Bodø Graduate School of Business at Bodø University College, Norway, and Baltic State Technical University, Russia, have been cooperating closely since 1991. The institutions are today cooperating through several research- and educational projects. In September 2006 they celebrate 15 years of cooperation with a conference in St. Petersburg.

The main objective of the conference is to discuss visions and challenges for cooperation between Norway and Russia in higher education and research, especially in the field of business and management. Among the key note speakers are the Russian Minister of Education and Research Andrey Fursenko and the Norwegian Minister of Education and Research Øystein Djupedal .

For further details on the conference, please visit the webpage of Bodø University College (Available only in Norwegian).

The cooperation between Bodø Graduate School of Business and Baltic State Technical University has since 2003 been supported through the Cooperation Programme with Russia. For more information about the project Business research and education in a northwestern university alliance (BRUA), please see here.

News source: siu.no
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