Russian federation cooperation profile

VSU offers academic programmes at all levels including bachelor, master, graduate and post-graduate courses, post-doctoral studies, as well as continued learning. About 21,000 students including 1000 foreign students are taught by 1,700 academic staff, including 292 professors. There are 76 domains for post-graduate and 7 academic domains for post-doctoral research, 23 Scientific Boards for public thesis defense work at the VSU. International students are taught and guided by the Institute of International Education. At present VSU is actively modernising its academic models in line with the principles of the "Bologna process".

The university extensively uses teaching quality management and student academic progress monitoring. Innovative teaching technologies are widely used at VSU.

Research is carried out under 28 major thematic priorities where several directions belong to nanosystems, nanotechnologies and nanomaterials.

The university has prepared more than 100 thousands of professionals. There is a Nobel Prize winner (academician Pavel Cherenkov), winners of the state prizes of Russia, academicians, ministers, prominent scientists, and cultural leaders among the VSU graduates.

Long-term scientific and educational international cooperation is based upon direct agreements with 92 universities and research institutes of the world. (More information about university: www.vsu.ru)

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  17 faculties:
  
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  Applied Mathematics, Computer Sciences and Mechanics;
  
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  Biology and Soil Science;
  
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  Chemistry;
  
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  Computer Sciences;
  
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  Economics;
  
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  Geography, Geo-ecology and Tourism;
  
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  Geology;
  
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  History;
  
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  International Relations;
  
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  Journalism;
  
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  Law;
  
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  Mathematics;
  
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  Pharmaceutics;
  
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  Philology;
  
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  Philosophy and Psychology;
  
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  Physics;
  
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  Romance and Germanic Philology.
  
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    5 research institutes
    
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    14 joint laboratories with the Russian Academy of Siences
    
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    10 joint research and production centers with the key industrial enterprises of the region
    
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    the Centre of Nanosistem and Material industry
    
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    Technopark
    
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    Botanical Garden
    
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    Nature reserve Galichya Gora
    

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   JEP 10094-95 “University Management and international activities management on the level of department institution, and region” (1994-1995)
   
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   T017B05-2005 “Europe – Russia Network for European Projects Experience Dissemination EURUSNET-2000” (2001-2002)
   
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   T017B05-2005 “Lifelong learning support structures for SME Management” (2005-2006)
   
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   JEP-27131-2006 “Advanced Master Degree Programme in Public Administration” (2006-2008)
   
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   159025 TEMPUS-FR-TEMPUS-JPCR «Reseau Europe-Russia-Asie Centrale de Masters «Informatique Seconde Competence» (2010-2013)
   
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   516857-TEMPUS-1-2011-1-SETEMPUS-JPCR “Internationalized Curricula Advancement at Russian Universities in the Southern region” (2011-2014)
   
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   530397-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-SK-TEMPUS-SMHES «Strengthening the Lifelong Learning in Environmental Sciences in Russia» (2012-2015)
   
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   530644-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-ES-TEMPUS-JPCR «HUMAN Security (environment, quality of food, public health and society) on Territories Contaminated by Radioactive Agents» (2012-2015)
   

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   INCO-SSA project RegionERA «Regional Network for Support of S&T Cooperation between European Union and Russian Regions» (2006-2008) - coordinator
   

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   CSA-SA project E-URAL “European Union and Russia Link for S&T co-operation in the area of the Environment” (2009-2012)
   
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   CP-SICA project SUST-RUS – Spatial-economic-ecological model for the assessment of sustainability policies of Russian Federation (2009-2011)
   
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   FP7 INCO.2012-2.1 «BILAT-RUS Advanced - Advancement of the bilateral Partnership in scientific Research and Innovation with the Russian Federation» (2012-2015)
   
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   «ECONANOSORB - Ecological Application of nanosorbents on the case of natural and synthetic ionites and carbons» (2012-2016)
   

At present RIC is a part of the VSU Centre for international programmes and projects.

Its staff members are experts in international project management, including the following experience:

The debut in FPs was in 2006 when RIC has become the first Russian regional (not from Moscow or Saint-Petersburg) coordinator of FP6 INCO-SSA project RegionERA «Regional Network for Support of S&T Cooperation between European Union and Russian Regions» (2006-2008). The Centre was the key Russian partner of FP7 project E-URAL “European Union and Russia Link for S&T co-operation in the area of the Environment” (2009-2011) and at present it is a partner in BILAT-RUS-Advanced project “Enhancing the bilateral S&T Partnership with the Russian Federation” (2012-2015).

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  Awareness raising, information and advising support of Russian universities and research centers in S&T cooperation with the EU:
  

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  web-portal “EU-Russia S&T cooperation information support system” (http://www.ric.vsu.ru). At present it is a well-known source of information on EU funding programmes among Russian academic and research community.
  
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  Newsletter “Grants and conferences” (twice a month) and e-alerts (twice a week). Number of group (collective) and personal subscribers is over 950 including 216 organisations from 37 Russian regions and 8 other NIS countries.
  
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  Organisation and carrying out of Information days, workshops, round tables, presentations of FP7, other European programmes, Russian regional research potential.
  

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  Training activities in proposal writing and project management:
  

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  RIC carried out more than 30 training workshops in different Russian cities (Voronezh, Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi, Yekaterinburg, Arkhangelsk, Obninsk, Barnaul, Penza, Perm, Krasnodar, Nizhnevartovsk and other). Some of them were held in collaboration with the Delegation of the EU in Russia, APRE (Italy) and FORTH (Greece).
  
