The event, held in Chelyabinsk on February 20th and 21st, was attended by the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Alexey Texler, the leadership of South Ural State University, technology partners, industrial enterprises, executive bodies of our region, and the Skolkov Foundation.
During the discussion, the Governor noted that in current conditions, the integration of science, universities and production has a special priority. The Inter-university Campus is designed to solve this problem. An ambitious project is being built in Chelyabinsk following the instruction of Vladimir Putin as part of the Science and Universities national project. Thus, the total area of the Campus’s Research and Education Complex with its unique laboratories will be more than 40 thousand square meters.
Student infrastructure will be built in three stages (construction of student hotels, Research and Education Complex, and Multifunctional Conference Centre). Work at all stages is carried out in accordance with the schedule. The first stage facilities (two student hotels) will be commissioned in March 2024.
The content of the Inter-university Campus project, which was formed jointly with the Ministry of Education and Science, leading universities and enterprises of our region, includes three main research and education fields: Intelligent Manufacturing, Modern Materials Science, and Living Systems Technologies.
"We will comprehensively develop our traditional industries on the campus − mechanical engineering, metallurgy, electronics, instrument engineering, and a number of others − by accelerating their technological development through the introduction of robotization, digitalization, new materials, and other technologies, which will ultimately ensure the technological sovereignty of our country, our region’s leadership in these areas and, of course, the high rates of development of the economic potential of our region. On the other hand, we form and develop new competencies, including projects at the intersection of technologies, using end-to-end technologies," emphasized Alexey Texler.
The session participants also noted that the unification of science, education and industry in one space will form an ecosystem necessary for the implementation of innovative, breakthrough ideas and the rapid introduction of new products to the market or the improvement of technologies of domestic enterprises. The regional Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs is providing assistance in solving this problem.