UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 11, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil and Ural State Economic University signed a cooperation agreement to ensure continuous educational development, the company press service reports.

The plant’s Managing Director Vladimir Roshchupkin and USEU Rector Yakov Silin both signed the document and agreed to work together on training high-skilled professionals.

This is the first stage in the two parties’ cooperation strategy. The goal is to ensure personnel training, scientific research, and social/charity projects. This will be useful for the company in research-to-practice terms and good for the university in practical terms. The USEU holds around twenty national and international conferences every year and does research within the framework of some 120 projects, grants, and national programs.

Roshschupkin pointed to the problem of young skilled professionals heading for larger cities, something that Ural Vagon Zavod is facing as well. He said it was essential to educate and employ students locally, so that their internships at the plant would turn into full-time employment later.