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     OUR PURPOSES AND GOALS

 

Training Centre
for Extension Service
Stuff of Russia

Adresse:
Moscow 127550
Timiryazevskaya Ul., 39

Phone: (095) 976 1450
Fax: (095) 976 2583
Email: ftcntr@ftcntr.ru


In any work it is important, who and how does it. Federal Training Centre
      has been established at MOSCOW TIMIRYAZEV AGRICULTURAL ACADEMY. 
      Moscow Timiryazev Agriculture Academy has 135 years history of existence. 
      From a moment of formation in 1865 it has been central and leading agrarian
      University of Russia and former USSR. Now the Academy is one of the
      largest educational and methodical centre in the system of agrarian
      education in Russia. There were prepared the main number of textbooks,
      curricula, silabi and study materials for using in other Agricultural
      Universities of the country. There are many skilled teachers and
      scientists in all areas of agrarian science at the academy. Research and
      study process in Academy closely integrated with the production through
      the system of experimental farms, breeding and other stations. Academy is
      a retraining centre and a training of trainers centre for the main
      Agrarian Universities of Russia, researchers, specialists and managers of
      agricultural enterprises. It disposes a powerful material and technical
      base oriented the best execution of its scientific and educational
      functions. MTAA is a large research-methodological centre concerned in the
      development of national programmes in agribusiness and influencing state
      policy in agriculture at a level of the Federal Government and Parliament.
      In accordance with the General Plan of the development MTAA managers
      suppose to create a combined training-research-consulting centre with
      widely spread, production, information and social infrastructure on the
      sample of the best university centres all over the world.
      One of the most important directions of the Plan is development of
      information- consulting service. This component expects an appearance of
      absolutely new, earlier never existed structure at MTAA, which is supposed
      to organize highly skilled consultancies, newly developed courses and
      raising a qualification of agricultural producers and specialists, as well
      as spreading and dissemination of the modern scientific knowledge and
      achievements in the field of machinery and technologies, economies and
      finance, information supply service and legislation.
      MTAA is actively participating in improvement education system and
      training process: development and introduction new programmes and courses;
      conversion and adapting curricula for training and retraining specialists;
      development silabi for new disciplines; development of modern methodical
      study materials; entering new methods of teaching; using the modern
      training equipment and other facilities.

OUR GOALS  Centre organises Extension staff training, fulfils research and
      other activities for Extension service. It develops curricula and
      programmes of seminars, jointly with the Ministry of Agriculture selects
      participants from the number of managers, specialists and teachers of
      regional and local levels to admit them to the training programmes at the
      Centre and at the best Extension service aboard.

OUR STUDENTS Federal Training Centre teaches the following categories of
      listeners: managers and specialists of federal level, managers,
      information and subject specialists, as well as teachers of regional
      level, managers and specialists of local level.
      Extension service staff-members have to know strategies of consultancy,
      including psychological aspects, foreign experience in this field. They
      need knowledge of agricultural production, technology and economics, as
      well as strategies of collection and spreading information, pedagogic and
      psychology, using a computing machinery and information systems and many
      others. All these categories of Extension staff are trained at the Centre
      in framework of special and specific training programmes.

      In its practice the Federal Training Centre uses an experience of
      successfully acting services. In August 1994 Moscow Agriculture Academy
      has opened training-consultation centre in Dmitrovsky rayon of Moscow
      region. It works as a local information-consultncy centre (project manager
      -  Victor A.Storogenko, director of advisery centre - Youry S.Izilov,
 ).

The main streams of our activity 
- Development and introduction of innovation programs onsidering local priorities 
  and particularities of production activity.
- Training of farmers and retraining the specialists of large-scaleagricultural enterprises. 
- Information-reference work with producers using the available communication facilities. 
- Development the agricultural production infrastructure 
- Consultation attendance on request.


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