Marine Academy of Murmansk State Technical University was created in 2002. It is a structural subdivision of the University which comprises the oldest maritime faculties. From the moment of its establishment, the first in the world marine higher education institution has successfully trained personnel for the fish industry in the Northern Basin. Keeping the statues of Marine University, MSTU continues to work for the long-run prospects of the economical and social development in the Murmansk region as the country’s largest fishing industry complex, being in the lead among other maritime universities according to the rating of the Russian Federation Fisheries Agency.
The faculty was established in 1950. Navigation officer is the representative of the oldest sea job. During the long years of seafaring history the major responsibility of the navigation officer was to steer the vessels safely from one port to another, and it has not changed. The Navigational Faculty carries out research and educational activities in the following areas: marine navigation and safety at sea, especially with presentation of navigational information, ship route optimization, voyage planning (including the use of the ECDIS/ECS system), especially in the waters described as difficult (restricted) area, navigation safety, route monitoring and international regulations for preventing collisions at sea. Research works are also conducted on the idea of integrated navigational systems (INS, IBS), e-Navigation concept, electronic navigational charts (ENC), voyage data recorder (VDR), a model for performing navigation and astronavigation tasks. The staff is also involved in projects on standardization of navigational terms, acronyms and abbreviations and the analysis of the current needs in maritime education and training (MET).
Faculty of Navigation includes:
The Faculty of Marine Engineering was established in 1950. It comprises two separate departments offering the complete spectrum of study fields ranging from Pre-sea Training to Marine Chief Engineer professional education. The faculty's primary aim is to produce well rounded professional seafarers who have the broad vision and the cutting edge knowledge necessary to meet the dynamism and challenges in operating all types of ships.
Departments:
The faculty was established in 2000 and affiliated to the Marine Academy.
The Faculty includes:
Training and simulator centers of the Faculty provide cadets and students of the University as well as crew members and management personnel of the Northern Basin marine navigation and fishing companies with the following basic training and vocational retraining programs:
The Faculty has a well-equipped training base and certified training and simulator centers that meet the requirements of the Russian Federation Maritime Authorities.
On November 15th 2011 one more joint educational project named Intellectual Transport systems (ITS) with MSTU as a participant has begun. The most of EU Tempus – financed projects are known to have a rather high amount of partners. So, ITS is not an exception and represents a consortium of 12 universities from Russia, Ukraine and EU which are to collaboratively develop and bring into educational process Master’s and Doctor’s programmes in the field of transport flows optimization by using integrated high-tech telecommunications and information systems
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Northern Arctic Federal University held a crash course «English for academic purposes»,organized for the lecturers participating in the «Barents Cross Border University / BCBU» programme. The course was attended by representatives of the Murmansk State Humanities University, Murmansk State Technical University, Petrozavodsk State University, Karelian State Pedagogical Academy, Northern State Medical University, as well as the lecturers of the Pedagogy, Psychology and Social Work Institute, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science and Theoretical and Applied Chemistry Institute of NarFU
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MSTU International Cooperation Department has started implementing the new project «Young Innovative Entrepreneurs», run together with partners from Russia, Finland, Norway and Sweden
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International Cooperation Department is pleased to announce that the project «Establishment of the EU Center in the Barents Area of Russia» received funding and officially started in December 2011
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