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The main participants of the meeting were the principals of 350 Russian schools, mostly from the academic partners of the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University . Specifically, the educational institutions involved in the ”Leader of Schools of Russia” project and UNESCO-associated schools.

In St. Petersburg, a three-day brainstorming session on improving the quality of school education concluded, with the participation of 350 school directors from across Russia, representatives from the university community, and invited experts. The All-Russian Academic Session ”Education in the Interests of the State and the Individual” was initiated by the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University and the International Center for Competencies in Mining Education under the auspices of UNESCO to develop consolidated proposals on the stated topic.

The result of the working group’s trip from Saint Petersburg Mining University to Eastern India was two roadmaps signed with the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur and Dhanbad.

A delegation from Black Gold Mining (Benshangul-Gumuz region, Ethiopia) visited Saint Petersburg Mining University. The head of the corporation, Ms. Meseret Tsahai, spoke about the company’s extensive experience in coal mining in the country and how, thanks to the activities of the largest mining company in the region, Ethiopia became independent of foreign coal supplies.

At Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University, two new laboratories were inaugurated: ”Autonomous Electromechanical Systems for Electric Drive Mining Equipment” and ”Onboard Systems for BELAZ Machinery”.

The Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the United Republic of Tanzania to the Russian Federation, Mr. Frederick Ibrahim Kibuta, held a working meeting with the university’s rector, Vladimir Litvinenko.

Is it possible to increase gold production? Or are we facing a metal shortage and, consequently, a rapid rise in its value?

Its participants stated that the remote format for presenting scientific research proved to be highly effective.

Its participants were high school students from St. Petersburg, Nizhnevartovsk, and Izluchinsk, who presented their prepared offshore hydrocarbon field development projects to experts.

St. Petersburg mining experts presented their vision for the development of artificial intelligence in both countries in Iran. Only ten days after the signing of the Interstate Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran, a distinguished group of scientists from the university in Russia’s northern capital traveled to Tehran to participate in the international conference ”Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Civilization”.