RGUNH of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation will provide the agrarian industry with the IT personnel

2024: Granting Astra Linux Special Edition Licenses

RGUNH of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation will provide industry IT agricultural personnel, relying on Astra Group"" in their preparation, which announced this on August 19, 2024.

Astra Group considers this cooperation as an opportunity to form in even more universities a community of active students interested in obtaining advanced knowledge in the field of domestic technologies. The main goal of the RGUNH partnership Ministry of Agriculture RUSSIAN FEDERATION with Astra Group to integrate the Russian operating system Astra Linux is to its infrastructure to solve scientific educational and problems in the field of training managers for small towns and rural areas. countries

The vendor has already granted the university licenses for OC Astra Linux, and from the beginning of the school year, this operating system, as well as other products of Astra Group, will be studied by 134 students in the departments of digital systems, engineering technologies and economic development of rural areas. From the second semester (from January 2025), another 420 students will join the training.

The parties also actively cooperate on the implementation of the Astra Scholarship, Astra Career projects and joint events aimed at training IT personnel and popularizing Russian software. In addition, Astra Group specialists train university teachers to work with their products, and teachers will transfer the acquired knowledge and skills to students of specialized disciplines.

We are seriously approaching the development of the educational direction in the field of information technology. Our cooperation with one of the Russian universities of national economy makes it possible to grow highly qualified personnel who will be able to adapt to agricultural enterprises immediately after graduation and quickly build processes based on domestic IT solutions, "commented Alexandra Aleshkova, Director of the Education Department of Astra Group.

In the current conditions, the agro-industrial complex cannot develop without the use of technologies in the field of production management, data analytics, process automation. Vernadsky University sets itself the goal of training highly qualified personnel who have not only knowledge in the field of agro-industrial complex, but also the skills of IT specialists. These specialists will be in demand in the labor market, they will be able to make a significant contribution to the development of the agro-industrial complex, using their knowledge to increase production efficiency and solve urgent problems of the industry in rural areas. The introduction of Astra Group software into our learning process is an opportunity to provide students with access to technologies that are used in real work. We are confident that such cooperation will become fruitful and will allow us to prepare popular personnel for the agro-industrial complex of the 21st century, - said Alexander Batishchev, Vice-Rector for Project Activities of the Russian State University of National Economy named after V.I. Vernadsky.