6,058 students, 434 of whom are from other universities in Ekaterinburg and the country, will acquire valuable IT knowledge and skills in the upcoming Digital Chair project season. Participants are now required to complete internships at the project's partner companies, in addition to taking classes to learn Python and management skills. 

After finishing the Digital Chair program, graduates will be awarded a professional retraining diploma.

“Students were given six programs to choose from, and each institute offered its own set of programs. According to our data, the most popular among students was the program “Management Decision Support Methods using the Python Programming Language”, while slightly fewer students chose “ERP Management and System Analysis of an Industrial Enterprise” and “Digital Marketing in a Professional Environment”,” commented the Digital Chair training center.

Ural Federal University, which is named in honor of Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia, is a school located in the Ural region of Russia. The Ural Federal University was created through the combining of Ural State Technical University and Ural State University. One of the Russian Federal Universities is the institution. The university partners with the Russian Academy of Sciences and acts as a hub for research and innovation in the Ural region. UrFU provides academic majors in 108 different fields of knowledge across four educational programs.