TOMSK, Aug 16 – RIA Tomsk.Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) become the leader among non-capital universities and the second in Russia in the number of Scholarships of the President of the Russian Federation for students and postgraduates to study abroad; 10 polytechnics will go to foreign universities, the press service of the university said on Friday.
It is specified that the competition for the appointment of scholarships of the President of the Russian Federation for study abroad is held for students and graduate students annually. The scholarship includes the cost of training, visa processing, travel to the place of study and back, accommodation, medical insurance and payment for local transport. Fellows receive the opportunity to study from one semester to 10 months.
"Scholarships for study at foreign educational centers were received by 10 polytechnics students – two Master's and eight postgraduate students. TPU is the second in the country in the number of scholarships won after ITMO University. Master's and postgraduate students of TPU will go for internships at universities in France, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Portugal, China, the Czech Republic and Great Britain", – is said in the report.
It is emphasized that TPU is traditionally a leader among universities in the number of winners of the competition.
Winners-2019
According to the TPU website, Elena Bogatova, a master's student at the Engineering School of Non-Destructive Testing and Safety, will go to the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (Germany) thanks to a scholarship, and Dmitry Antonov, a master's student at the TPU School of Energy & Power Engineering - to University of Brighton (UK)."The purpose of my research will be to study the conditions for the explosive destruction of multicomponent fuel droplets with the formation of an aerosol to intensify the processes of heating, evaporation and ignition. Now this direction is actively developing. A limited group of specialists, including scientists from University of Brighton, are engaged in the study of these processes using modeling complexes", – Antonov is quoted in the message.
Among the postgraduate winners, six people at once represent the Research School of Chemistry & Applied Biomedical Sciences.
Thus, the graduate student of this school, Yulia Vlasenko, will work for nine months at the Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (Spain). Maria Erzina and Elena Milyutina will go to University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (Czech Republic), and Roman Chernozem will work in Portugal, at University of Aveiro. Elizaveta Sviridova will go to conduct research at University of Lille (France), and Ekaterina Chudinova – to Ghent University (Belgium).
Also, the scholarship of the President of the Russian Federation was won by a graduate student of the TPU Engineering School of Non-Destructive Testing and Safety Alexey Volkov, he will go to the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain). And Yulia Vasilieva, a graduate student of the TPU School of Computer Science & Robotics will work at Jilin University (China).