Source: the official web-site of the company.

One more structural unit has been established by MMC Norilsk Nickel. On April 1, 2007 the Corporate Educational Centre (Moscow Head Office of the Company) and Personnel Training Centre (Polar Branch, Norilsk) were merged into Norilsk Nickel Corporate University, a non-governmental educational institution.

The new division will responsible for all internal corporate procedures related to personnel education and training. Moreover, the Corporate University will carry out analysis of the Group’s labor needs.

Norilsk Nickel Corporate University is an entity duly established under the Federal Education Law, and has a wide range of licenses to perform as an educational institution.

According to the University Rector Mr. Veniamin Kaganov, ‘The level of education in our institution will be certainly higher than in traditional learning centres. Our existing and future programs are devised so as to provide skills and knowledge of university level. We shall invite the leading specialists of the Company and the best lecturers from other educational institutes and universities to participate in our courses and classes’.

Mr. Kaganov also notes that the Corporate University plans to provide education and training services to third-party customers in the longer term, thus stepping out on the CIS market as a leading corporate educational institution.

MMC Norilsk Nickel currently runs about 6,000 learning programs and training courses for 300 most important professions. In 2006, more than 30,000 employees of the Company took part in various corporate educational programs.