T-Bank and UrFU decided to scale up cooperation

T-Bank and Ural Federal University have decided to scale up cooperation in the field of teacher support and popularization of exact sciences. The corresponding agreement was reached by the head of the bank Stanislav Bliznyuk and UrFU Rector Viktor Koksharov at a meeting in Yekaterinburg.

"Cooperation with T-Bank undoubtedly opens up new opportunities for our students — it is not only an introduction to the IT field in the classroom, but also career guidance: working with the company, students can see the full range of available specialties, get to know a potential employer and choose a field they like.", — emphasized Koksharov.

The heads of T-Bank and UrFU agree that universities and employers should work closely together: educational institutions need up-to-date expertise, equipment, and various forms of support for talented students and teachers.

According to Bliznyuk, the Central University, created on the initiative of T-Bank, is designed to show "the market and the academic community the effectiveness of the university-employer tandem and to replicate this approach."

The meeting also discussed UrFU's participation in T-Bank's initiatives to promote exact sciences, including the T=Mathematics project, which consists of a series of free educational events for schoolchildren, students, teachers, and IT specialists.

The issue of teacher support was raised. The head of T-Bank said that he was concerned about the decline in the prestige of the teaching profession. In 2023, T-Bank launched the Contribution to Generation grant competition to support school teachers of mathematics, computer science and physics from all over Russia.

In addition, the head of T-Bank, in a conversation with Viktor Koksharov, supported the initiative of the Ministry of Finance of Russia to allocate 5% of the funds saved on tax benefits received to spend on work with universities and an increase in teachers' salaries.

Every year, UrFU students participate in T-Education educational programs. In addition, the T-Bank course "Functional Logic Programming" was launched on the basis of this university.