Rustam Minnikhanov meets with rector of Ilmenau University of Technology Peter Scharff
26 November 2013, Tuesday
On November 26 at their meeting in Kazan Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and rector of Ilmenau University of Technology Peter Scharff discussed further cooperation on establishing German-Russian institute of new technologies in partnership with Kazan national research technical university.
To the point, in October 2013 during his working trip to Germany Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov visited Ilmenau University of Technology, where Peter Scharff said that Ilmenau strategy is to provide close interaction between fundamental science, industry, and real sector of economy.
It is expected that German-Russian institute of new technologies will become an international centre of engineering competence. The project partner is German Academic Exchange Service DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst).
Tatarstan Minister of Education and Science Engel Fattakhov, Aide to Tatarstan President Airat Khairullin, rector of Kazan national research technical university Albert Gilmutdinov took part in the meeting.
On 1 April Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Russian Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko introduced Ayrat Farrakhov, who was appointed the Acting Rector of Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) to its staff.
In his speech Mikhail Murashko emphasized that today KSMU is rightfully considered one of the most respected in the country and said:”Ayrat (Zakievich) has been officially appointed the Acting Rector and I am sure that under his leadership the University will maintain the positions it has achieved and, of course, will continue its development.”
On 31 March in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Leyla Fazleeva hold a meeting of the Commission on the Russian language under the Rais of Tatarstan, which considered key issues of supporting and developing Russian language, including new educational initiatives and discussed programmes of popularization of Russian literature and activities to preserve the language heritage.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Azat Ziganshin informed that the regional central cleaning up action will be held in the republic on 25 April and clarified that the location of the national cleanup day will be announced later as the site will be chosen taking into account the opinions of Tatarstan residents.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the regional and the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector Damir Shaydullin informed about statistics on the collection of utility bills payments from the population and data on the payment discipline of enterprises and organizations of the republic.