In January 2023, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation announced the start of an additional competitive selection of regional universities to participate in the Far East track of the “Priority 2030” program. By the beginning of March, the composition of 15 universities participating in the competition was determined. The projects for the development of educational institutions, presented by them, are currently being evaluated by the commission. The commission includes representatives of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic (FEDC), as well as the governors of the Far Eastern regions, rectors of universities, heads of large companies and state corporations. Based on this assessment, the Commission of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science will determine the winners. Universities that have prepared the most relevant and significant for the regions of the Far East development programs will receive financial support for their implementation.

Gasan Gasanbalaev, Acting First Deputy General Director of the FEDC, noted: “the task of development institutions in the framework of the competitive selection of universities is to identify the most valuable university programs, support their implementation, and become a link between higher education and the real sector of the economy. The implementation of the “Priority 2030. Far East” program will give impetus to the systemic development of universities in the Far East, attract new scientific and pedagogical personnel, and increase the attractiveness of universities for applicants, including those from other countries and regions of Russia.” 

Among the 15 regional universities, whose programs will participate in the competition for financial support, are: the Far Eastern State University of Railways (Khabarovsk), Buryat State University named after Dorzhi Banzarov (Ulan-Ude), Sakhalin State University (Yuzhno - Sakhalinsk), Arctic State Agrotechnological University (Yakutsk), Primorsky State Agricultural Academy (Ussuriysk), East Siberian State University of Technology and Management (Ulan-Ude), Amur State Medical Academy (Blagoveshchensk), North-Eastern State University (Magadan), Amur State University named after Sholom Aleichem (Birobidzhan), Vladivostok State University, Transbaikal State University (Chita), East Siberian State Institute of Culture (Ulan-Ude), Khabarovsk State Institute of Culture, Kamchatka State Technical University, Far Eastern State Institute of Arts (Vladivostok).

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