International Conference

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.

Speakers of Plenary Sessions

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

Speakers of Round Tables

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