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Master students of North-Eastern Federal University attend RJE3 programme courses at Hokkaido University from 22 to 27 August. In 2017, the universities plan to train specialists in the field of ​​the Arctic, according to NEFU Director of the Institute of the East Naina Ksenofontova.

In 2014, M.K. Ammosov University, one of the five key universities in the Far East, has won the grant "Training program for leading experts in the field of ecology, culture and sustainable development in the Far East and the Arctic” - RJE3 for 2014-2018, funded by the Government of Japan. "This year four representatives of the Federal University will complete the programme, and Denis Kirillin, master student of Engineering Institute, who works on the project of sustainable development of NEFU campus, will study at Hokkaido University", said Naina Ksenofontova.

Program participants will attend lectures on the environment and resources, history and culture, living conditions and regional development, the present and future policy and the economy of Hokkaido, the Russian Far East and the Arctic. "The lecturers are the teachers and professors of the University of Hokkaido, including Director of NEFU International Research and Education Center on Biogeochemistry and Climatology BEST Trofim Maksimov and researcher Aleksandr Kononov", said the director of the Institute of the East.

Vice Rector for International Cooperation Vladlen Kugunurov heads NEFU delegation. Representatives of the university discussed the prospects of cooperation in the field of sustainable development in the Arctic and the opening of the Russian-Japanese Research Center at NEFU. "The universities are developing a joint interdisciplinary master's program to train experts in the field of the Arctic. The program will be implemented at NEFU in 2017, at the Japanese university in 2019, with the opening of the new Arctic Research Branch. We can start the first joint lectures and field courses in the autumn of 2017", said Naina Ksenofontova.