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In Kazan, the winners of the 5th Journalist Award received prizes for the best media coverage of blue-collar and engineering occupations. The ceremony took place during the events of the Best Goods and Services of Tatarstan 2018 contest.

Journalists were awarded at the Kazanskaya Yarmarka in the Sviyazhsk Ceremonial Hall. The winners received valuable prizes from the hands of Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan German Lerner and Deputy Head of the Republic’s Tatmedia Agency for Press and Mass Communications Ildar Mirgalimov.

This year, more than fifty papers were submitted to the Kazan Helicopters’ competition “Prestige of Blue-Collar and Engineering Jobs”. The jury selected the best journalistic materials that meet the stated criteria.

The award for the best material on enhancing the image of blue-collar occupations was established by Kazan Helicopters in 2013. The contest was organised with the support of the Russian Helicopters holding, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan and the Republic’s Tatmedia Agency for Press and Mass Communications. In 2018, the contest was held for the fifth time. The main purpose of the award is to identify the best journalistic papers and encourage journalists to highlight personnel issues and contribute to the popularisation of blue-collar and engineering occupations.

Today, the regional competition in Sheet Metal Technology skills started on the premises of the Kazan Aircraft Engineering College. From the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, participants were greeted by Head of Corporate Governance Dept. Andrey Fyodorov. For the first time, the competition in this skill is also held for juniors. The participants’ geography includes various cities and districts of the republic: Naberezhnye Chelny, Leninogorsk, Bugulma, Vysokogorsky District, and Kazan.

The winners of the regional competition will become participants in the National WorldSkills Russia Competition, which will also be held in Kazan in May next year.

In turn, on the territory of the Alnas plant, in the educational building of the Tatarstan’s College of the Future, a Mechatronics skills competition started among juniors aged 14-16 years; it was attended by 5 teams.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade hosted a working meeting on wind energy with the participation of republic’s industrial enterprises and institutions. The meeting was attended by representatives of Enel Green Power Rus and Enel Rus Wind Azov, as well as a representative of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy.

The meeting was held by Deputy Minister Ildar Mingaleyev and Deputy Minister Almaz Khusainov.

The participants were told about the expertise of Enel Group in the implementation of projects for the construction of power plants based on renewable energy sources (RES) and the experience of Siemens Gamesa international company in the production of wind power equipment.

This week Kazan was visited by a representative delegation from India. During the visit, which lasted several days, more than 40 executives of Indian pharmaceutical companies explored the conditions for developing pharmaceuticals in Tatarstan, visited the Research and Education Centre for Pharmacy under the Kazan Federal University, the republic’s largest company, Tatkhimpharmpreparaty, the Kazan State Medical University, and took part in a business forum.

On Monday, the Indian delegation headed by Director General of Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexcil) Udaya Bhaskar paid a visit to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan.

On November 20, the first Tatarstan-India Biopharmaceutical Forum took place at the Korston Kazan Business Centre. This event is focused on the development of mutually beneficial cooperation between enterprises of the pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries of Tatarstan and India.

The capabilities of the PSEDA in the cities of Naberezhnye Chelny and Zelenodolsk were presented to Indian companies, the Head of PharmMedPolis of Tatarstan made a presentation of the republic’s pharmaceutical atlas.

In addition, the event provided for the holding of B2B meetings, where experts exchanged contacts and studied the conditions for doing business, taking into account the objectives and needs of the two countries.

The city of Almetyevsk hosted the 40th anniversary ceremony of the Alnas Plant, part of the Rimera Group (the oilfield service division of the ChTPZ Group). The event was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, ChTPZ Group shareholder Andrey Komarov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, Director General of Rimera Group Mikhail Belov, and other honoured guests.

During the event, the guests made a tour of the Alnas production facilities, visited the exhibition of products manufactured by the Pipeline and Oil Service divisions of the ChTPZ Group, took part in the anniversary event and award ceremony of Alnas employees.

Alnas Plant is one of the largest mechanical engineering enterprises in Russia manufacturing complete electric centrifugal pump (ESP) units for oil production. The plant markets more than 100 pump modifications, 50 engine modifications, over 3,000 versions for completing oil-immersion equipment, including those for operation in complicated wells. Over the past three years, the plant has increased the output of electric centrifugal pumps for oil production by 63%. ESP units manufactured by Alnas produce a third of all Russia’s oil, successfully working in the oilfields of major companies in Russia and abroad. Since 2008, Alnas has been part of the Oilfield Service Division of the ChTPZ Group.

The first of the three award ceremonies of the Tatarstan’s regional Young Professionals competition (WorldSkills Russia) in 2018-2019 took place at the assembly hall of the Kazan Construction College. Awards were presented to 85 winners who took prizes in 22 skills assigned to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan. The award ceremony was attended by Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov and Minister of Education and Science of Tatarstan Rafis Burganov.

