TOMSK, Oct 31 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk State University (TSU) and one of the oldest higher education institutions of Europe – University of Wroclaw plan to expand the cooperation, in particular colleagues from Poland are interested in joint studying of life and culture of city shamans in Siberia, the vice rector of higher education institution Artem Rykun reported to RIA Tomsk.
He explained that TSU works with University of Wroclaw (Poland) since 2001 in the directions: paleontology, philology, history, chemistry and law.
"The matter is that historically at a turn of the XIX-ХХth centuries a certain layer of shamans lived in urbanistic loci in Siberia. And the Polish researcher Miroslav Kokur is engaged in this subject. He conducts cultural researches", – Rykun told.
He specified that, most likely, shamans from Buryatia will become object of studying. TSU specialists of the Institute of Culture and Arts and of the Department of History can participate in the project.According to the higher education institution, TSU is also interested in training of specialists in the sphere of cross-cultural communications, and University of Wroclaw together with other European higher education institutions realizes the master program of this profile. Also the parties intend to expand a cooperation in the field of the law.
It is added that the higher education institutions consider the possibility to begin the joint project on digitization of the cultural heritage, which is stored in both universities. The University of Wroclaw possesses the biggest collection of old printing books in Europe, researchers from around the world can get interested to access to them. And TSU library has experience of digitization of ancient books.