Stankovic and Shvydkoy: We will work on joint Serbian and Russian university programs

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Serbian Minister of Education Dejan Vuk Stankovic and Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoy met today in Belgrade where they agreed to sign a memorandum on cooperation between Serbian and Russian universities.

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Stankovic assessed the meeting, which was also attended by Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Botsan Kharchenko, was meaningful and stressed that the Russian side proposed that the two countries raise the level cooperation in the field of higher education, and that Serbia is ready for that.

"We will work on a joint memorandum of cooperation that we are to sign as soon as next week in Moscow. Our goal is to create space for cooperation between our universities and individual faculties. The common position is that we could also work on joint study programs between Belgrade and Moscow, that is, between Serbian and Russian faculties," Stankovic told Tanjug.

The minister added that the Russian side is particularly interested in the fields of medicine and technical sciences and that the two countries could intensify cooperation in the field of technical sciences, artificial intelligence, but also in areas such as pedagogy and social sciences.

Shvydkoy said that the meeting was positive, and announced that Minister Stankovic will soon visit Moscow, where he will participate in a forum on inclusive education and meet with Russian Minister of Higher Education and Science Valery Falkov.

"I believe that the meeting with Mr. Falkov will yield results. But, I repeat, I am convinced that we can now look to the future with a certain amount of optimism. Knowledge is becoming an area that is necessary for every country, including Serbia and Russia. I believe that we have the potential for good cooperation here," Shvydkoy told Tanjug.

He assessed that there is intense competition on the higher education market, and that education and higher education institutions today face challenges because of the increasing use of high tech.

"That's why areas of human activity that are becoming more and more important need to be studied, and among them are quantum mechanics, quantum physics, biotechnology, etc.," said Shvydkoy.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)