Education & training

MIT and Skolkovo to develop joint research university in Moscow

November 1, 2011

A three-year collaboration program for the development of a graduate level research university was signed last week in Moscow by MIT President Susan Hockfield and Skolkovo Foundation President Viktor Vekselberg. The new institution will be located in Skolkovo, the state sponsored innovation hub under completion near Moscow. The university, named Skolkovo Institute for Science and …

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Sitronics increases its presence on the Indian market

October 21, 2011

Leading Russian microelectronic device maker Sitronics signed a commercial agreement earlier this week with Tech Mahindra, a major provider of solutions and services to the telecom industry. Tech Mahindra will promote the OSS/BSS-solutions of Sitronics India on the local market and may participate in the Russian company’s R&D programs, Sitronics announced. Sitronics has also set up a …

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Microsoft and 1S to develop cloud projects with Rostelecom

September 21, 2011

Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom, US software giant Microsoft, and top Russian enterprise software publisher 1S signed agreements to jointly develop cloud computing projects. Appointed in March by the Russian government to develop a national cloud computing platform by 2015, Rostelecom announced its intention to invest more than ten billion rubles (approximately $357 million) into …

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US tablet may be granted a second life in Russian schools

August 26, 2011

Last week, Anatoly Chubais, Chairman of the Board of Rusnano, presented Russian PM Vladimir Putin with an e-reader prototype from Plastic Logic, a world leader in plastics electronics, reported news agency RIA Novosti. If current tests being held in some Russian schools are successful, the tablet could be used on a massive scale in the …

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IBM to create academic competence center for intelligent transportation systems

March 2, 2017

The Moscow State Automobile and Road Technical University (MADI) and the Scientific Center for Complex Transportation Problems of the Ministry of Transport have reached an agreement with IBM for the creation of an academic competence center dedicated to IBM solutions in the area of intelligent transportation systems.

Rusnano and Intel hold innovation entrepreneurship training school in Izhevsk

June 8, 2011

Russia’s state-own nanotechnology corporation Rusnano and US technology company Intel have opened a training school “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in High Technologies Sector” in Izhevsk, Republic of Udmurtia, Rusnano reports. The three-day training goal is to teach innovation entrepreneurship, project management and key aspects of creating scientific goods and services in demand to local specialists.

Stanford students to study Russian telematics success story

June 6, 2011

Russian Navigation Technologies (RNT) announced last week that the story of its formation and growth has been included as a business case study at Stanford and a number of other US universities. RNT is Russia’s largest manufacturer and integrator of telematics systems and a leader on the Russian fleet management systems market. Its Auto Tracker …

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Intel and Nizhny Novgorod University launch joint training center

April 23, 2011

Intel and Nizhny Novgorod University launched a training center for Intel software support this week. The center will broaden the scope of the university programs and ensure the certification of personnel, particularly in the areas of parallelism, high performance computing and mobile applications, Telecom Daily reported.

Chuvashia to spend $63 million on high-tech professional education

March 2, 2011

Authorities in the Republic of Chuvashia have announced plans to allocate $63 million to finance a profession education system development program. Under the program, the funds are to be used to set up a chain of modern centers to train professional specialists for high-tech innovation businesses.

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