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Burema Kansai, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Republic of Mali, paid a working visit to Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University. During his meeting with Rector Vladimir Litvinenko, he discussed the prospects of bilateral cooperation, as well as partnership within the framework of the African Subsoil Consortium.

The teams of the oldest technical university of the country have repeatedly won these competitions at the All-Russian level in the past years. Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University summarized the results of the qualifying stage of the student league of the International Engineering Championship ”CASE-IN”, which is held by the Foundation ”Reliable Change”. About fifty teams took part in its five nominations, they solved problems related to the choice of optimal strategies for the development of specific industries or even sectors of the Russian economy.

And told about who will soon obtain stimulating salary increments and scholarships. On Friday, March 29, Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University held a regular meeting of the Academic Council. Dmitry Mardashov, Director of the Institute for Training of Scientific and Pedagogical Staff of the university, was the keynote speaker. He noted that the implementation of the pilot project to improve the system of higher education has had a significant impact, including on the process of training of graduate students.

For the seventh time, Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University participates in the inter-museum and university festival ”To Museum - Today, to Science - Tomorrow!”. During the week it will be visited by about 150 schoolchildren from different educational institutions of the city and region, as well as their parents and teachers.

Pupils of the ninth energy class of School No. 334, which was established last year by Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University in cooperation with Lenenergo, will implement their first serious scientific developments. They touch upon such areas of knowledge as economical distribution of energy resources in households, alternative energy generation options, increasing the efficiency of insulators for high-voltage transmission lines and a number of others.

Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University was paid a working visit by Mrs. Karin Kneissl, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria.

This is part of the programme to improve the environment for engineering training, including by creating the most comfortable environment for recreation and independent study of young people. On Friday, 15 March, the St. Petersburg Mining University informed that a large-scale renovation has started in dormitory No. 4, located at 15 Morskaya Embankment. At the moment dismantling works are underway in the building, the management plans to renew all communications, complete replacement of window and door blocks, finishing of floors, ceilings and walls, purchase of new furniture.

The Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University became a venue for the Grand Challenges scientific and technical works competition among talented schoolchildren of the Leningrad Region. As explained by the university management, this event is part of a global project to integrate the systems of higher and secondary education.

Vladimir Litvinenko, Rector of Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University, held a working meeting with Amon Murwira, Minister of Higher Education of Zimbabwe. During the video bridge they discussed the strategy of partnership development in the sphere of education and science, as well as the prospects of innovation implementation at the enterprises of the mineral and raw materials complex.

The Arctic, its harsh nature and complex organizational and technical conditions have always attracted men. To work at drifting stations with the risk of being in icy water at any moment, to drive worn-out all-terrain vehicles in a snowstorm to the next survey, to drill wells in the ice… However, there is a woman’s name in the history of the Arctic, which is firmly connected with the development of polar lands.