Working meeting of OCTAPHARMA-PHARMIMEX LLC and SPCU

11 February 2025 OCTAPHARMA-PHARMIMEX LLC organised a visit of representatives of the Ryazan Medical College and the Ryazan Region Development Corporation to the St. Petersburg State Chemical and Pharmaceutical University, in order to get acquainted with the current programmes of secondary vocational education, implemented on the basis of the pharmaceutical technical school of SPCPU.

The meeting was held within the walls of the university. The University was represented by: Yulia Ilinova, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, Tamara Ryabova, Director of the Department of Educational Management of SPCU and Dmitry Lisitsky, Director of the Institute of Pharmacy. Colleagues shared their innovative solutions in the field of educational activity organisation, told about VET programmes, including the programme ‘Operator-apparator’, which will be launched in the new academic year.
Ryazan region was represented by: Maria Vikulova, head of the project ‘Personnel for Investors’ of JSC ‘Ryazan Region Development Corporation’, Tatiana Zhuravleva, acting director of OGBPOU ‘Ryazan Medical College’ and Evgenia Nesterova, head of the department of public service, personnel and anti-corruption of the Ministry of Health of Ryazan region.
Anastasia Tsygankova, HR Director, Ekaterina Mosina, Head of Quality Control Department, Evgeny Poluyanov, Head of Purification Department and Evelina Pyzhova, Talent Acquisition Specialist were present on behalf of OCTAPHARMA-PHARMIMEX LLC.

OCTAPHARMA-PHARMIMEX LLC plans to launch production of human blood plasma medicines as early as 2027. By that time, the company will need about one hundred trained operators capable of efficiently supporting the production process, and in the next two years their number will increase to four hundred. Unfortunately, in the Ryazan region, where the plant is being built, there are no educational programmes based on the existing educational institutions that can train students for further work in high-tech production.

In November 2024, the Development Corporation of the Ryazan region organised a meeting of representatives of OCTAPHARMA-PHARMIMEX LLC with the Minister of Health of the Ryazan region Alexander Pshennikov and the Director of the Ryazan Medical College, during which agreements were reached on cooperation and the launch of a new programme ‘Operator-Apparator’, first in 2025 on the basis of the Ryazan Medical College, and then in 2026 - on the basis of the Skopinsky branch of the Ryazan Medical College.

SPCU has many years of experience in creating an ecosystem for talent development, conducting career guidance work together with schools and opening new programmes to meet the region's educational needs and support the pharmaceutical business present in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. The university effectively interacts with schoolchildren, teachers and employers within the network center of project and research competences ‘PIK’ through broadcasting the attractiveness of choosing professions in the field of chembiopharma.
Yulia Ilinova and her colleagues spoke about the achievements of the university and conducted a tour of SPCU laboratories, which are used not only for practical training of students, but also provide quality control services to regional pharmaceutical companies.

During the meeting, the following vectors of further cooperation and possible joint projects were identified: career guidance work to create a stable contingent of students and increase motivation to study natural sciences, joint design of SPCU educational programmes, assistance of SPCU experts to the Ryazan Medical College in obtaining a licence for the educational programme ‘Process Operator’, as well as development of the necessary competencies of teachers of the Ryazan Medical College for successful implementation of the training process.