TOMSK, May 14 – RIA Tomsk. The CESAER Association of Leading European Universities in the field of engineering education and research intends to expand cooperation with technical universities of Russia thanks to the help of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), the secretary general of CESAER David Bohmert told reporters, he visited TPU with a working visit on Tuesday.
As the TPU Vice-Rector for External Affairs Liliya Kiryanova explained to journalists, CESAER unites 53 universities from 26 countries. TPU joined CESAER in 2015 and still is the only Russian university participating in the association. On Tuesday Bohmert discussed with the leadership of the university the cooperation expansion of TPU and association .
"There are several more universities in Russia that we are interested in. We have just started building relationships with them. The rector (acting rector Petr Chubik – Ed.) of TPU today offered to help us in this communication so that the university fulfills its historical role as a bridge between territories and communities. Therefore, I very much hope that we will have more Russian members", – Bohmert said.
Details of the development of TPU and CESAER interaction in the new logic, according to the university press service, will be the subject of further discussions. Bohmert did not rule out that the next meeting of representatives of universities participating in the association could be held in Tomsk.
Earlier it was reported that TPU was founded in 1896 by Emperor Nicholas II as the Tomsk Practical Technological Institute. Since 2013, TPU has been participating in the "5-100" global competitiveness improvement program, which aims to ensure that by 2020 at least five universities of the Russian Federation are included in the hundred best universities of the world. Following the results of the last defense of the "road maps" in the fall of 2018, Tomsk Polytechnic University is in the second group of the project.