The Carnegie Corporation of New York renewed its support of measures to improve science teaching is Russia, awarding the US Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF) a $1 million grant towards its Basic Research and Higher Education (BRHE) programme, which aims to reintegrate research into university science education in Russian universities.
The grant is the latest from the Carnegie, which has donated a total of $5 million since 1998, and begins the final phase of CRDF’s involvement in the project as programme support shifts from US to Russian funding sources in 2010. The money will support core BRHE programs including research, post-doctoral fellowships, and English immersion training conferences.
With the support of the Carnegie Corporation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and others, CRDF initially established 16 centres across Russia, to stimulate scientific cooperation among Russian universities, institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and foreign research centres.
The programme reached a major milestone in January 2005 when the model was adopted by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science for 15 new Ministry-supported centres, four of which now participate in the BRHE programme.
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