UrFU Personnel Policy For International Employees
The strategic goal of Ural Federal University's development is to create a center for education, research and innovation aligned with international standards in the Ural Federal District. Ural Federal University is intended to become the core of this center. The main mechanism for implementing the goal is the cooperation of the university with global research and educational centers and corporations, as well as with the institutes of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (UB RAS).
Employment of international experts plays a significant role in strengthening of human resources and achievement of strategic goals. That is why UrFU attracts teaching staff with experience in the world's leading universities, research centers and international corporations from priority areas.
Key human resources management policy priorities for international employees:
Recruitment activities are mainly focused on specialists who have strong academic ties with the university. The university employs first of all those with whom there are already stable contacts (joint publications, research projects). Thus, Ural Federal University expects to maintain personnel relations in part-time mode, when a specialist returning to his/her own university or transferring to another university maintains ties with Ural Federal University (as a researcher, lecturer or member of academic councils of laboratories and centers of excellence, expert and editorial boards).
At the same time the university does not set as a priority goal the long-term retention of foreign employees (the minimum period of work under an employment contract is from 1 semester; the maximum period is not limited and is determined in each case).
The key task of UrFU personnel policy for the period up to 2030 is to form around the foreign contingent a new generation of Russian scientific and pedagogical staff with skills and competencies necessary for the successful promotion of the university in the international scientific and educational space.
Practices of academic support for foreign specialists at Ural Federal University:
Additional support for young foreign scientific and pedagogical staff at Ural Federal University:
Foreign specialists are also provided with comprehensive information and administrative support at all stages of their work at the university: from issuing invitation letters to get to Russia for employment to the end of their employment period.
There is a specially created structural unit assisted by an institution of supervisors, who assist foreign specialists in all matters related to work at the university, as well as personal inquiries and possible critical situations.
Currently, the top priority countries for Ural Federal University in hiring of foreign specialists are China, India, Egypt, and the countries of Central Asia.
Created / Updated: 14 March 2022 / 6 April 2022
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