Petrozavodsk State University Karelia Russia International Days 2010

Petrozavodsk State University Karelia, Russia International Days 2010 – Technology and Communication University of Applied Sciences, Vaasa, Finland March 15 -18, 2010 Anastasia Kuznetsova akuznetsova@psu. karelia. ru Natalia Kravchenkova kravchenkova@psu. karelia. ru

The Russian Federation General Information • Northern Eurasia • The largest country in the world - 17, 075, 400 sq km • 11 time zones • Borders: Finland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, the Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, North Korea, Japan, the USA • 142 million of people • A multi-ethnic country: Russians – 79. 8%, Tatars – 3. 8%, Ukrainians – 2%, Bashkirs – 1. 2%, Chuvash – 1. 1%, Chechen – 0. 9%, Armenians – 0. 8%, other – 10. 4%

The Russian Federation History • Rurik Dynasty (Novgorod) – 862 AD • Kievan Rus’ – 882 • The Vladimir-Suzdal Principality – 1169 • The Grand Duchy of Moscow – 1283 • The Tsardom of Russia – 1547 • The Russian Empire – 1721

The Russian Federation History • The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic – 7 November 1917 • The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the USSR) – 10 December 1922 • The Russian Federation – 26 December 1991

The Russian Federation Government and Politics • Federal semi-presidential democratic republic • 83 federal subjects • Capital – Moscow • The President – Dmitriy Medvedev (since May, 2008) • The Prime Minister – Vladimir Putin

The Russian Federation Government and Politics Legislature The Federal Assembly: • The Lower House – the State Duma (450 members) • The Upper House – the Federation Council (176 members) Leading political parties: United Russia, the Communist Party, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Fair Russia.

The Russian Federation Government and Politics 83 federal subjects: • 46 oblasts (provinces) • 21 republics (nominally autonomous) • 9 krais (territories) • 4 autonomous okrugs (autonomous districts) • 1 autonomous oblast (the Jewish Autonomous Oblast) • 2 federal cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) 2 delegates each in the Federation Council. 8 federal districts, each administered by an envoy appointed by the President.

The Russian Federation People and Languages • 160 ethnic groups and indigenous peoples • 73% of the population – urban • 27% of the population – rural • About 100 languages • Official language – Russian • 27 co-official languages in various regions

The Russian Federation Culture Diverse and rich culture of Russia: architecture, visual arts, literature

The Russian Federation Nature • • • 23 UNESCO World Heritage Sites 40 UNESCO Biosphere reserves 40 National Parks 101 nature reserves The world’s largest forest reserves – "the lungs of Europe" Lakes – 1/4 of the world’s fresh water 266 mammal species 780 bird species 415 animal species in the Red Data Book of the RF

The Republic of Karelia General Information The Republic of Karelia is situated in the northwest of Russia; it is a part of the Northwest federal district of the Russian Federation.

The Republic of Karelia General Information • • • June 8, 1920 - Karelian Labour Commune July 25, 1923 - Karelian ASSR March 31, 1940 - Karelian-Finnish SSR July 16, 1958 - Karelian ASSR November 13, 1991 – the Republic of Karelia

The Republic of Karelia General Information • The area of Karelia – 180, 5 thousand sq km (1. 06% of the total territory of Russia) • Population of the Republic of Karelia makes 687. 5 thousand people • The republic consists of 16 municipal districts and two urban districts (Petrozavodsk and Kostomuksha), where 109 settlements (22 urban, 87 rural), 808 inhabited localities, including 13 towns, are located.

The Republic of Karelia Nature Karelia is the country of rocks, boulders and tens of thousands of lakes. Karelia is often figuratively called a severe land of lakes and forests, emphasizing the leading elements of its landscape.

The Republic of Karelia Nature More than 49% of the area of the republic is covered with forest; fauna comprises brown bears, reindeers, elks, mountain hares, European beavers, Greenland seals (in the White sea); fish species include salmons, trouts, navagas, herrings, cods, flounders.

