Local partners

The local, external partners are:

• Greenbridge
• VOKA Oost-Vlaanderen
• Port of Ghent
• 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. 
• M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University – faculty of Science (Prof. Philippe De Maeyer) and faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Piet Van Poucke)
  
• Gorno-Altaisk State University – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Jean Bourgeois)
  
• St-Petersburg State University of Economics – faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Prof. Michael Frömmel)
  
• The Russian State University for the Humanities – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Aleksey Yudin)
  
• Tver State University – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Ben Dhooge)
  
• Saratov State University – faculty of Pharmacy (Prof. Sarah De Saeger)
  
• St-Petersburg State University – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Piet Van Poucke)
  
• Peter the Great St-Petersburg State Polytechnical University – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Piet Van Poucke and Prof. Aleksey Yudin), facutly of Economics and Business Administration (Prof. Michael Frömmel)
  
• Regional Open Social Institute Kursk – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Piet Van Poucke)
  
• Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Piet Van Poucke)
  
• Moscow State University of Linguistics – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Piet Van Poucke)
  
• National Research Nuclear University MEPhI Moscow – faculty of Engineering and Architecture (Prof. Guido Van Oost)
  
• Research Center for Obstetrics, Gyneacology and Perinatology – faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (Prof. Dirk Van Braeckel)
  
• Ural Federal University – faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Prof. Ben Dhooge and Prof. Aleksey Yudin), faculty of Sciences (Prof. Alexander Panfilov)
  
• 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)
  
• Tomsk Polytechnic University – faculty of Bioscience Engineering (Prof. Andre Skirtach)
  
• Pavlov first St-Petersburg State Medical University – faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (Prof. Elizaveta Padalko)
  
• ITMO University - faculty of Engineering and Architecture (Prof. Roel Baets)
• 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)
• Sechenov University - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (Prof. Dmitri Krysko)

Negotations are ongoing or planned with:

• Novosibirsk State University – faculty of Sciences, faculty of Arts and Philosophy
  
• Astrakhan State University - faculty of Arts and Philosophy
• Institute of Slavic Studies of the RAS - faculty of Arts and Philosophy

You can download an 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 UCRS Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University, the University of Kent, CEURUS Centre for EU-Russia Studies at Tartu University.