The main objective of the initiative was the presentation of some of the thesis projects of the students who this year are completing their master’s degrees as part of the scholarship program between the Caribbean nation and Russia.
The meeting was attended by the advisor for Education and Science of the Cuban embassy in the Eurasian giant, Gustavo Cobreiro, along with other Antillean diplomatic representatives, as well as the vice-rector of International Relations of the IEM, Alexander Tarasov.
In exclusive statements to Prensa Latina, the director of Development of the Integration Policy of the Russian house of higher studies, Anastasia Mashkova, explained that her institution is a basic partner of the Cuban Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) in the training of highly qualified personnel for the energy industry of the largest of the Antilles.
“Since 1996, more than 400 specialists have been trained through internship programs. Currently, more than 40 representatives of energy companies from the Republic of Cuba study at our university in additional education programs in the form of internships, undergraduate and graduate programs,” the director highlighted.
Mashkova explained that together with the University of Havana and Minem they are working to implement the IEM Directed Training Center, a site that will become a platform for the improvement and recycling of personnel and the Cuban energy industries and those of several Latin American countries.
In that sense, Rafael Sosa, a master’s student at the Cienfuegos Thermoelectric Power Plant, argued that thanks to the innovative technologies and methods to which they have access at the Russian study center, they can develop knowledge and experiences and then put them into practice in the entities of the Caribbean nation.
“The project we are carrying out helps us delve a little deeper into the steam generation process, how to make it more efficient, how to obtain better results, how to reduce fossil fuel consumption by having stable operating parameters for the system, applicable steps in our generation plants,” he specified.
For her part, Odalys Sanchez, a worker at the Isla de la Juventud Electrical Company, who is currently pursuing her Doctor of Science degree, stated that the training process in the Slavic nation is an example of the collaboration maintained for years between Russia and Cuba. Likewise, she highlighted that the IEM is a symbol of high Russian energy standards, allowing those who study there to equip themselves with the strategy, methodology, research, experiments, laboratories, which make it possible to reinforce knowledge and then apply it in Cuban institutions.
The activity was a favorable setting to remember the revolutionary leader Antonio Guiteras Holmes (1906-1935), who on January 14, 1934 signed the intervention of the misnamed Cuban Electric Company, an occasion for which 43 years later, after the revolutionary triumph, Electrical Worker’s Day was declared in Cuba.
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