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Imagine a world where everyone has enough food, clean water, access to education, and decent work. A world where people protect nature and care for the future of our planet. This is precisely what the Sustainable Development Goals are about — building a sustainable future for all! To this end, in 2015, the United Nations (UN) defined 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are a global plan that helps countries and people work together towards a better future. 193 UN member states have joined this initiative.
Imagine you need to measure a speck of dust that is a thousand times thinner than a human hair. Moreover, the speck does not stay still but moves chaotically in a liquid. This is exactly the task that pharmacists face every day when controlling the quality of modern medicines. And now - for the first time in Russia - they will have a single, legally approved recipe for such a measurement.
The RUDN Prize for Scientific Achievements in Chemistry for 2025, with a monetary award of 2 million rubles, was awarded to Alexander Davidovich Dilman, Deputy Director of the N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The researcher received the award during the celebration marking RUDN’s 66th anniversary.
At RUDN University, New Year comes twice. On the eve, its walls were filled with music, bright colors, and festive buzz. This time in honor of the upcoming Year of the Horse according to the lunar calendar.
In honor of the 66th anniversary of our university, 95 diplomats from 60 countries gathered in its walls. At the round table “All flags at RUDN”, the university presented a new educational course and talked about other programs and study opportunities at the university for foreign citizens.
More than 13,000 international students study at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba. We deeply value the continuous support and assistance provided to our students by embassies and diplomatic missions in Russia. In celebration of the University’s anniversary, and as a token of appreciation for this support, we are pleased to offer a special gift — a special online Russian language course for staff of diplomatic missions.
A delegation from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, led by Patrice Lumumba's daughter Juliana, paid another visit to RUDN University. This time, Patrice's grandson, Kahi Lumumba, was among the honored guests of our university.
RUDN University, together with the rest of the world, is already almost on the threshold of the new year, 2026. Looking back on the past year, there is much to remember and be proud of. Here are some of the university's achievements in quotes.
More than 500 experts from 77 countries discussed the best practices and methods of designing inclusive education at RUDN University. The international scientific and practical conference “Current Problems of Inclusive Education in the world: Context, Policy and practice” was held with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO.
Since 2021, RUDN University has implemented a grant support system for young scientists and research teams. During this time, 247 teams from various institutes and faculties have participated, including some from outside our university.
Training qualified foreign specialists, educational strategies, collaborations, digital technologies and much more were discussed during the II International Educational Forum at RUDN University. The event brought together more than 1,000 participants and 300 speakers from 40 countries, including representatives of government, scientific organizations and businesses, as well as rectors of leading universities. This time, the focus was on cooperation with partners from the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific region and Africa.
A delegation of specialists from Ghana came to RUDN University to study waste management and the circular economy, urban ecosystem services, public utilities, and digital municipal management. The classes were held at the Center for Continuing Professional Education of the RUDN Institute of Ecology.