JSC Atomenergoprom and National Research Nuclear University (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) signed a cooperation agreement in the area of education, research and personnel training. The document provides for the training of specialists meeting Atomenergoprom’s requirements at NRNU. Furthermore, the document emphasizes that the parties will develop and implement  joint research projects, coordinate joint activities in providing career guidance and educational outreach programmes to the students, cooperate in job placement assistance for NRNU graduates and in creating economic premises to enable young scientists to conduct research.

Atomenergoprom will assist in making contacts and signing agreements in the area of education, research and personnel training between NRNU and own subsidiaries and affiliates. The company will provide NRNU with competency requirements the graduated should meet and recommendations for the curriculum contents. NRNU, in its turn, will get an opportunity to enter into agreements on goal-oriented training with JSC Atomenergoprom’s subsidiaries and affiliates, as well as with students. The parties will also organize internships and completion of students’ graduation projects at JSC Atomenergoprom’s subsidiaries and affiliates, and coordinate the subjects of  students’ graduation projects (graduation theses), research work and term projects.

‘The Russian nuclear industry is a science intensive and high technology area and therefore it requires highly qualified specialists. The cooperation agreement signed with the National Research Nuclear University represents yet another step towards creating a talent foundry for the Russian nuclear power industry complex on the basis of the university’, said Jumberi Tkebuchava, Deputy Director of JSC Atomenergoprom.

Mikhail Strikhanov, NRNU (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) Principal, believes that ‘the agreement will enable the University to cooperate more efficiently with Atomenergoprom enterprises resulting in interesting and prestigious job offers to its graduates’.