As a part of the international student mobility program, online lecture courses exchange between KNRTU and Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya started on November 13 and will continue until the end of December. The course of lectures entitled "Trying to understand Russia: the crossroads of geopolitical, sociological and cultural studies" is given to a group of Indian students by Professor, Doctor of Social Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Industrial Policy and Business Administration Andrey Tuzikov.

A Professor, Doctor of Social Sciences, Director of the Institute of Innovation Management (IIM) Raushania Zinurova was the main initiator and manager of the project of interaction with Indian universities. In the framework of this exchange academic cooperation continues since 2015, when our faculty members won a business case competition at Indian Institute of Management Raipur, and in 2016, Indian students underwent training courses in the framework of MBA program on the basis of KNRTU Institute of Innovation Management.

Currently, the parties are negotiating for giving "Data Science" course by Indian colleagues to the students of the Institute of Innovation Management, Faculty of Industrial Policy and Business Administration, who study within the following training programs: "Statistics", "Economics", "Management". The project is coordinated by the leading analyst of the Institute of Innovation Management (IIM), Candidate of pedagogic sciences, Associate Professor Elena Turner.