioxide gas-water solution”;
• 26 October (Monday), 9:45am (4:45 UTC) – “Carbonate equilibrium. Interaction of carbonate rocks with water”;
• 29 October (Thursday), 1:30pm (8:30 UTC) – “Interaction of non-carbonate minerals with water” (first part);
• 29 October (Thursday), 3:15pm (10:15 UTC) – “Interaction of non-carbonate minerals with water” (second part);
• 2 November (Monday), 9:45am (4:45 UTC) – “Saturation Index”;
• 2 November (Monday), 11:30am (6:30 UTC) – “Hydrochemical facies – Piper, Durov and Chebotarev diagrams”;
• 3 November (Tuesday), 9:45am (4:45 UTC) – “Scheller diagram. Ion exchange “;
• 5 November (Thursday), 1:30pm (8:30 UTC) – “The practice of studying groundwater sources in the Piedmont region” (first part);
• 5 November (Thursday), 3:15pm (10:15 UTC) – ” The practice of studying groundwater sources in the Piedmont region” (second part).

The lectures will be run in English. To participate, please send an application to: ksyumovzitova@mail.ru . Before the start of each lecture, you will receive a link for connection.

Visits of foreign researchers within the International Research Groups framework had been launched at PSU since 2012, with the support by the Ministry of Education and Science of Perm Krai. The program provides financial support for research groups consisting of Russian and international scholars working in the relevant areas of physics, chemistry, biotechnology, interdisciplinary research, etc. The Center for Educational and Scientific Exchanges at PSU interacts with those researchers from abroad focusing on current tasks within theory and applied science.

The Polytechnic University of Turin contacts with Perm are majorly based on interaction with the Department of Biogeocenology and Nature Conservation. Among the areas of joint work, with the participation of Professor Adriano Fiorucci, is a professional training in hydro-chemical research using the European Alps as illustration and object of research. Previously, the PSU scholars had been studying the sources of Alpine mineral waters, involving the karst monitoring lab, and studying the Parco naturale Alpi Marittime – Centro faunistico Uomini e Lupi ecosystem. As a result of this collaboration, an agreement was reached on the participation of students of the Polytechnic University of Turin in the Geoecology Summer School, Perm, Urals, Russia.

Want to find more friends and meet Russians, as people from another countries? Anything you would like to share about your culture? May be, to perform?

Since 2018, PSU graduates students started the new tradition of international communication: The WE ARE International Students’ Festival helps international students to integrate into campus life and Perm city events.

The WE ARE Festival in 2020 will take place online, yet, there will be more opportunities for participants! The Festival will run for a month this year, starting on 9 November and Ending on 29 November, 2020.

The WE ARE Festival organizers state:

“We know what an active student body is. We help foreign students to integrate into the student environment and the life of our city.

We organize cultural and educational platforms, where foreign students will present the culture, traditions and native customs of their countries.

Active student life, international acquaintances, new friends from all over the world, a journey around the world, without leaving the campus, all this is the WE ARE Festival!»

The participation is free and most welcomed. Interested? Search for “we_are_festival” in the Russian VK social network and register. Or, drop us a message below this post, and we will be happy to help you contact the organizers!

Learn more about WE ARE here.

Alena Gileva, MA student in International Relations, Department of Political Science, Faculty of History and Political Science PSU, has become a scholarship fellow of the Oxford Russia Fund and the Social Sciences Laboratory (SSL).

At PSU, Alena is also a research fellow at the Centre for Comparative History and Political Studies (ЦСИПИ), performing a research titled “Shifting paradigms: towards participatory and effective urban planning in German, Russia and Ukraine”.

“It was quite unexpected for me to receive this scholarship, and therefore as twice as pleasant. The program allows to get acquainted with researchers in different fields of humanities, as well as collaborate with them on various cases’ solutions. The topics of such cases will be announced later, yet I hope that my contribution will be useful in urban research,” Alena comments.

350 undergraduates and postgraduates had applied for the scholarship. After evaluating applications and interviewing applicants, the panel selected 30 fellows for the 2020-2021 academic year. Alena is the only one representing the Perm Territory. All fellows will receive RUB 40,000 ($500) per month.

