Days Of Robotics And Innovative Education Technologies In Zambia

29 - 31 October 2024. Lusaka

Saint-Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI”

Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation

Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Zambia

The National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA)

University of Zambia UNZA

About

Project objectives:

popularize Russian science and education;
demonstrate Russian education & learning projects;
transfer innovative educational technologies;
widen the Russian language applications in the field of science and technology;
invite talented Zambian youth to bachelor's and master's degree programs at Russian universities.

Days of Robotics in Lusaka include:

exposition of robotics systems, devices and the interactive map of Russian universities;
lectures and master classes on the application of novel technologies;
workshops on assembling and programing robotic systems;
classes on programming and developing games in virtual reality;
demonstration of Russian educational and cultural projects using VR technologies.

SPbGETU LETI will also present achievements of the Russian science in the "Decade of Science and Technology" presentation The Days of Robotics and Innovative Educational Technologies in Lusaka are supported by the Rossotrudnichestvo Agency and conducted in partnership with the Russian Center for Science and Culture (Russian House) in Lusaka.

Program

Days of Robotics and Innovative Educational Technologies in Zambia

October 29-31, 2024, Lusaka,
National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA)
Visiting Session - University of Zambia (UNZA)

For students

Exposition

Mechatronics & Robotics

Virtual worlds and technologies

Games to learn

Test yourself

For teachers

Mechatronics & Robotics

Virtual worlds and technologies

Learn by playing

Russian universities

Project team

Teachers

Alexander Motyko

Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Television and Video Engineering at St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"

Anton Filatov

Candidate of Technical Sciences, Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematical Support and Computer Applications of St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI".

Grigory Belsky

Senior lecturer of the Department of Automatic Control Systems.

Roman Shestopalov

Lecturer at the Department of Mathematical Support and Computer Applications at SPbGETU "LETI". Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs in the Faculty of Computer Technologies and Informatics

Organizers and partners

Anastasia Minina

Vice Rector for international affairs SPbSETU «LETI», Project Leader

Svetlana Kovaleva

Director of the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Lusaka

Dmitry Kirillov

President and co-founder of Modum Lab, a technology education company creating digital solutions and VR projects for professional skills development.

Tatiana Talalaeva

Head of International Project Office SPbSETU «LETI» Deputy Project Leader

Galina Alferova

International Project Office Manager SPbSETU «LETI», Project Manager

Rufina Kalimbekova

International Project Office Manager SPbSETU «LETI», Project Manager

Alexander Zhuravlyov

Videographer

News

LETI Wins a Grant to Promote Russian Engineering Education for Zambian Students and Schoolchildren

Autumn 2024, ETU “LETI” will conduct an educational event in Zambia. The project centres on robotics and VR and aims to attract Zambian students to Russian universities, as well as to present innovative educational technologies to international audience.

05.07.2024