Kaliningrad State Technical University

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Having been founded on the basis of Moscow Technical Institute for the Fishery Industry, Kaliningrad State Technical University (KSTU) is justly considered as the beginning of Russian higher fishery education and a range of scientific schools in navigation, commercial fishery, and progressive technologies of food production. At present, it develops as a multi-disciplinary institution considerin...g the demands and the economic potential of the Region, maintaining traditions of high quality specialist training for the fishery industry. Students are trained in 42 higher educational courses at various levels, namely, Bachelor, Professional Diploma, Master, post-graduate (Kandidat Nauk) and doctorate (Doktor Nauk) Degrees; professionals are offered various upgrading courses.600 teachers and researchers, including 75 professors holding the Doktor Nauk Degree, 80 academicians and corresponding members of international and public Russian Academies of Science form the faculty if the University. 28 scientists are awarded titles of honoured workers of science, Russian higher education, branches of science, and the fishery industry.
Scientific research is traditionally undertaken in many areas being the most important for the modern navigation, fisheries and seafood processing, power engineering, construction, production automation and control, information technology, natural science, nano-technology, etc. The University founded effectively working schools in ichthyology, commercial fishery, ship-building and repair, automation of production and control, technique and technology of raw materials processing. There are 12 research laboratories and scientific centres, four of them being of the applied character. Four dissertation councils work at the University. Recently, intensification of scientific work has involved the University into 25 federal scientific programmes, as well as in TEMPUS and TACIS projects. Regional representatives of public professional Academies of Science applied Centre for new Information Technologies, Research Institute for Maritime Engineering Service, Institute of Ecology and Sustainable Development successfully operate on the University basis. International co-operation of the University with foreign educational and research organizations is constantly expanding, with the Baltic Sea region in particular.
KSTU has been admitting foreign students for over 50 years. More than 1500 graduates are overseas students from Africa, Europe, Latin America and Middle East. Training at the University is conducted in Russian, so every foreign student takes a one-year preparatory course mastering the Russian language, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. A modern methodology of teaching Russian allows overseas students to continue their studies at the appropriate faculty of the University. KSTU students have the possibility to take one-semester or even a year course at partner universities in the framework of exchange programs. Participation in various international programs enables graduate and post-graduate students as well as academic staff to refine their knowledge abroad, to upgrade their qualifications and to improve their language skills. Every year the University participates in 10-15 international projects and programs, conferences and seminars, practical training, training of 150-200 lecturers, graduate and post-graduate students. Today there are about 250 foreign students in the University. Academic and scientific contacts have been established with European, Asian, American and Australian universities. Active cooperation with the Baltic States such as Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and England promotes good neighborly relationship and cultural ties between the countries.
Innovation Activity Office was opened within the University. Its mission is to help the University staff and students who already have research and development of a project and are planning to promote them. The University staff facilitate formation of action groups which in the future become the backbone for creation of small innovative enterprises. Innovation Activity Office deals with attracting foreign, federal, public and private investments by engagement of the University specialists and research teams into the sci-tech programs, grants and commercial agreements. The Office coordinates innovation activities of separate divisions and similar to them, research laboratories as well as divisions of research structure. Today KSTU has its own Technological cluster. It is an area of innovation activities, where through well-developed infrastructure and rendering of necessary services future specialists cooperate with companies of technology sector. As on December 2012, KSTU technological cluster includes more than 20 residents. The Cluster’s work is financed at the expenses of its own activity as well as by investors and sponsors.