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The purpose of this project between several universities in the St. Petersburg area (Leningrad Region) and the University of Helsinki in Finland is the "training of experts for creation of a modern system of education and staff development for Leningrad Region on the basis of technologies of virtual reality.

Director, Andrey Khutorskoy describes this center as having "the following directions of the work - research in distant education, development of training methods in creative education technology, distant forms of creative education (courses, seminars, projects, olympiads). These distant forms of education are oriented to individual educational trajectories of the learners, development of their creative potential. Center "Eidos" has carried out such distant international projects as Heuristic Olympiad, "My Virtual Home", and "Phenomenon" among students of different ages and nations." Theiroriginal, creative works as well as other information about Distant Education Center "Eidos" can be found on their website.

This 5 year, extensive educational collaboration between Sweden's Uppsala University and the St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance provides management accounting course material, translated into Russian. This material been used to train more than 1,100 Russian students and managers with cassettes and printed resources (not by telecommunications).

A not-for-profit organization established in 1993, AIE supports innovativeeducational methods including distance learning projects withuniversities such as the State University of New York (SUNY) and the use ofcomputer and telecommunications technologies for the integration ofRussian universities into the world education system.