OREANDA-NEWS The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation will expand the training program for highly qualified engineering personnel, and 50 new advanced engineering schools will be selected in Russia this year, head of the department Valery Falkov said.

A strategic session "Medicine: Innovative development of assistive technologies" is taking place at Sechenov University on Wednesday.

"We have 50 more advanced engineering schools ahead of us this year, which will operate at least until 2030," Falkov said during the session.