The goal of the program is to develop participants’ research interests and ambitions. Online sessions will be held for them throughout the year. The final results will be group projects in political research, sociology, economics, urbanism and law enforcement. The projects’ presentation will take place at the University of Oxford (UK).

The Program Selection Committee includes Viktor Vakhshtein, known sociologist, head of the expert council of the Social Sciences Lab, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Shaninka; Yulia Taranova, director of the Social Sciences Lab, Kirill Martynov, philosopher, political scientist co-founder of Free University; Boris Grozovski, economic observer, author of the EventsAndTexts telegram channel; Nikita Rumyantsev, economist, head of the Moscow Urban Forum analytical center; Ivan Kuryachiy, urbanist, managing partner of the Novaya Zemlya company, researcher at the Higher School of Economics, as well as many more experts in urban research and law enforcement.

A meeting with Mr. Atadurdy Bayramov, Consul General of Turkmenistan in the city of Kazan (Russia), was held at Perm State National Research University (PSU). The meeting was held with the participation of representatives of the Perm Krai government.

The meeting participants discussed cultural and social adaptation of Turkmen students in local Perm life, as well as educational and extra-curriculum opportunities of joining the city and university events.

The conversation was attended by Mr Pavel Blous, PSU Vice-Rector for General Issues, Mr Sergey Makarov, PSU Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, and Mr Vadim Gataulin, Head of International Relations Department, PSU. The Perm territory was represented by Ms Ekaterina Cherepanova, Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Perm krai, and Mr Dmitry Ivanov, Head of the International Relations Department, Protocol and International Relations Department, Government Office, Perm krai.

The main topics of the meeting were the development of educational ties between Perm State University and the universities of Turkmenistan, as well as the regulation of migration issues and the organization of distance learning.

Ekaterina Cherepanova spoke about the possibilities of cooperation with Turkmenistan within the framework of the REC “Rational Subsoil Use”, which includes the Perm University.

“In my experience, we are viewing a rather rare yet rewarding case of a high-rank diplomat eager to solve the issues his countrymen studying away from their homeland. Consul General Atadurdy Bayramov has expressed his strong intention to personally deal with the questions of cooperation and proposals for the development of cultural and academic ties,” comments Vadim Gataulin, Head of International Relations Department, PSU.

Mr Pavel Blous, Vice-Rector for General Affairs, PSU particularly emphasized the role of the Central Asian republics at hosting for WWII evacuees. Mr Sergei Makarov, PSU Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, PSU draw attention to the progress of Turkmen students in their studies and adaptation to university life.

Beyond the official negotiations, Consul General Atadurdy Mr Bayramov met with his compatriots studying at PSU. The diplomat made a speech about the 20th anniversary of the republic’s neutrality policy, emphasizing Turkmenistan’s non-involvement in any military blocs, and readiness to promote academic ties. The Consul General draw Turkmen students’ attention they are regarded as representatives of their country, and noticed the importance of studying the Russian language.

384 students from Turkmenistan are making the largest group of PSU international students, at the moment. Statistically, this is more than 65% of all international students and about 3% of all PSU students, studying at 11 faculties. The most popular programs among Turkmen students are “Pedagogical Education”, “Philology”, “Biology” and “Pharmacy”. Five of them have already won prizes in the city essay competition about Perm in the nomination “Students of the Near Abroad”.

On 15 October, an expert Roundtable “Problems of Adaptation and Social Inclusion of International Students in the Urban Community” was held at Perm State National Research University (PSU), as part of the European Week of Local Democracy. The meeting was attended by representatives of higher educational institutions of Perm and local authorities.

The participants of the Rountable discussed the issues of cultural diversity in international educational space, shared techniques and examples of communication practice with foreign students, both in the university environment and beyond. According to official restrictions, to study at a Russian university, foreign applicants must learn Russian and pass the necessary preparatory exams.

After completing a 10-month preparatory course of Russian language, offered by PSU, foreign applicants may apply to any university in Perm region or Russian Federation. In the process, the course students become more open to new experiences and are less inclined to lock themselves within the same national groups.

