Dr. Sc. Alexander Grudzinskiy

Vice-Rector International Affairs and Innovations in Education

Dean Faculty for Management and Business
Head Chair Sociology of Management
Professor, Doctor of Science in Sociology
Candidate of Science in Physics and Mathematics

Tel. +7 (831) 462 - 30 - 08 Fax +7 (831) 462 - 31 - 06 E-mail: aog@unn.ru

Lobachevski State University of Nizhni Novgorod 23 pr. Gagarina 603950 Nizhni Novgorod Russia

Alexander Grudzinskiy was born in 1955. He graduated from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1977, and then he worked as an engineer at the Department for Automatic Control Systems at Krasnoe Sormovo Plant (Gorky, USSR) for two years (1977-1979).

Alexander Grudzinskiy started his academic carrier as Teaching Assistant (1979) at the Software Department of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics (Nizhni Novgorod State University). His Candidate of Science Degree in Physics and Mathematics (1985) followed a postgraduate course at the Computer Centre of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow). After that he worked as Senior Lecturer (1985-90) and Docent (since 1990) at UNN. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Danish Technical University (Lyngby, Denmark) in 1990-1991.

Today Dr. Sc. Grudzinskiy is Head of the Centre for Continuing Education (since 1986), Dean of the Faculty for Management and Business (since 1994), and Head of the Chair Sociology of Management (since 2005). He is Vice-Rector for International Affairs since 2003. He also worked as Head of the UNN Department for Technology Transfer (1996-2003) and Head of the UNN Centre for the University Management Studies (2003-2005).

Dr. Alexander Grudzinskiy is Executive Committee member of the Deans' European Academic Network (DEAN) and DEAN Ambassador in Russia (since 2001).

Dr. Alexander Grudzinskiy is an originator, project team member and coordinator of a large number of international projects at the State University of Nizhni Novgorod:

• Team's member of the IREX (USA) University Administration Support Program Project «Creation of the University Analysis and Planning Support Office: Ensuring Strategic Planning Sustainability in UNN» (2005);
• Project Coordinator of the TEMPUS-Tacis Project UM_JEP-24069-2003 «Achieving Bologna through Total Quality Management» (since 2004);
• Deputy Chairman of the Academic and Methodological Council for the TEMPUS-Tacis Project CD_JEP-23225-2002 «Analytical Master for Improved Economic Expertise» (since 2002);
• Deputy Coordinator of the TEMPUS-Tacis Project UM_JEP-22240-2001 «Becoming an Entrepreneurial University» (2002-2004);
• UNN Coordinator of the Project IST-2001-35449 ADMIRE-P «A Dense Multilevel Network for ICT Research Co-operation between the European Union and Privolzhsky Federal District» (2002-2005);
• UNN Coordinator of the TEMPUS-Tacis Project IB_JEP-21100-2000 «Democratic Mechanism for Agricultural Development» (2001-2004);
• Local Consultant of the Tacis /9804/TN RUS Project «Nizhni Novgorod Regional Transport Development» (1999-2002);
• Team's member of National Training Foundation (World Bank) Project «Methodological, Educational, and Organizational Innovations for Improving the Quality of Training in the Field of Socio-economic Disciplines (Sociology, Economics) in Nizhni Novgorod Region» (2000-2003);
• Team's member of the European Commission's TEMPUS-Tacis T_JEP-10767-1999 «Statistics for Regional Needs: Structures and Programs» (1999-2003);
• Coordinator of the joint project with Villanova University (Villanova, USA) «Summer Program "Business and Society in Russia"» (1999);
• Team's member of the National Training Foundation (World Bank) Project «The Development of Training System for the High-qualified Personnel for the Financial and Managerial Activity by Means of the New Information Technologies Application» (1998-2000);
• Team's member of the European Commission's TEMPUS-Tacis M_JEP 10461-98 «Mobility and Recognition in Financial Studies» (1998-2001);
• Scientific Coordinator of the European Commission's INCO-Copernicus Programme FITT Project «Modernization of Food Processing Industry Trough Reciprocal Technology Transfer EU-Lithuania-Russia» (1998-2001);
• Team's member of the European Commission's Esprit Programme ENRIN Project «A Proposal to Enhance Co-operation of European and Russian Industry by Regional Information Nodes» (1998-2001);
• Team's member of the European Commission's INCO-Copernicus Network of Excellence 977122 IDEALIST-East Project «Information Dissemination and European Awareness Launch for the IST Programme» (1998-2001);
• Project Coordinator of a joint project with Taylor University (Upland, USA) to promote an MBA programme in UNN (1996-1998);
• Team's member of the European Commission's TEMPUS-Tacis T_JEP-08536-94 «Public Economics» (1994-1997);
• Manager of the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization's Project «Development of SME in Russian Regions» (1993-1995).

Dr. Alexander Grudzinskiy has published more than 120 papers in national and foreign periodicals. The State Committee for Higher Education recommends his tutorial to HEI students.

Dr. A. Grudzinskiy's field of research is now sociology of management, university management, and knowledge transfer.

Publications in English:

• Grudzinskiy A.O. The University as an Entrepreneurial Organization // Russian Education and Society. A Journal of Translations, January, 2005. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, NY 10504
• Grudzinskiy A. A project-oriented approach to university management. //Entrepreneurialism and the transformation of Russian universities. UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 7-9 rue Eugene Delacroix, 75116, Paris, 2004, pp. 122-137
• Grudzinskiy A.O. Responding to new consumers / Proceedings of the Deans' European Academic Network Third Annual Conference, Berlin 8-10 October 2001, Freie Universitat Berlin, pp. 43-53
• Ezhevsky A., Grudzinskiy A., Rekshinskaya A., Balabanov A., Leontiev N. R&D potential of Privolzhsky Federal District for Participation in IST FP6 // Building the Knowledge Economy, Issues, Applications, Case Studies, IOS Press, Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington DC, 2003, Part 2, pp. 1538-1544.
• Grudzinskiy A.O., Ezhevski A.A., Pekushkina O.A Integrating Russian RTD Potential to EU Scientific Community: Regional Aspect // Conference on Technology Transfer and Innovation, Unlocking The Innovation Potential, Programme and Papers, Commonwealth Institute, London, 2000, pp. 72-78.
• Grudzinskiy A., Balabanova E. A Model of West-East Technology Transfer to Food Processing Industry // Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "West/East Technology Transfer in the Context of European Integration", Kaunas, Lithuania, 2000, pp. 20-31.
• Grudzinskiy A., Balabanova E., Kudryashov Yu. Food Processing Industry in Nizhni Novgorod Oblast': Entrepreneurial Data // Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "West/East Technology Transfer in the Context of European Integration", Kaunas, Lithuania, 2000, pp. 32-42.

List of selected publications in Russian can be found on the Russian version of this web-page. The texts of selected publications (in Russian) are placed on the web-page http://ecsocman.edu.ru/db/msg/154196.html.

For the elaboration and application of an innovative concept of staff retraining in the context of social and economic reforms Alexander Grudzinskiy received in 1997 the Nizhni Novgorod Award in Science and Higher Education.