Five Finnish and four Russian universities will begin a cooperation programme next autumn.

A report in the Helsingin Sanomat daily states that the cooperation on student training was agreed to at the Lappeenranta Technical University on Thursday.

20 – 40 students from Finland and Russia will be selected to participate in the programme annually.

The universities will begin training students in a joint master’s programme in six different fields, including information technology, history, forestry, health sciences, management and international relations.

Finnish institutions participating in the project are the universities of Helsinki, Tampere, Kuopio and Joensuu, as well as Lappeenranta Technical University. Russian participants include St. Petersburg State University, the Technical State University, the European University and Petroskoi University.

The institutions also plan to deepen their cooperation in the future with projects such as a doctoral programme, due to begin in 2010.

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