The Pension Fund of Russia and the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation have signed a cooperation agreement. The document was signed at today’s expanded meeting of the Financial University’s Academic Board by PFR Board Chairman Anton Drozdov and Financial University Rector Mukhadin Eskindarov.
In line with the agreement, the PFR and the Financial University will pool efforts, capacities and intellectual potential for improving academic-methodological and research work in priority areas of the Russian pension system’s development and performance of the Pension Fund of Russia and increasing the efficiency of state services provided in the field of pensions and social security.
For instance, the Pension Fund of Russia will assign its skilled employees to joint scientific and practical conferences, seminars, roundtables and social security classes in accordance with the University curriculum. In addition, the Pension Fund of Russia will provide internship and pre-graduation training of University students and assist post-graduate students and doctoral students of the Financial University in their research of issues within the Fund competence.
Within the framework of the agreement, the Pension Fund of Russia will also take part in the certification of education programs of the Financial University. In turn, the Financial University will study, summarize and adopt practices of the PFR and its territorial bodies in its academic and research programs and include them in its curriculum for training students and coaching personnel who may be eventually recruited by the Pension Fund of Russia.
The Financial University will form project teams consisting of its students and professors and skilled PFR specialists to study and resolve problems of the efficient development of the pension system of the Russian Federation.
The PFR and the Financial University have been cooperating for years. More than 20,000 PFR employees have participated in re-training and professional development programs in the Financial University’s Short-Term Program Institute, and University scientists have done research on issues related to the improvement of the activity of the Pension Fund of Russia and the development of the pension system. The PFR is sure that the implementation of the agreement with a leading higher economics education institute of our country will have a positive effect on the Fund performance.
