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Far Eastern Federal University set to turn in innovation centre

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13/11 Tass 79

VLADIVOSTOK, November 13 (Itar-Tass) -- The Far Eastern Federal
University intends to turn in an innovation centre for regional
development. This higher education establishment will develop on six
priority trends, including the world ocean resources, the industry of
nanosystems and nanomaterials, economic, technological and cultural
cooperation with the countries in the Asia-Pacific region and others.
These trends were determined at a joint meeting of the academic boards
of four Primorsky higher educational establishments, which will be
incorporated in the federal university.
"The education of personnel and research on these trends should ensure
a real breakthrough in the education system in the Far East," rector of
the Far Eastern Federal University Vladimir Miklushevsky said. Alongside,
an important competitive advantage of the Far Eastern Federal University
will remain close cooperation with the Far Eastern branch of the Russian
Academy of Sciences and partnership relations with leading scientific and
educational centres for the exchange of educators and educational programs
in the future.
"To become a centre of innovations and development in the Russian Far
East is the most important task for the federal university, which should
contribute to the decline in the population outflow and to the attraction
of young people in the region," the rector noted. "No less important task
is to turn in a gateway for the countries in the Asia-Pacific region in
Russia and for Russian business from all regions of our country in the
Asia-Pacific regional countries," Miklushevsky pointed out.
The academic boards of the universities approved a new development
concept of the Far Eastern Federal University. The concept was developed
by 65 experts, which are employees and students from four Primorsky higher
educational establishments incorporated in the Far Eastern Federal
University, representatives from the Far Eastern branch of the Russian
Academy of Sciences and officials from the Primorsky territorial
authorities and the office of the Russian presidential plenipotentiary
representative in the Far Eastern Federal District and the innovation
corporation RUSNANO.
The compound of the Far Eastern Federal University under construction
on the Russky Island in Vladivostok will become a venue for an APEC summit
in autumn 2012. The compound of the new university spread on 200,000
square meters of administrative and academic buildings, a hotel and a
dormitory for 5,000 people. The university will educate the students on 19
specialities in physics and mathematical and natural sciences, 25 -
engineering and technologies, six - health care, 26 - humanities and
social sciences, 16 - economics and management, 24 - education and
pedagogy, 14 - culture, arts and catering services, as well as on 94
specialities for post-graduate students and 36 specialities for the
doctorate.
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