Ildar Khalikov and Vice President of Elsevier discuss prospects of cooperation in research and education area

On November 15 at their meeting at Tatarstan Government House Tatarstan Vice-President Ildar Khalikov and Vice-President of Elsevier Mr. Jay Si Haneke discussed prospects of cooperation in research and education area.

To the point, Elsevier is the largest publishing house in the world with headquarters in Amsterdam, London, New York and about 70 offices worldwide. It offers innovative solutions in scientific, educational and medical areas. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier media holding.

For Russia and the CIS countries Elsevier offers global and local products and solutions, that can be found on subsidiary Russian websites.

Welcoming the guest, Ildar Khalikov noted that today Tatarstan universities are becoming more recognizable in the world scientific infrastructure.

For the last few decades Russia has been developing and improving the higher education sphere, he said.

He informed that the total number of scientific staff makes 15 thousand people. Since 2000 the financing of scientific projects has been increased significantly.

According to Ildar Khalikov, partnership of Tatarstan universities with Elsevier will allow them to become more competitive.

Vice-President of Elsevier Mr. Jay Si Haneke made a short presentation of the company’s opportunities, told about its history and increase in information and scientific content and modern scientific publishing market positions. He told in details about creation and further use of Scopus database.