The Experts Discussed Urgent Issues of Energetics

12:10, March 31, 2015

The main topic of the meeting was the training of qualified personnel for the real sector of economy

Energy industry experts met in Ural Federal University to discuss topical issues of the energy sector.

Representatives of Ural Federal University including the Director of UrFU Urals Power Engineering Institute, Sergey Sarapulov and UrFU rector Victor Koksharov, and representatives of the Sverdlovsk Regional Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs took part in the discussion on March 26.

Ural Federal University cooperates with a number of major energy companies and enterprises of fuel and energy complex, included in the Sverdlovsk Regional Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs; in particular with "IDGC of Urals", "Gazprom Transgaz Ekaterinburg", "Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company" and many others.

Deputy Director of Strategic Initiatives Agency of the Russian Federation in the Urals Federal District, Alexander Vasilevsky, urged the leaders of energy companies to make proposals on optimization and structuring of the powers and functions of the federal executive bodies in the regulation of natural monopolies with the action plan "Development of competition and improvement of antimonopoly policy."

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.