An example for a complex yet effective solution to the problem, offered by local universities, are student ‘springs’ and particularly the We Are International Student Festival, initiated by PSU graduates. Frequent are the cases of international students choosing graduate and postgraduate courses for future academic profession; others seek to get a job in international trading companies or return home to run a family business.

A special topic of discussion was a recent Russian law allowing foreign students to get a job in Russia. It is no secret, that many international graduates are looking for opportunities to live and work in Perm. Their integration into the life of the local community is invariably associated with the solution of the ‘enclave’ issue and requires the involvement of city and regional authorities, a dialogue outside campus, and more precisely the joint efforts of universities and the urban community.

The Roundtable participants agreed that areas of foreigners’ accommodation, the newly planned complexes of dormitories should rather stand for the ‘growthpoints’ – a place for cultural dialogue, joint creative projects, promotion of national cuisine and culture – rather than a ‘ghetto’ cliché. This requires an equal participation of Perm citizens – like adopting the idea of a ‘student city’ or a ‘cultural capital’, serving the significance of the entire community.

Several Perm-based universities took part in the Roundtable: Perm State National Research University (PSU), Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, Perm State Agrarian Technological University, as well as representatives of the Youth Parliament of the City of Perm, and the department of international and intermunicipal relations of the Administration of the city of Perm.

In 2020, the slogan of theEuropean Local Democracy Weekis “Local Democracy: Building Confidence!”. The aim of the initiative is to share local governments’ best practices and draw citizens’ attention to the fact that their participation in local affairs is essential to the sustainability of democracy. The detailed information on the events of the European Local Democracy Week and the Council of Europe leaflet with information about the project in Russian can be found at: http://www.congress-eldw.eu/en/page/233-download-leaflet-in-russian.html

Attention!

Dear all, according to PSU Order #651 from 14 October, 2020,

Since Monday, 19 October, part-time and full-time PSU students will completely switch to distance learning.

Those classes requiring the use of laboratory equipment and specialized software will keep to the full-time format.
Please follow the schedule carefully!

Since Thursday 15 October, PSU administration and faculty staff will also switch to part-time or full-time remote work format, upon individual schedules.

Please, ask your questions to PSU International Department for any further clarification: +7 (342) 239-68-58, international@psu.ru

For reference:

The PSU Order #651 from 14 October, 2020 was drawn up with an aim to prevent the spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), following the Order #1133 by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia from 28 August, 2020 “On the organization of the beginning of the 2020/21 academic year in organizations subordinate to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation in the context of preventing the spread new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) on the territory of the Russian Federation” and the Decree#121 by the Governor of the Perm Territory from 20 August, 2020 (as amended on 2 October, 2020) “On measures taken in connection with the threat of the spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID 19) in the Perm region”.

On 8 October, Perm hosted a City Conference with International Participation “Perm-Oxford 2020: the Angles of Cooperation”. The online broadcast brought together 126 people in real time, both from Russian and British parties. 28 speakers presented 11 reports in Russian and 13 reports in English on cooperation in education, culture, medicine, public contacts and information exchange.

The Conference organizes included Perm City Administration, the Department of Literatures in the Languages of the World, A.M. Gorky Perm Regional Library, the Faculty of Modern Foreign Languages and Literature, Perm State National Research University (PSU), Perm English Language Teachers’ Association, PROO SRK “House of Friendship”.

On behalf the British Consulate in Yekaterinburg, Ms Judy Kpogho, Deputy Consul General, provided her greetings to the Conference participants. In her welcoming speech, Ms Tatyana Grigorieva, Head of the Department of International and Intermunicipal Relations, Administration of the city of Perm, emphasized the long tradition of people-to-people relations, and the variety of contacts with twin cities of Perm. In particular, she recalled the fruitful collaboration for the “Contribution to Victory” last spring 2020. “Every project we start with Oxford provides a boost for further initiatives and their fruitful implementations”, Ms Tatyana Grigorieva stated.

