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SSAU international relations
a balance foreign currency account and introduced changes regulating international activity into the charter. Since that time the University has been continuously finding foreign partners and declares itself as one of the Russia’s leading universities on the international arena.
Information support of research carried out at the university, joint research with foreign scientists, promotion of science-intensive technologies to the world market, exchange of scientific and engineering information, holding conferences and workshops, joint monographs and scientific papers, various kinds of student exchange are important directions of the University’s international activity.
Conference hall of SSAU, international conferences, forums are held here.
The University is well known abroad, it has direct scientific, engineering and pedagogical ties with similar institutions. Thus, in different years the University entered into agreements with the universities of China (Harbin Politechnical Institute, Beijing Aerospace University, Beijing Politechnical University, North-West Politechnical University, Bradley University (USA), Sofia Technical University (Bulgaria), Stuttgart Technical University (Germany), Berlin Technical University (Germany), Carlow Technical University ( Ireland), Lulea University (Sweden), Delft Technical University (Netherlands), Higher State School of aircraft design engineers ENSICA (France), National Aerospace University “Kharkov Aviation Institute” (Ukraine), a protocol of intention has been signed with the China Association of Aviation and Cosmonautics.
The programme of double degrees has been successfully implemented with Harbin Politecnical Institute (China) since 2010.
The University participates in the student project jointly with Higher Institute of Aviation and Cosmonautics (Institut Superieur de l’aeronautique et de l’espace – ISAE) within the framework of participation in the events of C’Space organized by the Space Agency of France CNES that are to take part in Biscaross (France) at the end of August 2012 and in 2013. The aim of the project is to launch the French atmospheric probe CanSAT as the payload of the model of Russian rocket “Soyuz-2” designed and made by SSAU students under the supervision of their teachers.
Students from Bangladesh, Bulgaria, India, Iran, Cameroon, Kenya, China, Costa Rica, Lebanon, Mauritius, Madagascar, Morocco, Nigeria, Yhana, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Senegal and Sri Lanka were and are trained at the University according to directives of Russian Ministry of Education and on the contract basis. Students from Bradley University, Harbin Politechnical Institute, Higher school of Aeronautics ENSICA are trained here according to direct cooperation agreements.
The University has a center of Russian language teaching for international students and prospective school leavers. Every year 80 faculty members and staff have business trips abroad to participate in scientific and language courses, conferences, symposia. The University also regularly invites scientists from leading universities to deliver lectures and seminars.
Achievements SSAU are demonstrated at MAKS Aviation Show (Russia) and Le Bourget (France), and are exhibited in Austria, Germany, China, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, USA, and Switzerland. Scientific developments of SSAU were awarded the prestigious international exhibitions.
SSAU is home for International Summer Space School which was established in 2003 and is held annually. The overall objective of the School is to involve young people in the development and implementation of experiments in space, with a view of obtaining new fundamental knowledge and applied technologies based on utilization of micro/nanosatellites. During the School young people are be able to share ideas and results, listen to lectures and practices of leading scientists and experts in the field of space technologies and space experiments.
Left: Professor Dieter Schmitt, Technical University of Munich (left) delivered author lectures on aviation in SSAU. Right: "Soyuz-2"rocket mockup (right), developed by students of SSAU –Air Show at Le Bourget in France (2011).