Acron Group is actively developing industrial partnership with an innovative educational institution – Leading Engineering School (LES) at the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University.
In 2023, LES is offering a proactive programme to train engineers for Acron with a focus on individual targeted training. It is expected that the students’ hands-on work on engineering tasks in the LES workshops will help provide future employees for the region’s high-tech industrial companies, including Acron.
At the executive reporting meeting, the LES workshop leaders summed up the school’s cooperation with its industrial partner. According to LES Director Sergey Chebotarev, the workshops focus on six areas: sensing elements for physical units, programmable logic controllers, configuration software, system of laboratory data collection and metering, system of enterprise data collection and metering, and virtual and augmented reality simulators. For example, during the most recent sprint, the virtual and augmented reality workshop presented a solution for interactive pipeline design using the 3D models created by Acron Engineering Research and Design Centre.
According to Andrey Kolosovsky, General Director of Acron Engineering, LES will help the Company address the problem of staff shortages and train personnel qualified in automated chemical production operations. Through its partnership with LES, Acron will introduce Russian-made automation systems to meet its production needs.
The Leading Engineering Schools federal project was launched on the initiative of the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education in 2022. As part of the state programme for Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation, the project is aimed at training highly skilled engineering personnel for high-tech industrial companies. Veliky Novgorod-based LES focuses on artificial intelligence and advanced digital technologies. Acron allocates RUB100 million each year to support the project.