Ulyanovsk State University

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Founded by Lomonosov Moscow State University, Ulyanovsk State University (from now on referred to as USU) as a multi-disciplinary, anchor regional higher educational institution and strategic center of education, science, culture, health saving, information and high technologies of Ulyanovsk Region, combining the traditions of classical and engineering education with the newest trends of Russian and global educational systems' development, education and research with innovative activities in the sphere of high technology, directing its potential and resources towards social and economic development of the region, ensures the development of moral, scientific, technological and cultural values of society through high-quality training of specialists in all spheres of vital activity determining prospects for further development of the main sectors of the economy and social infrastructure of the region. USU is a vibrant community hub that draws the intellectual and cultural elite to develop the material, scientific, humanitarian, and spiritual values. Being aware of its responsibility for high-quality education, achieving the formulated goals by quality management system implementation based on international standards criteria, USU continuously improves all types of its activity about all interested parties' requirements and expectations.

The choice of the priority guidelines of the university development is determined by the objectives of social and economic development of the Ulyanovsk region, the Volga Federal District and the country in general, by needs of the state for developing critical technologies and promising areas of science, requirements of society, enterprises, institutions and organizations of various forms of ownership for high-quality education, opportunities of effective use of the existing scientific and educational and innovative capacity of University, and also world tendencies of development in the field of economy, machinery, and social communications. Further development of research and innovative components demands systemic changes in the activity of the University.

According to the list of the priority guidelines of development of science, technologies, and engineering of the Russian Federation and the list of critical technologies of the Russian Federation, given the priorities in the modernization of the economy and the technological development outlined in the Message of the President to the Federal Assembly of Russia for 2010, current trends in the development of world science and also based on the personnel, scientific and educational, innovative and material infrastructure which is available at University, partner ties in Russia and abroad the following priority guidelines of development of University have been established:

• Health saving systems".
• The industry of nano-systems and materials".
• Power and energy-saving".
• Information and telecommunication systems".
• Rational natural resources management".

The strategic objective of the university development for 2011–2020 is to achieve and strengthen positions in the group of leaders of the Russian higher education and to become an innovative research university of the international level meeting all the criteria of a leading university, as one of the advanced centers of education, science, culture, health saving and high technologies of the Ulyanovsk region, the Volga Federal District establishing itself as a leader in the following areas:

• Satisfying the requirements of the developing innovative economy of the region and the districts in personnel that is competitive on the global market of knowledge and technologies, and also in providing scientific, technical and technological solutions of complex problems of territorial development and implementation of large programs of social and economic development of the region
• Implementation of high-quality, innovative educational programs in the sphere of secondary, higher, post-degree, postgraduate, and additional professional education
• Performance of basic and applied researches at a high level and development on a wide range of sciences, and also bringing results of intellectual activity to practical application based on the integration of science, education, and production
• In the field of innovative technologies by developing intellectual and material base, including the resource capacity of innovative structures as University, and partner enterprises (science and technology parks, business incubators, the innovative and technological centers, the centers of a transfer of technologies, small enterprises, business schools, etc.)
• Creating the developed educational, scientific, innovative, and health saving infrastructure of higher education institution, joint structures with the leading scientific centers, research institutes, enterprises, and the organizations in Russia and abroad.
• In the field of information and telecommunication technologies, in the improvement of academic programs and information means of support of all main processes of activity of University.
• In the sphere of open education with a system of remote access to the resources using educational portals and systems of video conferencing, including telemedical technologies
• In the sphere of quality management by creating a highly effective control system of the competitiveness of University focused on the fullest satisfaction of all groups of consumers, rational use of all resources and continuous improvement of all processes of activity, integration of University into the regional, federal and international professional community.
• Establishment of a reliable and long-term strategic partnership with public authorities of the Ulyanovsk region and local government, large enterprises, organizations and firms, structures of civil society in a solution of the social and economic problems of the region

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