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Электронное приложение к журналу «Международная жизнь»
Author : Yu. Sayamov
Professor, Head of the UNESCO Chair on Global Problems and Emerging Social and Ethical Chal-
lenges for Large Cities and Their Population, Faculty of Global Processes, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow
State University
IN SUMMER 2012, a delegation of the Faculty
of Global Processes of Moscow State University
established cooperation with the London Acad-
emy of Diplomacy. The following year, the hon-
orary director of the academy, Professor Joseph
Mifsud, took part in the Globalistics 2013 inter-
national congress at Moscow University, and, dur-
ing his stay in the Russian capital, suggested that
our faculty join a project to reform Link Campus
University in Rome to give it the nature of a gen-
uinely international educational institution.
Joseph Mifsud, who is a native of Malta and has headed one of the departments at the University
of Malta, proposed an overhaul of Link, a project that would combine some of the best aspects
of the Anglo-Saxon and classical European systems of higher education and involve use of
achievements by Russia, China and India and other non-Western nations that are higher education
leaders and have made significant contributions to current formats for training excellent spe-
cialists in various fields.
One of the borrowings from the Anglo-Saxon model was the campus principle. The campus
would be fitted with facilities for recreation, sports and participation in public affairs as well as
with residences. The classical European system would be the source of standards for education.
Non-Western achievements would be used to make education meet modern and future practical
needs, and for this reason the authors of the project were keen to cooperate with Lomonosov
Moscow State University, one of the world's leading universities and the flagship of the Russian
higher education system, a system that has rich traditions and unique experience.
This international center for research and education is expected to represent a new model of
campus, a campus that, on the one hand, provides students with all they need for education, de-
velopment and a fulfilling life but, on the other, does not isolate itself and intensively builds ex-
ternal ties in a bid to raise the university's education standards and ensure the organic involvement
of its graduates in international processes. Hence the words "link" and "campus" in the univer-
sity's name.
Link Campus is an integrated facility for high-level specialist training, advanced research, and
the development of educational and cognitive techniques to meet the needs of today's post-in-
dustrial information society.
The curricula of Link and our Faculty alike include international relations, the teaching of the
Link Campus, an International University in Rome