To ensure its successful development, a higher education institution has to pay special attention to establishing partnership with industrial and commercials companies, scientific and non-commercial organizations. Continuous cooperation with the real business sector and labour market will upgrade educational programmes to the labour market requirements as well as promptly provide employment to young specialists.
Moscow University of Industry and Finance is implementing a strategic partnership programme aimed at creating a stable network of partners willing to contribute to the training of highly-qualified specialists and developing a business — educational sector cooperation pattern.
The University has partners among leading Russian employers holding key positions in different business fields. Such partnership enables the University to enhance its competitive advantages and improve the quality of education the University provides, thanks to the external evaluation of the training level of its graduates, as well as to meet the labour market demand in specialists in various spheres of business and science.
The MUIF's strategic partnership programme comprises the following aspects:
Х5 Retail Group is one of the largest retail companies in Russia in terms of sales volume. As of March 31, 2009 the company had 1144 shops in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and 39 other cities of the European part of Russia, the Urals and the Ukraine. The company owns 886 “Pyatyorochka” shops, 209 “Perekryostok” supermarkets and 49 “Karusel” hypermarkets. The head of the company is Khasis Lev Aronovich.
The University together with Х5 Retail Group is implementing the “Retail. Management in trade industry” higher education progamme aimed at training highly-qualified specialists possessing proper theoretical and practical knowledge and skills required for a successful career in the retail market. In 2008 Khasis L.A. gave a master class in the MUIF.
MIRAX GROUP is an international investment and real estate development corporation and it is one of the five largest real estate development companies. At present the company is functioning at the markets of Russia and Russia's near and far abroad. The company's stockholders carry out projects in Russia, the Ukraine, France, Turkey, Cambodia, Vietnam, Montenegro, USA, Switzerland and England.
The MUIF together with MIRAX GROUP has established the Department of real estate development management headed by Polonsky Serguey Yurievich, MIRAX GROUP President and Chairman of the Board of Directors. The department provides training in the unique “Management in the real estate development sphere” specialty. In 2008/2009 Polonsky S.Y. gave master classes to the University's students.
Vimm-Bill-Dann Produkty Pitaniia is a leading company in the milk products and infant food market in Russia and one of the leading competitors of the non-alcoholic beverages market of Russia and the CIS countries. The company owns more than 35 processing plants in Russia and abroad.
In 2009 Yakobashvili David Mikhailovich, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company, gave a master class to the MUIF students.
ABBYY is one of the world's top-ranked developers of optical character recognition technologies and linguistic software. The company has overseas offices in 8 countries, users in more that 100 countries enjoy ABBYY's products and solutions. The most well-known company's products include ABBYY FineReader optical character recognition system and ABBYY Lingvo electronic dictionary.
The University jointly with ABBYY company is planning to develop a specialized educational programme for the Faculty of information systems and technologies. Yan David Evgenievich, ABBYY Software House founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors, gave a master class to the MUIF students.
Crocus Group is one of leading real estate development companies in Russia. Crocus Group implemented business projects include Crocus Expo, a large international exhibition center, “Tvoi Dom” and “Kashirka Moll” new generation hypermarket chain, fashion retail and restaurants as well as projects in the field of premium-class real estate of Moscow and Moscow area. At present the company continues to develop the “Crocus City” strategic project (Moscow's satellite town located at the crossing of Volokolamskoe highway and Moscow Ring Road).
In 2009 Agalarov Aras Iskanderovich, Head of Crocus Group and President of the Russian Producers and Importers Alliance, took part in a master class organized for the MUIF students.
Renova Group is a leading Russian private business group consisting of management companies, direct and portfolio investment funds owning and managing assets in iron and steel, oil, engineering, mining and building, communications, electric-power industries, nanotechnologies, housing and public utility and financial sectors of Russia and abroad. The group of companies is a strategic investor and stockholder of top-ranked international and Russian companies.
Moscow University of Industry and Finance organized a master class given by Vekselberg Victor Felixovich, Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of Renova Group, and devoted to the topic “Business as a form of existence”.
Akado Stolitsa CJSC which is a part of AKADO CJSC renders telecommunication services in Moscow. AKADO is a leader in rendering Internet + TV complex telecommunication services in Moscow and the first cable TV provider in Moscow that launched HDTV services. The services provided by the company include digital TV, high-speed unlimited access to internet, digital voice communication and digital audio broadcasting.
The company has agreed to participate in designing technical basis that will enable the MUIF to implement a distant learning programme.
