On 6 November Sergey Goncharov, Herzen First Vice-Rector, had a meeting with Tatiana Bodrova-Gogenmos, Director of ESIT, University of Sorbonna Paris-3. Both parties stressed the importance of signing the cooperation agreement between the universities to promote a wide range of international cooperation programs, to improve the quality of training and technical support. They also agreed that the pending MOU Universities Consortium conference to be held at Herzen University in April 2015 will be yet another step in building up the relations between Herzen and Sorbonna-Paris-3. Irina Aleexeva, SCIT Director, and Angelique Antonova, SCIT Deputy Director, also took part in the meeting.