UrFU presented hi-tech projects at an exhibition in China

11:50, October 19, 2018

XVII Harbin International Science & Technology Exhibition and Fair "45 Degrees North Latitude" was held on October 12 - 14

The exhibition attracted delegations from 15 countries which presented about 1 000 projects. The Russian delegation was represented by Ural Federal University.

UrFU stand presented 7 projects: the system of night vision Irway, medicine for calcium absorbtion "Reotsitan",  UrFU Model Factory of Lean Production, the analytical complex "Elsens Eco", pipe and coupling geometry quality control system "Geomera", Mapping, Diagnostics and Monitoring of Major and Industrial Pipelines by Quantum Magnetometry "Quantum Magnetic", and  the scientific enterprise "Inefir", which develops technologies for transmitting videos in the Internet.

Since the first day of the exhibition, the Chinese side took interest in UrFU projects. Moreover, the meetings with the Chinese investment funds took place during the event, marking the beginning of a number of cooperation negotiations.

In addition, Sergey Kortov, the first Vice-rector of UrFU, told about the program of federal importance "Smart Region".

‘Among our achievements is the project which we're launching in cooperation with the Sverdlovsk Region Government — "Smart Region". At the moment, the program is already adopted and the first 40 projects are created and set in motion. "Smart Region" is aimed at the transformation of the Ural region, and we invite our Chinese partners to take part in it,’ Sergey Kortov noted.

Apart from this program, the first Vice-rector told about the new cyclotron center of nuclear medicine, based in Ural Federal University, which will allow establishing diagnostic and health centers all over the Ural Region.

Sergey Kortov also mentioned the Agency of Innovative Technological Development of the Sverdlovsk Region which fulfill the functions of project office for the implementation of the "Smart Region" program in his report.

‘We agreed upon the creation of the network innovative center. The main goal of the center is to broaden the cooperation, arrange projects, and promote them in Russia and China’.

The first network innovative center was launched on October 13 in the city of Shenzhen. Such center is to be established in Russia in 2019.