From October 1 to 5, Karachi hosted an exhibition and showcase of Russian universities, the Russian Educational Exhibition KARACHI-2024, which was attended by representatives of RTU MIREA — Elena Odintsova, Head of the International Relations Department, and Vadim Klyatsyn, Inspector of the Department for Work with Foreign Students. As part of the exhibition, representatives of leading Russian universities visited educational organizations in Karachi, including Federal Urdu University, St. Joseph's College, Kasbit University, Indus University, Greenwich University, St. Patrick's College, where they were able to communicate with Pakistani schoolchildren and students, as well as their parents, and tell them about the opportunities for studying in Russia both getting places within the quota of the Government of the Russian Federation and on a fee-paying basis. Over the course of the exhibition, more than 2,000 people visited the event.
During the visits to educational institutions, our colleagues were also able to discuss possible areas for further cooperation in education, science, technology and academic exchanges with the leadership of several universities in Karachi. Pakistani colleagues were particularly interested in such areas of cooperation as organizing joint scientific conferences, exchanging teaching staff and employees, and teaching Russian as a foreign language at schools and universities in Pakistan.
Apart from that, representatives of RTU MIREA took part in a meeting with Andrey Fedorov, Consul General of the Russian Federation in Pakistan, where issues of popularizing the Russian language and promoting Russian education in Pakistan were raised and practical tools for implementing these areas were proposed.