Published on: 2026-04-30
Source: Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University of Peter the Great –
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Tashkent for several days transformed into the epicenter of engineering thought and youth creativity. Here, at the international festival “Future Innovators,” about 30 contests and competitions were organized, in which more than 14 thousand people participated. The festival was opened by the first deputy minister of higher education, science and innovation Sardor Radjabov.
“Future Innovators” is a national project where engineering competitions take place simultaneously in six types. On the ice rink, instead of hockey markings, there are cells for robots: from classic “battles” to drone football. Nearby are tracks for racing drones, and on the street you can see helicopters, robotic cars, and autonomous rovers.
During the festival, the establishment of the “Engineers of the Future” consortium took place. The memorandum was signed by leading technical universities of Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
A document from the Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University of Peter the Great was signed by Rector Andrey Rudskoy.
“It is a great honor for me to be here at this significant moment when we are taking a step towards creating a new space of cooperation that unites leading engineering schools of our countries.— noted Andrey Ivanovich. —Engineering education has always been a special field that shapes the future. And it has always succeeded where knowledge was united, where schools interacted, and where countries found a common language in science and education.».
The “Engineers of the Future” consortium is intended to become the foundation for forming a unified school of engineering education. The participants agreed to build cooperation based on the principles of equality, mutual respect, and trust. The consortium includes:
- Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam Karimov,
- Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University of Peter the Great,
- Al-Farabi Kazakh National University,
- Kazakh National Research Technical University named after K.I. Satpayev,
- Tajik Technical University named after academician M.S. Osimi,
- Kyrgyz State Technical University named after I. Razzakov,
- Technical University ToshTech (Uzbekistan).
Immediately after the ceremony at the Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam Karimov, elected chairman of the consortium for the coming year, the first meeting of the founders took place. The participants discussed practical steps for the development of the consortium. The key directions will be:
- Support for joint international scientific teams and stimulation of publication activity in a high-impact journal
- organization of network educational programs, academic exchanges, and summer schools;
- conducting joint engineering competitions, hackathons, and student and young scientist olympiads.
The directors also discussed cooperation mechanisms. Andrey Rudskoy proposed publishing their own journal “Advanced Engineering Technologies” with an international editorial board. Also on the agenda was the formation of joint scientific teams, network educational programs, and youth conferences.
And the first practical step did not keep him waiting. Andrey Rudskoy handed each member university of the consortium a certificate for the participation of five students in the “Winter University on Engineering Sciences 2026,” which will take place in November at the Polytechnic.
Students, graduate students, and young scientists from our universities will become participants in a large engineering community. For them, the doors of the consortium universities will be open — for joint project and scientific work, participation in youth schools and conferences, — emphasized Andrey Rudskoy.
Parallel to the competitions at several sites in Tashkent, including the intellectual club “Zakovat Arena,” there was an exhibition of engineering developments and startup projects by young scientists, students, and inventors. Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, as a leading engineering university in Russia, could not overlook such an event. The university presented at the exhibition a development by young engineers from the “Industrial Systems of Stream Processing Data” laboratory of the advanced engineering school “Digital Engineering” (PIPE SPbPU) — a compact wheeled autonomous robot (MKA).The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Kongratbay Sharipov, was shown a prototype demonstrating the capabilities of unmanned transport, machine vision, and artificial intelligence.
The Polytechnic stand attracted great interest from participants and visitors of the exhibition, who were able to familiarize themselves with key scientific and technological areas (STSA) implemented within the framework of the “Priority-2030” program, the university’s international activities, as well as the opportunities for admission to the university.
The creation of the “Engineers of the Future” consortium opens a new stage in the integration of engineering schools of the CIS countries and, in the opinion of the participants, will become a powerful driver of technological development of the entire region.
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