Areas in close-up: Campuses as the workforce infrastructure of the future The Ministry of Education and Science has selected 19 projects for inclusion in the federal project "Creating a network of modern campuses". They will be built in Blagoveshchensk, Irkutsk, Kazan, Kirov, Konkovo, Lipetsk, Moscow, Obninsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Rostov-on-Don, Rybinsk, St. Petersburg, Tula, Cheboksary, Cherpovets and Yalta. The total area of the facilities is about 2 million square meters. m, financing - 474 billion rubles. ▫ Vologda region The campus in Cherpovets is intended for more than 1.8 thousand students and 360 employees. It includes an education building and a laboratory with a training ground, two hotels, a sports and recreation complex and a cultural and leisure center. Governor Georgi Filimonov: "We will build a "city within a city" for students and teachers. This will allow us to solve the manpower problem in the most significant industries for the region, especially in engineering specializations." ▫ Irkutsk region The Irkutsk Campus project is a scientific and technological hub that includes an education building and a laboratory with a technology park, a sports complex and student dormitories with 1,270 beds. The campus ecosystem will unite 3 large regional universities. Governor Igor Kobzev: "The campus will become a platform for developing a research agenda focused on creating competitive products and comfortable infrastructures that will contribute to the rapid development of the region." ▫ The vicinity of the campus is seen as a center of skill in the construction of machine tools, chemical industry and electrochemical energy, industrial biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals, and social architecture. Governor Alexander Sokolov: "By creating a modern campus, we will complete the vocational education system in the region. The campus will become a point of attraction for our graduates and students from other regions." ▫ Liptsk region.