Supporting Education
For many years, the Company has been implementing projects to provide continuous training to specialists, investing in high-quality education at middle and high schools and industry-related universities as well as in internship programs and subsequent employment.
NOVATEK helps children from nomadic families get an education and arranges for so called “school flights” to take children to their school at the start of the academic year and back to the tundra after it ends. All families with school-age children confirmed having received this assistance.
Gifted Children program
Location
- Samara Region
- Murmansk Region
- Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region
- Tyumen
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Key outcome
School students visited the facilities of the NOVATEK Group of Companies:
- LNG Construction Center;
- Laboratory and Research Center
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The Gifted Children program, implemented for more than 20 years, has been further expanded. Under the program, talented high school students take in-depth courses in relevant subjects (such as physics, mathematics, and engineering), get acquainted with industry-related universities, take part in competitions and contests, and learn more about the Company’s operations and advanced technologies during field trips to NOVATEK enterprises.
Two major field trips to NOVATEK enterprises were organized:
• School students visited the LNG Construction Center site in the Murmansk Region, where they saw with their own eyes how an LNG plant is built on gravity-based structures. They then had a tour around Europe’s largest assembly shop, learned about new and exciting professions in the oil and gas industry, and visited the Quantorium technology park for children
• High school students visited the Laboratory Center at NOVATEK’s Scientific and Technical Center in Tyumen, where they learned about professions in demand at the STC. The students also took part in engineering competitions, took classes at the regional School of Physics and Mathematics and at Quantorium, and got acquainted with the Industrial University of Tyumen.
Grants for schoolchildren and teachers
Location
Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region
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Key outcome
Grants issued
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School students and teachers from the Purovsky District, the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region, continued to benefit from the Company’s ongoing Grants for Schoolchildren and Grants for Teachers programs. The project aims at fostering the intellectual and creative development of schoolchildren and raising the prestige of the teaching profession.
To be eligible for a grant, in addition to earning good and excellent grades, a student must also be a winner or runner-up of a district, regional, or national olympiad; research and practice conference; contest; tournament; or festival at various levels in mathematics, physics, computer science, or chemistry.
NOVATEK-University program
Location
- Novokuybyshevsk
- Tyumen
- Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region
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Key outcome
Students took part in the program
Program participants are employed by the Company
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The NOVATEK-University program is an action plan for targeted high-quality specialist training for university students in priority areas of expertise for the Company. The program is based at Saint Petersburg Mining University, Gubkin University in Moscow, and the Industrial University of Tyumen.
Participants in the NOVATEK-University program comprise the most motivated and gifted prospective university students from among the graduates of the Gifted Children program and the grant program as well as employees’ children. The program provides students with additional scholarship support as well as paid internships. Students with a good track record of academic achievement may subsequently be employed by the Group.