TOMSK, Apr 21 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk State University (TSU) plans to involve scientists from France to participation in natural-science, ethnographic, geological and other researches of the center "Transsiberian Scientific Way", the university professor Sergey Kirpotin reported on Thursday.
Earlier it was informed that the TSU Center "Transsiberian Scientific Way" (TSSW) has officially opened at the beginning of February. It will focus in studying of Siberia on various disciplines, involving research groups from around the world.
On Thursday in Tomsk started the conference "Cooperation with the European universities in Siberia: problems and solutions" which experts from France and Russia will discuss new approaches and mechanisms of development of the international cooperation of universities. Platforms for the event were TSU and Tomsk Polytechnic University.
"Already exists a number of the projects (jointly implemented by researchers from Tomsk and French universities). In France, unlike other European countries, there is the most powerful international structure – the National center of scientific researches of France. <…> TSU plans to involve French scientists in the center (researches of Siberia)", – Kirpotin has told.
He has noted that scientists from France already participate in some researches of Tomsk colleagues in the field of geology, paleontology and studying of climate. However for cooperation expansion, according to Kirpotin, in Siberia it is necessary to develop infrastructure, comfortable for foreigners, and transport connection.In turn, the coordinator of conference the director of the French center of Novosibirsk State University Michel Debrenn has noted that Tomsk universities attract foreign scientists with strong schools of sciences and uniqueness of Siberia itself as an object of research. "This action – is the eighth in a row. And I've seen in previous years, that the result of such meetings are joint programs, diplomas for students, research programs", – she has added.