Priority-2030 (university support program)

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2024: Attracting 136 billion rubles of industrial partners to universities

The state program of support for universities "Priority-2030" attracted ₽136 billion from industrial partners. This information was announced by Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Chernyshenko in Novosibirsk at the end of August 2024. According to him, the funds came from more than 6 thousand industrial partners, which indicates a high degree of business confidence in this project.

The Priority-2030 program is aimed at achieving technological leadership in Russia and covers 143 universities in 56 regions of the country. The most successful participants in the program were universities, Tomsk region where five out of seven higher educational institutions are actively introducing their developments into production. In particular, the development of universities Tomsk is already being used in such large companies as "," Rosneft"" and Gazprom neft"."Rosatom

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One example of the successful implementation of the program is the project of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), associated with the development of microtomographs for geological rock research. The press service of TPU noted that the new development made it possible to significantly improve the efficiency of the equipment and reduce the time for scanning samples several times. The device has already been put into operation and is actively used in the real sector of the economy.

In addition, within the framework of the Priority-2030 program, the Advanced Engineering Schools project is being developed, which covered more than 6 thousand people throughout the country. According to Chernyshenko, 160 laboratories were created within the framework of this project and over 700 new educational programs were developed. The leader of the project was the Republic of Tatarstan, where the best results were achieved in terms of the number and quality of initiatives being implemented.

The Deputy Prime Minister also stressed that the successful implementation of the Priority-2030 program has largely become possible thanks to the active participation of industrial partners, which allows universities not only to develop, but also to introduce innovative technologies in production. This factor contributes to increasing the competitiveness of Russian science and education at the international level.^[1]

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