There is an archived page. Information may be incomplete or outdated. The University regional development strategy aims to create a favourable intellectual and business environment in the region and foster investments and jobs creation in the new economy.
Chelyabinsk is Russia's eighth largest urban center with a population of 1.5 million inhabitants. With its manufacturing facilities, the Chelyabinsk Region represents one of the country's biggest industrial clusters, ranking sixth nationwide in per capita industrial output. The University is at the heart of the regional economic and social infrastructure, helping to spur diversified economic growth and contributing to a higher quality of life for the region's population.
University of Michigan provides a perfect example of regional development leadership. It is located in the Rust Belt in the USA and has become an engine of the state economy during the recent industrial crisis. University of Michigan attracts talented people from all over the world and foster development of high growth industries such as IT and medicine. It creates thousands of high quality jobs. In concert with the local and national government it carries out a number of entrepreneurial, supplementary education and social programs. Thanks to the University of Michigan, a state in the middle of the continent has its own place in the global intellectual agenda. Taking into account UoM experience, South Ural State University aims at:
- Attracting major companies and investments to the region. The best example is the University’s partnership with Emerson. The company invested in R&D and manufacturing facilities in the region, opening July 2015 a new industrial complex in Chelyabinsk. Traditional Chelyabinsk industries including machine tool building, instrument making, crane building, steelmaking and radiation medicine all benefit from a strong university, increasing their regional production and capacities.
- New high-tech companies formation. Engineering companies founded by SUSU graduates work all over the world and cooperate with industrial leaders such as Siemens VAI, SMS-Group, BoschRexroth, Fortum, FUCHS, LINCOLN, Konar.
- Fostering innovation environment and small business development. SUSU currently possesses an innovation infrastructure which has enabled to create 58 small innovation businesses over the last five years. These organizations are intended to commercialize University’s scientific activities. In order to broaden this sphere SUSU will create an innovation accelerator. The annual revenues of SUSU's innovation belt already stand at RUB 700 million. SUSU's innovation belt specialises, among other things, in the production of training equipment for Russian universities and schools, with the University enjoying an aggregate domestic market share of 80%.
- Solving the region's environmental issues. SUSU's R&D outcomes have helped to foster the sustainable development of the region. For example, SUSU researchers recently developed absorbents that immobilise heavy-metal ions and radioactive nuclides. Such absorbents provide protection from industrial contamination at minimal cost. Another example of new products for sustainable development are heat meters for measuring individual heat energy consumption. A pilot project for implementing this technology in Chelyabinsk households has led to reduction of heat energy consumption by 20%.
- Promoting regional intellectual community. The University hosts open discussions on the regional social and economic development, University’s faculty is instrumental in developing regional strategy and participate in expert councils held by Chelyabinsk region government.
