News – Government of Russia

529 Student design bureaus (SKB) located in 78 regions of Russia were able to attract more than a thousand industrial companies in 2024 – this is twice as much as a year earlier.

The work of the SKB is aimed at developing students’ skills for design and design skills, allows participants in the teams to engage in scientific research and developments, said Dmitry Chernyshenko, deputy chairman of the government.

“On behalf of President Vladimir Putin, a system of student design bureaus is created in our country. It helps to involve youth in the development of new technologies and products, and also helps to improve the quality of engineering education. We see the active development of this system: in 2022, 58 SKB operated in Russia, and today-529 already. Over the year, the number of industrial partners among student design bureaus has doubled, ”the Deputy Prime Minister said.

He added that large Russian companies take active participation in the work of the SKB, including Rosatom Group of Companies, Rostec Group of Companies, Gazprom PJSC, Sberbank PJSC, Russian Railways.

The activities of student design bureaus corresponds to the priority areas of the country’s scientific and technological development, said the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Valery Falkov.

“The most popular areas of activity in student design bureaus right now are information and additive technologies, robotics and biotechnology. In total, more than 83 thousand students, graduate students, teachers, young scientists, and all of them, united by a living interest in engineering activity, contribute to the achievement by our country of technological leadership are involved in the SKB. ”Said Valery Falkov.

The five regions-leaders in the number of student design bureaus included Moscow (66), Bashkortostan (30), St. Petersburg (29), Novosibirsk (25) and Tomsk (21) regions.

The five universities – leaders in the number of SKB included Orenburg State University (20), Ufa University of Science and Technology (16), Chuvash State University named after I.N. Ulyanova (13), Southern Federal University (11). Fifth place was divided by the Novosibirsk State Technical University, the Rybinsky State Aviation Technical University and Samara National Research University named after Academician S.P. Korolev – in each of them it is open at nine bureaus.

Note that the SKB is doing a lot of work on the career guidance of schoolchildren. Open Days, excursions, meetings with young engineers, specialized master classes and competitions are held for the children-all this is aimed at involving schoolchildren in engineering.

Recall that in April this year the winners of the first student bureau contest were announced: 15 universities received subsidies to create and develop their SKB.