In his welcoming speech, Albert Karimov expressed his gratitude to all participants of the competition.  In addition, the Minister announced new challenges for the participants – these are thorough preparation and holding of the National Competition and the 45th WorldSkills Competition in Kazan. Holding the WorldSkills Kazan 2019 will provide an opportunity to learn from the experience of foreign participants and global practices thus making it possible to introduce the best foreign innovations in the training of highly qualified professionals for the real sector of Tatarstan’s economy.

The Tatarstan’s regional Young Professionals competition (WorldSkills Russia) was held at 13 sites on November 13 to 16, 2018 in 31 skills assigned to the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade.

On the eve of 2019, declared the Year of Blue-Collar Occupations in Tatarstan, and aimed at popularising and improving the prestige of skilled trades, the Republic’s competition of seamstress working skills was held again among the light industry enterprises.

Sewing skills were demonstrated by participants from Aznakaevo, Bugulma, Kazan, Kukmor, and Naberezhnye Chelny. The best seamstresses of enterprises demonstrated theoretical knowledge and presented their practical task samples to the members of the Competition Committee. The participants’ results were assessed by representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, the KNRTU’s Institute of Light Industry Technology, Fashion, and Design, the Kazan College of Design Technology, and the Republic’s Federation of the Trade Unions of Textile and Light Industry Workers.

The competition winners were awarded with diplomas, money prizes, and valuable gifts.

The Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade expresses gratitude to all participants of the competition and hopes for a more proactive attitude of enterprises to such events, which are intended for motivating employees to achieve even better results.

In Kazan, the winners of the 6th Republic’s Annual Open Festival of Working Youth Creativity “Our Time - Beznen Zaman” were announced at the award ceremony held as part of the final Gala Concert. From the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade, the award ceremony was attended by Deputy Minister Almaz Khusainov.

The Grand Prix, for the second year in a row, was won by the team of the Road Safety State Institution. They received the Challenge Cup of the Tatarstan President, gifts from festival sponsors, and a RUB 250,000 cash certificate.

Following the results of all competitions, teams of Kazan Helicopters and Nizhnekamskneftekhim took the first place in the team rating.

The participants were congratulated by Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Secretary-General of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO Grigory Ordzhonikidze. He noted that the working youth festival needs to be replicated and carried out in other Russian regions as well.

The contestants were selected in Naberezhnye Chelny, Zainsk, Kazan and Nizhnekamsk. The “Our Time - Beznen Zaman” is the Republic’s annual open TV festival of working youth that has been held in Tatarstan with the support from the President of the Republic since 2013.

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Today, Kazan saw summing up Phase Two results of the social educational project aimed at introducing a highly effective dual study system in Russian vocational education institutions. Following the results of the trainings, the teachers independently developed educational programmes in Mechatronics in order to implement them in their educational institutions. The presentation and defending of the programmes developed there took place within the WorldSkills Russia regional competition in Kazan.

Within the framework of the project, 10 teachers from 7 leading vocational education institutions of Tatarstan studied the specific requirements of the present-day automotive industry to professionals involved directly in production, through the example of the Ford Sollers plant in Yelabuga. During the visit to the plant, representatives of educational institutions met with technical experts and performed practical exercises using production equipment.

Mechatronics is a job of the future and is highly demanded in the context of growing production automation and robotics. The Russian Ministry of Labour and Social Protection has added it to the list of the 50 most sought-after new and promising jobs in the labour market, requiring secondary vocational education.

These days in Paris, an event is taking place that will be a turning point in the scientific world. The 26th General Conference on Weights and Measures will sum up the many years of activities of the world scientific and technical community on the revision of the base units in the International System of Units (SI) – kilogramme (mass), Kelvin (temperature), ampere (electric current), and mole (amount of substance). The revision will also affect such units as candela, second, and metre. From now on, all units will be redefined based on the fundamental constants of nature, the atom and quantum, rather than by physical objects of the macrocosm.

SI is accepted as the basic system of units by most countries worldwide (with the exception of the USA, Bolivia, and Burma). In those countries where traditional units are used in everyday life, their definitions have been modified so as to be linked by fixed coefficients with SI units. The transition to the new SI would accelerate the development and introduction of innovative solutions and new technologies in scientific organisations and enterprises, which includes reducing costs of many high-tech manufacturing processes.

Rosstandart coordinates Russian participation in redefining the System of Units at the global level. This will determine to a great extent whether Russia will be at a disadvantage as a result of this transition process or remain among the leading countries that ensure consistency and accuracy of measurements at the global level.

The changes are scheduled to take effect from May 2019.