NTF

NTF mission:

ñomprehensive support to development of an effective education and research system as a foundation of the Russian economy and society competitiveness

    

 

Welcome to the NTF – National Training Foundation website!

NTF-National Training Foundation is a nonprofit organization. It was established in 1994 through the Government regulation ¹ 1273-p by legal entities which included the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Russian Association for Support to Higher Education Institutions, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Industry and Technologies, Ministry of Labor and Social Development, Ministry of Property Relations, Ministry of Antimonopoly policy, Federal Center for projects financing, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

Presently the NTF Governing Board includes representatives by the state structures, academic institutions, higher education institutions and private companies.

 

The main goal of the NTF is to support establishment and development of effective education and research system; information technologies in education and science; Human Resources development. The organization objectives stipulated by the Charter include:

a)      support of innovations aimed at modernization and development of education and research systems, information technologies in education and research, training/retraining of personnel;

b)      analysis of the needs and priorities in the sphere of training/retraining of personnel for developing recommendations for the state and business structures to improve the governance systems;

c)      assistance to development of staff of education and research  institutions, Russian enterprises and commercial organizations through the development of the personnel training and retraining systems oriented responding to the market economy demands;

d)      assistance the development of the management consulting system;

e)      assistance to the efforts aimed at attracting credits and grants of international, foreign and Russian organizations and business structures, donations, other financial resources and technical assistance for the projects development and realization aimed at the modernization of education and research system; information technologies in education and science, training/retraining of personnel;

f)        creation of environment  for dissemination of the best practices of education and research reforms and fostering their further implementation in the system.       

By virtue of the Russian Federation Government Decrees and its own founding Charter NTF has participated in implementing a number of national and international education and training projects including those funded by international governmental and non-governmental organizations and foundations. These projects include, inter alia:

  • Management and Financial Training Project (Loan 3824-RU dated April 25, 1995) in the amount of 40 million US Dollars, duration 1995 – 2000;

  • Education Innovation Project (Loan ¹ 4183-RU dated October 9, 1997) in the amount of 65,75 million US Dollars, duration 1998 – 2004;

  • Education Reform Project (Loan ¹ 4605-RU dated February 8, 2002) in the amount of 47million US Dollars, duration 2002 – 2006;

  • E-Learning Support Project (Loan ¹ 4726-RU dated December 7, 2004) in the amount of 100 million US Dollars, duration of 1st stage 2005 – 2008.

 

The implementation of the projects featured a wide use of external expertise and internal activities and monitoring. For these ends the NTF has established a large (over 1000) pool of experts in various fields (Economic and Social Studies, Management, Financial management, Education administration and governance, Educational quality assessment and assurance).

The experience in managing major educational projects, the professional expert community built in the course of their implementation, the tried and tested mechanisms of dissemination of best practices in Russian regions have allowed the Foundation to become a coordinator of the the Russian Ministry of Education and Science Plan of Measures for implementing the provisions of the Bologna Declaration within the higher professional education system.

 In 2007 the capacity generated in the course of implementation of a wide range of projects and the track record established laid claim to the NTF bid to become the implementing agency of the Priority National Education Project. Based on the results of an open competition the NTF was selected as an operator of the Priority National Education Project on support to higher educational institutions introducing innovative educational programs, support to vocational educational institutions introducing innovative educational programs and provision of Internet access to all educational institutions of the Russian Federation.

 

The NTF implements a wide range of projects aimed at contributing to developing the role of education in the knowledge triangle of education-research-innovation as a driver of the modernization agenda.

 

19 July 2010

Mr Medvedev and Ms Merkel agreed to hold a Russian-German Year of Science and Education in 2011 and to launch a joint history textbook project. More details

Russian-German intergovernmental consultations. 15 July, Ekaterinburg

12 July 2010

«We must be more effective in our use of foreign policy instruments specifically for pursuing domestic objectives, for modernising our country, its economy, its social life and, to some degree, its political system, in order to resolve various challenges facing our society»>>>

Dmitry Medvedev

Speech at meeting with Russian ambassadors and permanent representatives in international organizations July 12, 2010

 

30 June 2010

In the Budget Address to the Government and Federal Assembly on budget policy for 2011-2013  Dmitry Medvedev outlined the main objectives of budget policy. Investment in high quality education and research remains top priority of the Russian Government >>>

 

25 June 2010

Following the talks in Washington (24 June 2010), Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama issued a number of joint statements >>>

 

21 June 2010

Pre-G8/G20 Summit Conferences in Toronto >>>

 

20 June 2010

G20 Pittsburgh summit commitments compliance >>>

 
 
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