Coca-Cola plans to sign contract on cooperation with TSU

TOMSK, Apr 10 – RIA Tomsk.Coca-Cola company intends to sign contracts on cooperation with 20 leading universities of the country, including Tomsk State University (TSU); within the contract the company plans to carry out lectures, business games and internships for TSU students, external communications manager of Coca-Cola HBC Russia Evgenia Teterina reported RIA Tomsk.

Earlier federal mass media reported that the ceremony of signing of the cooperation agreement between the system of Coca-Cola in Russia and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) was held on March 30, 2018. RANEPA became the first of the Russian universities with which the company begins interaction in the new format.

"We identified 20 key universities in 11 cities of the Russian Federation with which we plan to expand cooperation. It is that we give lectures in the universities, we tell business cases, we invite students of these universities to internships. In Tomsk we have plans to cooperate with TSU", – Teterina told.

As the manager of the Siberian office of the company Marina Mosina specified RIA Tomsk, it is planned to sign the contract with TЫU within the next two months.

"Coca-Cola has a desire to work with the leading universities of the country. There are several directions in which they want to work. We are ready to meet requirements of them. They are at the moment ready to sign the framework agreement which means very broad interaction on a number of questions", – the Division for Innovations in Research, Engineering, and Technology of TsU Mikhail Golovatov explained RIA Tomsk.

He specified that so far the parties haven't sat down at a negotiating table, however interaction concerning target training of students, training at the Coca-Cola enterprises and also introductions of technological developments of TSU in the system of the Coca-Cola company is now discussed.