Tatarstan Government allocates grant of $ 1 mln for IT research

This year the Tatarstan Government will allocate the grant of $ 1 mln. to the Higher School of Information Technologies and Information Systems. It is aimed at attraction of talented scientists to republic from across the globe for conducting research in the sphere of information technologies.

IT cluster is being formed in Tatarstan. One of its main tasks is enhancement of social and economic potential of the Republic of Tatarstan by means of adoption of information technologies in real sector of economy. However, this goal cannot be realised without developing human and scientific resources in the Russian IT industry that is experiencing strong shortage of human resources.

Thus, the Tatarstan Government supported the initiative of the Higher School of Information Technologies and Information Systems and provided the grant of $ 1 mln for conducting IT research at the Kazan University.

An important condition for receiving the grant is that within three years a visiting expert will have to train the team of specialists from the Kazan Federal University. The grant winner will be able to take up the post of Head of one of the departments at the Higher School of Information Technologies and Information Systems.