21.11.2025

A Focus on Energy Storage, Digital Medicine and the Transformation of Higher Education: IKBFU at the “Priority 2030” Council Meeting

The IKBFU delegation at the project defense is supported by the Governor of the Kaliningrad Region, Alexey Besprozvannykh.

On November 21, IKBFU as a participant of the “Priority 2030” program, presented its 2025 results to the Council chaired by the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Valery Falkov. Based on the Council’s meeting, recipients of the 2026 grant support will be selected.

Under the leadership of Rector Maksim Demin, the IKBFU team included Igor Voznyuk, Head of the strategic technological project “New Health Preservation Technologies” at IKBFU and chief external neurologist of the Healthcare Committee of St. Petersburg and the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation for the Northwestern Federal District; Vsevolod Voronov, Director for Technological Development and Localization at PLC “TVEL”; and Daniil Itkis, Director of Research and Development at PLC “Metalion”.

With the support of the federal academic leadership program, IKBFU is currently implementing 120 projects in the fields of digital personalized medicine, material synthesis technologies for the energy storage systems of the future, geopolitics, biotechnology, and more.According to the rector of IKBFU, a key rate in both regional and federal challenges, has made the university on energy storage technologies, cognitive health technologies, a new model of higher education.

	Maxim Demin, Rector of IKBFU, said:
	On the project of energy storage two tasks were solved — creation of fusion reactors and technologies in the field of anode materials and separators. In the second project — still at the beginning of IKBFU Priority has created an effective consortium — a network of strong medical university, IKBFU, several clinics and equipment developers. This allowed us to introduce nine developments into real practice through the opening of the Center “Cognitive Health” based on IKBFU clinic, develop a platform for mass cognitive screening. To date, more than a million people have passed through it. The main task of IKBFU and the region: the partners become co-authors and co-implementators of the main processes in the neocampus “Kantiana”, which opens its doors in the 80th anniversary of the Kaliningrad region — in 2026. Most importantly, we have systematically built real interactions with the industry and the region. Not in words, but in deeds in order for the selected priorities of IKBFU to be accurately scaled on the territory of the region and Russia.

Maxim Demin, Rector of IKBFU, said:

On the project of energy storage two tasks were solved — creation of fusion reactors and technologies in the field of anode materials and separators. In the second project — still at the beginning of IKBFU Priority has created an effective consortium — a network of strong medical university, IKBFU, several clinics and equipment developers. This allowed us to introduce nine developments into real practice through the opening of the Center “Cognitive Health” based on IKBFU clinic, develop a platform for mass cognitive screening. To date, more than a million people have passed through it. The main task of IKBFU and the region: the partners become co-authors and co-implementators of the main processes in the neocampus “Kantiana”, which opens its doors in the 80th anniversary of the Kaliningrad region — in 2026. Most importantly, we have systematically built real interactions with the industry and the region. Not in words, but in deeds in order for the selected priorities of IKBFU to be accurately scaled on the territory of the region and Russia.

Mentioned persons

Maxim Demin

Rector

Aleksey Besprozvannykh

Governor of the Kaliningrad Region, Chair of the Supervisory Board