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  Guidelines on FP7 for Russian participants in Russian language (the first edition – 2008; second revised and extended edition - 2009, 156 pp. ©RIC VSU).
  
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  Several guidelines highlighting different aspects of cooperation both for Russian and EU researchers, guidelines on International staff exchange scheme in FP7.
  
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  The Centre regularly carries out qualification courses based on approved and certified retraining programme “Commercialization of intellectual property. International scientific and technological cooperation” developed by RIC  for researchers, academic staff and entrepreneurs.
  

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  Opening of Russian research potential to European research community and assistance in consortium building:
  

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  On-line database “Partner offer profiles of Russian researchers” in Russian and English languages that includes 291 partner offers from 35 Russian regions.
  
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  Wide dissemination of Russian partner offers among European Info Centres.
  
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  Individual partner search with tailor-made approach.
  

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  Advise and consultation
  

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  Modernisation of curricula with 3 cycle structure adopting European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) and degree recognition) in the priority academic fields
  
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  Development of study programmes with a double degree
  
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  Establishment of diploma recognition system
  

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  Economics
  
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  Ecology
  
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  International Relations
  
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  Mathematics and Computer Science
  
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  Translation and Interpreting Studies and Training
  
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  International and European law
  

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  Creation of accomplished complex “market necessities - education services – research products - enterprise”
  
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  Competences correlation – from market necessities to curricular modernization
  
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  Adaptation of career development system to economics necessities
  

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  Modernisation of study programmes and Lifelong Learning programmes
  

Graduates of the Faculty get Bachelor’s and Master’s diplomas and can choose Management, Economics or Statistics as their major. The Faculty also houses a Business School and an Educational Centre training accountants, financial managers and auditors. The President’s Programme for administrative personnel to work at national economy enterprises is also under way.

The Faculty cooperates with the University of Bremen; the University of Paderborn; the University of Halle-Wittenberg; the National University of Ireland; the University of Macedonia, Economic and Social Sciences; Kent State University; the University of Tartu; Qingdao University of Science and Technology; the National University of Tajikistan, and others.

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  "Business Consulting" (Training Program project "Tacis")
  
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  "Partnership of Kent State University and a consortium of Russian Universities from Tver, Volgograd and Voronezh in business education" (in the framework of USIA “CIS Colleagues and University Partnership"),
  
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  "Corporate Management" (Schulich School of Business at York University, Toronto, Canada)
  

The faculty has been striving towards creating a system of multilevel education, including pre-university, Bachelor’s, Master’s and Specialist degree programs, post-graduate and post-doctoral programs and professional development courses. In compliance with the latest academic standards, the faculty offers the following programs: “Theory and Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages and Cultures” (English, German, Spanish, French and Italian), “Theory and Practice of Translation”, “Theoretical and Applied Linguistics”, “Bachelor of Linguistics”, “Bachelor of Philology”, and “Master of Philology.”

The faculty is comprised of two departments: the Department of International Relations and Regional Studies and the Department of International Economics and Foreign Economic Affairs.

The teaching staff is comprised of 40 members, including 6 Professors and 10 Associate Professors. Fifteen members of the staff have Candidate degrees (PhD). The faculty currently enrolls 790 students, including 40 international students.

The students of the faculty specialize in international relations, international economics and regional studies focusing on the EU and North American countries. The faculty also offers Master’s degree programs in European Studies.

The students are required to study two European languages with the choices of English, Italian, German, Spanish and French. The faculty also offers an optional course in the Chinese language.

In the field tourism the department offers the following study programmes:

On the Specialist and Bachelor levels: “World Tourism Economy” Specialization («World Economy» major)

Subjects: History of international tourism and hotel industry, Tourist market economy, International tourism economy and organization, World hotel industry, Tour operation and tour agent services and their organization, Tourism ethics, Advertising in tourism.

The faculty is comprised of 11 departments, a resource centre and a forensics laboratory. The faculty currently enrolls 4,000 full-time and part-time students. The academic staff of the faculty is comprised of 21 professors and over 70 PhDs (Candidates of Law). The faculty publishes 14 periodicals such as the law series.

The faculty cooperates with foreign universities and research institutes from the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Kazakhstan and Belarus.

The faculty is famous both in Russia and abroad for its research teams in various areas of law, including constitutional law, administrative law, financial law, civil law and criminology.

The Faculty offers undergraduate and graduate degree courses as well as a wide range of post-graduate research programmes in the areas of demography, ecology, landscape geography, paleogeography, regional studies and tourism and successfully practices integrated teaching methods and techniques, focusing on applied aspects of training programmes.

The Faculty’s international community includes students from Africa, South America and Europe. It collaborates in teaching and research with universities in Germany and Great Britain.

The Faculty carries out complex researches on studying ecology of cities of the Central Russia, and Voronezh serves as a base city for modelling calculations. Researches address such problems as risk assessment of the population health connected with a condition of the city environment; the analysis of ecologically caused diseases of the population in view of factors of a microclimate and pollution of air pool of megacities; defining zones of ecological risk and geoinformation mapping of medico-ecological situations. Results of researches are used in teaching courses «Human Ecology», «Technogenic systems and ecological risk», "Ecological monitoring". The GGT Faculty is involved in the TEMPUS project 530644-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-ES-TEMPUS-JPCR «HUMAN Security (environment, quality of food, public health and society) on Territories Contaminated by Radioactive Agents» (2012-2015).

Centre for international programmes and projects, Voronezh State University