According to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Chelyabinsk Region, Vladimir Putin, during a visit to Magnitogorsk, approved a joint project of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works and Nosov Moscow State Technical University to create a scientific and engineering cluster based on the university.
The future center, which is already called the Magnetic Valley, will become a platform for the proactive development of breakthrough technologies in the mining and metallurgical industry. The point here is to combine the potential of one of the leading universities in the Urals and the competencies of the MMK Group. This synergy will expand the scale of direct integration of science and production, and will give the necessary impetus to the innovative development of the plant and the entire industry.
The formation of the scientific and educational campus is provided for by a memorandum signed by MMK and MGTU G.
I. Nosov in January this year. The project includes the construction of academic buildings and laboratories, as well as the modernization of the existing university infrastructure. The center will operate according to the model of a full innovation cycle, including the use of artificial intelligence technologies. The campus will be carefully integrated into the urban space and will become a comfortable student campus.
As Pavel Shilyaev, CEO of MMK PJSC, noted, the creation of such an innovation ecosystem is a logical continuation of the long–term mutually beneficial cooperation between the company and the university, which supports MMK in terms of staffing and development based on applied science. With its implementation, research in demand in the industry will be carried out at a new level.
MSTU Rector Dmitry Terentyev, for his part, emphasized that involving students in this activity would improve the quality of their training. "We are creating a system for accelerated practical application of scientific developments in industry. I would like to express my special gratitude to Alexey Texler, Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region, and Viktor Rashnikov, Chairman of the MMK Board of Directors, for their personal participation in the project," he said.
The project is being implemented with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in accordance with Decree 529 of the President of the Russian Federation dated June 18, 2024 "On approval of priority areas of scientific and technological development". The partners of the project, in addition to MMK, are the government of the Chelyabinsk Region and the administration of Magnitogorsk.
