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UIC to Hold Session at Rail Fair EXPO 1520
A session of the International Union of Railways (UIC) to discuss the higher education reform in Russia involving a shift to the Bologna system is to take place during the V International Fair of Railway Equipment and Technologies EXPO 1520.
The International Union of Railways (the UIC, fr. Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer) is a global non-governmental international railway transport organisation. Today, its members include 198 railway companies from 90 countries on five continents. The list of active members includes 81 representatives (with railways and companies from Europe, Russia, Central Asia, North and South Africa, India, Pakistan, China, Japan, Korea, Kazakhstan and other international companies). UIC’s major concerns are as follows:
- to encourage exchange of best practices among the Organisation’s members (benchmarking);
- to support UIC members in their efforts to develop new businesses and areas of activity;
- to propose new ways for improving operational and environmental performance of rail transport;
- to expand interoperability, create new global standards for railway applications (including common standards with other modes of transport), etc.
The Fifth International Rail Fair EXPO 1520 will be held at the VNIIZhT Experimental Ring in Sherbinka, Moscow, on 2-5 September 2015. It will be a venue for presenting advanced railway equipment and technologies manufactured by Russian and overseas railway engineering companies. National railway authorities in various CIS, European and Central Asian countries, operators and leasing companies, freight owners and carriers are the key customers of these products. Owing to the high standard of the Fair’s organisation, its unique character and scale in the 1520-gauge area, as well as active involvement of international companies, numerous high-ranking government officials, heads of railway ministries and CEOs of major European corporations visit the event as distinguished guests and delegates. In September 2013, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI) acknowledged the international status and superior organisation of EXPO 1520.
General Partner: Russian Railways
Organiser: Business Dialogue
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