Cooperation with Guyana on top-priority directions
Rafael Trotman, minister for natural resources, and David Paterson, minister for public infrastructure from Guyana arrived at RUDN on October 18.
The agenda of the meeting included the following issues:
The agenda of the meeting included the following issues:
-training of skilled workers for national economy of Guyana on strategic areas, such as: mining, oil and gas engineering, ecology and natural resource use.
-possibility to study in RUDN for target groups of students from Guyana;
- enhancement of cooperation between the Public University of Guyana and Agrarian Technological institute of RUDN University;
- joint effort with Ecological Faculty of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia on the international project “Days of ecology”. The main goal of the project is visiting partner –countries by head academics of RUDN to share experiences in the area of ecological safety and sending students to study ecology in RUDN.
The delegation from Guyana visited the laboratories of RUDN Agrarian-Technological Institute, the Shared Research and Educational Center and RUDN Institute of Space Technologies, learned about technical abilities and opportunities of the university and latest scientific developments.
The representatives from Guyana showed interest in presented academic programs and offers to cooperate, highlighting their willing to continue to strengthen their relationships with Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia.
The new list of federal innovation sites (FIS) of the Russian Federation includes 30 new organizations. Among them is the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. This became possible thanks to the development of the Digital Preparatory Faculty of RUDN University.
RUDN rose to the 26th position in the UI GreenMetric 2022 ranking and confirmed the status of the “greenest” university in Russia. The ranking includes 1,050 world universities, of which 52 are Russian.
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia is represented in all 16 subject rankings and in five out of six subject profiles of the Expert Analytical Center ranking. RUDN University showed the best results in the following areas: “Ecology” and “Agriculture and Biological Sciences” — 1st place. “Mathematics”, “Chemistry”, “Artificial Intelligence”, “Renewable Energy” are in the TOP — 5 subject ranking. In total, 152 universities were ranked in 2022 (137 in 2021).