On 20 April 2016, Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia Bodo Ramelow visited German-Russian Institute of Advanced Technologies. He was accompanied by Tatarstan Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Albert Karimov.
The Thuringian delegation comprised representatives of the Thuringian Parliament and Principal of Ilmenau University of Technology Peter Scharff.
The delegates have also participated in the opening ceremony of the German-Russian Engineering Centre “Mechanical Engineering” and Siemens Educational and Research Laboratory.