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Russian Prime Minister Medvedev Pledges that “Skoltech will be a Top International University”

Press Release

03.06.2014

Skoltech (The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology)

“We will build a large innovation center here and Skoltech, the Skolkovo Institute of Science And Technology, a very serious institution that has already invited many foreign professionals and professors.”, the Prime Minister of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, pledged during a visit to a tech conference in Moscow, “I’d like to thank them for coming to Russia, and for working here”.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev meets and greets Skoltech president Ed Crawley and students

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev meets and greets Skoltech president Ed Crawley and students

His remarks were carried by Russian news agencies and broadcast on prime time TV news. The Russain PM made the comments after meeting the university’s leadership and students. He was given a quadrocpoter, a four-propeller drone, designed and custom built by the Skoltech Student Engineering Club.

Skoltech’s day at tech conference Startup Village 2014 was not only about visits by very important guests. Entrepreneurs and professors met at the 4th Innovation Program Conference, organized by the university’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation; students competed with guests at a drones tournament (with a 12 year old pilot becoming an overnight sensation); and a young Russian physicist spoke to the audience through a robot – after learning she had won Science Drive 2014 and will spend the next year working in Manchester with Nobel laureate Andre Geim.

PM Medvedev receives a quadrocopter built by the Skoltech Student Engineering Club. Image courtesy RIA-Novosty

PM Medvedev receives a quadrocopter built by the Skoltech Student Engineering Club. Image courtesy RIA-Novosty

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

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