LUT trains Russia experts for international industry and trade
Lappeenranta University of Technology is an active and recognized international university operating in the electricity, metal and forest clusters formed by Finnish and North-West Russian actors. To support the Russia Agenda of the Finnish-Russian technology industry and its internationalization in the integrating European and Russian markets, the Degree Programmes in the Faculty of Technology at LUT operate an extensive Russia Programme. The Programme promotes cross-border training and entrepreneurship and supports the networking of large, medium and small-scale companies.
Russia Programme at LUT
- provides companies with Masters of Science trained to be experts in the Russian business environment.
- implements extensive international actor-oriented training programmes. The international degree programmes at the Faculty of Technology are developed in cooperation with the international industry to train Masters and Doctors of Russian origin for international enterprises.
- offers training, specific substance knowledge, expertise and consulting for enterprises, partner universities and research institutes in the fields of forest and energy technology and energy markets.
- cooperates with Lappeenranta Innovation Oy, the target of which is to promote the expertise, networking and internationalization potential of companies and to create conditions for establishing new enterprises at the knowledge interfaces.
The Programme is implemented in cooperation with the Finnish technology industry and the top technical universities in Russia, especially the top research universities in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Advanced students of technology from the Russian partner universities are recruited to the Master’s degree programmes in Energy Technology, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Information Technology. The training of students as experts takes place at LUT to guarantee the enterprises an opportunity to recruit Russian students and to benefit from the expertise and contact networks of the students in their home country.
Over hundred Russian students have already graduated from the Programme. A considerable proportion of our Russian graduates have found employment in the Russian operations in Finnish companies. The Russia Programme of LUT is an extensive training programme that has excellent international networks. Our collaborative networks with the companies and partner technical universities in Russia are constantly growing and developing.
Contact information :
Julia Vauterin
Head of International Relations (Faculty of Technology)
Email: julia.vauterin@lut.fi
Mob: +358 40 7379840