Orenburg state university

Doctors, musicians and designers: collaborative efforts to rehabilitate patients

Delegates from KU Leuven (Belgium) visited OSU. Prof. Marc Van Hulle and Prof. Tigran Maytesyan participated in All-Russia Scientific Conference “Innovations in Social Sciences and Humanities: strategies for fundamental and applied researches”. The guests gave lectures and discussed possibilities for cooperation.

On the first day of the visit international visitors met OSU leaders. Marc Van Hulle presented KU Leuven which is in the 30 top-list of European universities. It has 15 schools and the Medical School that both professors belong to is one of the best. It has its own hospitals for conducting researches.

On the same day the guests had a meeting with the colleagues from the OSU Institute of Innovations in Social Sciences and Humanities and Massmedia. In 2018 specialists from the Department of Design suggested an idea for rehabilitation technologies for disabled patients.

Visitors from Belgium made a tour around the university and visited its Museum of OSU History and the observation deck at the top of the OSU Library.