Established in 2010, on the basis of the leading regional universities and colleges, the Northern Arctic Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov (NArFU) is a brand new ambitious university of distinctiveness and innovations designed to meet the needs of the Arctic.
Set up with the mission of opening a new page in the high latitude investigation and establishing an innovation and human resource base to foster knowledge-based exploration of the Arctic, NArFU creates conditions necessary to support the industrial projects being launched in the polar region with personnel and technologies.
Today, when high technologies are changing very quickly, practical approaches and individualization of learning are very important. In this regard, the main educational trends are the project approach, the detailing of education, and a network with science and business.
“Our university, while forming educational programs, is guided by these key ideas. We offer individualized education according to the requests of our students. The educational programs are very flexible and allow to adjust to the interests of students.
Education in NArFU is practice-oriented: in all our educational programs we have either business, industrial or technological partners involved. Students while at the university do internships in operating companies located in the Arctic region. We follow the approach of ‘education through science’, where we teach students to use the updated equipment in connection with the latest technological and scientific solutions that we incorporate into the educational process.
Besides, interdisciplinarity is of great importance because the current professions are getting more complex due to developing technologies. Therefore, we offer students comprehensive knowledge that covers different disciplines”, briefs Elena Kudryashova, Rector Northern Arctic Federal University.
Contributing towards Intellectual Capacity of the Community
NArFU has been actively cooperating with the countries of the CIS and the Asia-Pacific region, where it has more than 30 partners. In general, on an annual basis, NArFU offers more than 10 international English-language online schools on Arctic topics as well as the study of the Russian language and culture, semester, and master's programs that are popular among students from different regions of the world.
These are truly frontier studies at the cutting edge of modern science and the current agenda in the development of the Arctic region. Russian scientists and researchers have accumulated vast experience in organizing the work of interdisciplinary teams within the thematic networks including partner universities in different countries. The university actively participates implementing joint international educational programs including double degree ones with international partners.