Tomsk Polytechnic University opens branch in China.

12/8 Tass 24A


TOMSK, August 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Tomsk national research Polytechnic
University opens a branch in China's Inkou, Lyaonin Province. This will be
the university's first branch in that country. A delegation from Inkou is
expected to come to Tomsk in November to discuss details of the agreement,
the regional press service said.
Tomsk university has experience of international cooperation. It
opened a branch in Prague and a representative office in Cyprus. A
question of opening a branch in Inkou was discussed at the Russian-Chinese
negotiations when a delegation from Tomsk visited China. The meeting
resulted in an agreement on technical cooperation in innovative
development between the administrations of Tomsk and Inkou.
The innovative sector is stated as a priority in the Tomsk Region's
strategy to 2020. The Tomsk Polytechnic University and the city's two
other universities /the state university and the university of management
systems and radio electronics/ were prize winners in the framework of the
Education national project.
Russia's budget has allocated 2.5 billion roubles over three years in
state support for Tomsk universities, which are involved in innovative
educational programmes. The prize-winner universities implement three
models for development - a research university, an academic innovative
university, and an innovative entrepreneurial university. The innovative
activity factor of the Tomsk scientific and educational complex is by
about 1.6 times higher than the average factor in Russia.
Tomsk polytechnic university is the first technical university in
Russia's Asia-Pacific Region. The university's scientists and students
designed Russia's first car, Russobalt, and the first tractor to be
produced in the country. They invented the first in the world magnet
levitation electric road and a turbo-drill for the oil industry, the first
betatron, and the first suction gas engine. Tomsk University is often
called as Siberia's intellectual centre.
Tomsk Polytechnic University was founded in 1896. TPU today is: 21191
students; 1741 foreign students; 4657 teachers (90 professors; 159 Doctors
of Sciences; 442 associate professors; 809 Candidates of Sciences (PhDs)
58 senior researchers); 9 institutes; 10 faculties; 3 research
institutes;113 master programmes in technical, natural and socioeconomic
sciences and humanities. The University scientists have contributed to the
development of nuclear physics, computer and information systems,
electronics and microelectronics, chemistry, chemical engineering,
electrical engineering and geology. TPU cooperates with universities in
the USA, Great Britain, Germany, France and other countries.


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