Kamaz and Kazan University sign strategic partnership agreement

The Kamaz automaker’s general director Sergei Kogogin has met with the head of Kazan State University. The meeting resulted in signing an agreement on strategic partnership for the term of 5 years, reports the company’s press service.

In the course of the meeting, the KSU delegates, led by the rector Myakzum Salakhov, presented results of the research conducted for Kamaz by university’s staff members. A presentation of long-term educational projects, applicable in the auto industry, was held.

The purpose of cooperation is to boost research activities, enhance the parties’s competitiveness, jointly take part in federal budget projects, and to ensure high quality of professional training based on combined intellectual potential, material, financial and corporate resources.

The cooperation, the meeting attendees decided, is to be managed by a dedicated coordination group, Kamaz-KSU. Following the signing, Mr Salakhov noted that although the university’s had no auto department, its graduate Sergei Kogogin successfully headed the Kamaz automaker.

“This affirms the fact that the applied sciences studied at Kazan University provide fundamental training for a specialist, a genuine free pass to life,” emphasised the university president. “Supporting feedback with industrial entities where our graduates are employed is very relevant and important for us.”

The Kamaz CEO said in turn that Kazan State’s research and educational activities had greatly impacted the domestic industry’s development. “Many of us will never forget that they owe their achievements and careers to our university. We realise perfectly well that the most reliable investment both in the time of a crisis and of economic stability is investment in a company’s intellectual potential. That is why Kamaz makes a focus establishing and maintaining mutually beneficial cooperation with the nation’s science elite.”

The general director disclosed the main areas for cooperation. Kamaz has a vast research base that could be used in the university’s educational and research work. According to Mr Kogogin, the fact that Kamaz is an international company integrated into the global auto industry needs to considered as well. With this in view, specialised academic higher schools need to begin train specialists for other countries. Kamaz has an experience in training staff and specialists for Turkmenistan.