From October 23 to October 25, 2025, the Grozny State Petroleum Technical University named after Academician M.D. Millionshchikov hosted a large-scale strategic session "Advanced Engineering Schools: from launch to reboot". The event brought together heads of engineering schools from all over Russia. The delegation of our university, represented by Rector Yuri Kazakov and Director of the Advanced Engineering School Promkhimtech Ruslan Paley, took an active part in the session.

As part of the business program, the participants witnessed the opening of new specialized educational spaces at GSTOU. Special attention should be paid to the unique training complex created on the basis of an operating oil production well of the company's industrial partner, JSC Grozneftegaz. These modern facilities allow the University of the Chechen Republic to train highly qualified specialists and develop advanced technologies for the intensification of oil production in the Caucasus.

The key objective of the session was a substantive discussion on the results already achieved by advanced engineering schools, the verification of personnel requests from the industry, as well as the development of approaches to a new national project on technological leadership. Special attention was paid to the specifics of the competitive selection of universities participating in the third and fourth waves. The work was conducted in the format of thematic groups, one of which was "The oil industry, new materials and chemistry."

"We not only identified the problems, but also formulated specific proposals," Ruslan Paley, Director of Promkhimtech, shared the results of the work. — Among them is the deep integration of the university and the industrial partner in the personnel policy of the enterprise, the creation of end—to-end personnel reserve programs and the cooperation of companies based on technological process management. It is important that the Ministry of Education and Science has shown willingness to engage in dialogue — some of the ideas have already been accepted for consideration, which indicates the high practical significance of the last session."

Valuable comments and constructive feedback from Dmitry Afanasyev, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, and Anthony Schwintd, Executive Secretary of the Commission for Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation, emphasized the high role of advanced engineering schools in achieving the country's technological sovereignty, increasing the effectiveness of higher education and creating the foundation for a new high-tech economy in Russia.