ASU Develops Cooperation with German Universities

Astrakhan State University hosted a meeting of ASU Acting Rector Konstantin Markelov with Sebastian Br?kelmann, the Head of the Working Office for Cooperation with Russian Regions. The parties outlined a number of highly promising areas for international cooperation.

Welcoming the distinguished guest, Konstantin Markelov noted that his visit to ASU was at the right moment: at a recent meeting with the United Council of Students, there was a question as to why ASU lacks for closer relations with German universities for organizing traineeships, practical courses, academic exchange, etc., though ASU cooperates quite actively with other countries. The Rector also stressed that several German companies expressed their interest in the special economic zone “Lotus”. Besides, Konstantin Markelov noted that there is a plenty of issues for cooperation, both scientific and educational ones, so we need only to establish contact with German HEIs and business partners.

In his turn, Sebastian Brökelmann congratulated Konstantin Markelov on his election as Rector of the university and marked out those programmes that will strengthen the interuniversity cooperation between our countries. He got very interested in the capacities and activity areas of Astrakhan State University, in particular in double degree programmes.

At the end of his visit to Astrakhan State University, Sebastian Brökelmann met with representatives of different faculties of ASU, talked to them about the development of Germany-Russia relations and answered urgent questions, related to politics, history and information reliability in foreign media.