MPEI strengthens cooperation with Vietnam

April 2-6, 2024, in order to develop scientific and technical cooperation in the field of electric power industry, MPEI delegation and representatives of partner companies of JSC United Engine Corporation (JSC UEC) and JSC System Operator of the Unified Energy System (JSC SO UES) paid a working visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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MPEI led the delegation consisting of Anastasia Mashkova, Director on Integration Policy Development, and Vladimir Tulsky, Director of the Institute of Electric Power Engineering. Regional branches of JSC SO UES were represented by Natalia Panova, Director of Voronezh power system dispatch, Magomed Shehakhmedov, Director of Dagestan power system dispatch, and Dmitry Kurnosov, First Deputy Director - Chief Dispatcher of Baltic power system dispatch. OJSC "Oek" was represented by Pavel Koltsov, Deputy Technical Director for Automated Technological Control Systems and Communications, Maria Bogatkina, Head of the Training Center, and Kristitna Titova, Deputy Head of the Department for Interaction with Educational Institutions.

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One of the main topics of the visit was the discussion of promising areas of work of the Russian-Vietnamese Consortium of Technical Universities – the association designed to help improve the system of personnel training for the Vietnamese industry

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The program of the several-day visit included meetings of the Russian delegation with the administration and representatives of Hanoi University of Science and Technology and Hanoi State University directly involved in the Consortium's activities, as well as an official meeting with Gennady Bezdetko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Vietnam and Vladimir Murashkin, Head of the Rossotrudnichestvo Representative Office in Hanoi.

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Within the framework of working meetings, the delegates visited EVN Electric Power Corporation, as well as the company's infrastructure facilities, including the National Dispatch Center and the 500 Kv Dong Anh Power Plant. EVN employees are already preparing to visit MPEI in the next academic year for professional internships in a number of industry-specific training areas.

During the visit MPEI presented the results and further steps for realization of the Consortium activities, including the plan for recruitment of candidates for training in various training areas for the next year. Representatives of System Operator and United Energy Company discussed with Vietnamese partners the processes of organizing reliable operation of the power system in the conditions of global energy transition.

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Particular attention was paid to the exchange of information on advanced achievements and innovative technologies in the energy sector. The parties exchanged experience and best practices in the field of energy saving, improving the efficiency of energy systems, implementation of digital technologies and familiarized themselves with the features of the country's system of personnel training for the real sector of the economy, which is one of the fundamental goals of the Russian-Vietnamese Consortium of Technical Universities.

At the end of the rich visit program, the parties expressed their willingness to develop joint industry, scientific and research projects, as well as active cooperation in academic mobility, which is of strategic importance both for scientific and technological progress and for the development of human capital for the Vietnamese economy. The two sides also noted that the pursuit of common goals and joint efforts in the international arena are necessary for the sustainable development of the energy sector.

Reference

The Russian-Vietnamese Consortium of Technical Universities is an association established in accordance with the decisions of the Russian-Vietnamese Commission on Cooperation in Education, Science and Technology and the Russian-Vietnamese Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation.

The aim of the consortium is to promote the export of Russian education and the development of integration processes in the scientific and educational sphere, as well as to improve the quality of personnel training for the Vietnamese economy. On the Russian side, the consortium includes the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Moscow Aviation Institute, and leading Russian industrial corporations. From Vietnam, the project partners are Hanoi University of Science and Technology, EVN Electric

Power Corporation, and Viettel. The project coordinator on the part of MPEI is the Directorate on Integration Policy Development.