TOMSK, Nov 30 – RIA Tomsk, Vadim
Belozertsev.
Forum Energy of Universities for Municipal and Regional Development take place
in Tomsk from November 30 to December 2. Leading scientists from the USA and
Europe meet to discuss prospects of the Tomsk region development in conditions
of new economy and role of universities in life of the city and region. More
details – in material of RIA Tomsk.
The administration of the Tomsk
region, Regional Department of the International Relations and Tomsk State University (TSU) are organizers of the forum.
Economy and design 2.0
The forum will be opened on November
30 at 13:00 in the TSU scientific library. The Deputy Governor of the Tomsk
region on Economy Andrey Antonov and the attache on university cooperation of
Embassy of France in Russia Pascal Cauchy will greet participants.
Then the plenary session which
participants should define "the directions of transformation of regions
and cities and new tasks for the universities" will begin at the library.
"The key challenge for regions
in the forthcoming period is to be on the map of new economy and concentration
of talents. The most dynamically developing areas are those capable of building
a balanced interaction of universities, business and government", – it is
said in the program of the event.
The head of the United Nations Human
Settlements Programme Eduardo Lopez Moreno, the ex-head of one of the units of
the European Commission for the Regional Dimension of Innovation, Dimitri
Korpakis, the Vice Governor of the Tomsk Region Andrey Antonov, the President
of the Tokyo Metropolitan University Jun Ueno and the representative of Masaryk
University (Czech Republic) Jan Slovak will discuss how the Tomsk region will
become a such region.
The discussion with subject
"Universities and business: how to transform region economy" will
begin at 15:30.
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"Experts from the USA, the
Czech Republic, Great Britain and Russia will present at the discussion
experience of transformation of universities to the centers of gravity of
investments and technological business and realization of the joint initiatives
leading to increase in competitiveness of regional economy", – it is
reported in the poster.
From 15:20 to 16:20 the open lecture
"Education and researches focused on the future" from the
representative of the University of Turku (Finland) Yukh Kaskinen will take
place in the TSU main building. From 16:30 to 17:30 in scientific library of
the university – the lecture about myths of the academic business. From 16:00
to 17:30 excursions around the museums of TSU will take place.
Official events of the first day of
the forum will come to the end at 18:40 in space "Boiling Point"
where young businessmen will discuss cases on design of educational spaces for
schools and the universities of the 21st century.
Universities 2.0
Events of the second day of the
forum start at 10:00. So, workshop "Involvement of citizens in scientific
and innovative activity for the benefit of sustainable development: new role of
the regional universities" will begin in the TSU scientific library.
"This workshop is devoted to
discussion of mechanisms and practice which would allow a university to play a
key role in sustainable development of society. We will talk about successful
practices how universities can connect new knowledge and technologies with
requirements, preferences and priorities of society for the benefit of
sustainable development", – it is noted in the program.
Representatives of Maastricht
University (Netherlands) Olga Zvonareva and the University of Tampere (Finland)
Olga Ustyuzhantseva will be speakers of the event.
From 12:00 to 13:00 the
representative of the analytical agency Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Darya
Karzunina will tell how the ratings of the universities influence position of
the university cities in the scientific library, and the discussion of
professions of the future will take place in the TSU main building.
Urbanists and scientists from the
USA and Russia will discuss ways of transition of a city and universities to
new digital economy in "Boiling Point" from14:00 to 16:00.
From 16:30 to 18:30 the
representatives of the German House of Science and Innovation will share the
considerations about the cities of the future in the TSU scientific library.
The second day of the forum will
come to the end with the open lecture "Mathematics as language of modern
science, technologies and engineering education" where professor Jan
Slovak will tell how "the queen of sciences" is connected with
psychology and why mathematics is language of the future. The lecture will take
place in "Boiling Point" from 19:00 to 20:00.
Trends 2.0
The third day of the forum will
begin at 10:00. At this time several events start at once.
Workshop "Exchange of knowledge
between university and industry: what, how, why" will take place in the
TSU main building. Together with the head of the department of Knowledge
Exchange of Royal College of Art (Great Britain) Tatiana Schofield participants
will discuss a role of universities in development of innovative economy,
global trends in development of universities, interaction with companies of the
real sector of economy.
The round table "Smart campus
for smart city: stability and innovation" will take place at the same time
in the scientific library of the university. Participants of the panel
discussion will create an image of a university campus of the future.
The event "University city and
modern trends: LIFELONG LEARNING, employment of people of the third age,
digitalization and labor market" will take place in a big conference room
of the scientific library. And workshop "Transition from lecture and
seminar education system to education on the basis of cases: from where will
new contents undertake?" will take place in the research hall.
The next events will take place in
space "Boiling Point". At 12:00 the meeting on the subject
"Design of physical educational space for schools and universities of the
21st Century" will be in the big hall, and the expert session
"Universities and clusters: how to put strategy of the blockchain industry
jointly?" will take place in the hall of the round table at the same time.
The highly topical program of the
third day will come to the end with a final plenary session of the forum, which
will begin in the big conference room of the scientific library at 15:00.