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In Novosibirsk, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko moderated the plenary session of the XII International Forum of Technological Development "Technoprom-2025" and also assessed its exhibition.
The topic of the plenary session was personnel for technological leadership. It was attended by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Ekaterina Priezzheva, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education Denis Sekirinsky, Rector of Tomsk State University Eduard Galazhinsky, Acting Rector of MSTU "Stankin" Boris Padalkin, Chairman of the Central Council of the All-Russian Society of Inventors and Innovators (VOIR), Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education Vladimir Kononov, Governor of the Novosibirsk Region Andrei Travnikov, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Knyaginin.
"One of the areas in which Russia is a technological leader is the nuclear industry. This morning we were at SKIF and saw for ourselves that our specialists in this area are the best in the world, because SKIF is made almost entirely without any imported components. It was a revelation to me how quickly our science and our specialists were able to implement import substitution in this most important area, to truly ensure technological leadership," First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Alexander Zhukov addressed the forum participants.
Opening the plenary session, Dmitry Chernyshenko emphasized that for many years the Novosibirsk Region has become a place of attraction for representatives of science, education, business, federal and regional authorities, as well as foreign guests.
"This year, the forum brought together more than 19,000 participants from 71 regions of Russia and 32 countries. I am sure that there will be more. Today, the main topic was staffing for technological leadership. Here, we must focus on the May decree of President Vladimir Putin – the decree on national development goals for Russia. One of the key national goals is achieving technological leadership. This is an ambitious task, and its solution can only be achieved through advanced training of qualified personnel in demand for industries," the Deputy Prime Minister noted.
To achieve technological leadership, Russia needs specialists who can create unique solutions. This is important, among other things, for the implementation of nine national projects in key sectors of the economy. On the instructions of the head of state, all such national projects include separate federal projects for the advanced training of specialists in the relevant areas.
The Deputy Prime Minister recalled that the All-Russian Pedagogical Congress took place in August. Its central theme was the Education Development Strategy, which is being developed on the instructions of Vladimir Putin.
"It is important to define a single vector for the development of the educational system at all levels. Today, the school education system unites more than 18 million children and provides the opportunity for in-depth study of individual subjects starting from the 5th grade. Technologies are developing rapidly, so the level of school training in the natural sciences must keep up with the times," he added.
This is one of the objectives of the comprehensive plan of measures to improve the quality of mathematical and natural science education for the period up to 2030.
More than a thousand educational programs were conducted at the Sirius base within 116 shifts, about 80 thousand children successfully completed the training, including more than 34 thousand in the “Science” direction.
Governor Andrei Travnikov highly praised the ability of the higher education system of the Novosibirsk Region to respond to the challenges of the times.
"A very good example of the adaptability of the regional education system is the training of specialists for the SKIF Center for Collective Use. As soon as the decision was made that this project would be in the Novosibirsk Region, our two leading universities – NSTU and NSU – implemented 14 educational programs, and over 700 specialists were trained in three years. Today, 52 NSU graduates, research fellows, and another 11 employees – postgraduate students continuing their education – work in the SKIF Center for Collective Use project office," the head of the region said.
Dmitry Chernyshenko also noted that technological leadership cannot be imagined without professional workers.
"The system of secondary vocational education is a trend of recent years, and if in the 2000s only 10-12% of schoolchildren chose SPO, then in 2025 62% of ninth-graders will continue their education in colleges. Such specialists are in great demand by employers," he said.
According to preliminary results of the admissions campaign, applicants submitted over 3.3 million applications, which is 890 thousand more than last year. The federal project "Professionality" became the driving force behind the comprehensive reboot of the SPO system. To date, almost 2.5 thousand partner enterprises have joined the project.
Highly qualified engineering personnel should take on a key role in the development of new sectors of the economy. Today, about 1.4 million students are studying engineering specialties. In the upcoming academic year, more than 44% of budget places are set for this direction.
In order to improve the quality of engineering training, uniform requirements and approaches to the formation of key vectors for the development of engineering universities for the long term have been defined.
The training of personnel in demand on the labour market is carried out within the framework of the Priority 2030 programme and advanced engineering schools.
The quality of training also depends on the level of development of the educational infrastructure. At the request of the President, a large-scale project is being implemented to create world-class campuses. Within the first, second and third waves, 25 such campuses have been selected and are being actively built. By 2036, 40 such campuses will be created. By the end of the year, the Ministry of Education and Science will select the remaining ones.
Dmitry Chernyshenko also assessed the forum exhibition. For example, at the VOIR stand, inventors from Sevastopol presented a drone detector, and Omsk developers demonstrated a working model of the Omich robotic complex with a lifting capacity of up to 1 thousand kg. Novosibirsk innovators presented several developments at once: a dust suppression gel "Unigel Apuvis", which reduces air pollution in the city and at industrial facilities, an oil destructor – a paste based on a biologically active complex and humic acids to eliminate the consequences of oil spills and soil reclamation, a unique installation for water purification using the cavitation method. Novosibirsk educational organizations and research centers also presented their developments.
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