During the second day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Stanislav Prokofiev, FinU Rector, signed 4 cooperation agreements and met with leading representatives of the business community, government agencies and the banking sector.
The FinU delegation at SPIEF-2023 also included Elena Didenko, Vice-Rector for Continuing Education, Dmitry Semenov, Vice-Rector for Strategy and GR, and Pavel Seleznev, Dean of the Faculty of International Economic Relations. In accordance with the agreements concluded at the forum, cooperation with partners will cover a wide range of areas in scientific, educational and entrepreneurial activities.
An agreement was signed at the SPIEF site between the FinU and the State Corporation Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA). The document was signed by Stanislav Prokofiev, FinU Rector, and Andrey Melnikov, CEO of the DIA. The agreement provides for partnership in educational and research activities, providing innovative support for the educational process and training qualified personnel for the financial system of Russia.
“One of the priorities of our joint work will be the implementation of students’ practical training and the creation of human resources for the industry. Of course, the participation of DIA experts in the development of academic programs will be an invaluable experience for us, which will help to achieve a synergetic effect and improve the quality of scientific and educational activities, as well as become the basis for the joint projects’ implementation,” said the Rector of the FinU.
In turn, the CEO of the DIA Andrey Melnikov noted,
“The signing of the agreement is an important step towards the development of our cooperation. The high professionalism of the FinU faculty, as well as the accumulated experience of the DIA, will contribute to the improvement of academic programs and the joint educational projects’ implementation.”
Also at the SPIEF, an agreement was signed between the FinU and the Perm Region. As part of the document signed by Stanislav Prokofiev, FinU Rector, and Dmitry Makhonin, Governor of the Perm Region, on the basis of the integration of scientific, educational and industrial activities, it is planned to conduct joint work on training personnel in finance, law and IT technologies, current research directions will be determined at the request of the real sector of the economy and executive authorities of the Perm Region. Another important cooperation area will be the holding of events to improve financial literacy for school children, including Olympiads on financial literacy and the creation of “Spots of Financial Literacy” on the internal resources of the FinU and executive authorities of the Perm Region.
On the same day, an agreement was signed between the FinU and the Moscow Stock Exchange. The signing ceremony was attended by Stanislav Prokofiev, Rector of the FinU, and Yuri Denisov, Chairman of the Management Board of the Moscow Stock Exchange.
“The signing of this agreement is a logical continuation of the long-term and productive cooperation between the FinU and the Moscow Exchange, aimed at developing the domestic financial market and providing it with highly qualified personnel. It was the FinU that was the first in Russia to train professionals for the financial market and stock exchange business. The partnership with the Moscow Stock Exchange will create new unique opportunities for training young professionals for investment and professional activity in the financial market, as well as launch new tracks in scientific research. Consistency, long-termism and openness to innovation are the key principles that form the basis of our joint work. As part of the signed agreement, we will actively develop practice-oriented academic programs and in the near future we plan to create a simulator of an educational exchange using the information and trading terminal of the Moscow Exchange, as well as its financial technologies,” said the FinU Rector.
“The exchange takes part in the educational process at different levels. Our cooperation with universities includes many joint projects, and more and more experts of the Moscow Exchange are joining the work in scientific research. Many employees started their careers on the stock exchange while being students and continue to work with us for many years. Today’s agreement with the FinU develops our long-term partnership. The future of the Russian financial market directly depends on the personnel training quality. Therefore, the main cooperation vector with the University is aimed specifically at working with students and young specialists,” added the Chairman of the Board of the Moscow Exchange.
The agreement is aimed at cooperation in the educational, scientific and consulting spheres. The parties agreed to join efforts to train managerial and economic personnel at all levels of education. In particular, training programs for financial sector specialists will be developed. It is also planned to conduct joint research in development of securities markets, exchange trading technologies and new financial instruments. To implement joint educational work, the exchange and the university will cooperate in improving people’s level of financial literacy.
Also, as part of the second day of SPIEF, FinU signed an agreement with Otkritie Bank. The document was signed by Stanislav Prokofiev, Rector of the FinU, and Mikhail Alekseev, President and Chairman of the Management Board of Otkritie Bank.
The agreement covers many areas of cooperation and provides for the organization by Otkritie Bank of training events, seminars, conferences and round tables with FinU representatives to exchange knowledge in areas of mutual interest, including on topical issues of financial and banking activities, as well as in order to improve financial literacy. In addition, the parties will cooperate in information projects in the educational, methodological, research and social spheres, and Otkritie Bank will also assist FinU students of the Financial University in internships and practical training in the structural divisions of the credit institution.
