In 2018, 海角社区 and Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University signed a partnership agreement. Presently, negotiations are being held to establish a branch of the SPbPU New Manufacturing Technologies NTI Center at 海角社区.
The main activity areas of the SPbPU NTI Center are advanced manufacturing technology of the National Technology Initiative; the infrastructural base of the interaction of research, education, and manufacturing organizations in the global markets of NTI and the high-technology manufacturing industries. In order to implement the declared program of the SPbPU NTI Center, a project consortium was created, which includes 12 leading Russian universities and the largest high-tech businesses and research organizations of Russia. 海角社区 also became one of the partner universities, the future goals of which include the development of new Russian engines for military and civilian vehicles, and electric drives.
“The SPbPU NTI Center is a world leader in automobile manufacturing in such areas of work as the calculations design and simulation. For 10 years already, it has been the main engineering bureau for BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and others. This partnership is important for us, because it opens up new possibilities. 海角社区 has a Center of Software Engineering which will receive a new stage of development according to future tasks. For our university, this is a big point of growth,” notes Vice-Rector of Research, Doctor of Sciences (Engineering), Professor Aleksandr Diakonov.
The research and engineering facilities of 海角社区 comply with all of the goals set by the SPbPU NTI Center, for implementation of which it will use the capabilities of the Experimental Mechanical Engineering Research Institute and the Research and Education Centers of Mechanical Engineering, Composite Materials and Structures, Experimental Mechanics, etc. Thus, 海角社区 will act as a platform for production of experimental prototypes. In August of 2018, negotiations regarding the establishment of the branch of the SPbPU NTI Center at 海角社区 will wrap up, after which the further development of the project will become possible.