Ural Research Education Center Will Attract Talents to Facilitate Ural Economy

14:38, February 10, 2021

Dr. Vladimir Kruzhaev, the Deputy Vice-Rector for Science, held a press briefing on the Russian Science Day

Support and retention of talents in the regions will become one of the most important results of the work of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center of the world level "Advanced production technologies and materials". This will be done by an increase in the number of high-tech job places and the volume of R&D implemented into series products. This was stated by the First Deputy Vice-Rector for Science of UrFU Vladimir Kruzhaev at the round table "Leadership of Russian regions in the world scientific agenda." The event, which was held in a remote format, was attended by representatives of ten Russian scientific and educational centers, created in recent years within the framework of the national project "Science".

“Keeping talent in the regions will be possible due to the powerful socio-economic effect from the implementation of the Ural REC program, calculated until 2024,” noted Vladimir Kruzhaev. - We expect that the center's contribution to the growth of the GRP of the regions will be at least 15%, to the growth of industrial production in the regions - about 32%, and to the increase in the production of innovative products - about 36%. Also, over five years, the center's participants plan to create more than 3,800 new high-tech jobs, and more than 3,000 people will be trained in the REC competence centers in the interests of regional development. The total volume of R&D technologies developed and transferred for implementation will amount to over 1800. ”

The main goals of the UIREC are Russia's leadership in the field of creating advanced production technologies and new materials, ensuring a balanced advanced development of the country's leading industrial regions and interregional coordination of industrial and scientific and technological policies.

“Work in this direction will allow to adequately respond to the challenges facing the regions of the UIREC,” emphasizes Vladimir Kruzhaev. “This will open up access to the most important technologies for enterprises, reduce the gap in the level of socio-economic development of certain territories and improve the state of ecology of the centers of industrial development. REC will strengthen the innovative activity of the real sector of the economy and ensure the growth of investments in technology projects. "