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Integration of the Tver Printing College into the structure of Ƶ: from an educational cluster to a new industrial strategy
15 September

St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design (Ƶ) has become a center of attraction for key players in the domestic printing industry. A strategic meeting was held within the walls of the university, which brought together the leadership of the university, headed by rector Alexei Demidov, and the top management of the leading printing enterprises in Russia, whose geographical concentration point is historically Tver, the recognized printing capital of the country.

The formal reason for this large-scale dialogue was an event that industry experts already call a shift in the personnel training system: the accession of the Tver Printing College to the structure of Ƶ. This decision takes the interaction of business and education beyond the usual practice agreements, forming a full-fledged educational and production holding. For the entire printing industry, this was a significant event in 2026, since for the first time, a cross-cutting vertical of competencies is being created on the basis of a classical university, combining secondary vocational education, higher education and real production facilities of the printing industry.

New architecture of interaction: Council of Industrial Partners

The main organizational result of the meeting was the establishment of the Council of Industrial Partners of the Printing Industry. The creation of this structure translates cooperation from the format of episodic meetings into continuous project management. Pavel Arsenyev, General Director of one of the largest book and magazine complexes in Europe - IPK Pareto-Print, was elected Chairman of the Council. His candidacy symbolizes the industry's stake on high book publishing standards and large-scale investments in technology. The role of the secretary is assigned to the head of the information department of the St. Petersburg State Pedagogical Institute, Professor Konstantin Antipov, whose expertise will ensure the alignment of pragmatic business requirements with the methodology of modern education and research.

Course for rapprochement: university position

The results of the discussion were summarized by the rector of Ƶ Alexey Demidov. His thesis - "We are ready and will do everything to get closer to the industry" - sounded not as a duty phrase, but as a fixation of the management paradigm. The symbolic completion of the business part was the signing in a solemn atmosphere of a partnership agreement between Ƶ and the publishing house "Russian World." Rector Alexei Demidov and the head of the publishing house Alexander Gorokhov put their signatures on the document. If integration with colleges solves the issue of training mass engineering and technical personnel, then the alliance with the Russian World opens up opportunities for joint humanitarian, historical, cultural and scientific publishing projects.