MAU

Murmansk Arctic University will receive federal funding to create an engineering development center. The institution was included in the list of winners of the additional competitive selection of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia.

The leading polar university will implement an advanced engineering and technical complex, where they will develop technologies and products for the ship repair industry. This will allow teachers, students and postgraduates to work on orders from existing enterprises.

"The project implementation period is from 2024 to 2029. Potential customers of the center being created will be JSC GTLK, Lavna Sea Trade Port LLC, Nerpa Ship Repair Plant and others. The total cost of the project is 651 million rubles. 300 of them will be allocated in the form of a grant from the federal center," noted Governor Andrei Chibis.

As reported by the First Vice-Rector of MAU Maria Knyazeva, the Arctic Center for Marine Engineering Development of MAU (ACMED MAU) will include a Design Bureau, a Prototyping and Experimental Production Center, and a Center for Digital Technologies for the Maritime Industry. Research engineers from among the university’s faculty and postgraduate students, as well as industry specialists, will work at ACMED MAU. The 

leading academic partner for the project is the Saint Petersburg State Marine Technical University under the current Partnership Agreement concluded following the work of the Satellite Event of the IV Congress of Young Scientists in Murmansk.

“Students, primarily senior students, who are receiving marine, related engineering and IT education at the university, will be involved in ACMED MAU projects. For example, students in the programs "Operation of Marine Electrical Equipment and Automation Equipment", "Shipbuilding, Ocean Engineering and Systems Engineering of Marine Infrastructure Facilities", "Automation of Technological Processes and Production" and others. At the same time, the Center will be available to students and teachers of the university for the implementation of their own initiative projects. The Center's developments are planned to be used as practical cases for implementation in the educational process," noted Maria Knyazeva.

Let us recall that the university is expecting a large-scale modernization. Earlier, it became a candidate for inclusion in the Priority-2030 program, which provides for the implementation of three strategic projects with a total budget of almost 800 million rubles: "Marine Technologies in the Arctic"; "Innovative Technologies in Mining and Processing of Minerals"; "Arctic Bioresources and Biotechnology". In addition, the university has been additionally allocated more than 1 billion rubles to create the Coastal Training and Simulation Center and modernize the Center for Marine Conventional Training. The creation of the ACMIR MAU is part of the university's work on the strategic project "Marine Technologies in the Arctic".

/ Ministry of Information Policy of the Murmansk Region /