Signing of Agreement with St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia

An agreement for scientific and educational cooperation was concluded between the University of Aizu and St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University (SPBSPU), Russia, on Monday, June 8. The ceremony for conclusion of the agreement was held at SPBSPU on the same day at 11:00 a.m. local time with attendance of President Tsunoyama of the University of Aizu and Vice President Arseniev of SPBSPU to sign the letter of agreement.
Professor Marakhovsky, a former faculty member of the University of Aizu, is currently working as a profesor at the Faculty of SPBSPU, that made it easy to promote an exchange between the two universities. Associate Professor Klyuev of the Software Engineering Laboratory took a primary role on our side to advance the consideration on this agreement. These universities reached the agreement to develop cooperation in exchange of undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral students as well as exchange of researchers in the fields of Software Engineering and Control, and Information Engineering between the universities. Implementation of joint research, international conference and joint publications of these results will be promoted under the agreement.
The universities will make further discussions on regarding detailed exchange activities in the future.

St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University

Placed among the top 2 technical universities in Russia

Founded in 1899 and produced many distinguished persons including the Nobel Prize winners

Commemorative photo

Scene from the signing ceremony 1

Scene from the signing ceremony 2