PriorityFest | KBSU is in the TOP 10 in terms of team involvement in the implementation of the tasks of the Priority 2030 program

And again about a landmark event in the field of education and science — the Festival of best practices of the Priority-2030 program PriorityFest. October 13, 2023 acting Rector of KBSU, Professor Yuri Altudov took part in the session “DPO — a tool for transferring the achievements of strategic projects “Priority 2030”.

Representatives of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, the Russian Peoples’ Friendship University named after Patrice Lumumba, the Russian University of Transport, MIPT, MGIMO, Novgorod State University, and Stavropol State Agrarian University also took part in the discussion.

The moderators of the meeting — the head of the Laboratory of Continuing Education of Adults at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the Chairman of the Expert Council on Continuing Education under the Committee on Science and Higher Education of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Ilya Korshunov, and the Director of the MGIMO School of Business Anzhelika Mirzoeva, as the main thesis of the meeting put forward the question of the relevance of additional education programs professional education and their connection with strategic projects.

In his report, Yuri Altudov shared the experience of KBSU and noted that further education programs developed within the framework of strategic projects translate new knowledge into the educational process, thereby updating it and introducing institutional changes. Further education programs can be implemented jointly with other universities within the framework of consortia.

During the session, moderator Ilya Korshunov presented analytical data on the implementation of further education programs by universities. According to the criterion “Involvement of teachers in the implementation of further education programs,” KBSU took sixth place among 132 universities participating in the “Priority 2030” program.

Also on this day, as part of the PriorityFest festival, a special session “Best Practices of Priority 2030” was held, the purpose of which was to study and analyze the best practices of universities participating in the program.

The head of the FGNU “Sociocenter” Andrei Keller emphasized that the event will become an annual event and it will be disbanded according to politicians in order to discuss in detail this or that area of activity of universities:

We have taken the first step to collect best practices. We are following the path of restoring science at the Sociocenter. One of the significant tasks that we could do together with you is to assess the ratio of external and internal factors that contribute to the success of applying a particular practice for its subsequent replication.

Nargis Valamat-Zade, head of the department of examination and networking of the Federal State Institution “Sociocenter”, noted that when selecting the best practices for the festival, the expert group paid attention to several key criteria: the relevance of the practice in terms of the importance of the problem solved for the development of the region and industry; its effectiveness and replicability. Universities are finding new interesting mechanisms and solutions that allow them to implement the Priority 2030 program:

We decided to select the best practices in 3 specific areas: research policy, scientific and educational policy, human capital policy. As part of the selection, out of 134 applications, 60 made it to the semi-finals. Our expert group conducted a VQS with all the nominees so that through communication, and not on formal grounds, we could select the best practices.

Based on the results of the work, experts from the Federal State Institution “Sociocenter” selected 26 best practices, 9 of which were presented at the session of the PRIORITY FEST festival as exemplary ones.

Within the framework of the direction “Scientific and educational policy”, acting vice-rector for research at KBSU named after. HM. Berbekova Svetlana Khashirova spoke about the engineering center “Advanced Materials and Technologies”. The center was created as an ecosystem capable of combining science, education and production and solving a full cycle of problems: from the synthesis of materials to the final product, from a laboratory sample to pilot production and training world-class personnel in the field of polymer materials and additive technologies:

Thanks to participation in the program, we were able to close many disparate logical and scientific chains into closed loops and open new scientific directions. We have created the first domestic brand of medical superstructural polymer in our country, which is highly in demand as an implant in medicine. The implementation of best practices has made it possible to achieve a number of effects in research, educational policy and technology transfer. An important fact of the center’s functioning is its openness; our practice has already been scaled up to the country’s leading universities. Network laboratories were opened at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Tula State University, a laboratory was created at JSC Composite and at various branch institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Other best practices were also reviewed and discussed:

“Program for attracting young teachers to faculty positions” (presented by E.O. Vinnichenko, head of the HR group projects, head of the personnel department of Tyumen State University); “Program of additional professional education “IT Academy” (A.S. Govorkov, director of the Institute of IT and AD INRTU); “Accelerator of student and business projects MGIMO Ventures” (E.A. Kozlovskaya, head of the project “Innovation and Digital in Education” MGIMO); “Conducting external and internal examination of the implementation of strategic projects” (A.V. Korzhov, first vice-rector — vice-rector for scientific work of SUSU); “Creating an ecosystem of project activities” (L.V. Pankova, Head of the Directorate of Basic Educational Programs of SPbPU); “Creation of competence centers on the basis of universities and academic institutes, fully integrated into the industrial SRT in terms of scientific and technological work” (E.S. Sukhikh, director of the TPU REC); “Hiring personnel for remote work at Togliatti State University” (A.M. Shipilova, Vice-Rector for Human Resources Development of TolSU); career guidance project “Welcome to SamSMU” (K.I. Yantsen, Director of Personnel Management and Corporate Development of SamSMU).