The Federal Research Centre set up in Kazan

On November 15, at a meeting of Tatarstan Presidential Council on Education and Science, a programme for the development of the Federal Research Centre which was established at the Kazan Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences by the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations was presented.

Opening the meeting, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov noted the importance of uniting the scientific and technical potential of the republic. "Special economic zones, technoparks, engineering centres offers the opportunity to profit from research results in Tatarstan. Specialists of the Innopolis Special Economic Zone and the KAMAZ Automaker will develop approaches for creating a centre for computer engineering in order to meet the needs of machine building enterprises in modern software products and technological solutions in the near future," the leader of the republic said.

Chairman of the Kazan Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences Oleg Sinyashin told the meeting about the prospects for the development of the Federal Research Centre. He clarified that the centre was established as a result of the reorganization of seven institutions by their joining to the Kazan Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. They include the Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry, the Kazan  Zavoisky Physical-Technical Institute, the Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, the Institute of Mechanics and Machine Building and the Research Centre of Power Engineering, the Tatar Research Institute of Agriculture and the Tatar Research Institute of Agrochemistry and Soil Science, and the polyclinic of the Kazan Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

"From now on, the Federal Research Centre will represent the academic science of the region, federal and regional authorities, as well as the Russian Academy of Sciences," the speaker emphasized.

According to him, the modern research centre has a powerful personnel potential, with more than a thousand employees, including 600 scientists.