VTB Group is one of the top-ranked international financial groups. The companies included into the group provide a wide range of financial services and products in 18 countries of the three continents (Europe, Asia and Africa). VTB currently owns a majority interest in 12 credit and 9 financial companies.
VTB Group and Moscow University of Industry and Finance are jointly developing education loan schemes for potential students from low-income families.
NTB Group is an innovative company aimed at rendering diversified services. NTB Soft company which is a part of the Group and has a team of highly-qualified Russian developers provides IT services. NTB Development company offers services in the real estate market of Russia. РА MaxMediaGroup is a leading media company in indoor advertising in educational institutions of Moscow region. The Group also includes NTB Ventures venture capital fund which makes investments in fast-growing perspective companies and projects.
NTB Group supports the University's corporate training programmes. It is also the University's strategic partner in the programme aimed at integrating information and communication technologies into the educational system.
Kaspersky Lab is an international group with the headquarters in Moscow and five regional branches which control Company's local representations and partner companies in the following regions: Western and Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa, North and South America, Japan and other countries of Asia-Pacific Region. The company has more than 700 level 1 partners in more than 100 countries. More than 250 million users enjoy the company's technologies all over the world.
Moscow University of Industry and Finance plans to cooperate with Kaspersky Lab in developing training programmes for the Faculty of information systems and technologies.
“Opora Rossii” Russian non-commercial organization of small and medium businesses was founded on September 18, 2002 by businessmen to support the consolidation of businessmen and other citizens for the purposes of participation in creating favourable political, economic, legal and other conditions for business development in the Russian Federation. “Opora Rossii” currently incorporates more than 110 non-commercial organizations all over the country and has 80 regional branches.
Administration representatives of Moscow University of Industry and Finance are members of the organization's committees in different spheres, they participate in developing its strategy and act as experts when regulatory documents, bills and development programmes analysis is carried out. Upon the organization's request the MUIF conducts opinion surveys covering different aspects of small business development in different regions of Russia. The University's students get employment in companies which are part of “Opora Rossii”.
“Delovaya Rossiya” non-commercial organization is a union of new-generation businessmen working at the non — oil and gas processing economy sector: engineering, building and consumer industries, agriculture, financial industry, IT technologies, etc. “Delovaya Rossiya” unites businessmen from 70 regions and 35 branch associations.
Moscow University of Industry and Finance representatives are members of the organization's committees in different spheres, they participate in working out Russia's small business development strategies. The University's students get employment in companies which are part of “Delovaya Rossiya”.
Russian — Chinese Business Council (RCBC) was established to promote joint economic projects of Russia and China as well as to expand cooperation between Russian and Chinese business communities. At present the RCBC includes more than 50 Russia's largest enterprises, associations and businessmen unions having business relations with China. The Chinese side of the RCBC functions under the Chinese Committee for International Commerce Development and comprises more than 40 largest companies of the People’s Republic of China. Moscow University of Industry and Finance is a member of the Russian — Chinese Business Council. The University conducts research and documents examination for Russian and Chinese businessmen and prepares analytical materials on different segments of the Russian and Chinese markets. Educational events are carried out on a regular basis to attract the attention of employers working in the Chinese market to the University's graduates. In 2008 a contest in Chinese for pupils was held using the University's resources.
Association of Financial and Industrial Groups of Russia
Association of Financial and Industrial Groups of Russia is engaged in developing and supporting bills concerning the activities of financial and industrial groups, conducts analytical research, implements cooperation programmes with domestic associations and foreign unions. Moscow University of Industry and Finance is a member of the Association of Financial and Industrial Groups of Russia.
Russian Banks Association
Russian Banks Association is a non-state non-commercial organization which unites commercial banks and other loan organizations as well as companies related to the financial and credit system of Russia. About 80% of Russian banking institutions are members of the Association which cooperates actively with regional bank associations and unions as well as banking communities of different regions of Russia. The MUIF has membership in a number of committees of the Russian Banks Association. Upon the request of the Association, the University elaborates a system of professional branch standards for the banking sector, examines documents regarding the development of the banking sector of Russia.
Hoteliers and Restaurateurs Federation unites more than 1000 catering and accommodation companies of Russia. It has been founded by Russian hoteliers and restaurateurs to develop catering and accommodation industry by means of consolidation of all of its companies aimed at overcoming the obstacles thwarting the industry progress. One of the Federation's tasks is to promote professional training programmes and train highly-qualified specialists for the restaurant and hotel business.
Moscow University of Industry and Finance gets support from the Hoteliers and Restaurateurs Federation in training students in the “Hotel and restaurant business management” specialty.