University students at the VIK Fest 2026 festival
On March 17, 2026, the VIK Fest 2026 festival was held at the Russian Technical University MIREA in Moscow. Students from Gubkin University successfully advanced to the semifinals of the All-Russian Engineering Competition and were invited to participate in the festival.
The festival included a roundtable discussion, "Employers Visiting the VIK University Rectors' Club," and a discussion, "VIK Success," featuring cosmonaut and Hero of the Russian Federation Alexander Misurkin and Ilya Sazonov, chief physicist of the nuclear icebreaker Ural.
The goal of the festival was to create a comfortable environment for direct, informal communication between future engineering leaders and industry leaders, as well as to lay the foundation for a professional community of competition graduates.
The main topics of the discussion were the use of artificial intelligence in education and the role of the humanities in shaping the thinking of engineers. A poster session with competition partners, lectures and training sessions on developing professional and cross-professional skills, and the interactive game "VIKvis" were also held.
"VIK_Fest is about the development of engineering education, current issues in this field, and, most importantly, about developing human resources. Today, we face the challenge of developing not only highly qualified engineers capable of technological breakthroughs, but also nurturing them within a specific ideological framework. These must be socially responsible and patriotic engineers who will lead the way in addressing Russia's technological leadership challenges," noted Olga Petrova, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of Russia.
Gubkin University was represented at the festival by Georgy Yakovlev (group GI-21-04) and Ilya Gavrilyuk (group HEM-24-06), semi-finalists of the All-Russian Engineering Competition and members of the Student Scientific Society.
Representing members of the Student Scientific Society at external venues is part of Gubkin University's Student Scientific Society development program, "Strategy for New Discoveries."
