TOMSK, May 24 – RIA Tomsk.Tomsk State University (TSU) will allocate the funds received within
"5-100" for the projects connected with studying of Siberia and also
for new master programs, the head of the information policy department of the
higher education institution Yulia Emer reported.
TSU and TPU were included into
the 5-100 project in 2013, additional financing is allocated to participants of
the project for increase of the international competitiveness. In 2016 both
Tomsk higher education institutions will get 500 million rubles. It became
known that funds are allocated.
Earlier it was reported that
the Trans-Siberian Scientific Way center (Transsiberian Scientific Way, TSSW)
was officially opened in TSU at the beginning of February, 2016. The main
specialization of the center is complex studying of Siberia with involvement of
scientific groups from around the world.
"The Trans-Siberian
Scientific Way center already became the center of gravity for the entrants
wishing to take part in interdisciplinary research projects. <…> The part
of the allocated funds (within the 5-100 project) will be aimed at the
development of TSSW – first of all, at creation, development of master programs
in the Russian and English languages, such, for example, as "Studying of
Siberia and the Arctic", "The European quality" and others",
– Emer told.
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She added that the
international interdisciplinary school, which will pass in the summer of 2016
in the gorge to Aktr in Mountain Altai where biologists, anthropologists and
ecologists will discuss problems of Siberia in the context of global climatic
changes, will become one more TSSW project.
As the press service of TSU
reports, funds received within the 5-100 project will be also directed to
modernization of educational process in general. The separate attention will be
paid to programs of master and postgraduate study.
"Implementation of the
tasks requires development of new approaches to contents, educational
technologies, administration of educational process. So, for example, the main
educational technology is supposed to be problem based learning which elements
we already use", – the press service quotes the vice rector of TSU for
study Victor Dyomin.