RUDN discusses prospects for expanding cooperation with Lebanese State University
During the working meetings, the parties noted the successful experience of joint work, especially more than 200 Lebanese students studying in the Center for Russian Language and Pre-University Training successfully operating at the Lebanese State University.
Another perspective direction is the promotion of student academic mobility programs. In 2017, more than 25 students from the University of Lebanon were trained in the program of the summer school of RUDN Agrarian and Technological Institute. In early 2018, a group of RUDN students studied Arabic at the University of Lebanon, and already in the near future 50 Lebanese students are supposed to come to RUDN summer schools.
During the visit, the delegation met with the administration of RUDN Philological Faculty, the Institute of Hospitality and Tourism and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences confirming their intention to further deepen cooperation, develop and implement joint projects and signing three working programs of cooperation envisaging opening dual-degrees programs.
RUDN Vice-Rector for International Affairs Larisa Efremova emphasized that cooperation with the Lebanese State University is of strategic importance for the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in the context of creating a regional educational cluster in the Middle East and North Africa.
RUDN University is to train 100 specialists in Agronomy and Ecology for Ghana at the request of its industrial partner, the Jospong Group, which unites 60 companies. The number of trained personnel will amount to over 600 within 5 years. The fields of study which are of interest to the partner include Agronomy, Information Technology, Applied Nature Management, Ecology. The company is ready to pay for travel, accommodation and scholarships for these students. RUDN University will accept students within preferential rights.
The delegation of the Republic of The Gambia led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Mamadou Tangara visited the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. Members of the delegation met with Rector Oleg Yastrebov and the staff of the Agricultural and Technological Institute of RUDN University, went on a tour of biotechnological laboratories and a laboratory for studying soils chemical composition and properties.
January 10–11, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia received a delegation from Ibn Haldun University (Turkey), the parties holding negotiations on expanding scientific and academic cooperation in the humanitarian areas.