The advanced engineering school “Agrobiotech” (AESA) of Tomsk State University was transformed into the Higher Engineering School of Agrobiotechnology (HESA). It was created as an institute of TSU. The Institute will start recruiting students for new programs in 2025, and in the next five years it will train 7 thousand specialists and develop 600 new products and technologies for the agro-industrial complex.

AES Agrobiotech was founded in 2022 within the framework of the federal project of the Ministry of Education and Science – Advanced Engineering Schools. The goal of the project was to train qualified engineering staff for high-capacity and export-oriented sectors of the economy.

For three years, AES Agrobiotech has opened 45 programs of higher and additional professional education in the fields of agrobiotechnology and bioinformatics, accepted more than 800 students, conducted research in 5 complex projects, organized career guidance events for 7 thousand schoolchildren, and created, together with industrial partners, 8 special educational and laboratory spaces.

All this, as well as the integration of Tomsk Agricultural Institute (TAI) into TSU, made it possible to open the Higher Engineering School of Agrobiotechnology. Teachers, laboratories and equipment, educational programs of AES Agrobiotech are now part of the AESA. Besides, it now offers new training areas – Veterinary Medicine, Technical Systems in Agribusiness, Livestock Technology and others.

— AES Agrobiotech appeared in response to the global food security challenges that our country and the world were facing. The agro-industrial complex of Russia needs new personnel, technologies and products. As a result of our work, we entered the top 10 AESs in the country. In 2025, TAI joined our school, we received an experimental site in the Altai Republic, opened new educational programs and stepped to the next level – it became the Higher Engineering School of Agrobiotechnology of TSU, – said Kirill Golokhvast, Acting Director of the Higher Engineering School of Agrobiotechnology.

The new institute will have departments of agrobiotechnology, biotechnology and bioinformatics, innovative technologies in the agro-industrial complex, veterinary medicine and livestock. The key structures of AESA will be research and production, bioengineering, educational centers, student design bureau. Such a system will allow connecting technology, education, industry and science, as well as training practitioners who solve the problems of industrial partners.

Until 2030, AESA plans to train 7 thousand students, open 30 network educational programs, develop 600 products and technologies for the industry.