TOMSK, Mar 4 – RIA Tomsk. The Center for Youth Innovative Creativity (CYIC) "Intellect" of Tomsk State University (TSU) opened on Monday in the territory of the special economic zone (SEZ); schoolchildren and students will master high-tech equipment, their projects will be able to receive support from SEZ residents, said the RIA Tomsk correspondent, who visited the opening.
Earlier it was reported that the Center for Youth Innovative Creativity (CYIC) "Intellect" for university and secondary school students and schoolchildren – is a high-tech workshop where everyone will be able to master such equipment as 3D printer, laser numerical control machines, and learn how to design virtual reality.
According to the correspondent, the Center for Youth Innovative Creativity (CYIC) "Intellect" opened on Monday in the territory of the Tomsk SEZ (Development Avenue, 3). It appeared within the framework of the program of state support of small and medium enterprises of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. According to the city administration, the money for the construction and equipping of the CYIC was allocated from the federal, regional and city budgets, in total it's about 6.8 million rubles.
"A certain cooperation is built in the special economic zone between its residents. They set tasks which are necessary for high-tech business, and young people can take part in creating of innovative products here and now", – the deputy governor of the Tomsk region Andrey Antonov told journalists at the opening.
Alexey Kremlev, the Director of the Center for Youth Innovative Creativity (CYIC) "Intellect" also noted that the projects developed at the CYIC could find support of the SEZ residents and get real application. The center itself is a laboratory of a full cycle of digital production: from design, 3D modeling and programming to the manufacture of a finished sample.He added that Center for Youth Innovative Creativity there will include short-term courses ranging from two to 16 hours in industrial design, instrument engineering, robotics and other subjects. Free classes for schoolchildren and university students in the center began in mid-January 2019. 550 people have already been trained.