Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the campus development program in Russia will be expanded. The publication reports that “Vedomosti”.
In the near future the program will affect 17 objects and will be expanded in the future. Campuses should become a platform for the exchange of experience and joint work of students, postgraduate students and teachers of all universities in the country.
Construction of ten facilities in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Chelyabinsk and Kaliningrad will be completed by the end of March 2021. The total cost of creating 17 campuses exceeds 500 billion rubles.
The head of state emphasized that the campus grounds will be a platform for the exchange of experience and implementation of joint initiatives of students, postgraduates and teachers of all universities in the country.
Before that, Alexander Rudakov, an expert at the Expert Institute for Social Research (EISR) statedthat the campus construction project is a manifestation of qualitatively new approaches to training the next generation of specialists. According to him, the large-scale modernization of the conditions of student life and scientific activity initiated by Putin throughout the country will create new growth points throughout Russia.
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