Regional Governments and Businesses Establish Supervisory Board for Ural REC

21:03, May 17, 2020

Key stakeholders of three regions come together to coordinate the development of the Ural Interregional Research Education Center

The governors of the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions signed the agreement on creation of the Supervisory Board of the World-Class Ural Research and Education Center — ‘Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials’.

The Supervisory Board includes the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Ural Federal District Nikolai Tsukanov, the Governors of Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, and Kurgan Regions, 1st Deputy to the Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia Sergei Tsyb, two General Managers of Chelyabinsk and Kurgan entrprises: Vladimir Degtiar of Makeyev Design Bureau (a defense complex enterprise), and Dmitrii Paryshev of Kurgan Steel Bridge Company, joined by the Head of UrFU's Supervisory Board Dmitrii Pumpianski, TMK's CEO - one of the world’s leading producers of tubular products for the oil and gas industry.    

The Center already unites the potentials of educational and scientific institutions and organizations of the real economy sector of the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions in conducting world level applied research and designs, obtaining competitive technologies and products and their subsequent commercialization, as well as training for solving scientific and technological problems pursuing a goal of breakthrough development in priority areas and increasing the competitiveness of the economies of the subjects in the perimeter of the center.

The project of the research and educational center is realized in a complex of projects of creation of world-class scientific centers on the basis of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Innovative Scientific and Technological Center 'Tatishchev'.

Centers’ active work, together with the potential of already present regional innovated infrastructure, allows to unite the existing formats of cooperation and support measures for projects of all levels of technological readiness (from exploratory research to pilot production) and stimulate the development of new formats of scientific and technological cooperation.

In the framework of their activities, the REC participants will solve scientific problems and generate breakthrough solutions that are aimed at promoting the development of subjects within the REC and to bring significant economic effect in a span of 5 to 10 years.