The Open University Skolkovo starts in Moscow

The Open University Skolkovo – part of the Innovation Centre Skolkovo, created, in particular, as a source of undergraduates and graduate students for the future of Skolkovo University of Technology and interns for partner companies Skolkovo. The Open University is not an educational institution. The program of the Open University of respective areas of work innovation center Skolkovo, and also provides students receive entrepreneurial skills. The selection of the first members of the Open University was held this spring in six Moscow universities partner Skolkovo. "Guests of the event will be the first students of the Open University, qualifiers, and those who do not have lasted a little to win, but proved to be good at the time of selection procedures", – said in a statement. The event will be a lecture one of the first researchers in the field of AIDS, the founder of Human Genome Sciences Inc. William Hazeltayna ((William Haseltine). Innovation Center Skolkovo should become Russia's largest testing ground for new economic policies. At a designated area will be created special conditions for research and development, including creating energy and energy efficiency technologies, nuclear, space , biomedical and computer technology.