OREANDA-NEWS. R-Pharm, Russian hi-tech pharmaceutical company, invites students of the Kostroma region universities to join the “Grants for Pharmaceutical Cluster Development” competition aimed to enrich regional human resource capabilities. The competition period is scheduled from February 25 till the end of March. Leading regional universities are invited to join the competition – Kostroma State University of Technologies, Kostroma State Agricultural Academy, Sharyinsky Medical College, Kostroma Regional Medical College named after Bogomolov and Kostroma State University named after Nekrasov.

Students, who maintain good academic progress have to submit an essay before March 11 and successfully pass an interview with the R-Pharm experts scheduled between March 18 and March 21. Top 20 participants who will take more scores will get a chance to receive monthly grants of 10,000 Rubles and employment opportunities within the structure of the R-Pharm Group.

The “Grants for Pharmaceutical Cluster Development” program was initially launched two years ago in Yaroslavl pharmaceutical cluster comprised of state-of-the-art manufacturing site of finished dosage forms in Yaroslavl of R-Pharm Group and manufacturing complex “Farmoslavl”. The grants are provided to over 200 best students as monthly scholarships. In addition to scholarships students undergo trainings at the company’s manufacturing and research facilities.