Skolkovo: MIT’s New Russian Connection

Skolkovo, a growing science and technology center outside of Moscow, is the site of new collaborations between MIT and Russian science, technology, and management leaders.

Update: In October 2011, MIT embarked on a new endeavor in international cooperation in higher education, research, and innovation with the Skolkovo Foundation and others to create SkTech, a new graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia.

The MIT Sloan School of Management is cooperating with the recently founded Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, housed in a compound reminiscent of a space station. With the new building open, Russia can now offer the country’s first full-time MBA program based on project-based education, a signature of Sloan’s approach.

The Skolkovo effort, said MIT Sloan Dean David C. Schmittlein in an MIT News Office article, "ties into MIT Sloan's mission, which is to develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world. Working with Skolkovo allows us to share and expand what we have learned about project-based learning and other approaches to management education. They will learn from us, and we will learn from them."

Take a video tour of the dazzling management building, and watch short videos of MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein and Skolkovo Dean Wilfried Vanhonacker commenting on the project.

In June, MIT signed a preliminary agreement to create the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Russia. If a collaboration agreement is reached, MIT would help the Skolkovo Foundation build a unique, world-class graduate research university. Stay tuned for more.