TRRT committee has planned for the 2nd Russia-Thai Roundtable.
On 14th January 2019, Dr. Watanaporn Ra-Ngubtook, Deputy Secretary General of the Education Council, joined the Thai-Russia Roundtable Organizing Committee at its first meeting in 2019.
The meeting was chaired by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Khunying Sumonta Promboon and also participated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vladimir Dubrovsky from the Kolmogorov School of the Moscow State University.
The aims of the meeting were to prepare for the 2nd Russia-Thai Roundtable and to report the progress of collaboration on Education between Thailand and Russia
after the 1st Thai-Russia Roundtable in August last year.
The remarkable progress is the “HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand Scholarship” which is the result of the cooperation between Skoltech and NSTDA.
This scholarship offers Thai students to study a Master’s Degree at Skoltech in 4 areas: 1) Energy and Material Science 2) Data Science 3) Artificial Intelligence and
4) Quantum Computing, starting from academic years 2019, 2020 and 2021 respectively.
Furthermore, the meeting also planned to raise more activities in relations to the education cooperation between Thailand and Russia in the future, such as the translation of the Kvantik magazine
into Thai language as well as the collaboration among Thai and Russian academic institutes, especially on Mathematics.