Presentation given at the official visit to the University of Tromsø by the newly appointed rector of the

1. Strategies of the Northern Arctic Federal
University (NArFU)
Dr. Elena Kudryashova,
Tromso, 26.05.2010
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2. Strategies of the Northern Arctic Federal University (NArFU)
Dr. Elena Kudryashova, Tromso, 26.05.2010
1. Russian educational policy
and the Federal Universities
2. Why Arkhangelsk is a centre
for the Northern (Arctic)
Federal University?
3. Mission and tasks of the
Northern (Arctic) Federal
University
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3. New structure of higher education
National Universities (2)
MSU SPbSU
Federal Universities (7)
Siberian Southern NArFU Far-East
North.East Ural Kazan
Research universities (27)
SpBSU
MISiS HSE MSTU MAI
Of ITMO
TPU
MIFI
Other HEI-s
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4. New structure of higher education
(Strategy of educational policy of the RF till 2011)
National Universities Federal Universities Research Universities
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5. New structure of higher education
in the North-West Russia
(Strategy of educational policy of the RF till 2011)
National Universities Federal Universities Research Universities
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6. Federal universities
NEW kind of HEI-s:
1. To offer innovative educational programs
integrated into international educational space
2. To provide modernization of higher professional
education
3. To use modern educational and research
technologies for the complex regional
development
4. To integrate research, education and production
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7. Federal universities
Principles of academic activities:
1. Academic autonomy
2. Research-based education
3. Focus on the centers of excellence
4. Interdisciplinarity and crossdisciplinarity
5. Focus on master and PhD programs
6. Development of new research trends
7. Development of academic mobility
8. Variety and mobility of educational programs
9. Modern educational standards
10. Modern educational technologies
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8. The Northern (Arctic) Federal
University (NArFU)
October, 21 2009
Decree of the President of the RF N 1172
April,2 2010
Decree of the Government of the RF N 502-p
April, 26 2010
Decree of the Ministry of Education and Research of
RF N 434
President Dmitry Medvedev:
“The Arctic Region has literally strategic significance for our country, the
deciding of long-term tasks is connecting with its development, and
with its competitiveness in a global market. … Our primary goal is to
make the Arctic a resource base for Russia in the XXI century..” 8

9. The NArFU: Substantiation
I. The strategic geo-political
situation of the Arkhangelsk
region:
• the largest territory in the N-WFD
• the geographical and historical
centre of the Russian North
• «the gateway to Arctic», the initial
point for the Northern Maritime
Route. Perspectives: the deep-water port
and railway Belkomur (The White Sea–
Komi-Ural)
• Consumer market 35 million (1500
km from Arkhangelsk)
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10. The NArFU: Substantiation
II. The economic potential of
the Arkhangelsk region:
• Mineral resources (oil, gas, diamonds,
bauxite, multi-metallic ores, gold,
platinum…)
• Forestry, energy, fishery resources
• High-technological production –
space-launching site Plesetsk, Northern
Centre of ship-building and ship-
repairing, pulp-and-paper production
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11. III. Education and research of the
Region:
1. Total number of students – 54 000 (420 students – to
10 000 people inhabited the Region)
2. 215 Doctors of science, more than 1200 PhD-s
3. RF Academy of Science Ural branch Arkhangelsk
Scientific Centre (est. 2001): The Institute of Northern
Ecological Investigations, The Institute of Nature
adaptations physiology
4. Cooperation of HEI-s in Arkhangelsk with Russian
Academy of Science
5. Research centers, laboratories at universities and
the centers of collective use («Chemistry of natural
compounds», «Ecology of plants and animals»,
«Biodiversity of the North», «Bio-geo-sphere stationary
«Rotkovets» etc.)
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12. DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
IN THE ARKHANGELSK REGION (2000-2010)
2000 2010
Number of higher educational 26 32
institutions and branches
Teaching staff 1500 1700
Number of students 31000 54000
Number of degree programmes 80 145
Number of programmes in post- 50 68
graduate education
Number of programmes in 4 10 12
doctorate studies

