Internationalization

1

• Internationalization
• and the pockets of SSH knowledge growth
• in Russia
• Oleg Kharkhordin, Vice-Rector for Development
• EUSP
• ERA and the non-EU Countries The Case of Russia
• European university at St. Petersburg,
• 21-22 September, 2006

2

• Dynamics of EU-Russian cooperation after 1991
• (INTAS as an example)
• From fear to pity
• Initially stop nuclear physicists from going to
  the rogue states
• Demands for distributive justice from the social
  scientists
• End result giving out alms or grants as booty?

3
IT MIGHT SEEM THAT RUSSIA IS THE BEST IN TERMS OF
GETTING A PORTION OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
FUNDS OF THE EU

• BUT the reality is that it is just represented by
  some tiny
• team in every large IP or NoE
• It is good to have a Russian partner in the
  network
• For ornamentation or completeness of the coverage
  of the field of study
• There is always a good Russian whom a kind
  European can help

4
In cooperation with Russia, EU is interested
in(data from www.cordis.lu)

• The current state of the Russian Marine Ecosystem
  Monitoring for the White Sea and Its relevance
  for the EU Directive on Water Policy
• Technical Bridge between Russian and European
  Online Infrastructures and Innovations
• Connecting Russian and European technologies and
  innovation systems
• Supporting Russian Participation in the EU-RTD
  programmes
• Environmental Observations. Modeling and
  Information Systems Special Support Action
• Promoting a Combined Approach to Investigating
  Risks of Earthquakes, Landslides, and Tsunamis
• Forest Changes. Inventory for Climate Modelling

5
Some suggestions

• This is not good or bad. This is the logic of
  international knowledge markets and scientific
  community
• EU should be pragmatic. Politics of pity should
  be abandoned.
• If sciences in Russia are to be of real
  relevance for knowledge-based concerns of the EU
  (e.g. its competition with USA), they should
  contribute to these pragmatic goals
• Current interest of EU in Russian competitive
  knowledge nanotechnology and the like
• Our suggestion social sciences and humanities

6
Why SSH will be the
main intellectual export
of Russia in XXI c.

• Natural sciences (key to Russian intellectual
  exports in XX c.) suffered after the collapse of
  investments in experimental equipment. SSH can
  work with a pen, piece of paper and a PC
• Gellner the collapse of Austro-Hungarian empire
  produced Freud, Wittgenstein, Malinowski, von
  Hayek, Karl and Michael Polanyi. Overproduction
  of intelligent people going into SSH because of a
  reduction in other sector opportunities
• Price comptetition. For international knowledge
  producers it is cheaper to do many studies in or
  with Russia, given the quality and the price of
  the academic workforce.

7

• In other words Russian SSH are
• Expanding
• Relying on extensive cadre potential
• Competitive
• In XIX c. Russia exported novels and opera - to
  contribute to the spiritual
• In XX c. it exported natural sciences - to
  perfect the physical might
• In XXI c. it might contribute with its SSH to the
  intellectual stature of the world

8
SSH in Russia in long term
perspective, in
the EU context

• 1) Common threats and soft security issues
• issues of population control, ecology,
  reproductive health and HIV/AIDS etc.
• 2) Internationally demanded knowledge on issues
  that are particularly acute in Russia poverty (a
  North-South dimension), coexistence of
  civilizations (four state religions and about 180
  ethnic groups coexist in Russia), migration
• 3) Local methodological traditions should be
  reflected upon and developed as a specific
  Russias contribution to world science.
• We should not be exporting just
• Bakhtin and the Tartu school