The list of universities participating in the Priority 2030 Program has been announced. The Commission of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education has put more than one hundred universities on this list, including South Ural State University. SUSU has become the only Program participant representing the Chelyabinsk Region.
The Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Valery Falkov announced which universities had been chosen to participate in the Priority 2030 Program. This is the most grand-scale program for state support of universities in the history of our country.
The list included 106 universities, with 60% thereof being regional ones. The Commission approved as many as 4 applications from universities of the Ural Federal District at once. The Chelyabinsk Region is represented by the leading university in our region – South Ural State University.
"We were most thorough about our decisions on each of the universities. We were not assessing the current achievements or reputational and scientific groundwork. We were assessing the program, its feasibility, the rector and the team, and, of course, we were measuring it all up against the national goals of development of our country and the regional agenda," shared Valery Falkov.
The main goal of SUSU within the frameworks of the Priority 2030 Program is to develop its strategies as a research university, build up its international standing and the experience of international collaboration.
"We are focused on opening new laboratories, strengthening activities for the development of sciences together with foreign partners, scientists from high-ranking scientific schools, and members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. We are going to attract young candidates of sciences, postgraduate students, and our graduates to work in the key areas, for which we filed our application," commented SUSU Rector Aleksandr Shestakov.
SUSU will receive 100 million roubles (basic part of the grant) for the fulfilment of the planned projects. In addition to that, South Ural State University became one of the 18 universities recommended for consideration for special part of the grant in the "Research Leadership" track. These assets will allow universities to perform breakthrough scientific research and create science-intensive products and technologies to boost the social and economic development of regions. The additional competition will be held on October 1st.
The Priority 2030 Program is aimed at forming a wide cohort of leading universities (about 100 universities), which will ensure the accelerated introduction of innovations into the economy and social sphere.