CISCO Russia Head Office to be Located at Skolkovo. CISCO Will HelpRussia Prepare Staff for ...

One of the key partners of the Skolkovo Foundation, CISCO company, has signed two agreements in the frameworks of the Skolkovo project.

CISCO Russia Head Office to be Located at Skolkovo. CISCO Will HelpRussia Prepare Staff for ...

Signing took place during the meeting of the working group on innovation of the Bilateral Russian-American Presidential Commission under the chairmanship of the Vice Prime Minister of the Russian FederationVladislav Surkov and under Secretary of State of the USA for Economic Growth, Energy and EnvironmentRobert Hormats.

Skolkovo Foundation and CISCO company, world leader in the sphere of information technologies, have signed a memorandum of understanding. According to this document, CISCO Russia will locate its head office in the building with laboratory areas that will be built on the territory of the Skolkovo Innovation Center. The building shall start operations not later than September 2015. The memorandum was signed in Washington by the president of the Skolkovo Foundation Victor Vekselberg and vice-president of CISCO for global policy and relations with state authority bodies Michael Timmeny.

Today’s event is a milestone in the cooperation of Skolkovo Foundation with the CISCO group of companies which is among our key industrial partners. At present this includes more than thirty major Russian and foreign corporations who intend to establish their research centers on the territory of our innocity and investing more than a billion dollars. Such cooperation fully corresponds to the philosophy of the Skolkovo eco-system, an important part of which is openness for completion of international projects and close international cooperation requirementconcluded the President of the Skolkovo Foundation.

The same day the CISCO group of companies signed a memorandum of understandng with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technologies (SkolTech). According to this document, SkolTech and CISCO will launch an educational programme for administrative, scientific and managerial staff. The programme implies full-time studies in the USA for the time period of one to two weeks for a group of 30 people. The composition of the group includes representatives of state bodies, scientific and business communities. The aim of the programme is to familiarize Russian programme participants with the latest achievements in the sphere of innovative development. Educational programme includes such topics as are cyber safety, cloud calculations, venture investments, etc. The main premises shall be SkolTech and CISCO headquarters in San Jose (California). Lectures shall be given by leading world experts. Studies of the first group will be conducted in September-October 2013. CISCO shall provide students with the possibility to work on next generation experimental projects, which will give them the possibility to receive important technical and business skills, necessary for work in a competitive global landscape.

The agreement was signed by the vice-president of SkolTech Alexey Sitnikov and CISCO Russia director for relations with state authority bodies Mikhail Pakhomov.

Establishing relations with world leaders in the sphere of high technologies, SkolTech moves in the same direction, as all leading technical and research educational institutions worldwide. Establishment of such relations is necessary for commercialization of science developments and is beneficial for professors and students, as well as industrialistsstated Alexey Sitnikov.


The memorandum of understanding was a natural result of cooperation between CISCO and Skolkovo Foundation. Educational and scientific-technical programmes developed by CISCO and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technologies will promote the development of Russia’s ICT sector which has strategic importance for the country’s economicsmarked Mikhail Pakhomov.

Signing of the agreements with CISCO took place in Washington in the frameworks of the meeting of the working group on innovations of Bilateral Russian-American Presidential Commission under the chairmanship of the Vice Prime Minister of Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov and under Secretary of State of the USA for Economic Growth, Energy and Environment Robert Hormats. The group of Skolkovo Foundation employees participating in the meeting was headed by Victor Vekselberg.



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