«We need not only volunteers but young lawyers, doctors, interpreters and diplomats», says Mr Miguel Angel Villarroel Sierraalta, Vice-President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
The event was opened by RUDN Vice-Rector for continuing education A.Dolzhikova, who said that migration today influences political landscape of countries and continents. Miguel Villarroel, Vice-President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) noted the importance of RUDN students and staff’s readiness to help experts solve various problems in work with migrants.
Professor Aslan Abashidze, Head of RUDN Department of international law noted that we should stream forced migrants into categories to solve global security problems and improve the situation in a number of countries – Nepal, Somalia and Bangladesh. Young researchers from PUDN presented results of their work on interregional cooperation in Africa, Asia, problems of children-migrants etc.
Among key aims of the round table are efforts collaboration and exchange of experience. One of the outcomes was the invitation of associate professor A.Pokrovskaya to Italy to participate at the Forum on antibiotics and hospital infections.
Mr. Villarroel delivered a lecture «The activity of Red Cross and Red Crescent in the context of humanitarian challenges. Strategic approaches in migration».
15 volunteers, students of the Department of international law helped at the round table with participation of more than 40 Russian and foreign experts on migration. The event is considered to have serious economic, scientific and cultural potential.
10 profile officers of the Korle Klottey Municipal Assembly from the city of Accra (Ghana) are being trained at the school "Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy" of the Institute of Environmental Engineering of RUDN University.
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.