Russia holds academic exchanges with Cuban university

MATANZAS, Cuba, Feb 19 (ACN) A number of educational lectures about information technologies marked the beginning of exchanges that professors and students of the Technological University of Russia (MIREA) and the University of Matanzas (UM) will hold until February 21 as part of an action plan stemmed from an agreement that both schools signed in November 2024 to promote scientific development through academic and research cooperation.

Brain-Computer interfaces, Industry 4.0, artificial intelligence, and automated machine and e-learning will be among the main topics of debate, according to UM professor José A. Macías Mesa, who is in charge of relations with Russian universities.

Sergey Romanovich, an associate professor with the Institute of Information Technologies, stressed the importance of taking joint steps to make progress in terms of informatization, good cooperation practices, and the development of possible projects, whereas his colleage, Professor Andrey Konstantinovich, thanked the UM for the opportunity to meet with its students and faculty, whom he urged to develop critical thinking and strengthen Cuba-Russia cooperation for the benefit of knowledge.

“We attach great importance to these exchanges with our university, not only in academic terms, but also because in this way we prove that Cuba is not alone in the midst of its complex current situation”, UM vice rector Maria de Lourdes Artola said on her end.

The 50-plus years old University of Matanzas has standing agreements with 13 Russian universities based on the intention of forging alliances between sister nations committed to the permanent development of science.