A competition is announced among students at SFedU to get a rector's scholarship to study at a foreign partner university during the spring semester of the 2023-2024 academic year. The Rector's scholarship is intended to  cover partially the costs of staying abroad for students wishing to study at a foreign partner university during the semester. 

On September 21, the grand opening of the V Forum of the Rectors of the Universities of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Cuba took place in the Fundamental Library of Lomonosov Moscow State University in the Hall of the Academic Council. The Rectors' Forum was held within the framework of the Decade of Science and Technology announced in Russia. The organizers from the Russian side were the Russian Union of Rectors and Lomonosov Moscow State University, from the Cuban side — the Ministry of Higher Education of the Republic of Cuba.