Students from Egypt discover career growth opportunities at Rosatom’s careers day hosted by Tomsk Polytechnic University

Students from Egypt discover career growth opportunities at Rosatom’s careers day hosted by Tomsk Polytechnic University

Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) hosted Rosatom’s online Careers Day for students from leading universities. The event brought together representatives of twelve organisations from six countries. Attendees included companies, national nuclear agencies, Rosatom enterprises, embassies of two foreign states, as well as over 160 students from Egypt, Ghana, Bolivia, Nigeria and Kazakhstan. Using the online platform, students were able to communicate with potential employers, ask questions about job opportunities, and meet with experts and foreign graduates of Russian universities already working in the nuclear industry.

When addressing the event’s participants, TPU’s Acting Rector, Dmitry Sednev, said: “Tomsk Polytechnic University is a recognised international centre of nuclear education. Since 2015, we have educated students from Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, India, China Tanzania, Brazil, Zambia, Iran and Vietnam. In 2019, TPU became the first and only Russian university to sign a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, which we were able to achieve thanks to the support of Rosatom. Also, an agreement has been in place between TPU and Egypt’s Supreme Council of Universities since 2018 to implement joint educational programmes.”

Last month, seven nuclear power engineers from Egypt received diplomas from Tomsk Polytechnic University. It was the third cohort of students to