University reported annual progress in Priority 2030 program in Moscow
The Priority 2030 Council convened under the chairmanship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education of Russia Valery Falkov.
The KFU team, apart from Rector Lenar Safin and key project leaders, included President of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences Rifkat Minnikhanov.
In his report, the Rector noted that the University adheres to selected objectives and moves forward rapidly. Some of the KPI – R&D funding, international admissions, non-degree programs, and digitization – are progressing ahead of schedule.
“The main impetus for transformation is set by policy drivers. In education, this is a new intelligent digital service for continuous monitoring and adjustment of educational programs in accordance with changes in labor market requirements. In science – the launch of joint programs with OIC countries, supercomputer modeling projects with the nuclear center in Sarov, support of student scientific communities with an more than tenfold increase in coverage. The inclusion of university observatories in the UNESCO World Heritage List was a recognition of the merits of Russian science, increasing its prestige and recognition,” said the Rector.
A breakthrough has been reached in educational export, with 7,000 individuals enrolling in preparatory courses in several countries and two overseas – one opened in Uzbekistan in 2022 and one planned for opening in the next month in Egypt.
In particular, platform technologies were developed to create and produce innovative drugs for the treatment of orphan diseases, oncological diseases, and diseases caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Notable progress was also made in the field of catalysts creation – a technology unparalleled in the world was developed, which makes it possible to use alkali metal compounds to remove sulfur and reduce the viscosity of heavy oil, including inside the reservoir. A technology for obtaining flexible superconducting composites was developed, which solves the problem of import dependence in the domestic instrumentation of MRI scanners.
In computer science, a system for compensating for lost vision was created, and methodologies for reducing the risks of robot-human interaction of collaborative robotics were synthesized. In addition, unmanned technology is actively used.
As part of the project to improve the quality of human potential together with the region, the university has started actively scaling up digital solutions to identify at-risk schoolchildren at an early stage. More than half a million children have already undergone psychological diagnostics. Together with Movement of the First, a project was launched to engage young people in positive activities, including through digital reality.
At present, Priority 2030 involves 132 universities in 54 Russian provinces.