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Information on Thai – Russia / ASEAN-Russia Cooperation
Under the responsibility of Office of the Education Council

          For the past six years, Thai-Russia Education Roundtable is the crucial cooperation which Office of the Education Council plays the key role. As an education planning and policy agency, Office of the Education Council works closely with Thai – Russia Education Roundtable Working Group and Russia experts to mobilize the royal idea of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn into concrete action. The Roundtable had already been organized for 4 times as follows;

          The 1st Thai-Russia Education Roundtable held at Kamnoetvidya Science Academy (KVIS) and Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC) Rayong Province, Thailand on August 18 – 19, 2018.

          The 2nd Russia-Thai Education Roundtable held at Moscow State Institute of Foreign Relations and Skolsovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia on October 22 – 23, 2019. After the second meeting, Six Memorandum of Understanding on the promotion of cooperation for gifted student in science and mathematics had been signed between Thai and Russia Education Institutions.

          The 3rd Thai-Russian Education Roundtable hosted by Thailand was an online meeting during September 16-17, 2021. Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn gracefully participate from Srapathum Palace and gave inaugural speech online. Three initiatives for educational corporations has launched.

          The 4th Russia-Thai Education Roundtable was hosted by Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and Federal Territory of Sirius in December 4-10, 2022, at Moscow and Sochi, Russia.

          Ministry of Foreign Affairs of both countries see the important of this project, for this reason, it has been filled in the field of cooperation for the 7th Thai – Russia bilateral Meeting in 2019 as well as in the ASEAN-Russia Cooperation Framework of ASEAN Secretariat. Thai – Russia Education Roundtable is the project responding to the 20 years National Strategy on the Stable Pillar under the Issue Number 4: the integration of stability between ASEAN and international, under the Sub-issue Number 4.4.3 the magnetic of international expert for building and developing innovation on gifted and Reform Issue number 5.1 the Adjustment of curriculum and teaching and learning process and the Evaluation for the development of learning into Competency-based Curriculum. The continuity of this roundtable will help strengthen an academic relation between two countries particularly on the exchange of academic knowledge for the sustainable education.

          The Thai – Russia Education Roundtable Working Group has resolution to organize the 5th Thai - Russia Education Roundtable hosted by Thailand this year in the form of virtual meeting on September 9, 2024, under the theme “Sharing Good Practices in Gifted Education and Higher Education”.