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Young scientists from St. Petersburg have been interning in the People’s Republic of China for over a month. In addition to conducting joint research with colleagues from Taiyuan University of Technology (TYUT), they continue to intensively explore the country’s manufacturing sector by visiting landmark enterprises and industrial sites. Next on the list is TZCO, one of the largest factories in the country for the production of mining and construction equipment.

Less than two months remain until the awarding of diplomas at Russian universities. The labor market will be replenished with thousands of engineers, but not all of them will be in demand by multinational companies.

The final protocol of the second meeting of the Working Group on Education, Science, and Technology of the Joint Russian-Malaysian Commission on Economic, Scientific, Technical, and Cultural Cooperation includes a point about the establishment of a permanent communication platform in the mineral resource sector. The document was signed by the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Russian Federation, Airat Gatiyatov, and the Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia, Megat Sani Megat Ahmad Supian.

In the first half of April, the last group of participants from the Antarctic team of the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University returned to the city on the Neva. For the first time since November 2024, the group of scientists who carried out research during the 70th Russian Antarctic Expedition gathered together in full and shared the results of the completed season.

The scientists from Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University and the University of Malaya thoroughly introduced each other to the most promising components of their countries’ resource bases during the first joint online meeting, held on April 16-17.

A delegation from Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University embarked on a two-month internship at Taiyuan University of Technology (TYUT) located in Shanxi Province, the coal capital of China. There, the group of young scientists began collaborative research with their Chinese colleagues in the fields of energy and mineral enrichment.

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.