The signed agreement will allow active cooperation between ASE and the basic university of the nuclear industry of Russia MEPhI to train a wide range of specializations using innovative forms of training, research and preparation of students for practical work at the enterprises of the ASE Group.

"One of the strategic tasks of the ASE Group of Companies is the creation of an industrial and technological digital platform for managing the life cycle of complex engineering facilities based on Multi-D technology," Valery Limarenko, president of the ASE Group of Companies, said. "And the experience of MEPhI at carrying out fundamental and applied research in the field of digital technologies, creating information models of complex engineering facilities will make it possible to bring the process of training qualified personnel to a significantly higher level."

According to MEPhI rector Mikhail Strikhanov, innovative educational programs provide the opportunity to train teams of people who will be engaged in digital design. "We will try to select the best students in order to work together with ASE, they reached significant heights in digital design. They must fluently speak English, know the basic atomic technologies, design systems, should be good computer programmers, that is, they will concentrate a huge number of competencies. I think that together with the ASE we will introduce a new type of university graduate. "

The agreement provides for joint work of the university and the enterprise of Rosatom State Corporation in the field of developing scientific and educational programs and training personnel who are ready and able to work in the digital economy. This is the development of new forms of training specialists for the knowledge economy, for developing solutions in the field of digital production, developing technologies and training personnel in the field of working with large, including unstructured, data in the design, construction and operation of nuclear power plants.