Roscosmos to Support Ural Scientific and Educational Center

16:50, July 22, 2019

According to Dmitry Rogozin, the aerospace industry needs new innovative projects

Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of the Russian Federal Space Agency, expressed support for the World-class Interregional Scientific and Educational Center “Advanced Industrial Technologies, New Materials and Energy”, which is being created in the Urals. This is stated in Rogozin’s letter to the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Ural Federal District Nikolai Tsukanov.

‘Given the importance of creating the Scientific and Educational Center with the purpose of industrial technologies development in Ural Federal District, and taking into account the need of the aerospace industry in development and launching of new innovative projects, including such fields as artificial intelligence, automated systems of “smart cities”, and unmanned vehicles, the Roscosmos state corporation supports the participation in the project of creating the Scientific and Educational Center of the NPO of Automatics and other organizations of the Roscosmos state corporation’, says the message.

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Ural Federal University initiated the creation of a World-class Scientific and Educational Center in the region. The center will unite the potentials of universities, academic institutions and enterprises of the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions in conducting world-class applied research and development, creating competitive technologies and products and their subsequent commercialization. In addition, the center will be focused on training personnel for solving scientific and technological problems with a view to breakthrough development in priority areas and increasing the competitiveness of the regions’ economies in the perimeter of the Center.

The agreement on the creation of the Center was signed in July 2019 at the International Industrial trade fair INNOPROM by the heads of the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan Regions.