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A joint project of the Robbo company (the Skolkovo Foundation participant), as well as the universities of Russia and Finland on the implementation of educational robotics in the two countries will receive grant support under the Russia-Southeast Finland program funded by the European Union. The grant amounted to 530 thousand euros, TASS reports.
The project participants are St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Lappeenranta and Lahti University of Technology and Lappeenranta City Hall. The program is designed to help school teachers in Russia and Finland master the teaching of Industry 4.0 technologies, including robotics, 3D printing and programming. Over a thousand teachers will participate in 54 educational webinars.
The grant funds will allow the Russian company Robbo to create equipment and methods for use in educational institutions. The universities of the two countries involved in the project will create a training program. The start of the three-year project is scheduled for this March, engineering classes will be created in schools in St. Petersburg, the Leningrad Region and the Finnish region of South Karelia.
According to the representative of Skolkovo, the project confirmed the international recognition of Russian educational robotics, approved in the European Union, Japan and Finland.
Russkiy Mir
