Kant RSU and the General Satellite Corporation signed a cooperation agreement in the framework of the Technopolis Gusev Project

Kaliningrad region, Gusev. A cooperation agreement has been signed between Kant RSU and the Association of Electronic Equipment Manufacturers and Traders of the Kaliningrad region General Satellite Corporation on the establishment and development of University Educational and Research Center (UERC) in the framework of the Technopolis Gusev Project for scientific and technological development.

University Educational and Research Center is scheduled to be build by 2013. It should become a platform for training world-class specialists in the field of microelectronics. They will be employed in companies and research laboratories of the Technopolis. Kant RSU is currently a leading partner of the Technopolis Gusev in establishing the UERC.

The agreement was signed during the first working meeting of representatives of several leading scientific schools in Russia and those abroad with the leadership of the Association General Satellite Corporation. The aim of the workshop was the working out of major policy issues of interaction between business, science and education within the Technopolis Gusev Project, discussing strategic forms of UERC interaction with academic and research institutions in Russia and abroad.

Comments from the meeting participants:

A.G. Tkachenko, the President of the Association General Satellite Corporation: We endeavor to make every effort to secure the growth of the Technopolis Gusev into a full-fledged research and production site over the coming years. Today we took a big step in that direction. I hope that together with the Kant RSU we will succeed in creating the innovative projects cultivation environment in Gusev. The Emmanuel Kant RSU was the first of the high schools and it is them that most vigorously responded to our invitation to create together the University Educational and Research Center within the Technopolis Gusev Project framework.

Timur Gareev, the Vice President for innovative development of the Emmanuel Kant Russian State University: We have seriously and with great enthusiasm welcomed the appearance of such a player as the General Satellite in the Kaliningrad region. We perceive them as one of our key strategic partners. The Technopolis Gusev Project presents to us an opportunity to develop mutual cooperation of businesses and high schools in order to produce highly skilled specialists that would be sought-after in the world. We are very interested in accelerating the development. Being transformed into the Baltic Federal University, the Emmanuel Kant RSU prepares the program of its five-year development, which fits the General Satellite's strategic plans for the formation of the UERC in Gusev. This gives us the opportunity today to synchronize their plans.

S.A. Zhdanyuk, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences, the Director of A.V. Lykov Heat - and Mass Transfer Institute of Belorussia National Academy of Sciences: In Belarus there are many professionals who are ready to cooperate with the General Satellite. I think that Technopolis Gusev is a good point of growth, they have a good potential for development.

Reference
The Meeting Participants:

1. Bukharin, Nikolai A., Director of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Advanced Studies, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University
2. Gareev Timur Rustamovich, Vice President for innovative development of the Emmanuel Kant Russian State University.
3. Goikhman Alexander, the Head of the Laboratory for Ion-Plasma Technologies at the  Kant RSU Innovation Park.
4. Zhdanok Sergei Alexandrovich, Director of A.V. Lykov Heat - and Mass Transfer Institute of Belarus National Academy of Sciences, Academician of NAS of Belarus.
5. Komrakov Boris Petrovich, the Director of the Applied Mathematics and Information Technology Institute, Belgium.
6. Andrew Georgievich Tkachenko, the President of the Association General Satellite Corporation.
7. Shpilevoi Andrey Alexandrovich, Department Head of the Telecommunications Faculty of Physical Engineering of the Emmanuel Kant Russian State University.
8. Lee Igor Vasilievich, the First Vice-Rector of the St. Petersburg State Engineering and Economics University

Association of Electronic Equipment Producers and Traders in the Kaliningrad region General Satellite Corporation was founded in 2008 to facilitate the speedy digitalization of broadcasting in the Russian Federation through the creation of a complex of modern highly automated production facilities capable of satisfying the demand of consumers for the digital set-top boxes. An important task to be solved by the Association, is also testing an innovative model of development of Russia small cities according to the example set by the investment Project the Area of Scientific and Technological Development - Technopolis Gusev. In August 2009, two enterprises of the Association of Electronic Equipment Producers and Traders in the Kaliningrad region General Satellite Corporation started operating. They have been built within the Project the Area of Scientific and Technological Development - Technopolis Gusev. The SIA Digital Television Systems has become Europe's largest enterprise manufacturing set-top boxes. To date, the Company produced more than 1 million digital set-top boxes for receiving terrestrial and satellite television signals. The plant utilizes a full cycle products manufacturing, including the motherboards assembly.The Corporation Enterprises are capable of producing up to 5 million set-top boxes a year on the Federal Target Program the Development of digital broadcasting in the Russian Federation for 2009-2015.