The partner of the KNRTU Championship joined the largest consortium of Russian universities Nedra

At the end of 2020, KNRTU joined the Nedra consortium. Currently, this academic association has 50 members.

Of these, 11 are partners of the Reliable Change Foundation and its flagship project, the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship:

1. Sergo Ordzhonikidze Russian State Geological Exploration University

2. St. Petersburg Mining University,

3. Almetyevsk State Petroleum Institute,

4. Kuzbass State Technical University named after T.F. Gorbachev,

5. National Research Technological University "MISiS",

6. Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas,

7. North Caucasus Mining and Metallurgical Institute,

8. Tomsk Polytechnic University,

9. Tyumen Industrial University,

10. Ural State Mining University,

11. Ufa State Petroleum Technical University,

These universities actively support the Championship.  Teams of educational institutions, made up of students, undergraduates and postgraduates, annually participate in the Student League in the areas of "Geological Exploration", "Mining" and "Oil and gas business". University professors act as speakers and are members of expert commissions that evaluate the decisions of the participants.

The decree on the creation of the Consortium was signed by the head of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. By Valery Falkov at the end of October last year. The Consortium is a socio-professional community of universities that train students for the mineral resource complex in the integrated specialty "Applied Geology, mining, oil and gas engineering and geodesy", created in order to improve the quality of education and the effectiveness of scientific research, create a unified scientific and educational environment, support talented young researchers, and ultimately – for more efficient operation of key industries that ensure the stable development of the Russian economy.

"We have already assembled a large array of universities. With such a significant regional representation, we can collectively resolve all issues of improving the educational process in the relevant areas.", – noted Vladimir Borzenkov, Director General of the International Competence Center in Mining Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO.

The participants of the association are attracted by the opportunity to consolidate intellectual and material resources to improve educational and methodological work, expand publication activity, increase the competence of teachers, conduct student and postgraduate internships on the basis of training grounds and training bases of partner universities, and share laboratory equipment.

It is also planned to collectively participate in the improvement of the system for assessing the level of competence of practitioners, with access to international certification according to the British Engineering Council. These opportunities are being opened up thanks to the International Competence Center in Mining Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO, established on the basis of St. Petersburg Mining University. The Competence Center will also help in organizing educational and scientific cooperation between the consortium members and their foreign partners.

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