The Regional Cluster Meeting “Internationalization and Impact of Erasmus+ CBHE projects in Russia” was co-organised by the National Erasmus+ Office in Russia and Lobachevsky State University of Niznhy Novgorod on June 29-30, 2021. Due to COVID-19 restrictions the event was held online (Zoom) and gathered representatives of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the European Executive Agency for Education, Culture and Audiovisual Media (EACEA), Delegation of the European Union to Russia, Russian and European participants of Erasmus+ projects, as well as representatives of Russian and foreign universities.

Aim of the Meeting:

• to present to a wide audience results, outputs, outcomes and impacts of the Erasmus+ CBHE projects;
• to enhance dissemination of project deliverables;
• to map the CBHE project themes for the new Programme after 2021.

Gorno-Altaisk State University, Siberian Federal University, and Russian State Hydrometeorological University participated on the behalf of SUNRAISE project on June 30, 2021 with oral presentation of the project results and its role in the internalization of the universities as well as its impact on the improvement of the system for training specialists in the field of sustainable natural resource use in Arctic and high mountainous areas.

The project presentation attracted a strong interest among the attendees and the efforts of the Russian universities in achieving the Project outcomes were greatly appreciated.

The program and report of the Regional Cluster Meeting are available here.