In 2024, Rostec State Corporation will double the amount of co-financing for advanced engineering schools implementing scientific, technical and educational projects in the field of aircraft and engine building, IT and electronics, mechanical engineering and the automotive industry in the interests of the Corporation. More than 1 billion rubles will be invested in R&D, as well as in the training and advanced training of specialists in strategic sectors of the domestic industry.
The federal project "Advanced Engineering Schools" (PISH) was launched in 2022 with the aim of training highly qualified engineers of a new generation capable of ensuring the country's technological sovereignty. Rostec joined the project immediately after its opening.
In 2022-2023, with the participation of the State Corporation, advanced engineering schools in the areas of aircraft engineering, IT and the automotive industry were opened on the basis of nine specialized universities – the Moscow Aviation Institute, Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Samara National Research University named after Academician S.P. Korolev, Ufa University of Science and Technology, Novosibirsk National Research State University, St. Petersburg State Maritime Technical University and Southern Federal University. The industrial partners were UEC, UAC, KRET, and KAMAZ companies that are part of Rostec.
In 2024, in cooperation with Rostec, advanced engineering schools will appear in six more universities – Omsk State Technical University, MIREA – Russian Technological University, Moscow State Technological University "Stankin", Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev, Rybinsk State Aviation Technical University named after P.A. Solovyov and Tula State university.
"In partnership with leading Russian universities, we are solving a large range of scientific and practical tasks on the basis of the University, promising research and development is underway. The key educational task of the Institute is to train specialists who are able to develop end-to-end technologies for solving production tasks of near and far planning horizons as part of interdisciplinary engineering teams. Rostec invests in the material and technical base of universities, the development and implementation of additional vocational education programs, and research activities. The volume of such investments is growing: in 2022 we invested 540 million rubles in the development of engineering schools, in 2023 – more than 730 million rubles, in 2024 the planned amount of financing for the project will exceed 1 billion rubles," said Nikolai Volobuyev, Deputy General Director of Rostec State Corporation, member of the Bureau of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia.
Each company, together with an industrial partner, will develop one of the priority areas. For example, in MIREA (industrial partner – Roselektronika) this is microwave electronics, in Stankin (partner – STAN machine tool holding) - mechanical engineering technologies, in Kazan NUST (partners – United Aircraft Corporation and Russian Helicopters) – aviation engineering and microelectronics, in Rybinsk GATU (partner – United Engine Corporation, UEC) – engine building technologies, in Omsk GTU (partners – UEC and Uralvagonzavod, UVZ) – industrial equipment and facilities technological equipment in the machine–tool direction, at Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University (partner – KAMAZ PJSC) – technologies of intelligent production, cars with a low / zero carbon footprint, at Tula State University (partner – High-Precision Complexes JSC) - creation of ground combat robotic complexes using artificial intelligence technologies.
To increase interest in engineering and technical specialties, the Personnel Management Department of Rostec State Corporation has developed a comprehensive model of advanced training of specialists - "school (engineering classes) – universities (educational tracks "Wings of Rostec", "Rostec Code", "Rostec Biotechmed")/PISH – enterprise/KB Corporation". Currently, more than 1,000 people, including university professors, are studying and improving their skills at Rostec. The Corporation's enterprises act as platforms for internships for university professors and experts from industrial partners.
