Talented young people from all over the country and even from abroad came to the city on the Neva River to prove their professionalism. The Professionals Championship is a unique project aimed at attracting the younger generation to in-demand specialties, supporting talented young people and providing the country with personnel.
The team of the federal project "Professionals" gathered at the championship site in the congress and exhibition center "Expoforum". St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design (Ƶ) was represented by Sergey Scherbakov, the head of the light industry cluster created by the university within the framework of the federal project. In addition to leading the cluster, Sergei Scherbakov is the General Director of the Factory of non-standard footwear "Mercury", which is included as a reference employer among its partners from the day of its foundation in 2022. As a representative of the footwear, leather goods and haberdashery industry, he took part in an interactive conversation with future applicants. Dialogue on equal terms allowed to jointly create a portrait of an ideal student - the future employee of the enterprise, to familiarize schoolchildren with the career trajectory at enterprises that are among the partners of the federal project "Professionality".

In parallel, within the framework of the National Championship "Professionals" a meeting of the Consortium for the Development of School Engineering and Technology Education was held, one of the events of which was the ceremony of solemn joining the University of Industrial Technologies and Design. Today the Consortium unites schools, professional educational institutions, universities and enterprises in the implementation of engineering education.
On the platform of the business program of the final championship "Professionals" and within the framework of the VIII All-Russian Forum of Federal Educational and Methodological Associations in the system of secondary vocational education there was held an expert dialogue "FP "Professional", where Vice-Rector for the development of educational programs Natalia Klimova told about the possibility of accelerated target training taking into account the integration of programs of secondary vocational and higher education. On the platform of the business program of the final championship "Professionals" and in the framework of the VIII All-Russian Forum of federal educational and methodological associations in the system of secondary vocational education held an expert dialogue "FP "Professionalitet", where the vice-rector for the development of educational programs Natalia Klimova spoke about the possibility of accelerated targeted training taking into account the integration of programs of secondary vocational and higher education.

"Today in the University of Industrial Technologies and Design in the integration of educational programs of higher and secondary vocational education includes training and programs of VET. It is about both content integration, the logic of building a single program within subjects and practices, and infrastructure, when HE and SPE programs are implemented in a single material, resource and personnel ecosystem. Such integration leads to changes in the basic educational process, staff changes and closer inclusion of partner enterprises in the training of students. There is a request for the formation of integrated programs both from the college to the departments, and reciprocally - from the departments to the colleges. Obviously, this experience will be scaled up in the university", - said Natalia Klimova.

