Rustam Minnikhanov invites academicians to KAMAZ and Tatneft
09.01.2023
The Russian Academy of Sciences could perform the role of the integrator of the scientific centre in the Higher School of Oil in Almetyevsk and the mechanical engineering centre at Kazan Federal University in Naberezhnye Chelny
“If publications in international journalists used to be the main KPI indicators for a scientist, and these articles were often far from what was introduced in our production, now the times are changing,” President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Gennady Krasnikov explained the turn of Russian fundamental science to the needs of the economy. Tatarstan also hurries to establish closer contact with the scientific school. In late November, President of the republic Rustam Minnikhanov and the head of RAS signed an agreement on scientific and technological cooperation. The Russian Academy of Sciences can be an integrator of the scientific centre in the Higher School of Oil in Almetyevsk and the mechanical engineering centre at Kazan Federal University in Naberezhnye Chelny that was recently backed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. “They wanted to link these centres with you,” Minnikhanov voiced his wish at a board meeting of Tatneftekhiminvest-holding.
On 30 November, Kazan welcomed the top management of the Russian Academy of Sciences — new President Gennady Krasnikov who was elected in late September and Vice President Stepan Kalmykov who is considered the “main chemist” in the country. At the invitation of the administration of the republic, the new RAS team made a big presentation at the board meeting of Tatneftekhiminvest-holding in the morning and in fact set the agenda. It might seem what big fundamental science of RAS and Tatarstan’s industrial interests that haven’t been great friends have in common. It turned out that the new president of the organisation intends to intensify the cooperation with industrial partners in accordance with priorities of the country’s scientific and technological development amid the external pressure. RAS hasn’t been famous for having close cooperation with the real sector of the economy until recently.
RAS is going to cooperate with Tatarstan in chemistry and oil refining. Here young RAS Vice President Stepan Kalmykov who is the dean of Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University was given the floor. On his post, he supervises the department of chemistry and new materials. It turned out that the first collaboration between RAS and Tatarstan was in a related area — in ecology. In late April, a delegation of the Russian Academy of Sciences joined an environmental protection consortium where Tatneft was the industrial partner.
Read more in Realnoe Vremya’s report.