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UNESCO department to open at Vladivostok University

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UNESCO department to open at Vladivostok University


03.07.2020

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The UNESCO International Department will start working in the capital of the Primorsky Territory, RIA Novosti reports. It will open at the Vladivostok State University of Economics and Services. The integration interdisciplinary center of biomedical information will bring together the best scientific personnel from and leading experts from Shanghai and Beijing.

According to the rector of the university Tatyana Terentyeva, the university has been studying the analysis of big data in biomedicine and healthcare for more than a year. There is a collaboration of scientists from universities in the Far East. Together with them, the Institute of Automation and Control Processes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Higher School of Economics are working in this area. About 20 million rubles were allocated for scientific work by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.

It is also planned to create several scientific, educational and social projects that will receive the status of UNESCO programs. They include the Park of the World’s Nations and the United Digital Library.

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