OREANDA-NEWS. On June 06, 2008 Sberbank signed a Co-operation Programme with St Petersburg State University’s Graduate School of Management, reported the press-centre of Sberbank.

Under this Programme, the best School students will be invited as trainees and later, as employees to Sberbank where they will be given opportunities to research and work on their graduation papers.

Lecturers from the School will offered research facilities at Sberbank which may benefit from the implementation of their research results in terms of operational efficiency. Sberbank will be financing the School to create an academic environment using the best practices of the best international business schools.

The expertise of the Graduate School of Management in manager training will be used to coach managers for Sberbank who will be offered multiple training programmes at the School (such as short-term trainings, specialised courses, modular training). The Bank’s leading experts will be able to continue their studies at the Higher School of Management (MBA, post-graduate and doctorate courses).