Siberian Federal University

The awardees of 2011-2012 competition are 147 students from 6 institutes: Law Institute, Institute for the Humanities, Institute of Education, Psychology and Sociology, Institute of Philology and Language Communication, Institute of Economics, Manangement and Environmental Studies, Institute of Urban Development, Management and Regional Economics.

The event will be attended by N.V. Gafurova, Vice-Rector - Academic Affairs, directors of the institutes, scholarship awardees studying humanities, social sciences and economics (history, archaeology, art history and art criticism, literary criticism, political science, law, psychology, sociology, linguistics, philosophy, economics, ethics and religion studies) and students from Siberian Federal University.

Oxford Russia Fund's mission is developing the humanities in Russia and providing financial support to the students from Rusian provinces. The Fund supports important educational initiatives and hosts joint Russian and British educational events.

Scholarships are provided to talented Russian students studying humanities, social sciences and economics or doing research in these fields. The project's participants are 20 leading Russian universities: Higher School of Economics, Ural Federal University, Southern Federal University, Far Eastern Federal University, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Yaroslavl State University, in particular.