“It is essential for our reputation that MEPhI wins in 5/100 Project and is recognized as global competitive university at world level,” said Sergey Kirienko, the General Director of State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM, delivering a speech at Strategic session for MEPhI on September, 23. In his overview lecture for university representatives he stressed, that transformations in Rosatom and the ones, which need to be made in MEPhI, have the same logic. “Either we change to correspond to the needs of the modern market, or we’re absent on it,” Sergey Kirienko said.

According to him, modern requirements need inclusion of education into the list of Rosatom services. “MEPhI service is a part of the overall list as well as uranium, steam generators, reactor vessels. We can’t sell a power station if it doesn’t include competitive education. This creates strict requirements to MEPhI in personnel training,” ROSATOM General Director stressed.

This means, that, apart from professional knowledge, which “is good in MEPhI”, there is a need in European certification – a specialist should correspond to European level requirements.

Another important indicator is an ability not only to find technical solutions, but also understand the economics of technical solutions.

One more thing is the research requirement. Innovative technologies have become crucial, when the “main players” on the market have changed. “How can we be interesting for China? Only by innovative technologies. The researchers’ training is a separate task, a student should be involved in research,” ROSATOM General Director stressed.

Sergey Kirienko paid attention to the necessity of the development of international university partnership, growing of the number of lectures in foreign language, the development of innovative teaching methods.

“MEPhI has made a great job since the start of the year, the reputation has changed sharply. It has a rich history and legendary past, but is able to change. And this is only the start,” Sergey Kirienko said.

His speech, after which spoke the Head of JSC “Rusatom Overseas Inc” President Evgeniy Pakermanov and MEPhI rector Mikhail Strikhanov, was a great start for the second stage of Strategic sessions for MEPhI.

The next stage of the Strategic session is planned to be held on November, 4-5, 2016.