On the eve of the new academic year, Novosibirsk has become a center of attraction for specialists. At the XI International Technoprom-2025 Forum, the country's leading experts discussed modern challenges and ensuring Russia's technological leadership in the new environment. The chemical industry, which is the basis of many industrial processes, has become the focus of attention, because it acutely demands highly qualified specialists capable of creating and implementing breakthrough solutions.

Special attention of the professional community was drawn to the presentations of the Advanced Engineering Schools project experts, including the Promkhimtech Research Institute of KNRTU. Anna Ebel, Director of the Department of Educational Programs, Lyudmila Kitaeva, Head of the Office of Educational Programs, and Anastasia Maksimushkina, Program Manager at SIBUR, presented a unique experience of interaction between education and business in the report "Partnership for the Future: how Promkhimtech and SIBUR create a new generation of professionals."

In their presentation, the staff of the Institute clearly demonstrated the best results of interaction with industrial partners: a built-in algorithm for launching educational programs at the request of the enterprise, designing programs built on the principle "result-based", close integration of the educational process with real production tasks. Instead of the standard program, there are real applied projects and tasks from a leading petrochemical company. From the very first day, Promkhimtech students are immersed in the processes they will encounter in production: from optimizing technological chains to developing new materials with specified properties. This is not just a study, but a real "test run" of engineering solutions for the future of the entire industry and SIBUR. "The main topic covered at the forum was technological leadership. It is impossible without the raising a new generation of professionals. We all clearly understand what staff is missing and that they can only be trained with industrial partners. What was especially gratifying is that our customers visited the forum, and our partners performed at the sites of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Sociocenter. SIBUR representatives spoke about our practices. SIBUR-Innovations is a successful case study of our cooperation aroused the interest of colleagues from the Far Eastern Federal District, who expressed a desire to cooperate with us," said Anna O. Ebel.

Promkhimtech specialists also took an active part in the marathon of discussions about the future of engineering education: they discussed the role of advanced engineering schools in staffing the country's technological leadership, searched for optimal strategies for the development of engineering universities and analyzed how artificial intelligence is changing approaches to design and process management.

The mission of Promkhimtech as a competence center is of particular importance. "We provide our resources to students of the main partner universities," Anna emphasizes. Our goal is to become a competence center in these areas. We are ready to host students from other regions, giving them access to modern educational spaces and laboratories of the University."

The most important result of the forum was the opinion of all participants: technological leadership is possible only if there is close synergy between universities, industrial partners and the state. "It was said on all discussion platforms: it is in clear synergy that personnel can be trained for the tasks of technological leadership," sums up Anna Ottovna. — Everyone is aware of this today. And in this regard, we are particularly pleased that Tatarstan is one of the few regions where such support is really felt."