The Republic of Karelia Nature Quarter of the republic territory is watery surface. There are more than 61 thousand lakes and 27 thousand rivers in Karelia. The largest are the Ladoga lake (its area is 17, 7 thousand square km) and the Onega lake (its area is 9, 9 thousand square km). The largest rivers are Vodla (400 km), Vyg, Kovda, Kem, Suna, Shuya. The total length of the river net is about 83 thousand km.

The Republic of Karelia Nature • 50 types of minerals located in more than 400 deposits and ore occurrences were discovered in Karelia. • The main minerals are iron ore, titan, vanadium, molybdenum, precious metals, diamonds, mica, construction materials (granites, diabases, marbles), ceramic raw material (pegmatites, spars), appatit-carbonate ores, alkaline amphibole asbestos.

The Republic of Karelia Economy Basis: • Processing of local natural resources (timber and minerals) • Use of tourist and recreational potential • Favourable economic and geographical border location

The Republic of Karelia Economy • More than 19 thousand enterprises and organizations. • The greatest investment growth rates in recent years have been observed in extraction of metallic ores, timber processing, production of food, electric equipment and vehicles, construction, transport and communication, electric power, financial and bank spheres.

The Republic of Karelia Economy of Karelia is exportoriented. On the volume of export per capita Karelia is among in the leading regions of Russia. Now exports account for more than 50% (and up to 100% on a number of branches) of total production. One third of external turn of the republic falls to the share of Finland.

The Republic of Karelia Economy Basic industrial centres: • Petrozavodsk • Kondopoga • Segezha • Kostomuksha • Pitkäaranta

The Republic of Karelia Culture In Karelia there about 4 thousand cultural, historical and natural objects. The main: • State Historical-Architectural and Ethnographical Museum-Reserve Kizhi • Valaam archipelago • Dormition Cathedral (the XVIII century) in Kem • Dormition Church (1774) in Kondopoga

The Republic of Karelia Culture • Rune-singing villages of the White Sea coast area of Karelia where runes of Kalevala originated • The Ladoga lakeside monuments of architecture • Petroglyphs of the White Sea and the East coast of Onego Lake

The Republic of Karelia Culture • • Kivach waterfall Paanajärvi national park Vodlozersky national park The 1 st Russian Spa resort Martial Spa

The Republic of Karelia Petrozavodsk • Petrozavodsk as the capital of Karelia is the centre of economic, political, social and cultural life of Karelia • Most of libraries, museums, theatres, concert halls, educational institutions, creative unions and scientific organizations are located in Petrozavodsk

University Establishment On 10 July 1940 the Karelian-Finnish State University was established. Since 1956 - Petrozavodsk State University

First Academic Year Four faculties were established: • Historical and philological • Physical and mathematical • Biological • Geological and hydro geographical Education was provided on 12 majors

University Today One of the largest multi-disciplinary classical institution of higher education of the system of the Russian Federation Federal Agency for Education in the European North of Russia.

University Mission Development and enlargement of intellectual potential of society through the training of new generation of highly qualified specialists – educated people with high civil and moral principles who are able to perceive, master and develop values that are significant for people and society on the basis of the Russian and world achievements of science and practice for the development of innovation society and life quality improvement.

Strategy • Maintenance and enlargement of the Karelian intellectual potential in order to reach the objective of the staff and scientific provision of the republican social and economic development • The development of lifelong learning education system taking into account of RK the features • Education quality and management efficiency improvement in accordance with modern requirements • Development of flexibility and adaptation of university education to changing demands of labour market

Strategy (cont. ) • • • Introduction of new forms, methods and technologies in the process of education and research implementation, advancement of their effectiveness Orientation on innovation way of economic development of Karelia and the European North of Russia, training of specialists on innovation activity for the region, promotion of prospective innovations in production Improvement of the level of competence and competitiveness of graduates and young specialists on labour market, application of the best Russian and foreign experience

