Kazan Federal University has established partnership relations with a number of higher education institutions of Czech Republic in the sphere of Biomedicine, Pharmaceutics and Medical Instrument Engineering.

That was the result of KFU delegation visit to this country. The delegation consisted of Vice-Rector for Research, Director of the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies, Mr. Danis Nurgaliyev, and Director of the Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Mr. Andrey Kiyasov.

During these two days our University representatives had meetings and negotiations in the commercial consulate of the RF, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of Czech Republic, Czech Technical University, Charles University, Brno University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Masarykov University and Science and Technology Park CEITEC.

As a result a frame Agreement of Cooperation between KFU and Czech Technical University in the spheres of Information Technologies and Medical Instrument Engineering has been drawn up (“We took interest in their developments in the sphere of nuclear medicine”, – explained Mr. Danis Nurgaliyev). As for Brno University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, KFU intends to implement a joint Master’s Degree Program in collaboration with it. Furthermore, there was an agreement on experience exchange between KFU and Science and Technology Park CEITEC reached. Interaction parameters will be specified during return visits of Czech colleagues to KFU.

It is worth saying that Kazan University has already been cooperating with higher education institutions of Czech Republic in the framework of several international projects. Thus, it is collaborating with Masarykov University of Brno in the framework of Erasmus Mundus Triple network mobility program. Scientists representing the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of KFU and Charles University participate in a scientific research work performed within the framework of the international project for the theory of calculability and constructive algebraic structures (the project is being implemented with the financial support of the National Scientific Fund - NSF – higher education institutions from the USA, Canada, Singapore, Bulgaria, Belgium, New Zealand and Kazakhstan participate in it, as well).

Reference Information:

• Czech Technical University (Prague) was established in 1707 by the Austrian emperor Joseph I. It is the oldest technical university of the Central Europe and the oldest civil technical institution of higher education in the world. It is one of the largest higher education institutions in Czech Republic – approximately 23 000 students study there, being taught in the Czech and English languages.
• University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Brno) was founded in 1918 and became the first university opened after the Czech Republic establishment. Initially the University trained only veterinarians, in 1991 the Department of Pharmaceutics was opened there.
• Masarykov University (Brno) was established in 1919, from 1960 to 1990 it was called the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyne. There are nine Departments in it, including the Departments of Law, Pedagogy, Medicine, Social Sciences and Sport Researches etc.
• Science and Technology Park CEITEC (Brno) is a centre of scientific research in the spheres of life sciences, advanced materials and state-of-the-art technologies in Czech Republic. CEITEC project was approved by the European Commission on June 06, 2011. It is a consortium consisting of the most famous universities and research institutes of Brno, which gets support of South-Moravian region and the city. Masarykov University, Brno University of Technology, Mendeleev University, Brno University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Veterinary Research Institute and the Institute of Physics of Materials of the Academy of Science of Czech Republic are the consortium members.