“The idea of an exhibition in collaboration with the twin cities representing the war allies  arose in the close of 2019 and was enthusiastically supported by all partners, Ms Tatyana Grigorieva said. – Regardless the difficult conditions of COVID-19 lockdown, the «Sister Cities of Louisville» and Louisville University Archive,  Oxford-Perm Association, Oxfordshire History Centre, Oxford City Council members and staff united their efforts for a successful collaborationwith Perm City Archive.”  PSU students had successfully contributed to the exhibition, and it is Ms Tatyana Grigorieva who acts as a tutor for their internships and projects with the Administration.

The initial contact between Oxford University and PSU happened in the late 1980s, shortly before the fall of the Iron Curtain. The academic link with PSU was built in the first place by Mrs Karen Hewitt and Dr. Boris Proskurnin. Mrs Karen Hewitt is a holder of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for establishing academic and cultural links with Russia, a major specialist in British literature, tutor at Oxford University, Honorary Professor at PSU, and active member of the Oxford-Perm Association.

“In 1989, I came to Perm at a very strange time, when Perm used to be a closed city. And it was a sudden change in the law, which allowed foreigners to come here. I was the first one to work in Perm, and I worked at Perm State University for 6 weeks, during which time I learned to love Perm and its people. At the end of my time, the rector of the University Vladimir Vladimirovich Malanin asked me if I could make any kind of connection with Oxford, because they needed international contacts,” Mrs Karen Hewitt recalls.

“I rushed back to Oxford and told them about the exciting time I had had, and it was easy to make an agreement between the two universities. And since then, for thirty years people have been going backwards and forwards: professors, teachers, postgraduate students, every year, until a last one with the pandemic, Mrs Karen Hewitt states. – But it wasn’t just the University. Very quickly, there were people in Oxford who were asking about voluntary and charitably activities in Perm, and were invited to Perm to find out what was going on with the disabled society, with the deaf society and with the hospice. All kinds of exchanges have come out of that, and it is a very wide and important part of our work…”

In his speech of response, Mr Vadim Gataulin, Head of International Department, PSU, mentioned that for the last 15 years, Ms Karen Hewitt’s activities in Russia have been connected with the Oxford-Russia Fund, allowing to organize annual seminars on contemporary English literature.  The non-profit Oxford-Russia Fund was established in 2005 by the graduates of the University of Oxford looking for an effective way to support promising Russian students and postgraduates in a broad variety of humanities and arts.

Due to her chairmanship in the Oxford-Russia Association Committee, Ms Karen Hewitt and her British colleagues have been long assisting the academic exchange visits between the researchers of the University of Oxford and postdocs of PSU, for three decades already. The outstanding feature of such visits is its homestay character, allowing scholars to enjoy the local family life style as well as learn about the British academic environment and social life from within. “Not only did it change the teaching of English language and literature here, but also irreversibly transformed the academic culture of the whole University,” Mr Vadim Gataulin acknowledged, on behalf of PSU.

Representing Oxford, warm and welcoming speeches, including those fond memories of exchange, were given by Ms Chris Cowley, the Treasurer of the Oxford Perm Association Committee, Ms Liz Wheate, the Membership Secretary of the Oxford Perm Association Committee, Ms May Wylie, the International Links Ex-Officer for Oxford City Council, Ms Angela Charlton, the International Links Officer for Oxford City Council, Mr Bob Price, former leader of Oxford City Council, and MrTim Sadler, Executive Director for Community Services, Oxford City Council.

The session was marked by a variety of presentations, project descriptions, ideas and questions. Particularly, one of the latter was about a significant difference between Perm and Oxford students. Responding the question, Ms Karen Hewitt said: “Oxford is the oldest university in Britain, and it is one which receives people who have passed very high academic tests. It’s not easy to get into Oxford. One of the consequences is that people come from all over the country. (I’m leaving aside international students). And, it’s not easy for students here to feel it’s their city, their region, like it happens among most Russian students in Perm.” Hence the difference.

