1. Russian-Italian University Cooperation Prof. Dr. Vera Zabotkina, vice-rector, Russian State University for the Humanities

2. Structure of the world educational market according to the number of foreign students USA Great Britain Germany France Australia Japan Russia Canada New Zealand Austria Belgium Switzerland Sweden Italy Spain Finland New Zealand Canada Russian Federation Japan Australia France Germany Great Britain USA T. Klyachko “Competitiveness of Russian Higher education” Italy – 2%

3. Countries share in the world education market (on the amount of foreign students), 2008 г., %* * Источник: Education at a Glance, 2010, OECD 3,3 млн. Russia, 2007 – 2 % USA, 2007 – 19,7 % United Kingdom, 2007 – 11,6 % Germany, 2007 – 8,6 % Canada, 2007 – 4,4 % Italy, 2007 – 2 %

4. The percentage of students from Western Europe studying in Russia (2009-2010) Cyprus Netherlands Switzerland France Cyprus Italy Spain Germany Greece Great Britain Belgium Austria Other European countries 12,4%

5. The share of foreign students in the total number of students in tertiary education, 2008** ** Источник: Education at a Glance, 2010, OECD Up to 5% in 2020 г. Italy

6. Cooperation between Russian and Italian Universities 360 agreements of cooperation between 80 Italian and 80 Russia Universities 37 agreements (in the field of mathematics and IT) Since 1997 - special agreement between Russian Academy of Sciences and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche 10 agreements on double degrees: –Università di Milano “Bicocca”, Milano “Bocconi”, Bologna (2), Calabria (4), Politecnico di Milano (2)

7. Italian Language in Russia Italian is taught in 30 Universities (Moscow, St.- Petersburg, Astrakhan, Cheboksary, Ekaterinburg etc.) Departments of Italian: –Lomonosov Moscow State University –St.-Petersburg –Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU, Moscow) 2000 students in 2010 studied Italian language and culture in Russia 2009/2010 - 1029 Russian citizens were enrolled in Italian Universities: 1,8% from 57246 foreign students in Italy (175 males and 854 females)

8. Network of Russian leading Universities Arkhangelsk Rostov Ekaterinburg Krasnoyarsk Yakutsk Vladivostok Kazan Saint-Petersburg (4) Moscow (11) Samara Perm (2) Kazan (2) N.Novgorog Tomsk (2) Novosibirsk Belgorod Irkutsk Saransk Saratov Chelyabinsk Lomonosov Moscow State University and Saint-Petersburg State University Federal Universities – 8 National Research Universities - 29 Association of Russian Leading Universities (established in 2010) - MSU, StPSU - Federal Universities - National Research Universities Kaliningrad

9. The staff of National Research Universities participating in studies abroad, by country of destination Number of participants France Germany Great Britain USA Switzerland Sweden UkraineFinlandPoland Italy ChinaIsrael Spain Japan Hungary Austria

10. President’s scholarships for studies abroad, 2010 Total amount – 100 scholarships per year 20 universities are in 200 Top of Times rating Germany Great Britain USA Norway Italy Czech Republic FranceAustria China Netherlands Sweden Japan Bulgaria Hungary Israel Ireland Spain CanadaPoland Singapore Finland

11. Tempus projects (21) №NameOrganization 144950 2008 Entrepreneurial University as a model for proper Managerial interrelation among education, science and innovation development  FONDAZIONE POLITECNICO DI MILANO  POLIMI 511135 2010 TUNING RUSSIA Università degli Studi di Padova 144742 2008 EDUCATIONAL CENTERS' NETWORK ON MODERN TECHNOLOGIES OF LOCAL GOVERNING University of Trento

12. Tempus TUNING RUSSIA: 2010– 2013-511135-TEMPUS-2010-ES- JPCR (2010-3356/001-001) Coordinator: University of Deusto Objectives: 1. Promotion and dissemination of Tuning methodology among Russian academic community (in particular in 9 subject areas – Economics and Management, Law, Ecology, Education, Engineering, Information and Telecommunication Technologies, Languages, Tourism and Social Work). 2. Elaboration of generic and specific competences in the 9 areas. 3. Implementation and development of Tuning methodology in some Russian universities through Tuning Centres. Duration of the project is three years, from October 2010 to October 2013. RSUH participates in the subject areas “Tourism” and “Languages” Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

13. Erasmus Mundus, Action 2 Triple I Triple I European partner universities Humboldt University Berlin KU Leuven University of Latvia Pultusk Academy of Humanities Masaryk University University of Algarve University of Bologna University of Deusto Univirsity of Göttingen University of Turku Middle East Technical University Triple I Russian partner universities Higher School of Economics Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Irkutsk State University Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University Novgorod State University Petrozavodsk State University Russian State University for the Humanities St. Petersburg State University Udmurt State University Ural State University

14. University of Bologna Simona Nicoli, doctorate student at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 10 months research period at RSUH Academic supervisor at the University of Bologna - Mette Rudvin, professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Topic of PhD thesis “Translation of contemporary Russian children's literature” Doctoral students’ mobility at RSUH within Triple I

15. University of Bologna Moroni Elisa, doctorate student (Translation Studies and Russian), 9 months research period at RSUH Topic of PhD thesis “Translation of old Russian oral epic poetry” Giacomo Augugliaro, doctorate student at the Faculty of Law, 12 months research period at RSUH Topic of PhD thesis “The Ten-T, the PPP Green Paper and the “Concession Law” of Russian Federation. Forms of cooperation between EU and Russian companies in the field of rail and road freight” Doctoral students’ mobility at RSUH within Triple I

16. Erasmus Mundus Joint MA and Doctorate Programmes Joint Erasmus Mundus MA programme in political sciences “Europeanisation” (EMME). Consortium members : –University of Konstanz (Germany) –University of Sienna (Italy) –University of Essex (Great Britain) –Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain) Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in European Geopolitics. Consortium members: –Coordinator: Geopolitics Institute (Paris-8) –University of Neapol (Italy) –Babes-Bolyai University (Romania) –Tarragona University (Spain) –National University (Taiwan) –Södertörn University (Switzerland) –University of Grenoble (France) –Mexican National University (Mexico)

17. Thank you! Vera Zabotkina Prof. Dr. Vice-rector for innovative international projects Director of Centre for Cognitive Programs and Technologies Russian State University for the Humanities zabotkina@rggu.ru