Strategy (cont. ) • • Maintenance and development of national languages, traditions and culture Creation of conditions for the use of creative potential of pedagogical groups and employees of the sphere of professional education of RK and the satisfaction of the population needs Improvement of the effectiveness of the education management system and of the coordination of the activities of the subjects of the professional education sphere Overcoming of the consequences of the demographic “hole” through the enforcement of training of “adult” population, including the population of foreign countries

Petr. SU Evaluation • Petr. SU won the 20 th place in the General Russian Universities Rating of 2009 (the 1 st place for the Internationalization criterion) • Successful assessment of Petr. SU activity by the Commission of the Federal Service of Supervision in the Sphere of Education and Science (licensing, cience state certification and accreditation)

Students At present: 19 500 graduate and postgraduate students; 63 majors of higher professional education and 57 majors of postgraduate studies. 33 bachelor’s and 17 master’s degree programs are licensed. Annually more than 4100 people take training, retraining and advanced training courses.

Students Petr. SU students actively take part in the scientific and research activity, they are winners of the international and all. Russian contests in the field of mathematics, programming, physics, law, philology, history, building technologies, medicine, biology.

Lecturers and Staff More than 3600 members work in Petr. SU, amongst them: • more than 840 lecturers • 87 doctors of science • more than 400 licentiates • 3 academicians and corresponding members (RAS, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences) • 120 professors • 510 assistant professors

Faculties 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Ecology and biology History Forest Engineering Mathematics Medicine Political and social sciences Baltic and Finnish philology and culture Engineering Agriculture Physical engineering Philology Economy Law Post-diploma medical education Improvement of professional skills

Departments 82 departments conduct scientific research in the following fields: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. History and law Philology Political sciences Social psychology Pedagogics Mathematics Physics Chemistry Economics Biology and ecology Medicine Information technologies Telecommunications Forest industry Agriculture Geology Architecture and design Power engineering, etc.

Structural Units • Petr. SU Karelian regional institute of management, economy and law to the Government of the Republic of Karelia • University college • Northern Scientific Research Institute of fish industry • Karelian Scientific Research Institute of forest industry • Scientific Research Institute of historical and theoretical problems of architecture • Regional centre of new information technologies • Petr. SU Northern-European Open University • Petr. SU publishing house • Scientific library

Petr. SU Branches • • Kola branch, Apatity Priladozhsky branch, Sortavala Belomorsk branch, Belomorsk Kostomuksha branch, Kostomuksha

Staff Training for Higher Education System • By 31. 12. 07 there are 147 licentiate students and 2 doctoral students. • At the university 9 thesis councils function (3 doctoral councils and 6 licentiate councils). • In 2007 41 licentiate dissertations and 5 doctoral theses were defended.

Additional Professional Education Annually more than 4500 specialists of the RK and other Russian regions take advanced training courses in Petr. SU structural departments that are engaged in the lifelong learning system: 1. Petr. SU Karelian regional institute of 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. management, economy and law to the Government of the Republic of Karelia; Faculty of advanced training courses Petr. SU education and innovation centre; Regional centre of new information technologies; Faculty of post-diploma medical education; Sectoral base centre of the Russian education on labour security.

Scientific Activity In 2009 in Petr. SU: • 278 research works were completed (22 of them – on foreign grants and contracts). The total amount of financing made up more than 130 million rubles (about 28 millions – from foreign sources); • 87 scientific meetings were organized (international, all-Russian and regional conferences and seminars); • 112 applications for calls for topics, projects and grants were presented in terms of the Russian scientific programmes and funds, 40 of them are approved.

Innovation Activity Regional innovation complex (RIC) : • Innovation and technology centre “Polyarnaya zvezda” • Scientific and educational centre “PLAZMA” • Centre Petr. SU-Metso Automation • Invention centre • Regional scientific and consultation centre of innovation and investment expertise • Innovation and investment trade mart • Scientific and production companies “Chistaya voda”, “Proriv", “Invadek", “Rivest", Centre of osteoarticular surgery • Fund of support of Petr. SU innovation and invention activity • Innovation, scientific and business centres in Sortavala and Kostomuksha • The development works of Petr. SU RIC in the field of applied physics, medicine, building, agriculture, forest sector were repeatedly awarded with medals and diplomas on international innovation exhibitions and salons.

