SUAI at �Increasing Competitiveness of Russian Higher Education: Analysis of Best Practices in Education Promotion Industry� Conference

November 26, 2020 the Increasing Competitiveness of Russian Higher Education: Analysis of Best Practices in Education Promotion Industry Conference was held within the Export of Education Federal Project.

Among other leading universities� leaders SUAI�s Vice-Rector for International Affairs Konstantin Losev participated in the conference to discuss ways of reaching the Project�s goals. SUAI, an active participant of the initiative, focuses on increasing its international ranking positions.

In the Plenary Session the participants talked on internalization, export of education, recruitment of foreign students during the pandemic, regional and profile peculiarities when promoting national education.

After the Session SUAI�s Vice-Rector worked at discussion sections where the internationalists exchange opinions on increasing Russian universities� competitiveness, foreign students adaptation and role of marketing for educational programs promotion.

Results of the Eighth International Conference "Philosophy and Culture in Information Society"

The conference was held from 20 to 22 November 2020. For the first time the work took place in correspondence mode.

The international conference was organized by the Department of History and Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus, the St. Petersburg State Technological Institute (Technical University) and the editorial board of the journal "Philosophy and Humanities in Information Society".

The proceedings of the conference have more than four hundred pages and shows the trends in the development of cooperation between scientists, outlined at our previous forums. Among 155 people who have sent their materials for publication, there are teachers and professors who have started working with us since the first conference in 2013. The number of participants is constantly growing, among them students and graduate students of universities in Russia, Poland, Belarus, Armenia. Students of the Faculty of Humanities of the SUAI are also becoming more active. In student works, the problems of information society are considered in an original way and at a sufficiently high academic level, for example, the development of education in the context of a wide transition to distance learning.

International participation in the conference continues to expand. This year, 12 colleagues from the Republic of Belarus have published their articles in the conference proceedings. Their works contain, in particular, an assessment of the complex socio-political situation that has developed in Belarus in 2020.

Analysis of the conference results allows us to draw a number of important conclusions. First, the understanding of the philosophical and humanitarian problems of information society attracts more and more attention of university teachers, students and cultural professionals every year. New productive approaches are being formed. Second, the disunity between scientists from different countries of the former USSR and the gap between the generations of researchers, which was clearly outlined in Russia in the 1990s, is being overcome. Third, the teachers and professors of the St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation manage to play a noticeable positive role in organizing and conducting research on the problems of information society.

SUAI at UASR Forum

November 23, 2020 a Forum by the University Alliance of the Silk Road started to last till November 27, including conferences, scientific sessions and experience exchange on fighting pandemic consequences. SUAI�s Vice-Rector for International Affairs Konstantin Losev join the Forum to find new opportunities.

The event opened with UASR Presidents Forum, with universities� leasers discussing R&D planning of the Forum.

The Forum by UASR was organized to encourage leading technical universities to establish more joint ventures and cooperation products. In the Forum the parties will discuss Security for Natural Systems, Security of Cyber Space and Security for Public Health.

SUAI Participates in Forum on Export of Education

November 20, 2020 the Ministry of Science and Higher Education held the annual forum on Export of Education as a Development Basis of the Russian Federation: Russian and international experience.

The forum gives SUAI and other leading Russian universities a chance to discuss relevant issues in education in 2020, since the year was one of the most difficult periods for the international education. The participants exchanged tools and mechanisms that helped them overcome the crisis. Most of universities admitted facing problems but they also talked on opportunities.

Other topics of the forum were: approaches to government support and funding, coordination between Russian educational entities, the Export of Education Federal Project, media strategies promoting national education, best practices in training and assisting international students.

In the forum the internationalists exchanged their experience and developed plans for the year 2021. Among the key tasks remain double certification agreements, training programs in English and developing marketing tools for Russian education.

Greeting Speech by Rector of SUAI at Opening of International Conference �Philosophy and Culture of Information Society�

"Good morning, dear friends and colleagues!

Accept my congratulations on starting the 8th International Conference �Philosophy and Culture of Information Society�, a loved and expected event at SUAI.

When the concept of this conference was born, we knew that its topics will bring us to the future. This year this journey is beyond our expectations. Computer technologies made this online-conference possible in a very harsh period. It is technologies that helped us enlarge the number of cities and countries participating in the conference. We are happy to see this number grow. It reflects the relevance of topic we discuss. So, the conference shall happen online. This is another step made by our information society. Which changes will it bring? Technologies are not the only center of the conference, so philosophers and culturologists can feel and describe how this online-format transforms psychological and emotional experience. Still, I believe that the participants will enjoy the conference anyway as it usually happens.

A manuscript with your reports will include 8 sections this year. The participants will discuss Russian and foreign Philosophy, Psycology, Pedagogy, Political studies, Space and Logics. Also there is a cross-disciplinary section to remind us that the human knowledge is integral and its many elements often interact.

Finally, I wish success to all the participants. Let our knowledge grow wider to make us more experienced and ready to work under any world conditions and in any format. Thank you!"

Rector of SUAI

Yulia Antokhina

SUAI participates in World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF & GEDC 2020)

The World Forum for Engineering Education and the Global Engineering Deans Council (WEEF & GEDC 2020) [https://weefgedc2020.org] took place from 16 to 19 November 2020 virtually. From SUAI the conference was attended by Rector Yulia Antokhina and associate professor of the Department of Aerospace computer and software systems Valentin Olenev. They presented the �Embedded systems� international master's program, shared experience of creating an international master's program, showed the possible ways of applying modern education approaches and CDIO standards.

WEEF & GEDC provides a powerful platform for interaction and discussions with foreign colleagues in order to exchange experiences in the field of education. Not only universities, but also international organizations, large industrial companies and other engineering educational institutions actively participated in the forum.

Reports from all over the world (about 500 delegates) were presented at the forum, but the SUAI presentation was the only one to be selected for the conference from Russia. As a result of WEEF & GEDC 2020, a Scopus article will be published.