Metinvest Akhmetova invested almost 600 million in the development of education in Ukraine,
Ukrainian business invests in Ukrainian educational institutions to improve the quality of education and find future workers, as well as to support fundamental science, without which a successful R&D process for knowledge-intensive businesses is impossible. IT companies SoftServe, GlobalLogic, Genesis, and Rinat Akhmetov’s largest energy and metallurgical holdings DTEK and Metinvest have joined the reform of higher education, writes Forbes Ukraine.
The range of business assistance is varied – from scholarships for students and teachers and updating curricula, to the arrangement of laboratories and even to the construction of universities and institutes.
So, in March 2021, Metinvest announced that it would build its own technical university: “the influx of strong engineers has decreased. People with good brains began to leave the country en masse,” explained the CEO of the holding, Yuri…