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On 13 January Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov took part in a ceremony of opening a college for training qualified specialists in IT and robotics at the University of Innopolis. The college established as a pilot project will enroll first 75 students in 2025-2026 academic year, and, speaking at the ceremony, Roman Shaykhutdinov emphasized its strategic importance in the context of national tasks.
On November 23–24, Innopolis University will host the IT festival for schoolchildren and students “Formula of the Future” with master classes and panel discussions on careers in startups, big tech and science, educational lectures on the exact sciences, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, optical phenomena and space, and a job fair. The event will also include “Physics and Mathematics Breakthrough” – the first in a series of festivals of the regional project of the same name for schoolchildren of 7-11 grades with lectures, interactive stations and math puzzles.
On 23 May, speaking at a solemn lineup on the occasion of the school graduation ceremony for students of the Innopolis Lyceum, which teaches gifted schoolchildren from all over Russia, Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov stated that Innopolis is a unique platform for the development and realization of the lyceum graduates.
On 15 May during the official walk round of the exhibition organized on the sideline of the XV Internationals Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum-2024”, Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov told the honorary guests about the domestic produce and unique digital solutions represented at the exposition of residents of the Innopolis Special Economic Zone and the Innopolis University.
Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the extension of the project on creating advanced engineering schools until 2030, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said. The total amount of co-financing until 2026 will be about 60 billion roubles. Another 20 more such schools have been selected, which will start operating in the new academic year. Thus, the entire system of advanced engineering schools will cover 50 universities in 23 Russian regions.
On 15 February Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov, representatives of the Innopolis University and Vice-president of Rostelecom Company in development, the member of the University Expert Council Dariy Khalitov took part in a meeting held by Russian Minister of Science and Education Valeriy Falkov in Moscow, where universities-participants of the unique project of advanced engineering schools made reports for 2023.
On 4 December Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov together with representatives of the administration of the City of Hangzhou took part in a ceremony of opening an office of the Innopolis University in China, which will be used for promotion of the University and Tatarstan products and educational services in the Chinese market and fostering of the mutually beneficial trade turnover.
At its meeting the supervisory Council of the Innopolis University has approved the appointment of Aleksandr Gasnikov – who graduated from MFTI, has the PhD in Physics and Mathematics, is the famous scientist in AI and Mathematics and Professor of the HSE, Skoltech and the Institute of Information Transfer- to the position of the University Rector.
On 9 November the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Russia Dmitriy Krutoy accompanied by Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov came to the City of Innopois where he visited several infrastructural facilities of the IT city and the Special Economic Zone of Innopolis, including the Center for Robotics and Mechatronics Components Technology, the Unmanned Technologies Center, the AI lab. Electronics and Micro-electronics Design Center and the Center for Support and Development, the objectives of which is to develop science-consuming robotic products and services for industrial partners and to implement new educational programmes.
On October 24, Tatarstan delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Roman Shaykhutdinov arrived on a working visit in the Republic of Uzbekistan to establish cooperation in information and communication technologies.