Information & Education Environment in Petr. SU Ø In Petr. SU there are more than 2500 computers. Ø In the educational process : • 56 computer rooms with 600 work places, • multimedia-laboratory, • videohall to conduct video-lectures • more than 300 distance courses developed by lecturers on the basis of modern technologies of network e-learning are used Ø Petr. SU web site was the winner of the all-Russian contest of the educational Internet resources. Ø On the all-Russian exhibition-fair “Modern educational environment” Petr. SU Regional centres of new information technologies were highly awarded: • For the development works in the sphere of information provision of the university activity; • For the creation of the multi-level system of open distance learning; • For the provision of GIS-resources for the education system.

International Cooperation Main activities: • Joint educational projects implementation; • Joint investigations & research projects implementation ; • Joint innovational-production projects implementation ; • Academic mobility & exchange programs; • International associations & networks establishment and participation; • Cooperation in culture, sports & healthcare • International conferences, seminars & summer schools initiation and management; • Summer university, the Russian language programmes and forehigher education training are organised foreign students. • Russian language Training and Testing Centre foreigners who want to get Russian citizenship

International Cooperation Infrastructure • International Cooperation Council (Rector’s Order No. 509 of 12. 10. 2006) • Directorate for International Cooperation (Rector’s Order No. 622 of 01. 12. 2005) http: //petrsu. karelia. ru/Structure/inter. html • International Research and Educational Centres of the Faculties (IRECF) • Websites for international users: http: //schools. karelia. ru/; http: //summeruniversity. karelia. ru/; http: //studyinrussia. ru/ • News and events in 2 languages on Petr. SU website: http: //petrsu. ru/Structure/Inter/programmes. html http: //petrsu. ru/internews. html

International Cooperation International cooperation structural units: • North-European Open University of Pert. SU (NEOU-Petr. SU) • Department of Exchange and Educational Programs • The EU Information Centre • Department of International Projects and Programs / Project Management School • Protocol Office • The Centre of Canadian Research • The International R&E Centers of the faculties

International Cooperation There are 35 cooperation agreements between Petr. SU and foreign institutions of higher education from 11 countries: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, China, USA and Canada.

International Cooperation • • • Cooperation with international organizations and programmes : Tempus, Erasmus Mundus, FP 6 and 7 (the EC) DAAD (German service of academic exchanges) The USA Consultate General in St Petersburg IREX (the USA State Department) CIMO (Centre of international mobility, International office of Finland) Nordic Council of Ministers

International Projects The most scaled projects are: • E-Karelia (introduction of ICT in SME) • E-Skills (ICT skills in SME) • “Metso–Petr. SU Centre” support and development • Development of training programs and teachers training in the field of tourism management (California university, Pomona, USA ) • CRDF – REC “PLAZMA” • Tempus project “UNEGO-Understanding European Governance in the Northwestern Regions of Russia”, • Tempus project “Supporting and facilitating active uptake of ICT for University Management in Russian Universities” • BERMAP – Business, Educational and Research Cooperation between Institutions of Northern Finland North-West Russia • FIRST (Russian–Finnish students exchange)

International Projects 1. Finnish-Russian Cross Border University is established by the universities of Finland (5) and Russia (3); Study is carried out in the fields of: – International relations, history, ICT, Forest industry and public health.

