Russian Delegation Visits Carnegie Mellon Portugal Stakeholders
Between March 14 th and 15 th , 2013, a Russian delegation led by Mark Shmulevich, Deputy Minister of the Federal Republic of Russia for Communication and Mass Media, attended several meetings in Portugal about the challenges and outcomes of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program. |
The Russian Federal Government and the Republic of Tatarstan, part of the Russian Federation, are developing a federal project to build a new satellite city outside Kazan, which will focus on technology and innovation. The city is called Innopolis and will be built over the next 15 years. The city will include a new university with bachelors, masters and Ph.D. programs which will focus on employability and on the practical application of technical knowledge. In order to establish the university, the Russian delegation has been looking to see what has been done by other countries in terms of investment in IT education, and what has been the return on that investment and the lessons learned.
While in Portugal, the Russian delegation had the opportunity to meet with the President of the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Miguel Seabra, with the Rector of the Universidade do Porto and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, José Marques dos Santos, and with the Rector of the Universidade de Coimbra, João Gabriel Silva. The delegation also met with the national director of the partnership, with the dean of the Faculdade de Engenharia of the Universidade do Porto (FEUP), the president of Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, the Dean of the Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, the Vice-Dean of the Porto Business School, the president of INESC Porto, the head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at FEUP, the former national director of the partnership, the head of Human Resources and Corporate Development at Novabase, and with several researchers and entrepreneurs involved in the partnership activities.
The Russian Delegation included Mark Shmulevich, Deputy Minister of the Federal Republic of Russia for Communication and Mass Media, Dmitry Kondratyev, Rector of the Innopolis University in Russia, Alexander Tormasov, Director of Academics at Innopolis University, and Elmira Khalitova, Assistant to the Rector for external relations at the same University. The delegation was accompanied by Bill Guttman, Chairman of the Board, and by Gil Taran, Chief Executive Officer, at iCarnegie Global Learning.
Before the visit to Portugal, Carnegie Mellon University organized a visit of the Russian delegation to Qatar. Afterwards the delegation will be heading to Kazakhstan, Colombia/Mexico and the Far East.
March, 2013