The Republic of Tatarstan and iCarnegie sign Memorandum of Understanding

Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the Republic of Tatarstan and an IT subsidiary of Carnegie Mellon University – iCarnegie in Pittsburgh (USA, Pennsylvania). President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Director of iCarnegie Gil Taran put their signatures on the document.

To the point, Rustam Minnikhanov is on a business trip in Pittsburgh to learn about activity of Carnegie Mellon University (September 4-5, 2012).

Rustam Minnikhanov is accompanied by Tatarstan’s Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of informatization and communications Roman Shaikhutdinov, rector of the Kazan (Volga) Federal University Ilshat Gafurov, senior partner of venture fund Runa Capital and founder of Parallels, Acumatica, Acronis, Rolsen Sergei Belousov.

An international educational center of federal significance for training 5 thousand IT specialists per year is meant to be established in Tatarstan. iCarnegie is expected to develop a world-known educational system for Tatarstan that will comprise a world-class scientific-research and educational university giving bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and a range of opportunities for professional education and training of top managers.

“Tatarstan faces ambitious and far-reaching task – to become the center of training highly skilled specialists and elite center in the sphere of information technologies, education and research work. The role we play in this partnership inspires us. We are proud of the given opportunity to become your partner and get closer to realization of a unique program that can make Innopolis the city of future in Russia and a business center able to compete on a global scale,” Gil Taran said.

CMU is one of the best educational institutions training specialists in the sphere of computer science. Almost 150 thousand students in 20 countries were taught and 1 thousand teachers trained by iCarnegie and its partners. CMU graduates and employees founded many leading IT companies, including Sun Micro and Java language. Among graduates are 15 Nobel laureates and Turing prize winners.