“However, what did happen, when we had the students from Oxford going on these internships, they rapidly discovered the charms and wonders of feeling that Perm is a very specific place with a very specific culture which we are enjoying. We are not just enjoying biology, chemistry or geology, or the teachers, we are enjoying that this is Perm. Now, Oxford is a very beautiful city, but I don’t think that the students have that quite sense. And, while they feel they belong to the University, it’s not so much about the sense of the city and the region,” admitted Ms Karen Hewitt.

To remind, in 2019, the University of Oxford granted PSU the Gold Standard Internship Host sign. For seven years, Perm University has been hosting for numerous visits of Oxford students. PSU is confidently competing with leading Russian and world universities – in terms of providing high quality summer courses. In order to claim for the Oxford reward, the University had to meet a variety of criteria, including the quality of feedback from the students, provision of resources for interns, and the total duration of participation in the summer educational programs.

In 2018, the Memorandum of Understanding for a new 10-year period was officially signed by the former PSU rector Dr. Igor Makarikhin, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Dr. Robert Easton on behalf of the University of Oxford. “Thanks to cooperation between our Universities, a Twin Cities link was established between Oxford and Perm. We have enjoyed a series of successful projects with our Oxford colleagues, including the annual seminar in Modern British Literature, and the Victorian Center, established at PSU,” stated PSU Rector’s Office.

Taking into consideration the younger voices of the Conference, including students and schoolchildren, supported by state institutions and NGOs,it might be stated that the future positive projects and collaborations of Perm, PSU and Oxford are yet to come.

“Perm-Oxford 2020: the Angles of Cooperation” Conference Video and Pictures Source

Interested in hi-tech and programming? Love computers, and your friends share your interests? Looking for newer professional prospects and job opportunities?

If you ever been able to write a program like “multiply two numbers” in any language – Pascal, Python, C ++, Java, C #, etc., well, then you can pass at least one task of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)!

Come together as a team of three people and register before October 9: https://sp.urfu.ru/qf/2020/qual/

Teams are allowed to work distantly and individually, using a separate computer for each of the participants. For more details, please read the rules on the official NERC website: http://nerc.itmo.ru/information/contest-rules-2020.html

The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), is an annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among the universities of the world. Headquartered at Baylor University, the ICPC operates autonomous regional contests covering six continents culminating in a global World Finals every year.

At the programming competitions, the students have to write a program code to solve complex algorithmic problems and hone teamwork skills within limited resources and time: a computer and a set of tasks that need to be solved in 5 hours.

Upon the results, the teams passing the 1/8 qualification will move on to the Contest quarter finals.

In 2019, PSU programmers entered the ICPC World Semi-Finals (1/2), held in St. Petersburg (Russia).”At the Semi-Finals in 2019, we managed to show a better result, compared to 2018. We almost reached the Finals, but missed a bit, one task, to be exact. Now that we have a better understanding what could be improved to successfully perform in the future,”

says Mikhail Lizunov, PSU teams coach.

In 2018, 302 teams from Russia and the CIS countries have participated in the Northern Eurasia Finals, 16 of which reached the final of the World Cup. The city of Perm was represented by 7 teams in the semi-finals: three teams from PSU, two teams from HSE Perm, and two teams from Perm National Research Polytechnic University.

The support of PSU teams was provided by PARMA Technologies Group and BIONT. Previously, in December 2019, the Bagels team (PSU) had topped in Programming Tops ICPC 2019-2020 Quarterfinals.

About ICPC

By its mission, the ICPC is an extra-curricular, competitive programming sport for students at universities around the world. ICPC competitions provide gifted students opportunities to interact, demonstrate, and improve their teamwork, programming, and problem-solving process.

The ICPC is a global platform for academia, industry, and community to shine the spotlight on and raise the aspirations of the next generation of computing professionals as they pursue excellence.

ICPC contests are team competitions. Current rules stipulate that each team consist of three students. Participants must be university students, who have had less than five years of university education before the contest. Students who have previously competed in two World Finals or five regional competitions are ineligible to compete again.

During each contest, the teams of three are given 5 hours to solve between eight and fifteen programming problems (with eight typical for regionals and twelve for finals). They must submit solutions as programs in C, C++, Java, Ada, Python, or Kotlin.

