Ural Federal University to train specialists for BelNPP jointly with BNTU, BSUIR

The Ural Federal University (UFU) of Russia will train specialists for the Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP) that is currently under construction according to the education programs developed jointly with the Belarusian National Technical University (BNTU) and the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (BSUIR), BelTA learned from the press service of the Russian university.

For example, the UFU and the BSUIR agreed to open a master's program with the working title Electronic Systems of Control and Management of Physical Units. The decision was taken during the recent visit of a delegation of the Ural Federal University led by First Prorector Anatoly Matern to Minsk, the press service informed. Students from Belarus will have an opportunity to undergo training at the Institute of Physics and Technology of the UFU.

The BSUIR is also willing to cooperate with the Institute of Radioelectronics and Information Technologies of the UFU in a number of similar specializations.

The Ural Federal University is the largest federal university in Russia. It has graduated over 300,000 specialists. The university occupies one of the leading positions not only in the Ural region, but in the entire country. It is considered to be the leading university in the region in terms of international cooperation. Today it has some 200 cooperation agreements with foreign universities and scientific centers. A similar agreement was signed with the Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus in 2011.

The Belarusian nuclear power plant is a project to build an AES-2006 type nuclear power plant 18km away from Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast. The first power-generating unit is scheduled for commissioning in 2018, with the second one not later than in 2019.