13. Students in the Arkhangelsk region
100% - 54000
44% - state budget
56 % - tuition fee
Tuition fee
State budget
1995 2000
2005
2010 13

14. Number of students in HEIs by field of
study and gender (ac.y. 2009/2010)
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15. The NArFU: Substantiation
IV. Well-developed
international
cooperation with
Northern European
countries:
• Education and research
• Mineral resources
• Transport and communication
• Ship-building and ship-
repairing
• Environment
• Local self-governance
• Agriculture
• Health care, social work
• Culture 15

16. International cooperation
Agreements on cooperation with 50 Universities and
Collegies from 20 countries
62 educational and research projects. 73% - BEAR projects
100 %
50 %
0 %
здравоохранение
культура
образование
экономика
социальная работа
охрана окружающей среды
Север
двусторонние
многосторонние 16

17. Students mobility
Number of outgoing and foreign students
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18. The Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NArFU)
Pomor State University named after Northern State Medical
M.V.Lomonosov Northern Machinery Higher
University Technical Institution
Arkhangelsk State Technical University
Higher technical Arkhangelsk
colleges Scientific Centre
of RAS
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19. NArFU: Mission
• Well-qualified specialists for the regional market
• Realization of innovative educational programs to
strengthen social and economic development of the region
• Research basis for modernization of the region
• Effective deciding of social and economic tasks in the
region through cooperation with state institutions, business
and civil society actors
• Inter-regional centre of multi-level life-long and professional
education in the Barents and the Arctic region
• Protecting of geo-political interests of Russia in the Arctic
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20. NArFU: basic fields of activities
1. Education: produce professional elite for national
economy, in the first turn – for the High North
2. Research and innovation: based on “The Basic Lines of the
State Policy of RF in the Arctic in the period till 2020 and
further perspective“
3. Formation of common educational space to attract high-
qualified national and foreign academic and management
staff
4. Formation of efficient and optimized institutional structure
and finance system, quality assurance
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21. 1.Education: produce professional elite for national
economy, in the first turn – for the High North
• Educational programs development and modernization
• Programs of professional and open learning education
• Programs of professional staff re-training
• Development of international cooperation and export of
education
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22. 2. Research and innovation
High-technological productions:
Sea oil platforms construction
Ship-building and ship-repairing
New technologies of hydrocarbons extraction
Marine Arctic technologies development
Arctic ice formation and Arctic sea waters evolution
Development an infrastructure of the Circumpolar region
Complex usage of bio-resources
Polar medicine and health-care
Environment protection
Social-political and humanitarian sphere of the Russian
North
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23. 3. Formation of common educational space to attract high-
qualified national and foreign academic and management
staff
NAFU: clusters
Arkhangelsk: polytechnical, medical, humanitarian
Severodvinsk: research and producing of high-
qualified specialists for ship-building and ship-
repairing industries
Branches in NAO and in the South (Kotlas-Koriazma)
Lomonosov` specialized liceum (within NAFU)
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24. The Northern (Arctic) Federal University:
some expected results
• Students full-time 35 000
• Ratio teachers - students 1:6
• Ratio bachelor and specialists level -
master and post-graduate level 60% : 40%
• Experimental programs 20%
• Foreign students and students from
the other regions of Russia 30%
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• Financing budgetary – other sources 70% : 30%

25. The Northern (Arctic) Federal University:
some expected results
• Strengthening research, experimental and
construction works; providing the leading
branches of economy with competitiveness
technologies
• Attraction of the European North for the high-
qualified specialists
• Fasten the process of mineral resources
extraction in the Arctic
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26. Mikhail Lomonosov (XVIII century):
“Russia will be increasing with Siberia and the
Northern seas…”
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!
Welcome to the Northern Arctic Federal
University (NArFU)!
www.narfu.ru www.sarfu.ru
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