North-Caucasus Federal University witnessed the awarding ceremony of prize-winners and winners of the Olympics at NCFU among pupils of secondary educational institutions of Stavropol region. The head of Department for Career Guidance and Academic Olympics Tatyana Poshtareva opened the event: "Dear children! You checked your knowledge and skills in four subjects: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Information Science. And today well-deserved rewards are waiting for you!”

Transition to a new level of training of specialists according to the requirements of Bologna Convention defined growth of international competitiveness of the European system of higher education, joint work in ensuring education quality:  development of comparable criteria and strategies, development of curricula, joint training programs, cooperation between institutions.

At the beginning of the year the new scientific educational laboratory opened at Institute of Construction, Transport and Engineering of NCFU. The interdivisional laboratory of comprehensive analyses, materials, constructions and mechanisms is founded on the technical and program basis of the American company "National Instruments”. Equipment of the laboratory became possible because the university won the grant of the Ministry for Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

The first academic year at NCFU comes to its end. For many students it was memorable, full of events, interesting meetings, important conferences, trips and creative competitions. "Pride of NCFU” prize became a peculiar result of the joint work for the students and teaching staff of the university.  The member of the youth parliament under the Duma of Stavropol region, the candidate member of the All-Russian organization of Association of Lawyers of Russia, the chairman of Student Council of Institute of Law

Opening of "Tuning” center took place at North-Caucasus Federal University according to the solution of the Academic Board dated 04.04.2013. Its mission is to promote development of training programmes. 

National stage of the European final competition of innovation foodstuff "ECOTROPHELIA EUROPE2013” was held in Volgograd within the international research and practice conference "Innovation Technologies in Production and Processing of Agricultural Products under the conditions of WTO”. The delegation of North-Caucasus Federal University that included students and postgraduate students of Institute of Life Sciences and Kalmyk Institute of Technology (branch of NCFU) became participants of competition too.

Postgraduate student of Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications of NCFU Vladimir Voronkin has been awarded the grant for participation in the international summer school "ICCL Summer School 2013” that will be held in Dresden (Germany) in the last decade of August. The theme of the summer school is "The Semantic Web – Ontologic languages and their usage”.