International relations
Russian Society has always highly valued the opportunity to grow along with the world professional community. Thus, supporting of the already established scientific and educational international partnerships and creating the new ones is one of the priorities for the Society.
Over the past few years, a lot of accomplishments have been achieved in this area. The Russian Society takes active steps to attract new media partners among global organizations, congress organizers, societies and associations. Promotion of the RSC events on English-language websites with high traffic is realized based on the non-profit agreement. In its turn, the Society provides its members with announcements about the future medical meetings that can be of interest to scientific workers, researchers and practitioners.
Since recently RSC staff members have started to take part in the exhibitions of international conferences representing the Society, its initiatives, social and educational projects, future meetings. Within this year the X Congress of Association of Cardiologists of Kazakhstan on June, 5–8 and National Congress of the Romanian Society of Cardiology on September, 19–22 have been visited. Next will be the 34th Turkish Cardiology Congress on October, 20-23.
International partners and all subscribed specialists and organizations regularly receive English email newsletter. It consists of the latest news about activities of the Society and its members, subscribers can review the future meetings announcement, find useful information. Thus far, nearly 1,000 people receive the newsletter.
In addition, RSC’s official Facebook account receives its own development. All posts are made in English exclusively which attracts an international audience. Different topics of publications create a widespread response of the social media users who are attracted to modern presentation style. The RSC Facebook page has around 1,300 subscribers, and their number is constantly increasing.
The mentioned activities have resulted in the organization of the joint symposia with several cardiac societies within the scientific programme of the Russian National Congress of Cardiology conducted with simultaneous translation. Russian-Turkish symposium (September, 25, 09:00–10:30, Ladoga Hall) as well as Russian-Serbian symposium (September, 27, 09:00–10:30, Ladoga Hall) can become a tradition. Next year the Congress will include a Russian-Romanian joint session.
