HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 6 (acn) Nearly 100 Cuban students and workers received in 2015 scholarships for postgraduate studies in the Russian Federation, as announced in the exchange held between Cuban academics and officials of that European nation in Havana's Nacional Hotel.
Oberto Santin, Deputy Minister of Higher Education, said that since 2008 the Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) of the Russian Federation undertook to grant a hundred places for Cuban professionals through Rossatrúdnichestvo program, but it was not until this year that the conditions were met to reach the desired number.
Our centers lost contact for a long time and we noticed that today we don't have a total and complete knowledge of how academic life in our respective countries work, but we have progressed in the last five years and for the next semester we have 22 seats more in plan, he announced.
Aleksey Korobchenko , Director of Analysis of MEC International Department, said another aspect of the agreement signed in 2008 is to strengthen the teaching of Russian language in Cuba and Spanish in Russia.
Perhaps organizing visits of elementary students to Cuba is a way them to learn Spanish, Korobchenko stated, as it must increase the number of scholarships to be grant by Rossatrúdnichestvo, since 100 places is only the minimum amount we agreed.
Korobchenko recalled that the two countries have also signed an agreement on scientific cooperation, which could be another way to facilitate academic exchanges, because today the Russian government prioritizes research projects born in the universities.
The delegation of the Eurasian country will remain on the island until day eight, and its agenda includes an exchange with executives of the agencies of the State Central Administration and those attending the 33rd International Trade Fair of Havana.
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