St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University - one of the largest and oldest technical universities in Russia. For many decades the university has a successful international cooperation in education and science with many foreign universities, research institutions and industrial companies.

Cooperation agreements with universities, research organizations and firms are among the most effective forms of collaboration of scientists of the Polytechnic and foreign experts.

List of university partners in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and America, research organizations and industry partners can be found at SPbSPU website.

University works with partner companies and higher education institutions on international students recrutment:

1. Companies 
 

• «Centre for Russia-China Cultural and Educational Cooperation» (China)
• «Russia-China Foundation for Culture and Education» (China)
  
• «Beijing JJL Overseas Education Consulting & Service» (China)
  
• «Asociacion Latinoamericana Rusa (ALAR)» (Peru)
  
• «AVRUSIA YURTDISI EGITIM» (Turkey)
  
• Ltd «Leto» (China)
• Ltd «Eastern Union» (China)
• «South Central University of Forestry and Technology»
  
• «Normal University of South China» (China)
  
• «Zhejiang University» (China)
  
• «Beijing University of Technology» (China)
  
• University Binh Duong (Viet Nam)
  

 
2. Partners of Educational Program "International Business Semester"

• ABO Academia (Finland)
  
• Ecoles des Dirigeants et des Créateurs d’entreprise (EDC) (France)
  
• ESDES School of Management (France)
  
• FHWien University of Applied Sciences of WKW (FHW) (Austria)
  
• Fontys University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands)
  
• Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) (Finland)
  
• HZ University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands)
  
• International School of Management (IDRAC) (France)
  
• Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) (Finland)
  
• Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany)
  
• Ludwigschafen University of Applied Sciences (Germany)
  
• Mosbach University of Cooperate Education (Germany)
  
• Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences (Finland)
  
• State Unitary Enterprise "Vodokanal of St.Petersburg" (Russia)
  
• The INSEEC Group (France)
  
• University of Joensuun (Finland)
  
• University of Kuopio (Finland)
  
• Upper Austria University of Applied Science (Austria, Steyr)
  
• Worms University of Applied Science (Germany)
  

Departments IIEP SPbSPU also active joint research and educational work with the leading Russian and foreign universities, companies and research organizations.

Partners of Department of International Cooperation Management

• Institute of International Education, Stockholm University (Sweden)
• Department of Higher School Management, Republican Institute of Higher School, Belarus State University (Belarus) Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland)
  
• Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education, UFFIC (The Netherlands)
  
• University of Innsbruck (Austria)
  
• University of Genoa (Italy)
  
• University of Milan (Italy)
  
• Center for Studying Russian and Soviet Culture, Bochum University of Applied Sciences, (Germany)

Partners of Department of International relations

• University of Tampere - Taampereen yliopisto (Finland) 
  
• Linguistic Center of the University of Tampere (Finland) 
  
• Higher Vocational School of Saimaa (Finland) 
  
• Higher Vocational School of Kymenlaakso (Finland) 
  
• Higher Vocational School g.Kayani (Finland)
  
• Mälardalen University (Sweden) 
  
• Malgomayskulan gymnasium, Wilhelmina (Sweden)
  
• Forestry University, Changsha (China)
  
• Technical University, Changsha (China) 
  
• South Pedagogical University, Guangzhou (China) 
  
• Zhejiang University (China)
• University of Chengdu (China)

Partners of Department of Information technologies in design

• KyAM Kumenlaakso University of Applied Sciences (Kouvola, Finland)
• HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Hildesheim, Germany)
• ÉCV The school of visual communication (Paris, Bordeaux, France)
• PoliMi Politecnico di Milano, Facoltà del Design (Milan, Italy)
• l’École de Design Nantes Atlantique (Nantes, France)
• Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (Helsinki, Finland)
• TAIK University of Art and Design Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)

Partners of Distributed Intellectual Systems Department

• City University, London (UK)
• Technische Universität München (Munich, Germany)
• Università degli studi di Milano (Milan, Italy)
• Lappeenranta University of Technology (Lappeenranta, Finland)
• "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu (Romania)
• Leibniz Universität Hannover (Hannover, Germany)
• Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland)
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
• Carlos III University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
• Czech Technical University in Prague (Prague, Czech Republic)
• Warsaw University of Technology (Warsaw, Poland)