Traditional autumn economic conference in Ekaterinburg

14:27, October 30, 2014

UrFU rector Victor Koksharov told about plans to revive the Ural engineering school

According to the rector of Ural Federal University Victor Koksharov, qualitative characteristics of human capital now play a major role in the development of industry and the economy in general.

The head of the university told the participants of the 9th inter-regional conference "The Points of Economic Growth of the Urals" about relevance of the problem of revival engineering school. The conference took place at the residence of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region in Еkaterinburg.

Leading analysts, representatives of the scientific community and enterprises of the region gathered to discuss the opportunities of developing the economy of the Urals in terms of sanctions.

The conference " The Points of Economic Growth of the Urals" is organized by media holding "Expert", business magazine "Expert-Ural" and Ural Federal University.

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.