10 February 2015 - The Philippine Embassy in Moscow participated in the conference on “Education Relations between Russia and Southeast Asian Universities: Retrospect and Prospects,” organized by the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Information (MESI) on February 04. Third Secretary and Vice Consul Luningning G. Camoying, who represented the Embassy in said conference, highlighted the importance of education cooperation as a means to promote people-to-people exchanges between the Philippines and Russia.

She noted that the Embassy encourages and facilitates the establishment of linkages between Philippine and Russian institutions of higher education through the conclusion of agreements that provide for information-sharing on academic developments, teaching methodologies and research activities; exchange of students for study and visit; exchange of faculty members for visit, research, lectures, and discussions; and joint organization of conferences, seminars, and workshops, among others.

For instance, under the Academic Cooperation Agreement between the University of the Philippines-Diliman and M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), two MSU students majoring in Philippine Philology cross-enrolled in the University of the Philippines and took courses on Philippine Regional Literature and Asian History from November 2013 to March 2014. This provided the students the opportunity to immerse themselves in Philippine culture and thus obtain a better grasp of the nuances of the Filipino language.

 Also present were representatives from the Embassies of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The rest of the participants were professors from MESI and other Moscow-based universities, such as the Russian State University for the Humanities, State University of Management, and Moscow State Regional University, among others. END