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The public discussion about the reform of higher education, initiated by the rector of St. Petersburg Mining University, Vladimir Litvinenko, continues

The III International BELAZ-CHALLENGE-2023 Engineering Case Study Championship is over in Minsk

”You, born in the heart of Asia, are considered an honor by all European academies to have as a member,” wrote a famous German geologist and traveler, professor at one of Germany’s largest universities, Gerhardt vom Rath, to Nikolai Koksharov, Director of the Mining Institute and the Imperial Mineralogical Society.

The ”Meeting of Cultures” international festival was held at the Gorny Multifunctional Complex. Its participants were 140 people from 29 universities of the Northern Capital, representing 13 countries.

On November 6, 1896, the oldest technical institute in Russia held a solemn meeting on the occasion of the centenary of the death of Catherine the Great. The Minister of Agriculture and State Property Alexei Ermolov read out the decree of Nicholas II, according to which the educational institution was to be named the ”Mining Institute of Empress Catherine II”.

Their goal shall be the development of academic mobility and the creation of joint research teams

About 400 high school students gathered on the site of the Mining University to present their papers on the development of the country’s mineral complex

The subjects of their joint research could be the study of the paleoclimate and the history of the geological development of the Earth, as well as environmental monitoring of the fragile Antarctic ecosystem.

Russian and European professors believe that the Bologna process has a negative impact on the training of engineers

After joining the Bologna Process, Russian universities stopped training specialists in some fields of study in non-ferrous and ferrous metallurgy