An employee of KBSU is a participant in the Digital Transformation Forum of Innopolis University

Release date: 07.12.2022

From November 24 to November 26, 2022, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov Timur Aramisov took part in the digital transformation forum in education, business and public administration Digital Innopolis Days 2022 (DID 2022) at the invitation of ANO VO «Innopolis University» (Republic of Tatarstan). The purpose of the forum is to sum up the key results of the work of the flagship educational and unified educational and methodological centers and the key results of the digital transformation of priority sectors of the economy.

The plenary session of the forum «Integration of education, science and industry: an impetus for the development of human resources and research potential of Russia» was attended by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko, President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, representatives of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation. During his speech, Dmitry Chernyshenko noted that at the moment Russia needs highly qualified specialists with digital skills to carry out effective import substitution. The government has already launched work on the consolidation of customers of scientific products.

On behalf of the Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin, 43 import substitution competence centers have been created, uniting more than 300 market leaders. The government has approved 216 projects, the creation, development and use of which will require more than 200,000 new specialists.

«This is the country’s largest forum for digital transformation in education, business and public administration. Representatives of federal sectoral ministries, leading universities and experts in the field of digital transformation worked here. I managed to visit the exhibition exposition of the forum, get acquainted with the stands of the Research Center for Artificial Intelligence of the Innopolis University, industry working groups synchronized in the areas of the ICC and the CCR. It was especially interesting to get acquainted at one of the sites with the results of the assessment of students’ digital competencies in 2022 as part of the Digital Departments federal project. After all, KBSU, as a participant in the «Priority — 2030» program, is already implementing the «Digital Departments» project of the federal project «Development of the personnel potential of the IT industry.»

The introduction of «digital departments» in the educational process of the university is aimed at creating opportunities for advanced training and obtaining a new profession in the field of information technology. Thanks to additional professional IT retraining programs, students receive new competencies in the field of information technology. Also, within the framework of the forum, it was possible to communicate with representatives of the Government of the Russian Federation, get acquainted with the digital solutions of Innopolis University and leading universities in educational activities, data management, personnel management and document management, — said Timur Aramisov, director of the KBSU Center for Sustainable Development, about the forum.

During the three days of the forum, representatives of the industry and universities discussed artificial intelligence solutions for transport and healthcare, the commercialization of educational organizations, metaverses, information security, and the creation of a national ecosystem for the development and use of open source. Experts of the assessment center of Innopolis University summed up the results of the assessment of students’ digital competencies in 2022 as part of the Digital Departments federal project. The forum also hosted an annual conference on the use of artificial intelligence in priority sectors of the economy, which brought together leaders and artificial intelligence specialists from the areas of public administration, digital manufacturing, transport and logistics, medicine, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.