A business meeting of Academic Directors of the Centers for Advanced Study and Education Program in Moscow, on August 25.

In the conference they deliberated on a matter of the Board of CASE-Directors formation as well as discussed network projects and new patterns of Program development.

During the session the following Network Projects were discussed:

• Social aspects of power engineering development
• Social aspects of travel corridor development and security issues
• The research on the population flow
• Language adaptation issues: in a comparative aspect
• The integration of Russian higher education in European structures
• The role of universities in regional development and other

The directors reached an agreement on starting these projects in the nearest time.

Academic directors of the CASE-Programs, representatives of the Ministry of Science and Education and heads of the ISE-Center taken part in the meeting are below:

• Sergei  A. Gubin, the Ministry of Science and Education
• Sergei  V. Devyatkin, Academic director of Novgorod CASE-Program
• Vasily  P. Zinoviev, Academic director of Tomsk CASE-Program
• Andrei  V. Kortunov, President of the ISE-Center
• Alexander  S. Kravetz, Academic director of Voronezh CASE-Program
• Irina  V. Laktionova, Executive Director of the ISE-Center
• Velichan  S. Mirzechanov, Academic director of Saratov CASE-Program
• Anatoly  I. Narezhny, Academic director of Rostov CASE-Program
• Gennady  N. Novikov, Academic director of Irkutsk CASE-Program
• Vladimir  N. Sokolov, Academic director of Far-East CASE-Program
• Gennady  M. Fyodorov, Academic director of Baltic CASE-Program
• Igor  I. Zhukovsky, Manager of Baltic CASE-Program
• Maxim  B. Chomyakov, Academic director of Ural CASE-Program
• Tatiana  A. Vagina, Coordinator of the ISE-Center