Natalia Kirichenko, Associate Professor from SibFU and Senior Research Associate at Sukachev Institute of Forest, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, reported a rapid invasion of the lime leaf miner in Eurasia and developing genetic (DNA barcoding) libraries for quick and reliable identification of forest insects pests at the international LE STUDIUM conference "Insect Invasions in a Changing World" which was held in Orleans, France, 17-19 December 2014.

Department of Linguistics and Cross-Cultural Communication, School of Philology and Language Communication of Siberian Federal University in cooperation with Krasnoyarsk Regional Association of English Language Teachers “KELTA” are happy to announce the 2nd International Foreign Languages Olympiad for university students.

Four SibFU's representatives have taken part in the first stage of a new project launched by the Federal Agency and Russian Geographical Society.

Sergey Verkhovets, SibFU's Vice-Rector (Research and International Collaboration), visited Changchun in North-Eastern China. Dr Verkhovets was among other Krasnoyarsk delegates who visited the Chinese city to exchange experience and develop collaboration, particularly, in research and education.

XXIX World Winter Universiade's web site published the Master Plan for arranging winter students' games in Krasnoyarsk. It gives an opportunity to learn about the main document that regulates arranging students' games.

SibFU obtained international accreditation for its Master's programmes at the School of Business Management and Economics. Experts approved of the Master's programmes in Management, Economics, and Information Studies.

Natalia Demyanova and Maria Sentyurova, Master's students from the Institute of Economics, Management and Environmental Studies were shortlisted for the final competition of Russian-German «Young Visions Award» competition. The competition was hosted in Saint Petersburg from 22 to 23 September 2014.

SibFU's Law School launched a Master's Programme with double graduation certificates. The agreement to this end was signed by SibFU's rector and the President of the University of Passau (Germany). This gives law students a unique opportunity to learn the legislation of both countries.

SibFU received 3 stars in 2014 QS Stars ranking. This result has not changed since 2013 when the university was also ranked at this level. Quacquarelli Symonds Limited, a British agency, ranked the university by eight indicators. SibFU received the highest scores when assessed by the indicators of innovation, teaching, infrastructure, and demand for its graduates.