Innopolis University together with the University of 20.35 will train 5,000 civil servants and employees of Russian companies under the CDO program

The training will take place in two programs: "Methods and technologies based on working with data" and "Data-based management". The course includes live webinars with experts from Sberbank, Yandex, Beeline, Gazprom, Skyeng, X5 Retail Group and Innopolis University.
The Russian IT university has won a competition for the implementation of a professional development program for managers and teams of the digital economy within the framework of the federal project "Personnel for the Digital Economy". After completing the course, students will receive certificates of advanced training.
Maria Obraztsova, Director of the Institute of Additional Education at Innopolis University: "The CDO program for civil servants and corporate employees within the framework of the federal project "Personnel for the Digital Economy" has been implemented at Innopolis University since 2019. Over two years, 7697 people have completed advanced training, they have developed 858 projects to increase the level of digitalization in their departments: "Digital Employment Center", "Digital City map for the low-mobility population", "Digital maternal passport", "Digital portrait of school equipment", "Ecosystem of environmental quality management" and others. And we are glad that we have been entrusted to train 5,000 more people this year."
The competition for the implementation of the advanced training program was held by the University of NTI "20.35" within the framework of the event "Implementation of additional educational programs for the training of managers and teams of the digital economy. The financing is carried out within the framework of the federal project "Personnel for the digital Economy".
"Innopolis University, as a single operator of the program implementation, faces a big and important task - to provide authorities and commercial companies with professional managers and CDO teams. And we will direct all our experience and knowledge to its implementation," Maria Obraztsova summed up.
The training program: https://edu.innopolis.university/
In 2020, on the basis of Innopolis University, a single platform for professional development of teachers of higher and secondary vocational education in Russia was created — the Reference Educational Center (REC) and the Unified Methodological Center (UMC) in the areas of digital economy. The Center is engaged in the formation and development of digital competencies among specialists from priority sectors of the economy, defined by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated May 7, 2018 No. 204 "On national goals and strategic objectives of the development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2024": healthcare, mining and manufacturing, education, agriculture, IT and others. Within the framework of the activities of the Reference Educational Center, a consortium of educational organizations of higher and secondary vocational education was created to combine methodological resources, which was joined by more than 400 partners - Russian universities and colleges from 78 regions of the Russian Federation. In 4 years, the consortium will train 80 thousand Russian teachers and methodologists in digital competencies — in 2021, the number of students will reach 16 thousand people.