Nine students of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI have became prize-winners of the World championship on professional skills by WorldSkills standards, which ended on August 27 in Kazan.

MEPhI joined the extended national team of Russia and together with the team of the Rosatom state corporation (strategic partner of the championship) took part in competitions in eight competencies.

Students of MEPhI won medals in six competencies and one prize without a medal. Among the winners are Vladislav Rozov (gold medal, "Manufacturing of products from polymeric materials"), Anisia Klimenko and Violetta Sharoglazova (gold and silver medals, "Quantum technologies"), Roman Berestov (gold medal, "Design of neural interfaces"), Dmitry Raspopov (silver medal, "Machine learning and Big Data"), Denis Baldov (silver medal, "Agricultural biotechnology"), Pavel Kiryukhin and Dmitry Khomyakov (bronze medal, "Development of virtual and augmented reality") and Michael Paskhalov (2nd place without a medal, "Laser technology").

"MEPhI joined the competition in the WorldSkills format three years ago, and current results have confirmed that students of our University have a high level of not only fundamental, but also applied engineering training. It is particularly important that our team shows good results in various national and now world level championships, in hi-tech and IT competencies, which are rightly called the "competences of future", said the rector of MEPhI Mikhail Strikhanov.

The 45th World Championship of professional skills by WorldSkills standards was held in Kazan from 22 to 27 August. The first part of the championship were massive competition FutureSkills with 25 promising professions that are in demand in high-tech manufacturing and digital economy.