PhosAgro’s work in training the engineering elite was highly appreciated by the Russian government

The Russian government calls the training of highly qualified engineering personnel, whose knowledge, skills and breakthrough ideas will form the basis of the country’s technological sovereignty, one of its priority tasks for the coming years. One of the government’s industrial partners in this work was the PhosAgro company, whose educational program was previously recognized as the best in the national “Leaders of Responsible Business” award.

The national award “Leaders of Responsible Business” was held for the first time. It was established by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The award is designed to evaluate the contribution of companies to social development – the formation of a favorable social and natural environment, sustainable development of territories and strengthening of the country, as well as to replicate the best practices in the field of responsible business. This year, 44 large domestic companies took part in the business award. The best of them was PhosAgro, which won in most nominations.

The PhosAgro educational program won the nomination “For contribution to solving strategic problems of human potential development.” The seamless educational paradigm “school – college/university – enterprise” involves training future engineers literally from school. Today, more than 6,000 gifted students study mathematics, computer science, physics and chemistry in an in-depth program at 6 PhosAgro schools located in the cities where the company operates. Graduates can enroll in one of PhosAgro’s 20 partner universities or company-sponsored colleges. Over the past 3 years alone, more than 1,000 graduates of partner universities and colleges and 126 graduates of PhosAgro schools have found employment at PhosAgro enterprises. The company also replicates its experience in training agricultural personnel, implementing the educational program “From Ore to Food”, which covers 40 leading agricultural universities in Russia.

Thanks to the accumulated experience in training the engineering elite, PhosAgro organically entered the federal project “Advanced Engineering Schools”. This project is a prototype of a new, very applied higher education, training of designers, research engineers, designers, who will create the basis for Russia’s technological sovereignty.

As Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko noted following the results of the strategic session of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on the implementation of socio-economic development initiatives, work on the creation of NSPs is being carried out with the active participation of technology partners, including PhosAgro, Rosatom, Roscosmos, “ Gazprom” and others.

“I think it is important that industrial partners are directly involved in the educational process and take responsibility for the preparation and further employment of graduates. By decision of Prime Minister Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin, we expanded the program. At the end of last year, another 20 such schools were selected on the basis of Russian universities, which will begin functioning in the new academic year. The entire system will include 50 PISHs,” the Deputy Prime Minister noted.

With the support of PhosAgro, an advanced engineering school will open at Cherepovets State University. It will organically fit into the company’s already built educational vertical. “As part of an agreement with Cherepovets State University on the development of an advanced engineering school, we will already invest in equipping two laboratories in 2024, which will allow students to gain practical skills in conditions as close as possible to production,” said the General Director of Apatit JSC (Group “ PhosAgro“) Alexander Gilgenberg. — Employees of our “Research Institute for Fertilizers and Insectofungicides” will supervise the training process. Under their guidance, students will begin to develop projects in the area of ​​interest of our company. We expect that by the time they graduate from university, young specialists will be able to offer ready-made solutions to many production problems.”