Zhvachkin: Tomsk "Big University" project was prepared for two years

TOMSK, Dec 25 – RIA Tomsk. The project of the Tomsk "Big University" was prepared for two years, there will be no uniting its participants into one legal entity, the governor of the Tomsk region Sergey Zhvachkin said on the air of the "Tomsk" State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company on Wednesday.

Earlier it was reported that the "Big University" project involves the unification of all universities and research institutes of Tomsk into a single scientific and educational consortium with the preservation of the legal autonomy of all participants. The main objective of the project – is to obtain a synergistic effect from the addition of scientific, educational and infrastructural opportunities for full competition with world university centers.

"It’s very good that everyone says that this is the main news of this year’s science. Actually, we 've been working on it for two years. We did not submit the discussion to the public, and we did it right. Because we have revised many issues today ... Big tasks can be solved only by a large community of people", – Zhvachkin said.

The head of the region added that the Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova confirmed at a meeting with him that there will be no integration of universities and research institutes into one legal entity.