ROSCOSMOS and RUDN University. Cooperation agreement
July 28, 2016, Roscosmos state corporation and RUDN University signed an agreement on long term strategic cooperation.
July 28, 2016, Roscosmos state corporation and RUDN University signed an agreement on long term strategic cooperation. Igor Komarov, Roscosmos General Director met Vladimir Filippov, RUDN Rector and Alexander Chursin, Director of RUDN Institute of Space Technologies to discuss joint plans, training staff for Roscosmos and involving RUDN researchers and academics in Roscosmos programs.
The plan will be realized by RUDN Institute of Space Technologies created in 2013 for fulfilling Roscosmos research, education and foreign economic activity tasks.
Roscosmos and RUDN are planning to create forecast methodology of strategic directions of innovation development and assessment of the world market of space production.
The parties coordinated RUDN and Roscosmos joint plan for 2016-2017 and appointed responsible persons. They also discussed plans of developing the International Marketing Center set up by Roscosmos and RUDN University. Heads of Roscosmos and RUDN also agreed on continuing work with TsNIIMASH, Agat organization and Tekhnomash- companies doing joint research with RUDN University.
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).