Education and global cities: prospects of BRICS
On the 14th - 15th of May, 2015 the Second International Conference “Education and Global Cities: Prospects of BRICS” will be held in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
Senior Officials of Russian Government including the Representatives of the Presidential Administration, Ministry of Education and Science as well as highly ranked representatives of the BRICS University League and Russian Academic Excellence Project “5:100” will be present at the plenary session.
The conference will discuss current trends in the development of cities in the BRICS countries in the context of education, and discuss prospects for cooperation between universities of the BRICS countries.
The program of the Conference will include the meeting of the working group for foreign partnerships of Russian Association of Global Universities and the round table with the associations of universities form Italy, South Korea, Brazil, Latin American countries etc. The cooperation agreement between the Russian Association of Global Universities and associations of foreign universities will be signed during the Conference.
Key issues for discussion:
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· Cities and urban agglomerations in the BRICS countries: planning and development;
· University and city in the developing economies;
· Models of universities development in metropolitan areas;
· BRICS university ranking: prospects for development;
· BRICS University League: new format of multilateral cooperation in higher education;
· International mobility of the BRICS graduates.
Yaroslav I. Kuzminov
Rector of NRU Higher School of Economics
Vladimir N. Vasilyev
Rector of ITMO University, Corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vice-president of Russian Rector Union
Sergey M. Kadochnikov
Director NRU Higher School of Economics - Saint-Petersburg
Gianmaria Ajani
Rector of “Universita degli Studi”, Turin, and Vice-President of CRUI (The conference of Rectors of Italian Universities)
Oleg B. Alexeev
Member of the Council on improving the competitiveness of leading Russian universities among the world's leading research and education centers
Isak D. Frumin
Supervisor of Institute of Education of NRU Higher School of Economics
Sergey A. Vasiliev
Supervisor NRU Higher School of Economics in Saint-Petersburg, Deputy representative of Vnesheconombank, Chairman of the business Council Russia-Brazil
Manuel Heitor
Professor, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon; Director, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, IN+; Former Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal
Hugo Horta
Assistant Professor, Division of Policy, Administration and Social Sciences Education, University of Hong Kong
Iwao Ohashi
Japan and Asia-Pacific countries Adviser of the Association of Industrial Parks; Independent expert on strategic development and international cooperation
Paulo Ferrão
Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon; author of book “Sustainable Urban Metabolism”, MIT-Press – USA
Vyacheslav Nesterov
General Manager EMC St. Petersburg Development Center
Victor. A. Koksharov
PhD in History, rector of Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education «Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin»
Lazicheva Elena
Vice mayor of the city of Tomsk on economic development and innovation
Dmitry Kurdyukov
Chairman of the Bank OJSC "Sberbank", managing Director for CIS countries
Fedor T. Prokopov
Head of Institute of Employment and Professions of NRU Higher School of Economics
Igor A. Maksimtsev
Rector of SAINT-PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS
Kharkhordin Oleg
Rector, Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of The European University at St Petersburg
Sergey Bagnenko
Rector of Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University , Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor
Valery Solomin
Rector of Saint-Petersburg Herzen University
Sergey Postnikov
Rector of Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts
Michail V. Fedorov
Rector of The Ural State University of Economics
Afra Sajjat
Head of Education Emerging Markets (ACCA)
Georgy Rudnickiy
Executive Director of Project Office “5 - 100”
Dr. Wang Lei
Centre of BRICS studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Sari Autio-Sarasmo
Professor, Alexanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
Ann Hodgson
Professor Institute of Education UCL
Anton Molev
Deputy of Moscow city duma
Anton Finogenov
Managing Director, Urbanica
Philip Kazin
Head of Department for Project Management Development SPbSU ITMO
Mihail Klimovsky
Co-Founder, Urban Transformation School at ITMO University
Oleg Pachenkov
Director, Center for Applied Research at European University at St. Petersburg; Program Director, Institute of Urbanism «Sreda»
Filippova Darya
Analyst
Oleg E. Lebedev
Professor of HSE Campus in St. Petersburg - Department of Public Administration
Sergey Kosaretsky
Director of Institute of Education in HSE Campus St. Petersburg
Elena Kazakova
Professor of Department of Public Administration in HSE Campus St. Petersburg
Maria Soloshcheva
Leading Research Fellow of Centre for Asian and African Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg
Elena Soboleva
Specialist of Department of Asian and African Studies in HSE
Evgeny Zelenev
Director of the Centre of Asian and African Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg
Alexei Novikov
Dean, Graduate School of Urban Studies and Planning
Daniil A. Alexandrov
Deputy Director of Campus in St. Petersburg
Alexei V. Kouprianov
Associate Professor of School of Social Sciences and Humanities, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg
Katerina N. Polivanova
Vice-director of Center of Leadership Development in Education, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg
Vyacheslav Lozing
Director of Office for Secondary Education, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg
Sergey Barinov
Research Fellow of Institute of Education, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg
Natalya A. Zaichenko
Professor of Department of Public Administration, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg
Nadezhda Kosareva
Academic Supervisor of NRU Higher School of Economics, Professor of Graduate School of Urban Studies and Planning
Aleksandra Bekasova
Senior Research Fellow of HSE St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Julia Lajus
Programme Head of the Programme “Applied and Interdisciplinary History” of HSE St. Petersburg, Senior Research Fellow of Centre for Historical Research
Irina Karelina
Director of Strategic Planning of NRU Higher School of Economics, Head of association of educational organizations “Global Universities”
Sergei Erofeev
Provost of NRU Higher School of Economics, Member of the HSE Academic Council
Chen Guangju
Provost of Beijing Normal University
Igor Osipov
Ph.D., Managing Director CIS, Becker Professional Education
Dilvo Ilvo Ristoff
Director of Policies and Graduate Programs of Ministry of Education, Brazil
Prof. XU Ningsheng
President of FUDAN UNIVERSITY,