The first in Russia Youth Innovative Creativity Center for biomedical technologies was established in ASU

30 October 2015 Public Relations Department
Eureka Youth Innovative Creativity Center, established on the premises of the eponymous small innovative enterprise and supported by Altai Krai Administration, has opened in ASU.

The project was presented in the General Economics and Investment Office of Altai Krai, where the teleconference with the representatives of Ministry for Economic Development of the Russian Federation and Association of Innovative Regions of Russia was organized. The size of financial support to Eureka Center approved by the tender committee equals 7 m rubles. The basic expenses are planned to be on the acquisition of the necessary and additional specialized equipment in different spheres of Center’s activity (biomedical technologies, programming and electronics) for the purposes of scientific and technical enlightening of Altai school-children, revealing of their talents and forming the research competence.

“All Russian Youth Innovative Creativity Centers are specializing in the areas of technics and engineering. As for us, we are presenting a new format – interdisciplinary approach to medicine, which will give an opportunity to replace the out-of-date technologies and will hopefully encourage the establishment of creative environment for the preparation of new breed of specialists,” stated head of Department of Scientific and Organizational Work Aleksey V. Vaganov. “The network of scientific and research laboratories and engineering offices formed by our University in the recent years by virtue of Strategic Development Program realization, as well as the increased level of cooperation with Altai schools allow us to confidently present our center in front of the tender committee.

The main elements of ASU Center’s activity are education, creativity, project-based approach, feedback. In the long view it will enable Altai school-children to master the innovative competence in such areas as health service, drug-free modalities, longevity increasing technologies, creation of new prototypes in robotics, 3D-engineering, modern applied radionics, hardware and software development.

“Our center is oriented at youth, from schoolers to young scientists, interested in innovative creativity – electronics, robotics and biomedicine. We intend to engage students, not only of ASU but also other regional universities) into scientific, research and innovative activities of the center. We will be glad if young entrepreneurs, planning to implement innovative ideas, participate in the center’s work. YICC is an integrative structure, which allows us to combine educational process, team work, creative thinking development, mastering of work with high-tech equipment, and science. This is the unique innovative environment in the areas of biomedicine, medical physics, electronics and robotics,” said director of Eureka Center, Candidate of Biology, Assistant Professor of Department of Zoology and Physiology of Faculty of Biology of ASU Irina N. Tomilova.

Eureka Youth Innovative Creativity Center consists of Umnik and Radiotechnics engineering offices, educational and research laboratory of clinical physiology, laboratories of Scientific and Research Institute of Biomedicine, educational and research center of automation systems and management, scientific and research laboratory of medical physics.
The project team includes specialists in different spheres of knowledge: Doctor of Medicine I.V. Smirnov (biomedical technologies), Candidate of Technical Sciences A.Ya. Suranov (electronics), Senior Lecturer V.V. Belozerskikh (programming), Candidate of Biology A.V. Vaganov (research area), Candidate of Technical Sciences Yu.I. Ladygin (innovative area), E.N. Goncharova (educational area), A.V. Cherenkova (students’ scientific research area).

It is important to emphasize that the Eureka Center establishment was preceded by a number of cogent factors such as wide network of ASU profession-oriented schools; experience in research work with enrollees of the university itself and its branches; experience in science and practice events organization and participation with the involvement of schoolers; existence of strategic partners of ASU in the area of biomedicine; existence of partnering manufacturing businesses.

According to ASU statistics, more than 900 schoolers of Altai Krai take interest in studying biology at ASU, 700 schoolers – studying physics, mathematics and IT at ASU.
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