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NEFU best students to visit the Microsoft Technology Center in Moscow

  • 03 December 2014
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NEFU best students to visit the Microsoft Technology Center in Moscow

North-Eastern Federal University to continue cooperation with Microsoft. On November 20, students, university staff and employees of the company summed up the results of joint work and set new goals.

According to the head of NEFU IT Management Petr Ivanov, 73 students will visit the Microsoft Technology Center in Moscow in January 2015 within the frameworks of partnership. Experts will tell them about the latest technological developments, internship opportunities and participation in other activities of the company.

Petr Ivanov noted that the use of the company's products plays an important role in improving the educational process at the university. "Microsoft solutions allow students, faculty and staff of the university to use the most advanced software, saving budget of the university, as well as personal means of staff and students of our university," the head of department said.

"We strive to create opportunities for self-realization of young people, contributing to the issues of employment and entrepreneurial skills development, education, increasing of the availability of digital technology, freedom of creativity and innovation development. Increasing IT popularity among students is one of the key focuses of the company. We have a number of programs to support the initiatives of students to work on projects in this area, and particularly we give them free access to our technologies", said the regional director of Microsoft Russia Kirill Semenikhin.

"The university is ready to support initiatives of students and student teams in the field of information technology. Consolidated applications for services, sent to the IT Management, will allow us to timely and qualitatively optimize the infrastructure to create the most effective conditions for creative and initiative guys", Petr Ivanov said.

Author: Tatiana NOKHSOROVA, NEFU Newsroom

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