The National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI” is recognized as a leader in the performance indicators of the Project 5-100 in 2015. It was announced at the XV seminar-conference of participants of the Project 5-100, which ended the other day in Yekaterinburg.

Commenting on this statement, the rector of MEPhI Mikhail Strikhanov told RIA Novosti that the Project 5-100 had given a powerful impetus to the development of the University. “There is a remarkable influx of young people to science, our scientists are increasing publication activity, more employees are being involved in the process of scientific development”, — he said, adding that he was very pleased that the results of the work of a large MEPhI team are reflected in official statistics.

The formed rating of the effectiveness of the Project implementation is the sum of points for 8 indicators, including positions in international rankings, the number of publications in Scopus, the average citation index, the share of foreign students, etc.

The rector believes that the participants of the Project 5-100 need to work “on all fronts”. So, according to Mikhail Strikhanov, in 2014 MEPhI has created so-called Centres of excellence, which together with the existing Departments will be transformed into a new for MEPhI large structures — Institutions. “We're talking about autonomous and student-oriented structures which will combine science, education and industrial innovations and also develop interdisciplinary interaction”, he explained.

Source: RIA Novosti (in Russian)