Science and Technology Counsellor of the Embassy of India in Russia Dr. Anand Kamavisdar has paid an official visit to South Ural State University. At the meeting with our guest, representatives of our university discussed the prospects of the Russian-Indian research collaboration.
At the presentation of our university’s scientific achievements, the SUSU First Vice-Rector, Vice-Rector for Research Anton Korzhov introduced our guest to the educational policy and the scientific-and-research infrastructure of the major Chelyabinsk university. Among the meeting participants also were the Head of the Research and Innovation Services Leonid Shipulin and the Head of the International Office Liudmila Lapina.
“One of the main goals of our meeting with the Science and Technology Counsellor of the Embassy of India Dr. Anand Kamavisdar is the implementation of the joint research projects within the frameworks of the intergovernmental agreements,” explained Anton Korzhov. “These are the projects, which are being fulfilled with the support from the Russian Science Foundation on our part, and with the comparable funding on part of India. The Counsellor offers their help in establishing the contacts between the SUSU laboratories and laboratories from the leading universities of India. This will allow to most efficiently prepare the applications and form new points of growth at our university.”
Director of the Institute of Engineering and Technology Mikhail Ivanov and Director of the Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Alena Zamyshlyaeva shared with our distinguished guest about the specifics of the research studies in their fields and about their most promising projects.
“Russia and India are ready to develop and strengthen the international cooperation at the platform of the SUSU “VirtUM” Centre for Top-level Academic Programmes in the Field of Artificial Intelligence [which is being implemented with the support from the Analytical Centre for the Government of the Russian Federation],” shared Alena Zamyshlyaeva. “Having created this big project, we are not planning on limiting ourselves solely by our university or Russia; we are interested in entering the international arena. In addition, Dr. Anand Kamavisdar has also expressed his interest in one more our development: Eco-environment of Industrial Agglomerations strategic project.”
Mikhail Ivanov talked not only about the development of new materials, grades of steel and casting technologies that the SUSU Institute of Engineering and Technology is currently working on, but also uncovered the details of our collaboration with one of the major manufacturers from India.
“Gallium Equipment company is a well-known manufacturer of tube mills for the iron and steel industry in India. They addressed our university for help in creation of new-for-India types of industrial equipment,” specified Mikhail Ivanov. “Thus, having combined our forces, we are developing an innovative metallurgical furnace, so that the foreign company could build its own integrated iron-and-steel works in the future. As we see it, this is the concept of the first-in-the-world plant that will encompass all the unique technologies and developments by the SUSU Institute of Engineering and Technology.”