International Projects 2. Finish-Russian Barents Cross-Border University Study is carried out in the fields of: Informational technologies and Social work Petr. SU Partners (8): Universities of Oulu, Arkhangelsk & Murmansk

International Educational Activity Exchange Programs: 1. Finnish Universities of Helsinki, Turku, Åbo Akademi, Oulu, Tampere, Joensuu, Lapland in the framework of bilateral exchange programs and the FIRST program. 2. Brussels Interpreter Institute of Brussels High School – agreement of 2006 3. University of Gävle (Sweden) – in the field of social work (2007) 4. University of Tromsø (2008)

International Educational Activity International Students Training in Petr. SU 1. Full Degree Programs (non-CIS states , CIS states) 2. Pre-University Foundation Program 3. Short-Term Courses during the year 4. Summer University

International Educational Activity International Fellowship Programs 1. CIMO – Centre for International Mobility 2. DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – German Academic Exchange Service 3. British Chevening 4. Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program 5. Fulbright Program 6. IREX Programs (American International Research and Exchange Board) - Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program 7. Barents. Plus Program (Norway) http: //petrsu. karelia. ru/Structure/Inter/programmes. h tml

International Educational Activity Studying abroad • Helsinki Summer University • Summer University of Umeå University • Summer University of the University of Oslo • Summer Language Courses Studying and work abroad Programs: Work & Travel, CAMP USA, AU PAIR

International Scientific and Production Cooperation At present Petr. SU has concluded contracts on software development with the following Finnish enterprises: • Metso Automation, Inc. • VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland • Nokia Research Centre

International Scientific and Production Cooperation Petr. SU Cooperation with Metso Automation, Inc. Petr. SU Cooperation with • Since 1993 • The main directions of the joint activity are scientific research, mathematical models and software development for industrial enterprises and manufactures automatization and management, organization of conferences and workshops, specialists’ training. • In 2002 Petr. SU-Metso Automation Systems Centre In 2002 (PMASC) was founded. • PMASC mission is to provide customers with services in PMASC mission is to the sphere of information technologies and to develop automated control systems for enterprises and processing procedures. • The core customers of PMASC are Russian and international industrial enterprises, companies that specialize in software development, trading enterprises, and other organizations. • At present PMASC staff consists of 58 employees and the personnel capacity continues to grow.

International Scientific and Production Cooperation Petr. SU Cooperation with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland • Since 2005 • The main directions of the joint activity are scientific research, hardware, mathematical models and software development for industrial enterprises and manufactures automatization and management, organization of conferences, workshops, training, and specialists’ exchange. • Annually Petr. SU participates in scientific and research projects financed by VTT, both on the terms of subcontract and according to mutually agreed themes.

International Scientific and Production Cooperation Petr. SU Cooperation with Nokia Research Centre • Since 2006 • The main directions of the joint activity are software development for mobile devices, Open Source Software training, as well as scientific research and hardware and software development for wireless sensors networks. • In 2008 the Centre of Mobile and Wireless Technologies and Applications was founded in Petr. SU under the auspices of Nokia. At present its staff consists of 8 members and 10 students of Petr. SU. All above mentioned activities (concerning production cooperation) are coordinated by the IT-Park of Petr. SU with the staff more than 300 employees of 20 subdivisions. IТPark of Petr. SU continues its active search for new partners and customers among companies, industrial enterprises, and other Finnish organizations.

Publishing • The university publishing house is one of the largest publishing houses in the North-Western part of Russia. • Annually about 270 book items are issued: academic and scientific literature for students, postgraduate students, lecturers and specialists, educational, fiction and reference literature for a reading public.

Scientific Library • Petr. SU scientific library is one of the largest libraries in Karelia. • Book fund amounts to more than 1 million 120 thousand items. • 58% of the fund - scientific literature, 35% – academic literature. • The electronic catalogue makes up more than 770 000 bibliographic records. • Annually about 59 000 readers are provided with service. • Library is equipped with 92 computers. • Library cooperates with 15 partners from 7 countries.

Petr. SU Creative Groups Ø There about 20 creative groups in the university in which about 500 students, lecturers and university members are engaged, including: • Creative laboratory • Drama studio • Literature association • KVN club and others Ø The groups of Academic chorus and folklore choir “Toive” are the pricewinners of the numerous Russian and international contests.

Material and Technical Base Petr. SU material and technical base includes 41 buildings in 4 cities and 6 inhabited localities

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