INRTU Participates In China Education EXPO as Part of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science Exhibition
INRTU as part of the exposition of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation took part in the international educational exhibition China Education EXPO (CEE), which was held October 30 - November 2 in Beijing. This is the largest event on foreign education in Southeast Asia, aimed at expanding international relations in the educational field. The exposition of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science brought together 19 participating universities and 10 Russian-Chinese associations of branch universities.
380 educational organizations from 38 countries showed interest in the CEE exhibition, with 18 national pavilions set up.
At the stand of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, visitors learned about the educational programs of Russian universities. The exhibition was visited by Liu Limin, President of the Chinese Association for International Educational Exchanges under the Ministry of Education of China, who welcomed the participants from Russia.
Irkutsk National Research Technical University was represented at the exhibition by Stepan Bykov, Vice-Rector for International Affairs, and Xia Shuang, Assistant to the Rector of INRTU for China. They met with parents and schoolchildren. The visitors were most interested in educational programs in such areas as energy, engineering, economics, management, design and information technology.
Also at the booth INRTU representatives held a number of meetings with universities and vocational institutes of China interested in partnership with Russia.
“Participation in such a large-scale exhibition is an important event not only for recruiting international students and promoting educational programs, but also in terms of recognition and promotion of the university brand,” commented Stepan Bykov, Vice-Rector for International Affairs of INRTU.
More than 95 thousand people watched the live broadcast from the exhibition events on the official page of the Russian Cultural Center in Beijing on the Weibo platform.
