Today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov had a videoconference meeting with Minister of Economy, Science and the Digital Society of Thuringia Wolfgang Tiefensee. This meeting took place within the framework of the annual session of the Tatarstan-Thuringia Joint Working Group. During the meeting, issues of interregional cooperation were considered in the field of education and personnel retraining, the results of joint activities were also discussed.
Active cooperation is underway between enterprises of Tatarstan and Thuringia; in particular, the German-Russian Mechanical Engineering Centre has been operating in the republic since 2016. From the moment of its opening, a large number of meetings have been held with enterprises of Tatarstan to create an atlas of the needs of enterprises, and this work continues to date.
The republic has also implemented the GRIAT educational project between Germany and Russia, opened in 2014 with the support from DAAD, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, and the Tatarstan Government.
At the end of the meeting, the parties agreed to continue joint work on the development of interregional cooperation and support each other in all areas of partnership.