III International Youth Forum "Dialogue of Nations"

The Academic Leadership of the Technical University – Sofia invites you to the Third International Youth Forum "Dialogue of Nations", which will take place on September 26 (Tuesday) 2017 at 15:00 in Hall 3201.

More than three thousand students, PhD students, and young scientists will participate in a rich program of the III International Youth Forum "Dialogue of Nations" in four cities in Bulgaria: Sofia, Varna, Plovdiv, and Shumen.

As a partner, the Technical University - Sofia will host the initiative on 26.09. (Tuesday), Hall 3201. The Forum is held with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Embassy of Russia in Bulgaria, and

the South-West State University in the city of Kursk. This is a project aimed at comprehensive support for communication and creating long-term contacts with promising young scientists from Bulgaria. It is expected to stimulate the interest of Bulgarian youth in studying the Russian language as an interface for international scientific and technical cooperation, for creating Russian-Bulgarian scientific research student teams, and for conducting joint scientific creativity in the field of high technologies.

Theguest of honor will be the cosmonaut pilot, flight engineer Mikhail Borisovich Kornienko, with whom a special meeting will be held. He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, majoring in mechanical engineering. He has completed two space flights. As a flight engineer on the "Soyuz TMA-18" spacecraft and as a member of the longest mission on the International Space Station, where he spent 340 days, 8 hours, and 42 minutes with American astronaut Scott Kelly. Of these, 182 days he worked with his colleague, cosmonaut Sergei Volkov. The goal is to study the behavior of the human body during long-duration space flights over a period of almost a year, from March 2015 to early 2016, using the latest adaptation methods and studying human capabilities for flights in Deep Space with activities on the surface of the Moon and Mars in the near future. He has twice gone on spacewalks with a total duration of 12 hours and 17 minutes. (An interpreter is provided)