For further info, please, see: https://icpc.baylor.edu/

The Conference was organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Perm Territory, Perm State National Research University (PSU), Perm City Administration, Perm Society for Friendship with China, with a wide participation of students, local sinologists and orientalists. The first day was also marked by informal reports on Chinese ‘footprints’ in Perm history, as well as a real tea ceremony, a workshop in calligraphy and classes of Chinese language.

The conference was opened by Sergey Sanakoev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society, President of the Asian Pacific Region (APR) Research Center, Head of the Russian-Chinese Analytical Center. In his opening speech, Sergei Sanakoev provided a brief yet deep review of the Russian-Chinese relations in the new era, observing the key issues of modern politics, economics and healthcare.

Dmitry Ivanov, Head of International Relations Department, Department of Protocol and International Relations of the Government Office of the Perm Territory, spoke about the development of partnerships between Perm region and Chinese provinces, Jiangxi and Anhui, in particular. Dmitry Ivanov mentioned the growing exchange of business contacts following annual reciprocal visits.

According to Boris Kondakov, Dean of the Faculty of Philology, “the main purpose of the conference was to discuss topical issues of teaching Chinese language and culture, locally – expanding academic and cultural ties between China and the Perm Territory. Moreover, in 2020, the Conference has become an attraction for sinologists from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Yekaterinburg, Kazan and Moscow. “

“The anniversary serves a summing up mark of the work done earlier – forming a good practice and showing prospects for future activity,” says Mikhail Kamenskikh, Associate Professor of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Philology of PSU, Chairman of the Perm Society Friendship with China. – In 2020, the conference for the first time stepped outside one university. With a recognition and support by the local authorities, we managed to invite scholars from other cities of Russia, as well as attract Chinese participants for participation. ” Vadim Gataulin, Head of PSU International Department of Perm State National Research University, spoke about the strategy for developing relations with Chinese universities, stressing the fruitful cooperation with Shandong University (山東 大學, Jinan Province, China). The majority of international students come to Perm University from China. Here, the Chinese traditionally study Russian as a foreign language, as well as the history of Russian culture and literature.

Vadim Gataulin emphasized that the number of students enrolled in graduate and post-graduate program is increasing. New linguistic programs will be implemented by PSU Faculty of Philology in the 2020/21 academic year. The inclusion of the exact sciences in the list of disciplines studied, as well as teaching in English will give a new vector in the development of relations between Perm State National Research University and Chinese universities.

Philology served the connecting thread for the Conference. In their reports, Russian researchers concentrated on linguistic approach, psycholinguistic experiments and building vocabularies. Some reports considered cultural phenomena, to mention tea traditions, vision of nature and poetry. Chinese students proved to be interested in Russian literature, while some pieces of writing had been connected to Harbin and Shanghai emigration.

Song Tianyao, PhD student at the Faculty of Philology, PSU, admits that the military theme in art helps her better understand both the Russian and recognize the common human value of life. “My interest in the military theme woke up since childhood, after watching Soviet films,” recalls Song Tianyao. “There were several wars in the history of China in the 20th century: the Anti-Japanese (aka World War II), campaign, the military conflicts during the Cultural Revolution, and the Sino-Vietnamese war… So, as the military theme somehow responds our minds and memories, we tend to value those best examples of the war literature, of which the Soviet and Russian are the best. “As a reminder, in summer 2020 PSU signed two new agreements on the implementation of the double degree program with Shandong Agricultural University and Shandong first Medical University. It is noteworthy that this interaction goes beyond the usual exchanges: “In addition to academic exchange programs, students from China come to study with us on a contract basis, which opens up new opportunities for us,” Vadim Gataulin, Head of PSU International Department, comments.

Further contacts with the Shandong Agricultural University, according to the forecasts of the PSU Department of International Relations, will make it possible to obtain international certification at the Ministry of Education. People’s Republic of China. Note that in July 2020, the official opening of a Service Center for applicants took place in Shandong (China), which is a political, economic, cultural, technological, educational and financial center and transportation hub of the province.