Yesterday Oil Company RussNeft OAO and Moscow State University named after M.V.Lomonosov signed a cooperation agreement. According to the company’s press-service, the objective of the agreement signed by RussNeft President Mikhail Gutseriev and Moscow State University Rector, Academician Viktor Sadovnichy is to set up a corporate university on the basis of Moscow State University. The corporate university will be called “High School of Innovative Business (faculty) of MGU”.
The document specifies priorities in the interaction between the Parties. Those priorities include training of advanced specialists, professional development and refresher training for the employees of the oil holding company, developing and improving the material and engineering basis of the Moscow University.
In the framework of the Agreement Moscow State University after M.V.Lomonosov shall undertake to choose right teachers, a dean and staff members for the faculty, RussNeft shall undertake to participate in the development of syllabi and curricula, which will meet the requirements of the Company.
RussNeft President Mikhail Gutseriev said:
“The success of our project is in the combination of the academic qualification and theoretic knowledge of Moscow University’s teachers with the practical experience of oil-industry workers and possibility to put into practice new promising projects. I am confident that our cooperation will urge forward the process of training oil and gas industry workers and favourably affect the entire high school system of this country”.
Rector of the Moscow University, Academician Viktor Sadovnichy said:
“Such form of interaction between business and education as the corporate university is still rather new in Russia and we are only making the first moves in this area. Moscow State University possesses a unique fundamental scientific and educational facility to train well-qualified specialists in any area of knowledge including those associated with high technologies. The support of leading Russian companies, RussNeft being one of them, will enable us to combine the educational process with the present-day advanced practical experience and skills. Such combination will allow the graduates of the corporate university to become experts of the highest level and assume leadership.”
