TPU presented the ESSENCE project to the ambassadors of 18 EU countries

Posted on October 22nd, 2018

The presentation took place at the roundtable devoted to the role of universities in the national economy held in Tomsk 8^th October. At the roundtable Tomsk Oblast Governor Sergey Zhvachkin and representatives of Tomsk universities presented European ambassadors their experience and best practices in international scientific cooperation. The meeting was part of a large-scale visit to the Tomsk Oblast by the EU delegation headed by Markus Ederer, Ambassador of the European Union to the Russian Federation.

Totally, the representatives of 18 EU embassies visited the region and the meeting. The project Establishing smart energy system curriculum at Russian and Vietnamese universities, ESSENCE was introduced among other examples of successful cooperation between Russia and EU.

At the presentation, the academic supervisor of RU partners Anton Prokhorov said:

‘I believe that our proposal got a high score because of the previous results in cooperation with EU universities and EU companies that have business in Russia. And I hope that this experience will be interesting to other industrial companies from EU targeting the Smart grid market in Russia. We strongly invite them to joint our project.’

TPU Vice Rector for External Affairs Liliya Kiriyanova emphasized:

‘The main idea of the project is to develop the core engineering education in line with EU best practices and the new educational policy of Tomsk Polytechnic University.’

The project, as well as the RU-EU cooperation facilitated by the project was highly evaluated by the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France and of the Republic of Latvia to the Russian Federation. The Ambassador of Latvia Māris Riekstiņš offered support to the project.