Mission and strategy
KFU’s mission, as stated in its Priority 2030 statement, comprises:
- shaping the academic mainstream and the research agenda in response to global challenges;
- developing and promoting programs and projects of academic leadership in line with national priorities and objectives;
- preserving and fostering national spiritual and cultural heritage;
- developing people’s leadership and professional competences for a fast-changing world;
- transforming the regional economy through generating innovative system-defining projects.
The University’s vision for 2030 is becoming an open and sustainable institution; entering the global top-100 rankings in a number of subjects; uniting the cultural values of the East and the West; contributing considerably to the achievement of national goals; being a powerful driver of territorial development and a unique place of self-knowledge and self-realization; being a talent attractor; preserving classical university traditions while fully realizing an entrepreneurial spirit.
The University’s strategic goal is to become a powerful and self-developing multicultural academic ecosystem on the crossroads of civilizations based on historical heritage, provincial innovative potential, and advantages of a classical university; to transform into a regional development locomotive and enhance the province’s competitiveness through cultivating global values in the nation’s priority development areas.
Priority 2030
Priority 2030 is a new strategic academic leadership program set for the decade of 2021 – 2030. It aims to include over a hundred universities into territorial and nationwide development projects. Currently, there are two tiers of grant funding – general (100 million rubles) and special (up to 1 billion rubles, depending on the competition results).
The first disbursal session took place in 2021, and Kazan University successfully obtained both the general grant of 100 million rubles and the Territorial Leadership grant of 994 million rubles. The same was achieved in 2022.
The participants’ progress will be re-evaluated each year, and institutions may be both added to or eliminated from the program.