Local partners

The local, external partners are:

• Ostend Science Park
• VOKA Oost-Vlaanderen
• North Sea Port
• Port of Oostende
• Province of East-Flanders
• City of Ghent

The platform has links with the Belgian-Russian and Flemish-Russian Chambers of Commerce and with the Russian Trade representation, as well as with FIT (Flanders Investment and Trade).

Russian partners

Ghent University has bilateral agreements with Russian higher education institutions.

Overview of Cooperation Agreements

• M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University – faculty of Science (Prof. Philippe De Maeyer) and faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Piet Van Poucke)
  
• Higher School of Economics – faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Prof. Koen Schoors) , faculty of Political and Social Sciences (Prof. Piet Bracke), faculty of Sciences (Prof. Gunnar Brinkmann) and faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Ben Dhooge and Prof. Andreas Niehaus)
• Moscow State University of Linguistics – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Piet Van Poucke)
• The Russian State University for the Humanities – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Aleksey Yudin)
• St-Petersburg University – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Piet Van Poucke), faculty of Law and Criminology – staff mobility (Prof. Peter Van Elsuwege), faculty of Political and Social Sciences (Prof. Peter Stevens), faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences – staff mobility (Prof. Rudi Roose)
  
• ITMO University - faculty of Engineering and Architecture (Prof. Roel Baets)
• Peter the Great St-Petersburg State Polytechnical University – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Piet Van Poucke and Prof. Aleksey Yudin), faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Prof. Frank Naert)
  
• Pavlov first St-Petersburg State Medical University – faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (Prof. Elizaveta Padalko)
• St-Petersburg State University of Economics – faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Prof. Michael Frömmel)
• Ural Federal University – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Ben Dhooge and Prof. Aleksey Yudin), faculty of Sciences (Prof. Alexander Panfilov)
• Gorno-Altaisk State University – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Jean Bourgeois)
  
• Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Piet Van Poucke)
• Saratov State University – faculty of Pharmacy (Prof. Sarah De Saeger)
• Tver State University – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Ben Dhooge)
  
• Sechenov University - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (Prof. Dmitri Krysko)
• Lobachevsky State University - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (Prof. Dmitri Krysko)
• St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (Prof. Elizaveta Padalko)

Overview of Memoranda of Understanding

• Institute of Slavic Studies of the RAS - faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Ben Dhooge)
• St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (Prof. Elizaveta Padalko)
• Moscow Power Engineering Institute - faculty of Engineering and Architecture (Prof. Guido Van Oost)
• National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Vladivostok - faculty of Sciences (Prof. Mieke Adriaens)
• National Research Nuclear University MEPhI Moscow – faculty of Engineering and Architecture (Prof. Guido Van Oost)
• Tomsk Polytechnic University – faculty of Bioscience Engineering (Prof. Andre Skirtach)

Download overview of cooperation projects with Russia

International partners

The Russia Platform is not only developing ties with local and Russian partners, we also seek cooperation with institutions within Europe and the US which have a strong focus on Russia.

We have active ties with IRES Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University, the University of Kent, CEURUS Centre for EU-Russia Studies at Tartu University.