Engineering Factory: The Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory offered Mikhail Mishustin solutions to overcome the region's personnel shortage

Mikhail Kotyukov, Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, presented a set of systemic measures aimed at addressing the region's staffing needs at a strategic session with Mikhail Mishustin, Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. The initiatives of the head of the region correlate with the projects developed within the framework of the Engineering Thought Factory – a unique project for solving urgent problems of fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

"The project, implemented in the autumn-winter of 2025 on the basis of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship, brought together more than 1,700 students, young professionals and representatives of the expert community. - said the founder of CASE-IN  Artem Korolev, - The participants developed promising solutions for digital transformation and energy development in the Krasnoyarsk Territory and exchanged experiences and ideas."

At a strategic session dedicated to staffing the leading areas of the region's economy, Mikhail Kotyukov proposed four system solutions to eliminate the shortage of engineering specialists in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

One of the main theses of the Governor is to form forecasts of the need for personnel together with enterprises and include them in the educational programs of universities and colleges. Within the framework of the Engineering Thought Factory, a detailed forecast of personnel needs for each of the four macro–regions of the region until 2040 has already been developed, as well as a demand matrix for engineering specialties - from digital energy engineers to specialists in renewable energy sources. One of the key proposals was the "Target Engineer" system, which will integrate admission plans to educational institutions to meet the real needs of enterprises.

Also, the Governor, by analogy with the ideas put forward at the Factory, initiated the launch of advanced secondary vocational education programs called "Professionalism 2.0". Among other things, it was proposed to create educational and production clusters based on vocational schools and universities, develop additional qualification modules for employers, and introduce in-depth practice at enterprises from the first year. Special attention is paid to remote and Arctic territories – it is proposed to form "Remote learning Libraries" for them.

Mikhail Kotyukov emphasized the need to combine all existing tools – youth laboratories, student design bureaus, advanced engineering schools and research centers. The participants of the "Factory of Engineering Thought" had previously proposed the creation of the Technopark "Center for Digital Energy" as a single platform for the interaction of universities, laboratories and enterprises. A network map of laboratories and the Mobile Researcher program have also been developed for the circulation of personnel and knowledge between macroregions, and the Arctic Technologies Collective Use Center will become a link between science and production.

In conclusion The governor, relying on the decisions of the Engineering Thought Factory, emphasized the need to involve innovation centers more actively, minimizing bureaucratic constraints. For this purpose, it is proposed to use the "virtual residency" mechanism developed within the framework for integration with the Krasnoyarsk Technological Valley SEZ, flexible models of public-private partnership for the Silicon Valley cluster, as well as tokenization of Arctic energy as an innovative financial mechanism. 

We would like to add that the organizers of the Engineering Thought Factory are the Reliable Change Charitable Foundation, the Non–profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and AstraLogica LLC, relevant ministries of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and the presidential platform "Russia is a Land of Opportunity."