Education and Science, EU – Baltic States, Latvia, Russia

The aim of the agreement is to promote higher education cooperation between Estonia and Russia as it determines the principles and directions of the higher education cooperation. The cooperation takes place in common projects of universities and by participation in conferences, seminars or symposiums.

The sides issue grants and support projects connected to studying and teaching Estonian language and culture in Russia and Russian language and culture in Estonia. As the result of the agreement of universities and the Archimedes foundation, Russia is one of the four priority states in 2008-2015 in higher education foreign marketing besides Finland, China and Turkey.

The agreement with Armenia enables to expand cooperation in Eastern partnership states and facilitates education, science and youth cooperation with Armenia. The agreement supports the plan of the education and science ministry to pay more attention to Eastern partnership states in compiling grant programmes targeted at foreign states target groups, reported LETA.